Coronavirus outbreak

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MarkF

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Just seen this, could be rubbish though.

United Kingdom
Confirmed: 224,327
Deaths: 32,140
Recovered: 1,007
Active: 191,180
Germany
Confirmed: 171,999
Deaths: 7,569
Recovered: 145,600
Active: 18,830

So if there is 191,180 people with it why is he doing the same restrictions as a country with 18,830 active cases?

Recovered 1007? More than 350 confirmed positive patients have been admitted & later discharged (to their place of residence) frrom our hospital alone.

From memory this is more than 50% of the + confirmed case total.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
I was going to check it but I knew someone else would.
Sadly, in the meantime, 3 people have copy pasted it on. Please please please check before you post. :cursing:
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
Anyone know the answer?
521582
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
So we had a great statesmanlike short speech by Kier Starmer giving voice to questions and worries expressed by many, just before Boris broadcasts a Hancockesque meltdown from Downing Street and muddies an already confused situation.

If only Corbyn had gone before December's election...
 
I have never bought into the idea that the reason we couldn't use our holiday home was because if we had an accident travelling it would stress the NHS, so why is it OK now for me to drive there for the day, lounge about in the sun, go for a walk around, but then have to travel straight home rather than spend the night? I can only presume it is in case covid only manifests itself so badly that it paralyses during the hours of darkness, or if taking the rules literally at bang on midnight.
 

screenman

Legendary Member
"People unable to work from home should return to work" ← return? Weren't they told to keep going in?

I have no work to go back to.
 

MarkF

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
I have no work to go back to.

Forget about real work, this is the new covid world, things will be different, I'd put all your savings into security screen/barrier companies, are they sitting pretty or what?:rolleyes:

Just been to Morrisons with it's barrier protected entrance, if you park on the RH side of it then you have a 5 min walk AWAY from the entrance and then back towards to get in, same problem if you've parked on the LH and are now leaving. Of course, whilst you are in the store everybody mingles. This nonsense will shadow us for years.
 

tom73

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Education guidelines some are still to follow.
Max class size set at 15 primary desks should be spaced as far apart as possible. Secondary schools and colleges distance is set at 2m.
Vulnerable children and children of critical workers have to be taught in separate year groups.
PPE not required unless already used such as care of spacial needs. Can be used if child get's ill but only if 2m can't be done and only for possible covid
Any child that get ill with covid/possible must be sent home and family isolates. Test's available for other children in school but only if showing signs.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...n-and-childcare-settings#class-or-group-sizes
 
Education guidelines some are still to follow.
Max class size set at 15 primary desks should be spaced as far apart as possible. Secondary schools and colleges distance is set at 2m.
Vulnerable children and children of critical workers have to be taught in separate year groups.
PPE not required unless already used such as care of spacial needs. Can be used if child get's ill but only if 2m can't be done and only for possible covid
Any child that get ill with covid/possible must be sent home and family isolates. Test's available for other children in school but only if showing signs.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...n-and-childcare-settings#class-or-group-sizes
Well that'll leave my mrs unable to work then. She's shielding and has job as passenger assistant for special needs kids.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
Just been to Morrisons with it's barrier protected entrance, if you park on the RH side of it then you have a 5 min walk AWAY from the entrance and then back towards to get in, same problem if you've parked on the LH and are now leaving. Of course, whilst you are in the store everybody mingles. This nonsense will shadow us for years.
You're lucky having cycle parking both sides of the entrance. Ours only has it on the LH/exit side. Still better than Sainsbury's where they're making sweaty sneezing people queue through the main cycle parking!
 

MarkF

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Hospital perspective. I spend maybe 3 hours a day moving Covid+ patients, many other staff spend their entire shift dealing with them. We are not dropping like flies, I am 57 fit & healthy and do not fear it. Entire wards are full of positive confirmed patients chatting to their neighbours and waiting to be sent home. I can think of 3 wards (old, ill, fat folk) where it must be like hell, but there are about 40 wards.
 
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