Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[William of Walworth]

Apologies for reacting to an old post -- only just catching up here

Can't be confident about what thread, or forum, in which to put this excellent Barry Glendinning article (Saturday Guardian)
But IMO it's a ridiculously brilliant condemnation of 'decisions' to allow the Cheltenham 'Festival' and Liverpool v Atletico at Anfield to go ahead in mid-March
Worry not, sport-averse Urbans -- it's only technically a sport article -- much more political!!

I skipped past that quietly wondering how this is still news

The news itself isn't new, but the Barry Glendinning article was new -- Wednesday 27th May.
He's a pretty good sport editor at The Guardian, and I personally thought his summary of all that was brilliant,
You neither have to agree, nor just dismiss it.

 

[two sheds]

Did you see this Looby? Durdle Door. It's just a picture published by the Purbeck Police and I don't know what is going on but the white suits are worrying. View attachment 215425

Why are they all huddled together like that? (rhetorical question)

 

[cupid_stunt]

Why are they all huddled together like that? (rhetorical question)

I assume to make space for the two helicopters, one either side of the main crowd, there's another crowd in the distance, beyond the second chopper.

 

[editor]

Brockwell Park (near Brixton) was the busiest I've seen it outside of a festival, and Ruskin Park was the most packed I've ever known it. In Brockwell, youths were doing nitrous balloons together, there were big groups of drinkers all sitting alarmingly close to each other but at least there wasn't a full football game going on.

Given the useless 'leadership' of this government, I don't blame people for going out, but that Covid curve has got to be going back up again if this carries on

 

[two sheds]

I assume to make space for the two helicopters, one either side of the crowd.

ta, didn't see the one in the distance.

 

[ash]

Did you see this Looby? Durdle Door. It's just a picture published by the Purbeck Police and I don't know what is going on but the white suits are worrying. View attachment 215425

My Mums down there apparently 2 people jumped off Durdle door ( or maybe the cliff) sounds mental either way !!!

 

[ash]

My Mums down there apparently 2 people jumped off Durdle door ( or maybe the cliff) sounds mental either way !!!

By down there I don’t mean on the beach

 

[cupid_stunt]

Fucking hell.

Durdle Door: Three seriously hurt 'jumping off cliff into sea'

Police were called to Durdle Door over concerns for people seen jumping from the cliff into the sea.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[cupid_stunt]

More here -

THOUSANDS of visitors were ordered off a packed beach after four people were injured jumping off the top of Durdle Door. Two rescue helicopters landed on the beach this afternoon.

Three of the casualties have sustained serious injuries and are being treated by the ambulance service.

A police spokesman said: "Officers and partner agencies are dealing with a critical incident at Durdle Door. The incident involved people jumping from the arch into the sea. Four people have been injured as a result. They are receiving medical attention.

Critical incident declared as four people injured jumping off top of Durdle Door

THOUSANDS of visitors were ordered off a packed beach after four people were injured jumping off the top of Durdle Door.

www.dorsetecho.co.uk

Fucking idiots.

 

[Looby]

Someone has just shared a video of the people jumping and the crowded beach cheering them.
This is everyone leaving as they closed the beach.
That path is narrow and very steep. I saw a photo this week of people queuing on that to get down to the beach. It’s insane.

 

[Looby]

There should have been a limit on how far you can travel for leisure and exercise. We don’t have the fucking resources to deal with idiots from other counties as well as our own at the moment.

 

[Sue]

Brockwell Park (near Brixton) was the busiest I've seen it outside of a festival, and Ruskin Park was the most packed I've ever known it. In Brockwell, youths were doing nitrous balloons together, there were big groups of drinkers all sitting alarmingly close to each other but at least there wasn't a full football game going on.

Given the useless 'leadership' of this government, I don't blame people for going out, but that Covid curve has got to be going back up again if this carries on

There was a full contact, five-a-side match going on first thing this morning in my local park in Hackney -- the players were mid to late teens. And a kid's football training session. Going by the litter strewn everywhere, there were obviously a loads of people in there last night too.

 

[marshall]

There should have been a limit on how far you can travel for leisure and exercise. We don’t have the fucking resources to deal with idiots from other counties as well as our own at the moment.

Same in North Norfolk, lifeguards called out a few times this week to rescue people cut off by the tide. Out of towners, city folk...don't understand the ways of the country

 

[David Clapson]

Cummings eviscerated in the FT today. I pasted it in the Cummings thread. The Dominic Cummings file

 

[Sprocket.]

More here -



Fucking idiots.

I couldn’t agree more.

 

[cupid_stunt]

There should have been a limit on how far you can travel for leisure and exercise. We don’t have the fucking resources to deal with idiots from other counties as well as our own at the moment.

Same in North Norfolk, lifeguards called out a few times this week to rescue people cut off by the tide. Out of towners, city folk...don't understand the ways of the country

Same on the Sussex coast, it's gone nuts, Worthing beach was busier than normal on a sunny Saturday.

 

[editor]

There was a full contact, five-a-side match going on first thing this morning in my local park in Hackney -- the players were mid to late teens. And a kid's football training session. Going by the litter strewn everywhere, there were obviously a loads of people in there last night too.

Right now, there's a street party going on opposite me - everyone close together drinking - and a busy house party below, and I can hear another party close by. It's madness.

 

[William of Walworth]

With all this beach chat, all I can say (from earlier on today) is that it's very good job that Swansea beach is so enormous ......

 

[editor]

There's a full on house party going on below me. RAMMED full of people, most of whom are busy arguing and shouting in each other's faces.

 

[Sprocket.]

I fear the death toll is going to escalate very quickly. Loss of common sense seems to be virulent.

 

[weltweit]

I fear the death toll is going to escalate very quickly. Loss of common sense seems to be virulent.

Won't know initially for a couple of weeks though. First people get inflected, then they experience symptoms, then their illness gets serious, then they get hospitalised, then they go to ICU, then they die.

 

[weltweit]

Won't know initially for a couple of weeks though. First people get inflected, then they experience symptoms, then their illness gets serious, then they get hospitalised, then they go to ICU, then they die.

It isn't a chain of events I want to experience, so no house parties or less than 2m closeness for me anytime soon!

 

[William of Walworth]

Won't know initially for a couple of weeks though. First people get inflected, then they experience symptoms, then their illness gets serious, then they get hospitalised, then they go to ICU, then they die.

Not everyone and not inevitably, thankfully!!

It's worth remembering also, that not everywhere throughout the UK is experiencing equally high levels of irresponsible behaviour.

Here in our part of Wales, behaviour remains far from bad from what we've seen, mostly.

 

[weepiper]

Covid-19: England alone 'has the world's highest mortality rate'

WITHOUT the devolved nations considered, England has the worst coronavirus mortality rate in the world according to a Financial Times data…

www.thenational.scot

Grim reading

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

There's a full on house party going on below me. RAMMED full of people, most of whom are busy arguing and shouting in each other's faces.

ah well, you live in a choice spot, I fondly remember the sound system starting on a late friday afternoon and not stopping till sunday early evening in that block, pre covid/1990's obviously.
Lots of groups of teens at the other end of moorlands esaste when I just walked the dog. Police van was was hovering in attendance to monitor the situation...

 

[DexterTCN]

Not everyone and not inevitably, thankfully!!

It's worth remembering also, that not everywhere throughout the UK is experiencing equally high levels of irresponsible behaviour.

Here in our part of Wales, behaviour remains far from bad from what we've seen, mostly.

Well we're mainly seeing it only from England.

 

[campanula]

Mmm, it all looks very lockdown compliant where I am...but since I am not really going anywhere, I probably wouldm't know how much the lockdown is crumbling. I ventured a dogwalk by the river around a month ago...at one pinch point over a railway crossing, I completely lost my shit at some lycra clad imbecile hurtling up the steps towards me. '2metres, Dude', I bellowed at him...and tbf, he scarpered back down the stairs quicksmart. Even so, several families with bikes were also lurking at the bottom of the stairs where I practically had to squeeze by. So much for the relaxing walk - I was virtually homicidal - certainly tense as fuck. We walked back along the (empty) road. I have avoided any open spaces apart from the local graveyard for (solitary) dogwalks...and have not been anywhere other than my totally empty Tesco Express and a tiny Waitrose for partner's beer ( which is also more or less empty ). Apart from that, I haven't been within 2 metres of anyone except my partner and grand-daughter for months. There is no sunny weather whatsoever which would induce me to go to a beach. I can get along on Universal Credit for years if I have to. And if I ever have to venture anywhere near other people, I will take a sodding great length of bamboo. I do live in the centre of town (in England) and it is still pretty much deserted - and the local roads are pretty empty too.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Well we're mainly seeing it only from England.

it's a LANDAN ting!

 

[Dogsauce]

Park near me has had large groups of young people (probably students) sat on the grass together most nights for about a couple of weeks now. Mountain bikers also out in groups in the woods. A lot of people do seem to have given up.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Fucking hell.

Durdle Door: Three seriously hurt 'jumping off cliff into sea'

Police were called to Durdle Door over concerns for people seen jumping from the cliff into the sea.

www.bbc.co.uk

Absolute numpties, I spent my holidays around Durdle Door and Dorset growing up and thats not a good place to jump into the unknown at the bottom of those cliffs.

Never mind the 200ft argument with physics.