COVID-19

It's certainly not lock down like you guys have in Spain.

 

problem is the guidance given out and the actual regulations don’t match

 

Yes there seems to have been little thought behind it, then again who'd have thought the general public would not heed the governments plea to isolate etc.

 

They couldn't because they wanted to keep London open.

Is nearly impossible for the social distancing to be in play.

 

Wuhan was locked down for 11 weeks.

 

Well I can assure you they take lock down far more seriously in the likes of Spain and Italy.

 

Great effort by Hanson School


Hanson Academy


200 visors were manufactured at Hanson in D&T yesterday. They were manufactured on the laser cutter using polypropylene sheet and acetate.

100 have been posted to Manchester NHS and 100 are going to be delivered to Bradford NHS.

Today we are manufacturing more for local care homes and Doctors surgeries.

Keep up the good work.

 

Anyone know the best place to find decent data on the UK on this?

I want numbers of dead, those that had underlying symptoms, ages etc.

Realize its a morbid post but I'm struggling to waft through lengthy BBC articles just to find the raw numbers. Thanks guys.

 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public found this. It will work. Let me know if you guys have anything better with fancy graphs etc

 

Just give the forum expert a PM, address it to @Fordy117 he is the one who has this virus sussed.

 

Doesnt give you as much detail as you want but I found this easy to read;
https://ncov2019.live/data#europe

invented by a 17 year old lad. Very clever

 

At the briefing today we used a very clever altered slide to show we were not ahead of the Italy curve for deaths when in actual fact we are. Shocking really and scary what next week will bring




here’s what we used today

 

Not limited to the UK, so not quite what you were asking for, but these may be generally helpful:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html?fbclid=IwAR24IisxME_UOh-J2glhGhuIcJeIarJXmihIai095ZoC9zqLPpxfcFAVisI#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

RCB

 

Constantly updated
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
UK
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

 

Emily Maitlis one step away from her own 8pm round of applause if social media is anything to go by. All for stating the bleeding obvious on newsnight last night. Yeah thats right love, we've never been in this together, we aren't all equal. Everything she said last night i could have told you myself yet it comes from a BBC journo and somehow its worthy of a nobel peace prize.

 

Still needed saying though.

 

Why? Just the BBC playing to the crowd after being stung by constant criticism. Problem is Steve, and it's something I keep repeating, people actually believe what the media tell them, they're brainwashed. All this clapping at 8 o'clock for your NHS heroes, remember Cameron with his "we're all in this together' bullshit. The tories have milked the Johnson situation for all its worth and more, he was derided, lambasted quite rightly in some ways. Then 'conveniently' gets a dose of the old Corona and he's the nations sweetheart. Christ the public are gullible

 

All about the timing. You are absolutely right, there is nothing new in what she has said. However, this crisis has exposed the fault lines in the way we are governed and how ideology will almost inevitably be superceded by events.

I actually think she is doing an important role. She does have a platform to speak from and it is at times like this, a crisis, that long-lasting change can happen. It needs to be a change that benefits the vast majority of society. The value of certain jobs has been demonstrated, a value that market forces fails to adequately remunerate. There are millions of low-paid workers risking their lives at the moment for the wider benefit of society. Often while their employers make vast profits which are redistributed for the benefit of the already wealthy.

The role of the state for the next generation is going to be more important than at any time since the Second World War. It needs to provide direction, and control where necessary, to help rebuild the country in a way that reduces inequality.

We are in risky territory at the moment. The request, understandable in the circumstances, to shop people for not complying with lockdown is not a million miles away conceptually from the operation of the Stasi. I am sure that we will need to accept curtailment of some liberties as we work through the management of this virus, but that needs to be done transparently and for the greater good. We need to be mindful of the impact of decisions for the greater good and how they filter down into the lives of those might be impacted adversely.

That is the challenge for us all going forwards and I believe it needs people like Emily Maitlis to call it out and challenge.

What we are living through now would be a challenge for any Government, regardless of their left/right credentials. I honestly believe it is the role of the BBC to ask questions of how the Government is doing, to share where things are working and to highlight where they are not.

 

I thought this theory that Johnson was not actually ill was a bit tinfoil hat, until I read that his Dad had left his London home to go and isolate at his holiday in Devon. I don’t know about anyone, if my lad was in intensive care, I wouldn’t suddenly move 200 miles further away..I think there’s something in it.

 

Will you shut up predicting things that youhave no idea about... you are a bore!!