Coronavirus (OLD)

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Nope, they only got some of it. A bit like my first few attempts at shopping post lock-down.

And? They’re free to back and collect the rest when available. 30% of something is better than 100% of nothing.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Pierre

And? They’re free to back and collect the rest when available. 30% of something is better than 100% of nothing.

That's correct but your earlier assertion that they had collected their order is incorrect.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

That's correct but your earlier assertion that they had collected their order is incorrect.

Don’t think that was my “assertion”. I merely stated they shopped and bought.

But we’re getting a bit finicky now.

Originally Posted by Pierre

But we’re getting a bit finicky now.

This whole constant bickering and ever more stupid nit picking is getting very tiresome.

I posted some figures a while back that were actually relevant to the topic, and all anyone could do was continue their stupid arguments and/or finger pointing.

If this continues to simply be a moaning & bitching topic, its going to take a break.

Another clinical trial about to start.

https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/...vaccine-trial/

BioNTech and Pfizer have secured approval from the German regulatory authority, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, to conduct a Phase I/II clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate.

The candidate, BioNTech’s BNT162, is intended to prevent Covid-19 infection. BioNTech and Pfizer are co-develping the vaccine programme.

Said to be the first Covid-19 vaccine trial to launch in Germany, the study is part of a global development programme.

The partners expect to receive US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and conduct a trial in the country shortly.

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Paul

This whole constant bickering and ever more stupid nit picking is getting very tiresome.

I posted some figures a while back that were actually relevant to the topic, and all anyone could do was continue their stupid arguments and/or finger pointing.

If this continues to simply be a moaning & bitching topic, its going to take a break.

It's the Brexit thread all over again isn't it

The whole World is waiting for something to happen, and until it does, the media (in all its formats) will be running in circles regurgitating the same news using different words, playing on the fears and weaknesses of the population, rolling out a raft of 'expert' opinions from people you've never heard of . . . . and becoming increasingly desperate to be seen as knowledgeable

[Russ]

Sounds like a typical day on CF

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Chris

70% of journalists and media professionals polled by the Press Gazette think journalists are not doing a good job of holding the government to account over the Covid-19 crisis.

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/poll-...spondents-say/

Just to be clear, the question posed in the above poll was:

Do you think journalists have done a good job of holding the Government to account during the daily UK Covid-19 press briefings

I think most of us would agree that the press briefings are a waste of time. Both, from the perspective of the invited journalists holding the Government to account and to the spokespeople treating the country like adults.

[Carth]

Must be a quiet news day . . . knife crime has hit the headlines again

. . . along with the usual stuff (guesswork) about schools re-opening, the lock down, UK borrowing, the nurse who saved Boris, and the WHO now saying 'up to' 50% of deaths are in care homes . . . . although I heard the other day that the ethnic communities accounted for more than is normal (whatever that is? )

oh, and Prince Louis got his hands covered in paint

and there's an upcoming vacancy for the England womens football team manager if anyone fancies a change of career

[Sephiroth]

The Torygraph today (pay wall so no link) analysed the Guvmin's strategy in the context of suggesting that herd immunity was their ultimate aim.

Strand 5 of the Torygraph's analysis focused on Nightingale hospitals, their number and size.

The killer quote was this:

Asked whether the Nightingale Hospitals were being kept for a possible second wave, a Downing Street spokesman has said "I am not aware of any plans to stand down these Nightingale Hospitals and some are still being built.

[Carth]

They're still building them because if they stopped, the public would go ape shit* . . . .


. . .


*like bat shit but with frenzied arm gesticulation

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

The Torygraph today (pay wall so no link) analysed the Guvmin's strategy in the context of suggesting that herd immunity was their ultimate aim.

Strand 5 of the Torygraph's analysis focused on Nightingale hospitals, their number and size.

The killer quote was this:

Asked whether the Nightingale Hospitals were being kept for a possible second wave, a Downing Street spokesman has said "I am not aware of any plans to stand down these Nightingale Hospitals and some are still being built.

Probably in case the second wave coincides with the flu season...

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Asked whether the Nightingale Hospitals were being kept for a possible second wave, a Downing Street spokesman has said "I am not aware of any plans to stand down these Nightingale Hospitals and some are still being built.

As has been pointed out on here many times by many people. Infection rates may decline and rise continually for some time.

The one and only aim of lockdown and social distancing was to ensure that ICU demand did not outstrip supply. Initial forecasts of 80% of the population being infected most likely still stand.

People will no doubt continue to be infected for many many months to come, probably well into next year.

People at risk, and family members around them, will have to be very careful for a long time.

The initial aim of "herd immunity" is still the end game - if indeed it is a defence against this virus, but like I say there doesn't seem to be any papers stating that reinfection is likely.

[downquark1]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

The Torygraph today (pay wall so no link) analysed the Guvmin's strategy in the context of suggesting that herd immunity was their ultimate aim.

Strand 5 of the Torygraph's analysis focused on Nightingale hospitals, their number and size.

The killer quote was this:

Asked whether the Nightingale Hospitals were being kept for a possible second wave, a Downing Street spokesman has said "I am not aware of any plans to stand down these Nightingale Hospitals and some are still being built.

Heard immunity is everyone's ultimate aim. Either through careful exposure or vaccination.

[RichardCoulter]

Sniffer dogs could be used to sniff out the virus:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11637592