Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[Wilf]

So, we are stuck somewhere between government saying the rules are relaxed over Xmas/3 family bubble type thing.... along with beginning to admit that none of that is a good idea (shamed into it by the scientists and the fugures). Suspect we'll get some other fuckwitted formulation in the next couple of days, a kind of unmanaged retreat from their last formulation.

 

[kalidarkone]

nightingales dont have specialist itu equipment do they? I thought they'd be used more for less ill people recuperating rather than the worst cases.

Even then there is still not enough staff. Unless they use the army.

 

[mx wcfc]

Allegedly may be an announcement from UK gov tomorrow about delaying school restarting, but I'll believe it when I hear it: Exclusive: DfE considering delay to start of next term

Just a day after threatening to sue Greenwich for trying to close early

and in the meantime, Eton and at least one school round here in a Tory area have already closed.

I have no words for this shitstorm of a government.

 

[kropotkin]

nightingales dont have specialist itu equipment do they? I thought they'd be used more for less ill people recuperating rather than the worst cases.

They were for tubed patients with nothing else going on (ie hardly any of them) who just need a slow wean of a ventilator. Any other medical problems and the plan was to repatriate to a hospital. Staffing was always going tk be an issue, as would patient selection. There would be a pressure to take too-sick patients and under-staff if they were ever needed.
I wouldn't want anyone I care about who got tubed to end up in one.

 

[clicker]

They want to train teachers to carry out covid testing, which would delay schools going back by a week...was tweeted/reported/rumoured earlier.

 

[mx wcfc]

They want to train teachers to carry out covid testing, which would delay schools going back by a week...was tweeted/reported/rumoured earlier.

They should move teachers up the priority list for vaccinations then.

eta - they should move teachers up the priority list anyway.

 

[thismoment]

Allegedly may be an announcement from UK gov tomorrow about delaying school restarting, but I'll believe it when I hear it: Exclusive: DfE considering delay to start of next term

i wonder if this is what lockdown 3 is what it’s know as when it’s at home

eta: although i guess school was open the last lockdown

 

[thismoment]

They want to train teachers to carry out covid testing, which would delay schools going back by a week...was tweeted/reported/rumoured earlier.

when would teachers even have time to do this on top of all the different online and in person teaching a plans that they have to do. I mean teachers had plenty to do before lockdown anyway. See, this is why all school should have a school based nurse like the private school I once worked at

 

[20Bees]

They want to train teachers to carry out covid testing, which would delay schools going back by a week...was tweeted/reported/rumoured earlier.

Of course, with whole year groups self-isolating (Y8, Y10 and Y11 are all off after an outbreak at a secondary school near here), teachers will have LOADS of time to administer swab tests to the kids that are still attending. Are the staff to test each other too?

 

[prunus]

What we need is leadership. What we’ve got is useless cunts.

Not a helpful useful or constructive comment I know, but fuck it, I’ve been drinking, and in vino veritas.

 

[Sue]

I think I remember that the original plan was to use a mixture of hospital (&bank) nurses, assisted by military personnel and airline cabin staff.

I wouldn't want anyone I care about who got tubed to end up in one.

I'd also rather have doctors/nurses than airline cabin staff.

 

[Humberto]

The priority has to be helping to protect the most vulnerable, for example the elderly. The government fucked it up in dealing with care homes as far as I can tell. The government guaranteeing Christmas is irresponsible, and it is the elderly who will get the short end of the stick. We are becoming ever more a dog-eat-dog society, there is also generational animosity on social media (ok boomer?). I think that's dangerous nonsense. It worries me.

 

[cupid_stunt]

We knew Wales was doing badly, with new cases climbing very fast, but they have been under reporting, and a massive backlog of 11,000 new cases will be added to today's figures!

An additional 11,000 additional positive coronavirus cases will be reported by Public Health Wales (PHW) today after a ‘very large’ backlog from the last few days.

PHW said the due to planned maintenance of an Information Management System there’s been a “significant under reporting of lighthouse laboratory testing.”

Nearly 12,000 people tested positive last week, the additional missing cases due to the IT issue will take that to 23,000, an average of 3,285 per day.

An 11,000 positive Covid tests ‘missing’ from Public Health Wales data will be reported today

www.deeside.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

The spread in the SE corner is frankly staggering, bearing in mind 2 weeks ago there was just three council areas in north Kent that had over 400 cases.

There's just 3 days between the screengrabs below, and look at the changing colours, the sample dates are [top] 8th & 11th, the most recent update to the map, so no doubt it's even worst now.

 

[LDC]

The news is full of assumptions that people in Tier 3 all want their areas to go down. Fuck that, I want to stay in Tier 3 as does everyone else I know. Just being below some arbitrary figure and thinking that's low enough to go down is shitty.

Fuck listening to all the council leaders and mayors who assume they speak for us all.

 

[teuchter]

as does everyone else I know.

The people who want restrictions lowered will say this too though.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Handjob already 10 minutes late

 

[Jay Park]

Handjob already 10 minutes late

here he is again, smut-bollocks.

can’t go more than 5 posts without referencing self pleasure. What? The Audi not doing it for you anymore?

 

[Teaboy]

The news is full of assumptions that people in Tier 3 all want their areas to go down. Fuck that, I want to stay in Tier 3 as does everyone else I know. Just being below some arbitrary figure and thinking that's low enough to go down is shitty.

Fuck listening to all the council leaders and mayors who assume they speak for us all.

It doesn't seem like a very good idea to move any area from tier 3 to tier 2 in the week before Christmas. Would be a very odd thing to do but quite frankly who knows what is going on anymore.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

here he is again, smut-bollocks.

can’t go more than 5 posts without referencing self pleasure. What? The Audi not doing it for you anymore?

Fuck off you tedious twat.

 

[Jay Park]

Fuck off you tedious twat.

gosh your conversational skills really take a dive when anyone mentions your Audi in a disparaging way

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

gosh your conversational skills really take a dive when anyone mentions your Audi in a disparaging way

You're busy shitting all over the boards with your crap, these are serious threads, so give it a fucking rest.

 

[frogwoman]

Is Buckinghamshire in tier 3?

 

[elbows]

Is Buckinghamshire in tier 3?

As of 0.01am Saturday, yes.

 

[souljacker]

T3 for Berkshire :-(

Until the 23rd free-for-all kicks in obv.

 

[frogwoman]

Sad because it is necessary even though its the right thing

 

[elbows]

I would say there is zero chance of any tier 3 areas moving into tier 2 before Christmas.

Never say never with this government eh! Bristol etc escape from tier 3.

 

[kalidarkone]

Bristol going into tier 2. Gonna be a busy new year at work.

 

[cupid_stunt]

New tier 3 areas -

Bedfordshire

Buckinghamshire

Berkshire

Peterborough

The whole of Hertfordshire

Surrey, with the exception of Waverley

Hastings and Rother on the Kent border of East Sussex

Portsmouth, Gosport and Havant in Hampshire.

These areas will go into tier 3 at one minute past midnight on Saturday.

ETA -


Bristol and North Somerset will move into tier two.

Herefordshire will move from tier two to tier one.

 

[Teaboy]

So in short, things improving in the west but getting a lot worse in the East, especially the South East.