So, coronavirus...

[Un Pilier]

I’m a bit worried that I have mild dose of the rona. I’ve got a dry cough I can’t shake, metallic taste all through my mouth and am feeling a little short of breath. FFS. Nothing major but enough to nag away at the back of my mind. I have no idea where I might have got it. I’ve not left the house For a very long time other than to walk the dog.

Post?

Groceries? Coke? Hookers?

[Longshanks]

So Newsnight going with the idea that the PCR tests are producing false positives and may be giving us an inaccurate picture of the virus, 0.5% was the rate. That coupled with the massive testing now being carried out will increase the numbers showing as positive . Suggestion that localized lockdowns should be based on the tests as well as what is happening in hospitals.

[Enzedder]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Thread Englished.

Racist.

It's not a race - it's an affliction.

[Jock42]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Thread Englished.

Racist.

It's not a race - it's an affliction.

[Line6 HXFX]

My one take away from this disaster is the people who wholeheartedly supported kicking the living shit out of the poor, sick and unemployed fir 10 years, sending them to foodbanks, terrorising them and putting them under constant threat of sanctions, , couldn't hack Universal Credit, the bedroom tax and all the other hateful shit themselves.

The government had to pour money straight into their pockets without questions, as most of the country(who supported these polices) would be up in arms about it and never vote Tory again.

What a sanctimonious hypocritical bunch of sickenning resent'tards.


October should be fun.

[Lemoentjie]

I'm sorry, what's hapenning?

You all need to take a knee.

I cannot be here to defend myself 24 hours a day from every single slander and smear.
Can you not just put them at the end so I can read them in a few days, as let's be honest, I seem to have a lot if weird hatred projected on me, (and today is my day of fun with the Mrs)...by barmy puddle of hatred South Africans, trained in 1980's dehumanisation techniques.


I'm not black chaps.

How touching

[Fangle]

I'm sorry, what's hapenning?

You all need to take a knee.

I cannot be here to defend myself 24 hours a day from every single slander and smear.
Can you not just put them at the end so I can read them in a few days, as let's be honest, I seem to have a lot if weird hatred projected on me, (and today is my day of fun with the Mrs)...by barmy puddle of hatred South Africans, trained in 1980's dehumanisation techniques.


I'm not black chaps.

How touching

Which Saffers have been attacking this fellow, who obviously loves all his fellow men?

[Sandstorm]

Me. He’s a self-obsessed attention seeker who talks a lot of crap.

[Hong Kong]

On topic...

[Ymx]

On topic...

[Hong Kong]

[Enzedder]

C'mon Mr Darwin. let's see this theory of yours kick in please. We have the chance to really raise our collective IQ.

[Raggs]

Severe distrust in the government is driving Israel's cases sky high (relatively). They're of course completely justified in their distrust in general, but unfortunately it's coinciding with something that you do need to take seriously. I suspect you've got the religious doing bugger all different because it's all in gods hands (their kids don't wear bike helmets, play in the road etc), the right wing probably claiming it's a hoax, and the left wing figuring it's all just a power grab. Thankfully most my friends out there are smart enough to hate Bibi whilst still keeping themselves safe.

The usa is still the one that takes the biscuit for me though. Entire states are acting like hotspots in the UK, only without the same level of restrictions (both at hotspot level and in general).

[Bokkom]

C'mon Mr Darwin. let's see this theory of yours kick in please. We have the chance to really raise our collective IQ.

[Hong Kong]

[A6D6E6]

A few years ago I saw two male lions getting it on at Doncaster Wildlife Park. I ushered my kids (who were then about 3 and 6) away fairly quickly.

[Sandstorm]

Yeah I’d also get the hell out of Doncaster pronto.

[lemonhead]

I’m a bit worried that I have mild dose of the rona. I’ve got a dry cough I can’t shake, metallic taste all through my mouth and am feeling a little short of breath. FFS. Nothing major but enough to nag away at the back of my mind. I have no idea where I might have got it. I’ve not left the house For a very long time other than to walk the dog.

Slight upside is you can chop any number of onions without side effects. Olfactory system seems to completely shut down.

[Slick]

A few years ago I saw two male lions getting it on at Doncaster Wildlife Park. I ushered my kids (who were then about 3 and 6) away fairly quickly.

Have they turned out gay? Even a sideways glance can be disasterous.

[A6D6E6]

A few years ago I saw two male lions getting it on at Doncaster Wildlife Park. I ushered my kids (who were then about 3 and 6) away fairly quickly.

Have they turned out gay? Even a sideways glance can be disasterous.

No. Luckily I had some anti-gay spray left over from our previous trip to Brighton.

[Hal Jordan]

Antonio Banderas has revealed two disturbing facts in a Tweet:-

1). He has a mild dose of Coronavirus;and

2). He's celebrating his 60th birthday. 60. Jesus.

[Saint]

So, Russia has announced it has approved an "internally developed" vaccine today saying that it's passed all tests.

leaving aside their definition of "internal", seeing as they've apparently had so few deaths, one wonders why they feel the need to rush it through

[FujiKiwi]

New Zealand has discovered cases in the community. Auckland going into shutdown.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health ... -community

So, so disappointing to hear.

Here's the release from the Ministry of Health:

The Prime Minister has announced four confirmed cases of COVID-19 in one family from an unknown source.

The index case is a person in their 50s who lives in South Auckland.

They were swabbed yesterday, and the swab was processed twice. A second swab, taken today confirms the positive result.

The person has been symptomatic for five days and was interviewed this evening by the Auckland Regional Public Health Service.

The person has no overseas travel history.

As is our usual protocol we are continuing to trace close and casual contacts of this person and test them for COVID-19.

This has included household contacts of the case who received a rapid test this evening. Three of these tests have also come back positive and three are negative.

All close contacts of the four cases will remain in self-isolation for 14 days, regardless of their test result, and all casual contacts will remain in self-isolation until they have the results of their test.

In addition, we are working over the next few days to test all people that are working at our borders and everyone that works at a managed isolation facility.

There will also be no barriers to anyone that has cold and flu symptoms getting tested. Testing is free.

“I’ve said it previously, but it’s even more relevant now, if you are offered a test, please take it", Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said.

In Auckland the four community testing centres in Northcote, Grafton, Henderson and Wiri will be operating with more staff and extra hours. The testing centres in Auckland, Waitemata and Counties Manukau are all prepared for receiving more people. Details will be on our website tonight.

The three DHBs in Auckland are planning pop up clinics over coming days and they will publicise the locations and hours of these clinics.

The Ministry will be working closely with DHBs and primary care around the country to ensure additional testing capacity is available to meet an expected increase in demand.

As we’ve been saying for several weeks, it was inevitable that New Zealand would get another case of community transmission.

We have been working on the basis that it could be at any time – and that time is now.

The health system is well prepared for this eventuality – and the important thing now is that we don’t let the virus spread in our community.

As we did in the early days of this virus emerging, we need to stamp it out.

There are things that every single New Zealander needs to do now:

- Continue stringent hand hygiene
- sneeze and cough into your elbow.
- If you or a family member are unwell stay home and contact Healthline or your GP about getting a test.
- practice physical distancing of two meters wherever possible.
- consider wearing a mask in public spaces or places where it is hard to physically distance.

If you have any concerns please seek advice from Healthline or your GP on getting a test.

If you have not already, please use this opportunity to download the NZ COVID Tracer app.

This will give us your up to date contact details, so if we need to get in touch with you for contact tracing purposes, we can do so quickly.

If you have fallen out of the habit of recording your movements as you go about your day, this case is a reminder of why it is so important.

You can still use the manual function on the app to record where you have been recently, and scan in using QR codes going forward.

A reminder too, for businesses – please have a QR code displayed so your customers can be traced quickly if required.

"Our contact tracing team will be getting in touch with anyone identified as being a contact of this case. Please be responsive if you are contacted – return the call.

"This case is a wake-up call against any complacency that may have set in.

"We cannot afford to let this virus spread.

"We have seen how quickly it can lead to a wider resurgence in communities overseas. Places that have had COVID-19 under control have seen flare-ups and gone back into a full lockdown.

"We are working to not let that happen here. We’ve done this before and we can do it again," Dr Bloomfield said.

[Biffer]

New Zealand has discovered cases in the community. Auckland going into shutdown.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health ... -community

So, so disappointing to hear.

Here's the release from the Ministry of Health:

The Prime Minister has announced four confirmed cases of COVID-19 in one family from an unknown source.

The index case is a person in their 50s who lives in South Auckland.

They were swabbed yesterday, and the swab was processed twice. A second swab, taken today confirms the positive result.

The person has been symptomatic for five days and was interviewed this evening by the Auckland Regional Public Health Service.

The person has no overseas travel history.

As is our usual protocol we are continuing to trace close and casual contacts of this person and test them for COVID-19.

This has included household contacts of the case who received a rapid test this evening. Three of these tests have also come back positive and three are negative.

All close contacts of the four cases will remain in self-isolation for 14 days, regardless of their test result, and all casual contacts will remain in self-isolation until they have the results of their test.

In addition, we are working over the next few days to test all people that are working at our borders and everyone that works at a managed isolation facility.

There will also be no barriers to anyone that has cold and flu symptoms getting tested. Testing is free.

“I’ve said it previously, but it’s even more relevant now, if you are offered a test, please take it", Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said.

In Auckland the four community testing centres in Northcote, Grafton, Henderson and Wiri will be operating with more staff and extra hours. The testing centres in Auckland, Waitemata and Counties Manukau are all prepared for receiving more people. Details will be on our website tonight.

The three DHBs in Auckland are planning pop up clinics over coming days and they will publicise the locations and hours of these clinics.

The Ministry will be working closely with DHBs and primary care around the country to ensure additional testing capacity is available to meet an expected increase in demand.

As we’ve been saying for several weeks, it was inevitable that New Zealand would get another case of community transmission.

We have been working on the basis that it could be at any time – and that time is now.

The health system is well prepared for this eventuality – and the important thing now is that we don’t let the virus spread in our community.

As we did in the early days of this virus emerging, we need to stamp it out.

There are things that every single New Zealander needs to do now:

- Continue stringent hand hygiene
- sneeze and cough into your elbow.
- If you or a family member are unwell stay home and contact Healthline or your GP about getting a test.
- practice physical distancing of two meters wherever possible.
- consider wearing a mask in public spaces or places where it is hard to physically distance.

If you have any concerns please seek advice from Healthline or your GP on getting a test.

If you have not already, please use this opportunity to download the NZ COVID Tracer app.

This will give us your up to date contact details, so if we need to get in touch with you for contact tracing purposes, we can do so quickly.

If you have fallen out of the habit of recording your movements as you go about your day, this case is a reminder of why it is so important.

You can still use the manual function on the app to record where you have been recently, and scan in using QR codes going forward.

A reminder too, for businesses – please have a QR code displayed so your customers can be traced quickly if required.

"Our contact tracing team will be getting in touch with anyone identified as being a contact of this case. Please be responsive if you are contacted – return the call.

"This case is a wake-up call against any complacency that may have set in.

"We cannot afford to let this virus spread.

"We have seen how quickly it can lead to a wider resurgence in communities overseas. Places that have had COVID-19 under control have seen flare-ups and gone back into a full lockdown.

"We are working to not let that happen here. We’ve done this before and we can do it again," Dr Bloomfield said.

I hope you get it nailed down quickly

Does this mean no crowd for the Blues game this weekend?

[FujiKiwi]

I hope you get it nailed down quickly

Does this mean no crowd for the Blues game this weekend?

I guess it means no crowd? I'm not sure if they'll cancel the match.

I'm a Fleewee, so this doesn't affect me very directly. But I'm really disappointed for everyone back home. And I'm pretty pissed at whoever slipped up here. Someone, somewhere made a stupid choice.

[Mahoney]

I'm really disappointed for everyone back home. And I'm pretty pissed at whoever slipped up here. Someone, somewhere made a stupid choice.

Someone always makes a stupid choice, given enough someones. I would say it's too early to be disappointed; the test isn't this happening, that was all but inevitable, it's whether your procedures are good enough to squash it fast.

[FujiKiwi]

I'm really disappointed for everyone back home. And I'm pretty pissed at whoever slipped up here. Someone, somewhere made a stupid choice.

Someone always makes a stupid choice, given enough someones. I would say it's too early to be disappointed; the test isn't this happening, that was all but inevitable, it's whether your procedures are good enough to squash it fast.

Yeah. That’s a pretty wise perspective. Thanks for your insight.

[stunt_cunt]

Was always inevitable, we were warned the whole time it was inevitable too. Short of saying "no planes, no passengers, no one comes here" we have to accept it will slip through.

A recently infected asymptomatic person showing two false negative tests is all it will take. A quarantine worker gets infected and blows into a nightclub, or as alleged, the contents of a refrigerated compartment airshipped in.

Now is the time all those who've been in training and preparation for this very scenario to kick in and solve it while the rest of us just chill out and not spread it any more.

[Enzedder]

[Clogs]

Crap. 13 new cases in NZ. This cunt of a thing is proving to be a real cunt of a thing.

[mat the expat]

Crap. 13 new cases in NZ. This cunt of a thing is proving to be a real cunt of a thing.

It's definitely insidious

That's why people need to follow instructions

[wet-socks]

I hope you get it nailed down quickly

Does this mean no crowd for the Blues game this weekend?

I guess it means no crowd? I'm not sure if they'll cancel the match.

I'm a Fleewee, so this doesn't affect me very directly. But I'm really disappointed for everyone back home. And I'm pretty pissed at whoever slipped up here. Someone, somewhere made a stupid choice.

Fleewee?

[Gumboot]

Fleewee?

Expat Kiwi.

[Insane_Homer]

So the BBC reporting that NZ has 14 cases

Meanwhile in the UK, a 22% jump in deaths this week (additional 37 so far in the first 3 days of this week (200 in total), the first time in months these been weekday to weekday increased and 3 days in a row now) is completely ignored.

[Bimbowomxn]

So the BBC reporting that NZ has 14 cases

Meanwhile in the UK, a 22% jump in deaths this week (additional 37 so far in the first 3 days of this week (200 in total), the first time in months these been weekday to weekday increased and 3 days in a row now) is completely ignored.

200 people haven’t died with Covid in the last 3 days. The statistics from PHE are a disgrace but they don’t need an idiots interpretation adding to the nonsense.

[Insane_Homer]

So the BBC reporting that NZ has 14 cases

Meanwhile in the UK, a 22% jump in deaths this week (additional 37 so far in the first 3 days of this week (200 in total), the first time in months these been weekday to weekday increased and 3 days in a row now) is completely ignored.

200 people haven’t died with Covid in the last 3 days. The statistics from PHE are a disgrace but they don’t need an idiots interpretation adding to the nonsense.

Sorry my mistake It's 201.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/deaths

Monday - 22 (revised up by one from 21 as first reported)
Tuesday - 102
Wednesday - 77

Best reporting in the world remember...

[Bimbowomxn]

So the BBC reporting that NZ has 14 cases

Meanwhile in the UK, a 22% jump in deaths this week (additional 37 so far in the first 3 days of this week (200 in total), the first time in months these been weekday to weekday increased and 3 days in a row now) is completely ignored.

200 people haven’t died with Covid in the last 3 days. The statistics from PHE are a disgrace but they don’t need an idiots interpretation adding to the nonsense.

Sorry my mistake It's 201.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/deaths

Monday - 22 (revised up by one from 21 as first reported)
Tuesday - 102
Wednesday - 77

Best reporting in the world remember...

Are you claiming 201 people died in 3 days in August as you’ve stated above?

[ASMO]

200 people haven’t died with Covid in the last 3 days. The statistics from PHE are a disgrace but they don’t need an idiots interpretation adding to the nonsense.

Sorry my mistake It's 201.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/deaths

Monday - 22 (revised up by one from 21 as first reported)
Tuesday - 102
Wednesday - 77

Best reporting in the world remember...

Are you claiming 201 people died in 3 days in August as you’ve stated above?

naa it's 193 according to the official government statistics, but what is 8 lives between friends huh?

[Bimbowomxn]

Oh dear. This is why the panic was so great.

[Line6 HXFX]