Flavour
hang the bankers
10x their official death count (though this should be in the worldwide thread)
makes you wonder about brazil, russia, turkey, argentina...
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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makes you wonder about brazil, russia, turkey, argentina...
bimble
floofy
what the hell is even going on with this country.
www.theguardian.com
Border officials told not to make Covid checks on green and amber list arrivals
Exclusive: officers in England no longer have to verify whether new arrivals have received a negative Covid test
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
after freedom day we have freedoom day :/what the hell is even going on with this country.
Border officials told not to make Covid checks on green and amber list arrivals
Exclusive: officers in England no longer have to verify whether new arrivals have received a negative Covid test
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
So I'll be catching Covid at work this coming Friday then.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
We're in a weird fucking place at the moment. The government seem to be trying two contradictory approaches to dealing with Covid at the same time.
There's one approach where various restrictions are put in place to try and reduce the spread; and there's another approach where the government treat it like the annual flu outbreak, giving out vaccines and otherwise carrying on business as usual (business being the key word there). Johnson seems to be full on for the second approach, but can't come right out and say it as most people support the first approach. That leads to this confusing muddle we face of contradictory messages, things you have to do but don't have to do and government rules that the government say is nothing to do with them.
Fuck knows where it's all going.
20Bees
Well-Known Member
I haven’t been into many business premises throughout the pandemic - I work in an out-of-town supermarket, have been to Superdrug in town for my Covid jabs, the farm shop occasionally, a department store twice, and the post office. The only temperature check was before being allowed to enter a hair salon last autumn.
My son lives in northern China and they were temperature checked on leaving and returning to their gated apartment community, and even now still checked on entering shopping malls.
My son lives in northern China and they were temperature checked on leaving and returning to their gated apartment community, and even now still checked on entering shopping malls.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I dont go on about temperature checks much because they are not thought to be highly effective for screening at all.
www.port.ac.uk
Temperature scanners arent good at telling who has COVID19 heres how to fix that
Professor Mike Tipton writes for The Conversation on overcoming the ineffectiveness of temperature scanning in detecting Covid-19
elbows
Well-Known Member
I was expecting that when I went for my first one, because thats what the website of the company running it said, but on the day they werent actually bothering at all!Yeah the only times I have been temp. checked was going for my vaccines.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Mine was run by the three local surgeries plus volunteers & everyone saw a doctor (for simple questioning) & got jabbed by a nurse. Couldn't fault it. Hand sanitiser at the door & temp check before going into the main hall.
I was pretty impressed with the speed of the set-up. Went first with my 82 year old Mum in the early days when the pavements were icy. (Seems a log time ago now)
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
Only got temperature checked when going into hospital several months ago.
Cat Fan
Cats and stats
They made the system so complicated that it's impossible to enforce. But they still haven't managed to get mutual recognition for people who have been vaccinated overseas.what the hell is even going on with this country.
Border officials told not to make Covid checks on green and amber list arrivals
Exclusive: officers in England no longer have to verify whether new arrivals have received a negative Covid test
Reason to be pissed off about Brexit #1000
There's currently 25,000 people screaming, singing, throwing beer over each other at the cricket up in Manchester as if there was absolutely nothing wrong with the world. I sound like a total humbug, but um. No. Not a good idea. Normally I'd be envious watching these pictures but it's making me cringe.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Sweet Caroline.
Sweet Caroline.
Yes. That's it for me. My toes are curled up to the point of actual pain.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Pleased to report 95% of the staff at work are still wearing masks, and prolly 80-85% of customers too. Haven't seen many over 35 not wearing a mask or a lanyard explaining why 
Worst offenders by far - construction workers, who obviously feel not spreading disease should be a personal matter and have clearly agreed to make a point of it, whilst they shop in their hard hats, safety boots and hi-vis vests for their their roast chicken and cans of Monster
Worst offenders by far - construction workers, who obviously feel not spreading disease should be a personal matter and have clearly agreed to make a point of it, whilst they shop in their hard hats, safety boots and hi-vis vests for their their roast chicken and cans of Monster 
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
TBF the Tuesday figure is usually inflated, catching-up on the weekend reporting lag, which means figures reported on Sun & Mon tend to be a lot lower.
Sick fucks.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
The key thing is it is double last week's figure. If we have deaths doubling every week that gets nasty quickly.
LeytonCatLady
Well-Known Member
Ah, they've always been the same. They're handling it just like they did/do with draconian benefit cuts. No morals, no respect for human life.
ska invita
back on the other side
I think the key thing about Freedom Day is the Tories are now free not to have to pay anyone to close/not work - this is driving policy.
Its cant be a coincidence its ex-chancellor Sajid Javid in the hotseat
Its cant be a coincidence its ex-chancellor Sajid Javid in the hotseat
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
It's pointless picking one day & comparing it to the same day in the week before, 7-day averages are far more accurate, be it the daily reported figures, or 'by specimen date', which has some lag.
We are not [yet] at the stage of doubling every week, although it's grim enough, with deaths averaging 52.3 a day, and the 7-day average up +59.8%.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Over 39,000 care home deaths.
Meanwhile positive test data continues to be complicated to interpret this week. eg just like yesterday it remains unclear if the figure of 60,000+ cases with a sample date of July 15th will be beaten in this wave, whether there is an additional backlog for subsequent dates yet to fully report, beyond the backlogs normally seen, etc.
Coronavirus: Worst affected care homes revealed by watchdog
Figures from Care Quality Commission lay out the pandemic's 'devastating impact' on care homes in England.
www.bbc.co.uk
Meanwhile positive test data continues to be complicated to interpret this week. eg just like yesterday it remains unclear if the figure of 60,000+ cases with a sample date of July 15th will be beaten in this wave, whether there is an additional backlog for subsequent dates yet to fully report, beyond the backlogs normally seen, etc.
elbows
Well-Known Member
As if Scotlands schedule for publishing hospital admissions data wasnt shit enough already, there has now been a delay so a whole weeks worth of figures have not come out as scheduled today.
So people interested in monitoring hospital admissions on the dashboard will need to look at England rather than the UK, because the UK figure is still stuck on 14th July due to the missing data from Scotland.
So people interested in monitoring hospital admissions on the dashboard will need to look at England rather than the UK, because the UK figure is still stuck on 14th July due to the missing data from Scotland.
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