Coronavirus outbreak

[roubaixtuesday]

Predictions:

1. We're in the shoot. But we won't say why.
2. Don't want to do anything, against all instincts yadayadayada.
3. Must save Christmas. Faux Churchillian or Latin phrase to accompany.
4. Locking down nationally. But called something else - tier 4 super local or somesuch bollix. Clear plan on exiting conspicuous by its absence.
5. Unrealistic promises (over by X, moonshot, whatever)
6. Failure of and plan to sort test n trace not mentioned.
7. Johnson gets something factually wrong in questions. No. 10 twitter later insists he was right whilst correcting.

Just waiting 7 before shouting house!

 

[MrGrumpy]

Out of his dep

Some people I know now chatting about whether this will mean increased pressure for a Scotland-wide lockdown.

i hope not . We have turned a corner , the issue is West of Scotland and Dundee which seems to be ticking up the way !

 

[roubaixtuesday]

 

[Rusty Nails]

i hope not . We have turned a corner , the issue is West of Scotland and Dundee which seems to be ticking up the way !

I admire your confidence that you have turned a corner. Do you know what's around it?

I think there's a long way to go this winter, everywhere.

 

[Handlebar Moustache]

I admire your confidence that you have turned a corner. Do you know what's around it?

I think there's a long way to go this winter, everywhere.

Well indeed. If I was a betting cycler I would put money on a Scotland-wide lockdown (our tier 4/5) in the next few weeks.

 

[tom73]

Nice to see a clear and constant message from Boris
Mar 19: Turn tide in 12 weeks
May 17: “Near normality” by end of July
July 17: “Significant normality” by Christmas
Sep 9: “back to normal by Christmas”
Oct 23: “some aspects of our lives... back to normal" by Christmas
TONIGHT: very different and better by spring

 

[marinyork]

Not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning, or something like that .

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I admire your confidence that you have turned a corner. Do you know what's around it?

Sharks with frickin' lasers, the way things are going.

 

[mjr]

Will he get parliament's approval ?

Yes, but it'll be damaging if he has to rely on Labour votes to do so, which is why they wined-dined Steve Baker this afternoon.

 

[marinyork]

Yes, but it'll be damaging if he has to rely on Labour votes to do so, which is why they wined-dined Steve Baker this afternoon.

Ah the labour bit doesn't matter. I do wonder what'll happen about what parliament puts for expiration of the restrictions and what comes after 2nd December. I feel that bit could be the more interesting bit.

 

[mjr]

BBC [...] have just interviewed at some length Prof Neil Ferguson from Imperial College whose research and urgings produced a first lockdown which he then broke by popping round to his lover.

I thought his lover popped round to him, so he didn't break the rules, but was pretty clearly complicit BICBW.

Behind him was what looked very much like Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, but the caption said his talking head and torso in the middle of the screen was coming from Oxford.

Background clearly computer-generated because it was reflected and the writing on IC read right to left.

 

[tom73]

New restrictions information full conditions and law to follow later once parliament has had a bust up.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-nat...ty-taxon=774cee22-d896-44c1-a611-e3109cce8eae

 

[midlife]

New restrictions information full conditions and law to follow later once parliament has had a bust up.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-nat...ty-taxon=774cee22-d896-44c1-a611-e3109cce8eae

Looking through that they have reduced the vulnerable age from 70 to 60 to reflect mortality stats I guess.

As I'm 60 I have to reduce contacts with other people as much as possible, that's gong to go down well at work as I'll have to be bubbled with the people I work with and not meet anybody else. The NHS has been mooting this for a while to stop hospital transmission. They have been itching to close staff / coffee rooms.

 

[tom73]

Looking through that they have reduced the vulnerable age from 70 to 60 to reflect mortality stats I guess.

As I'm 60 I have to reduce contacts with other people as much as possible, that's gong to go down well at work as I'll have to be bubbled with the people I work with and not meet anybody else. The NHS has been mooting this for a while to stop hospital transmission. They have been itching to close staff / coffee rooms.

I think the age changed with updated "shielding/staying safe" advice.
Can see it going down like a lead balloon given an ageing work force it may take out even more staff from direct care which is just what we need right now. Maybe that's way they split "vulnerable" into vulnerable and extremely vulnerable.

 

[marinyork]

I think the age changed with updated "shielding/staying safe" advice.
Can see it going down like a lead balloon given an ageing work force it may take out even more staff from direct care which is just what we need right now. Maybe that's way they split "vulnerable" into vulnerable and extremely vulnerable.

Probably the right decision with what we know now.

Also those who are morbidly obese has been estimated to be 4% of the population. That's more than 2.5 million people. More workers there.