COVID-19

Have you seen what is going on in just about every country in the world all are having very similar outcomes to us. It’s a worldwide problem we like most others are struggling with it. But we are looking after people very well with all the financial measures in place and the government should be praised for it

 

Well we're not because like the US we have record unemployment levels as unfortunately they were too many holes in the government incentives for businesses to get round meaning staff suffer.

Also this is enough reason to highlight an exit plan or be more positive because companies will continue to let people go.

You can't praise something which is leading to more unemployment and people will soon be really struggling.

 

They are helping the vast majority of the population through unprecedented times yes of course when this is over there is going to be a lot of pain but by doing what they are doing we can hopefully come out the other side running

 

103 year old recovered from one of our care homes apparently

 

That is amazing news.

 

@abbomf wont appreciate that, he thinks it is pointless saving over 80's as they have had a good innings

 

Difficult choices are being made there is a piece on the BBC website today about a young Italian doctor having to make very difficult decisions she said”there was an elderly gentleman with other major problems where I felt guilty for thinking I should take hthe ventilator of him to save another younger Patient “ not nice having to make that choice

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/02/shambles-chaos-ridiculous-what-the-uk-papers-say-about-covid-19-testing

Government getting hammered.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/02/coronavirus-testing-shambles-britain-falls-behind-developed/

 

It’s the Guardian

 

All the media mate. Click on the lick to see.

The link is from the Guardian.

 

Have a look at the last letter I posted here https://bantamtalk.com/index.php?threads/where-will-it-end.3787/page-20#post-340229
Glad I didn't receive the last letter that certainly brings the present situation into reality

 

708 deaths is the awful number today.

So if we are not in the peak then I don't know what we are doing.

 

With all the political negativity by some re ventilators, ICU's ,PPE and various unknown testing methods, seems to me anyhow that we can't save the most vulnerable and that the damage is done before the NHS gets involved...

 

But more importantly, hows the economy doing?

 

Unfortunately there is more to come look at the totals abroad

 

Yeah how is it doing?

We have no vaccine so let's all go back to work soon and hope for the best.

Just got to hope the government pull their finger out and get the equipment required & testing.

 

They're at peak though i believe.

We're not at peak yet.

 

Some of these countries have had bigger numbers than these for two weeks

 

Nothing to crow about at all but according to this we are below trend




The number of 708 deaths is a new high, but a fall in cases indicates the UK is slightly below trend. The drop in new confirmed cases from 4,450 on Friday to 3,735 cases shows a continued slowdown.

New cases were growing by about 20% a day up to last weekend. In the last week, that slowed to about 10% a day.

That's even after allowing for the expansion of testing to include NHS workers. Even if Saturday's fall is followed by rises, it is evidence that case growth is slowing.

The figure of 708 new deaths is a record high, but it is also below scientific expectations. Deaths have been growing by just under 25% each day. That means doubling every 3.5 days. A continuation of that would have taken us from 684 deaths on Friday to more than 800.

The first day of a below trend growth is too soon to call a turn, but there is hope that the slowdown we're seeing in case numbers will eventually feed through into the numbers of new deaths.

 

In peak.

This isn't a competition mate. We need to control numbers and unfortunately the U.K.currently not doing it.