JRant wrote: » Watched it 2 weeks ago. Very good program, they even admit themselves that so much is still unknown about this virus. So anyone claiming severe restrictions or a complete lifting is the "right" way to go from a disease management perspective can be safely ignored.
JRant wrote: » We already had scandalous wait times for people to see consultants for pretty much every type of aliment. Imagine what it's going to be like when hospitals begin dealing with all the day to day stuff that's been binned for the past 2 months.
road_high wrote: » Just saw one on Facebook decrying neighbours and wanting to report them. We are still very much the valley of squinting windows with far too many busybodies with too much time on their hands. Blown up by 1000 times by this fiasco
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » It's the same group thanking each other for their nonsense. I don't think I will get an answer to my questions but that's to be expected.Thank christ this thread is here as a distraction for them.
Deleted User wrote: » I’m not seeing the guards out and about like they were at the beginning of the lockdown, when the cat’s away the mice will play.
Strumms wrote: » It’s not a numbers game. It’s about keeping everyone safe, healthy, alive. It’s of no fûcking consequence to me about kids being born in x hospital in whatever hospital in whatever city. My goal is to keep my family and friends safe and though my behavior and when I can influence the behaviors of others, not to be going acting the gob****e and breaking the regs, because of loneliness, because of boredom or feeling isolated I don’t care... no excuses.
pjohnson wrote: » Might be the 5G!
Strumms wrote: » Kids have milder symptoms and better chances of recovery. But by their nature they are capable of spreading the virus more expeditiously.
[Deleted User] wrote: » I’m not seeing the guards out and about like they were at the beginning of the lockdown, when the cat’s away the mice will play.
JRant wrote: » Here's one for you. In San Fran they actually couldn't use tracking for contact tracing. Most of the people who work in silicone valley know how intrusive this tracking is and have ways to block it on their own phones. They had to use people and telephones to contact trace over there.
pjohnson wrote: » I think I understand why you are against any form of tracking to aid contact tracing now :pac: Just ignore laws and make money. Theres definitely a certain type who would support that lifestyle!
road_high wrote: » And I would agree. But this isn’t anti social behavior. It’s decent citizens trying to earn a living and live their lives. Ditch the non sensical restrictions and let people live
road_high wrote: » When it’s obvious the “law” is stupid then it should be dropped. Bad law leads to this kind of nonsense we are stuck in now.
KaneToad wrote: » BBC Horizon are currently showing a programme that everyone should watch. Scientific facts about Covid19. Too many of us consider ourselves to be epidemiologists based on snippets we read on Facebook. Listen to the rational facts from the scientists.
Gregor Samsa wrote: » This situation we find ourselves in is nothing - nothing - compared to that. It will most certainly end.
lord quackinton wrote: » That’s what the lockdown Nazis don’t get When the world economy takes a nose dive it is the poorest countries and the poorest people that take the hit Currently the Irish government is borrowing billions to pay people out of work due to this lockdown The really poor people in the third world are left even worse off because the developed world is full of cowards who would rather save themselves then help the real dirt poor non white people For example Penney’s are closed and they give thousands of jobs to Asia , that’s stopped now and those Asian workers have no income and are now not even able to feed their children Can the lockdown Nazis imagine a world where their is no welfare and your baby cries because of hunger A lot of stupid and Selfish people on here who Back the lockdown who refuse to think of others
snowcat wrote: » Hi Give them a ring yourself. When are the brighter day? We have been told to extend indefinitely.
Balf wrote: » Just reading about it on the journal.https://www.thejournal.ie/no-traffic-increases-covid-19-5081943-Apr2020/ Did they really solemnly set out seismic data, as a measurement of traffics volumes. Did the Earth move for you, Tony?
normanoffside wrote: » 1.2Billion people in India and food prices are soaring due to lockdown and people are not earning due to lockdown. How many people will die as a result?https://www.ft.com/content/f9eb67f3-5cf8-42c4-be97-8dd36a7f1671
Strumms wrote: » Exactly, what’s going on in Madrid, Caracas, Lima, Leitrim or Donegal I have a no way of influencing. ... what I’m doing here is when my old man wants to fûck off down to his sister 4 kms away, not happening, when I got some stuff for an elderly neighbor, I’m dropping and running as opposed to staying for a chat, talked the girlfriends mother out of doing social stuff with the girlfriend upset and the mother just ‘missing’ chats with friends.
JRant wrote: » More of a danger? Think about the language you are using here. Children are no more a danger than adults and studies are starting to show the inverse is actually true. Seriously, I get that this can be unsettling for a lot of people but viewing children as a danger is plain wrong.
JRant wrote: » So the CMO and Dr Nolan gave what can only be described as one of the most confusing press conferences to date.
FintanMcluskey wrote: » It’s of no fûcking consequence to me about kids being born in x hospital in whatever hospital in whatever city. My goal is to keep my family and friends safe.
normanoffside wrote: » Actually they are less likely to spread it too. The more symptomatic you are the greater the risk of you passing it on.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/boy-with-covid-19-did-not-transmit-disease-to-more-than-170-contactshttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/apr/06/school-closures-have-little-impact-on-spread-of-coronavirus-study But don't be listening to scientific studies, better to hide in your hot press for a few years until it all goes away.
thebaz wrote: » I agree, but they often go together - unemployment leads to depression - been ther myself - and already the UN is warning of famines and huger in the developing world which will cause way more damage than what we have seen from Covid - but to question the WHO driven strategy of lockdown as the only answer to contain a virus , and you get accused of lacking compassion - When alternative strategies like in Sweden and South Korea have been more effective than some places that enforced lockdowns.
Strumms wrote: » They are not bulletproof. They can contract it but for whatever reason they are less symptomatic. This makes them more of a danger, also because they need adults and close supervision and companionship and don’t know the full impact of the disease and how they can behave.
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