Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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I think I'd rather he didn't say anything tbh
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
"Masks! It's the masks that caused them!"
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
TBH, I wish people didn't tag him, drawing him back to the thread.
He said he would be back Mid-Oct., that's early enough, let's enjoy his break.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Have edited sorry.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
How much will wearing glasses reduce my risk I wonder Do glasses protect from coronavirus?
SlideshowBob
Active Member
Boris just isn't a very good speaker, and never has been. Speech was too short to care about it all that much but a lot of bizarre phrases etc that are hardly going to connect with people.
Leyton Orient test positive.
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Majority of Leyton Orient squad test positive for Covid-19 before Spurs tie
Leyton Orient’s squad has shown a high number of positive Covid-19 tests, which has led to the expectation that Tuesday’s Carabao Cup tie at home to Tottenham will be called off
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Columnists never appreciate that we don't care about their families. I won't be happy until she's got it. Even then, she'd have to die. And I'd only have a momentary chuckle.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I think I saw a Triggle article where he used a graph to suggest that if our trajectory was like France and Spains, we would be more likely to end up with 10,000 cases by the date in mid October that was used in the Whitty/Vallance slides the other day, rather than their 50,000 example.
But I am trying to wean myself off doing lengthy quotations and commentary on his analysis. I suppose I will still link to the article though, this time, maybe the last. Last throw of dice before the really tough call
I will say that its been weeks already since I questioned how well our testing system will actually be able to keep up with increase in cases, given its been creaking since some time in August, or maybe it was the start of September, I forget. I do expect to have to rely on various estimates more than actual test data again at some point, and to factor in heavily who is actually managing to get a test. eg under the very highest demand-supply test imbalances, it will end up being little more than an indicator of who is testing positive in hospitals etc again. But unless we reach that point, it will be hard to know what proportion of community cases it is still able to handle. So maybe I should just go straight to the regular estimates from now on instead, I'm not sure yet.
Anyway, the point I am leading to is that if I go and look at zoe covid estimates, their latest estimate was 12,698 new daily cases across the UK, and that estimate is getting a bit old now. So I dont think much of Triggles 10,000 by October 13th thing or whatever it was. But then if I were forced to stick to actual number of detected cases then all bets are off, I dont know how long it will take them to manage to detect 10,000 positives in a day, if they even can, regardless of actual levels of infection over that period.
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But I am trying to wean myself off doing lengthy quotations and commentary on his analysis. I suppose I will still link to the article though, this time, maybe the last. Last throw of dice before the really tough call
I will say that its been weeks already since I questioned how well our testing system will actually be able to keep up with increase in cases, given its been creaking since some time in August, or maybe it was the start of September, I forget. I do expect to have to rely on various estimates more than actual test data again at some point, and to factor in heavily who is actually managing to get a test. eg under the very highest demand-supply test imbalances, it will end up being little more than an indicator of who is testing positive in hospitals etc again. But unless we reach that point, it will be hard to know what proportion of community cases it is still able to handle. So maybe I should just go straight to the regular estimates from now on instead, I'm not sure yet.
Anyway, the point I am leading to is that if I go and look at zoe covid estimates, their latest estimate was 12,698 new daily cases across the UK, and that estimate is getting a bit old now. So I dont think much of Triggles 10,000 by October 13th thing or whatever it was. But then if I were forced to stick to actual number of detected cases then all bets are off, I dont know how long it will take them to manage to detect 10,000 positives in a day, if they even can, regardless of actual levels of infection over that period.
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Panic buying is back. Not on anything like the scale it was in the spring, but nevertheless, lots of pics on twitter last night of idiots with trolleys loaded with bog roll...
andysays
Love and solidarity
Tbh, nothing the government has done over the last six months will have given anyone any confidence that they know what they're doing
Rushing to the supermarket and filling a trolley with whatever you could get your hands on seems a perfectly understandable response to Johnson's performance yesterday.
True up to a point, but buying hundreds of bog rolls isn't. It's not as if diarrhoea is a typical covid symptom, is it! That's people either being daft or spotting an opportunity to make a profit when the shelves get stripped bare.
wtfftw
melting like a toastie
Diarrhoea can be a symptom - not that I think that knowledge is behind bulk buying loo roll.
maomao
普費斯
I think it's pretty isolated this time. There's pictures of a few silly people in the papers but I haven't heard widespread reports of shelves stripped bare. And given the standards of parts of the British press there's every chance some of the photos are six months old. The supermarkets where I live were stripped bare in March but are fine this week.
Oh aye it's localised, but it is happening. My local paper is reporting some supermarket shelves in the city have been stripped of - predictably - bog roll this morning.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
We have ours delivered 
That'll be written by disappointed local reporters who were hoping to panic buy bog roll.
Well, the Hull Daily Mail is full of shit so that is a distinct possibility.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
People panic when they hear others are doing it, if these are isolated incidents then they should be ignored and not given attention. Panic buying got worse the more the news covered it in March, at least it did here.
TopCat
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