COVID-19

The government still doesn't know how many PEOPLE are getting tested still.

 

The testing is a bit of a farce. You do it all yourself after receiving a booklet.
It tells you to put a swab down your throat to touch your tonsils but says the test is invalidated if it touches anything else. You then place the swab up your nose.

All this relies on the person doing the test themselves and therefore will have a massive margin of error.

Some will not push the swab far enough, some will touch other things in their mouth, etc.

I guess this helps because a failed test is a negative test and shows the governement in a good light.

 

So what's he saying? Places with a high asian community will struggle?

Is he saying those from Leicester will be driving up to Bradford this weekend?

Is he saying that a lot of the asian community might be asymptomatic?

Or is he second guessing and talking rubbish.

 

The data yesterday that said about other hotspot area's didn't include Bradford. In the commons Hancock was asked about Coventry, Bradford and Birmingham all high asian area's when he was talking about locking down Leicester. This is why I feel he is mentioning it or got asked the question but I will read it again.

The lockdown in Leicester doesn't mean that these people can't travel.

Look, I hope he's wrong and maybe I am being defensive. I don't live in Bradford but a lockdown for any city would be a disaster.

It all boils down to this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53244626

The government need to get their act together and get local data more quickly.

 

Just seen Bradford and Wakefield, along with 34 other areas, are on a list of ‘at risk’ areas that may have to go into Lockdown again. A list that stretches from Cornwall, to London, up to Sunderland and many places in between...Begs the question, what the fck are we (England) coming out of Lockdown so early for? Scotland have toughed it out a bit longer, and are currently recording zero daily deaths.

 

What an absolute mess it is.
2 week lockdown incoming by the sounds of it for the city of Bradford

 

Money.

 

I believe Professor Neil Ferguson actually posts on Bantam Talk under the username of @Fordy117.

 

That Keighley slip of the tongue did have more in it than we were led to believe.
Also the new walk in testing centre in Bradford City centre, not the kind of precaution to use if rates are going down, if anything it shows that there is an issue.

 

Our high BAME population is a factor, apparently (as it is for a number of other regions on the watchlist).

 

I do genuinely believe the Keighley comment was a genuine slip of the tongue, and he meant to say Kirklees for no other reason than mixing up his place names.

 

Let’s hope a review of the data shows it’s not as bad as they fear?
I expect it to come with an announcement before Saturday when pubs etc are set to reopen?

 

Plus, when they mention Bradford, what are the boundaries with the lockdown- Shipley, Bingley,Denholme,Keighley,Queensbury.
Interesting.

 

It would fall under the local authority? I think. So the area Bradford council covers? I am not sure

 

Cleckheaton has a BD postcode too. As does Scholes, Birkenshaw, Gomersal and Drighlington. None of which are part of Bradford council.

Would it be council or postcodes where a lockdown would be enforced?