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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
That’s not what they were responding to
elbows
Well-Known Member
Makes sense, and they made a simple mistake about which tweet someone elses reply was in regard to.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I really hope so. I was struggling to find a charitable explanation, but that would be it.
Fucking hell!
Nope. They responded to my post which was in response to the people dying of lack of O2 in an Egyptian hospital.
Maybe they can clarify their post when they are back on here.
Yes I was referencing the tweet before...the Wrong Tweet, apologies it looked like the fucking hell was a response to the post prceeding it, I dont actually see tweets without copying and pasting URLs due my anti-twatter settings so I sometimes miss them (Note: No angry shouty twats were harmed in this message)
Explains a lot.
Never knew there were such things as anti twitter settings.
Interesting to know.
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ice-is-forming
With dignified ease and grace..
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Cheers for replying and clearing that up.
Anju
Well-Known Member
What a decision to have to make.
"As hospitalizations climb, the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS) directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals and to conserve the use of oxygen."
www.cnn.com
"As hospitalizations climb, the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS) directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals and to conserve the use of oxygen."
'Human disaster' unfolding in LA will get worse, experts say | CNN
Imagine having cardiac arrest and getting picked up by an ambulance that won't take you to a hospital. Or having a medical emergency and languishing outside an emergency room for hours.
Positivity rate here in Ireland is 20.8%.
According to the covid app today. That's based on previous 7 days average.
6000 cases reported yesterday from testing.
HSE CEO has suggested anyone with any symptoms more than likely has covid19 now and should self isolate.
With only 40000 vaccines for the entire month of January it's hard not to see it as a complete and utter fuck up.
According to the covid app today. That's based on previous 7 days average.
6000 cases reported yesterday from testing.
HSE CEO has suggested anyone with any symptoms more than likely has covid19 now and should self isolate.
With only 40000 vaccines for the entire month of January it's hard not to see it as a complete and utter fuck up.
teqniq
DisMembered
Meanwhile the underground party scene in LA is carrying on regardless:
www.lamag.com
Threats and Restrictions Aren't Putting a Damper on L.A.'s Rule-Flouting Underground Party Scene
As virus cases and casualties spike throughout the region, furtive dance clubs have continued to operate and thrive with little law enforcement intervention
www.lamag.com
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
Apparently two suspected organiser of the NYE rave in France might face up to 10 years in jail (probably just prosecutors bluster though)Meanwhile the underground party scene in LA is carrying on regardless:
Threats and Restrictions Aren't Putting a Damper on L.A.'s Rule-Flouting Underground Party Scene
As virus cases and casualties spike throughout the region, furtive dance clubs have continued to operate and thrive with little law enforcement intervention
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Amateurs
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
2hats
Dust.
Specifically due to B.1.1.7 Israel have changed their strategy, introducing a full lockdown (including schools), despite having the fastest vaccination programme rollout of any country by far.
www.timesofisrael.com
‘Final effort’: Cabinet okays 2-week lockdown to counter mushrooming virus cases
Full closure to take effect midnight Thursday, shutting all schools, non-essential businesses; daily cases hit 8,000 amid fears of unchecked British variant spread; 1.5m vaccinated
www.timesofisrael.com
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Portugal has hit a record 10k cases today . It’s the north and the centre round Lisbon/ Coimbra that are still the drivers . Fortunate where I am in the South that there’s not many cases . Everything is still open bar the airports
ice-is-forming
With dignified ease and grace..
The Australian government is as inept, corrupt and right wing as the uk government. But even so there's a subtle cultural contrast that's made for a different lockdown narrative.
Obviously there's huge differences in covid transmission due to the space and weather we have here, but still, when and where a hard lockdown's necessary our experience of essential services, lockdown rules, and the consequences for breaking them has been much tighter than the UK.
I'm wondering if this is because the government have more confidence in applying stricter rules, because they know and trust from our regular large disasters, that the population have the resilience and necessary solidarity to follow them.
Obviously there's huge differences in covid transmission due to the space and weather we have here, but still, when and where a hard lockdown's necessary our experience of essential services, lockdown rules, and the consequences for breaking them has been much tighter than the UK.
I'm wondering if this is because the government have more confidence in applying stricter rules, because they know and trust from our regular large disasters, that the population have the resilience and necessary solidarity to follow them.
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
Or, it's not actually all that much to do with the rules, and more to do with geography.
Spain also had very strict lockdown rules as I understand it.
ice-is-forming
With dignified ease and grace..
Yes, I get what your saying about the geography ( I think) but I'm not talking about the rate of transmission but the governments capacity/ confidence to make harder lockdown rules.
2hats
Dust.
Some anecdotal reports of reinfection post-vaccination, however one should bear in mind full protection won't be achieved until a few weeks after the course is completed plus, trial data would suggest, around 1 in 20 recipients (of BNT162b2) are still going to get ill, albeit not seriously so. Likely that also means at least 5% of the vaccinated can still act as vectors.
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
I know. But there are other countries which had similarly hard lockdown rules yet saw a much worse outcome. Spain being an example. Perhaps Australia's timing of the lockdown was better, and significant, and that could be to do with the government but it could also be a consequence of geography.
To be clear, when I say geography I'm not mainly talking about how spaced out people are, I mean things like controllability of borders and the number of people travelling to and from other locations.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Quite a lot of speculation that Portugal might shut commercial businesses at 1pm at weekends . Dunno whether that would be regional or national though.
ice-is-forming
With dignified ease and grace..
Ok, I get what your saying, and yes we have a huge advantage with the borders, timing etc
I was commenting on what gives a government the ability and confidence to actually make harder rules, rather than what the outcomes are based on geography or timing. Perhaps some of the confidence comes from knowing that they have the geography to enforce them.Perhaps it's also something to do with the population always being drilled to be disaster ready. It's a way of life.
But geography doesn't explain the differences in things like what is considered an essential service, or maybe it does as in regional and remote areas services are already reduced . I also think that the Aus gov had increased confidence to close more services / businesses because they have the experience of seeing a large amount of people managing without during times of disasters, and more importantly perhaps not blaming the government because of the overall acceptance of environmental/natural disasters. There is a demonstrated compliance by the population.
I wonder what gave the Spanish gov the confidence. And did it not work because of their geography or because disasters aren't a way of life for their population..
Really I'm just wondering about why Boris Johnson ditthers so much I suppose
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^^^Interesting. I guess here in the UK it's not been so much lack of confidence as lack of conviction on the part of Boris Johnson. The remark about the "freedom-loving British people" as opposed to the rule-following continental Europeans. Even in last Monday's (or whenever it was - the coronacalendar is getting a bit blurry) lockdown address, he couldn't help himself saying - and later tweeting - that he was sure that the British public was sick of getting more government instructions around this. When my perception was that the opposite is true - people were desperate to see some leadership, and for measures that would actually bring the situation under control.
Having said that, when it all started back in spring, I was admittedly also wondering how well people would follow it, also perceiving the national spirit, if there is such a thing, to be a bit more rebellious than in say, Germany. So I don't know how well restrictive measures would have flown if the situation wrt threat of death to loved ones and threat to the healthcare system hadn't been so grave, then and now.
Having said that, when it all started back in spring, I was admittedly also wondering how well people would follow it, also perceiving the national spirit, if there is such a thing, to be a bit more rebellious than in say, Germany. So I don't know how well restrictive measures would have flown if the situation wrt threat of death to loved ones and threat to the healthcare system hadn't been so grave, then and now.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
one day boris johnson will have a conviction
Supine
Newt Member
Great article on adherence to the rules and psychology
Pandemic fatigue? How adherence to covid-19 regulations has been misrepresented and why it matters - The BMJ
As England and Scotland start another period of lockdown, we all have to come to terms with following stricter covid-19 restrictions, most likely for a relatively long period of time. [...]More...
blogs.bmj.com
