So, coronavirus...

[Ymx]

Blimey do you remember when going over 100 was high?



From memory Manchester got in to the 400’s when it was locked down back in November at its peak.


BTW, Is it a coincidence about the above and Globus getting COVID at one point?

[Slick]

Their flanker has been shielding since a particular incident 40 years ago so should be fine

[PlanetGlyndwr]

what does that even mean??

Uncultered Boomer Detected

[MungoMan]

what does that even mean??

Uncultered Boomer Detected

Let’s examine this.
1. Shit spelling
2. Unnecessary use of capitals
3. Sniggering because a poster didn’t recognise some dickhead meme no grownup should need to know.

Are you sure you wouldn’t more comfortable making comments on YouTube?

[Guy Smiley]

what does that even mean??

Uncultered Boomer Detected

Let’s examine this.
1. Shit spelling
2. Unnecessary use of capitals
3. Sniggering because a poster didn’t recognise some dickhead meme no grownup should need to know.

Are you sure you wouldn’t more comfortable making comments on YouTube?

[Insane_Homer]

Ring any bells?

[Sandstorm]

54 year old friend locally has Covid. Calls it horrific.

Not very sympathetic as she has not been isolating.

[Jb1981]

After enjoying a rule-breaking engagement party for her daughter last week, my wife’s Aunty in the Northwest is now saying how scary things are and that “the world is dying in front of our eyes” after learning a good friend has died from covid aged 57.

You would think that would be motivation to obey the rules but I give it a week at best.

[Openside]

what does that even mean??

Uncultered Boomer Detected

uncultered?? yes, clearly

[yermum]

what does that even mean??

Uncultered Boomer Detected

Weeb alert.

[Raggs]

Rationing of care has started in the some areas of USA. Icu beds given out on chance of survival as they are all full.

If/as it spreads you'd expect deaths to start going up fast.

[Enzedder]

Rationing of care has started in the some areas of USA. Icu beds given out on chance of survival as they are all full.

If/as it spreads you'd expect deaths to start going up fast.

To me, that is the health system collapsing in that area.

Where's Bimbo???

Oh yes, that's right.

[Jb1981]

Rationing of care has started in the some areas of USA. Icu beds given out on chance of survival as they are all full.

If/as it spreads you'd expect deaths to start going up fast.

To me, that is the health system collapsing in that area.

Where's Bimbo???

Oh yes, that's right.

Enough of the hyperbole. Are the hospitals in question literally piles of rubble? Have they and all systems across the entire country imploded? Of course they haven’t.

Give your head a wobble.

That’s all I’ve got. I will hand over the next dozen ‘Bimbo’ replies to other posters to shift the goalposts and claim victory.

[Ted.]

Rationing of care has started in the some areas of USA. Icu beds given out on chance of survival as they are all full.

If/as it spreads you'd expect deaths to start going up fast.

To me, that is the health system collapsing in that area.

Where's Bimbo???

Oh yes, that's right.

Enough of the hyperbole. Are the hospitals in question literally piles of rubble? Have they and all systems across the entire country imploded? Of course they haven’t.

Give your head a wobble.

That’s all I’ve got. I will hand over the next dozen ‘Bimbo’ replies to other posters to shift the goalposts and claim victory.

Fake news!!!!!! There's a hospital in Vermont and another in Honolulu that are doing perfectly fine.

[Guy Smiley]

People are still getting treatment aren’t they?

More lies and blatant misrepresentation of facts. I quoted you the relevant legislation.

[Enzedder]

People are still getting treatment aren’t they?

More lies and blatant misrepresentation of facts. I quoted you the relevant legislation.

[Ymx]

I’m starting to wonder who’s more obsessed.

You miss him.

[SaintK]

Entitled arseholes doing Britain proud

More than 200 British skiers fled a coronavirus quarantine in the popular Swiss resort of Verbier on Saturday night, reports say.
A spokesman in Valais canton said 420 British guests had booked into Verbier accommodation before Christmas and now only about a dozen were left.
Switzerland imposed a 10-day quarantine backdated to 14 December because of the new virus strain spreading in the UK.
The country also stopped flights from the UK and South Africa on 20 December.
Some Swiss hoteliers only discovered the guests had vanished when room service trays were left untouched outside doors, Swiss media reported. Others were called by British tourists demanding their money back once they had safely crossed into France, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.

[Uncle fester]

Wtf were the Swiss doing letting them in, in the first place?

[Slick]

Wtf were the Swiss doing letting them in, in the first place?

Or the U.K. letting them leave. I just don’t understand why we still have flights and trains moving

[Sandstorm]

Wtf were the Swiss doing letting them in, in the first place?

Or the U.K. letting them leave. I just don’t understand why we still have flights and trains moving

Quarantine was back-dated to 14 Dec. Also I think most of them drove over on Eurotunnel. Easy to self-isolate in your car on that train.

Of course allowing them on at Dover is a another issue, but that was before Tier 4 was even invented in England on 17 Dec.

Basically Swiss are to blame here.

[Sandstorm]

In fact the only Ski lifts open in Alps are in Switzerland. They are totally to blame for the Brits even being there.

[frodder]

There's a global pandemic going on. The response from some is.....quick load the car up with food and let's go on a skiing holiday

[Sandstorm]

There's a global pandemic going on. The response from some is.....quick load the car up with food and let's go on a skiing holiday

Also a fair point

[yermum]

Rather worrying anecdotes about long haulers getting re-infected with the new strain floating around.

hopefully not the start of a trend.

[Raggs]

Rather worrying anecdotes about long haulers getting re-infected with the new strain floating around.

hopefully not the start of a trend.

There's been plenty of re-infections occurring, before this new strain was around too.

[mat the expat]

There's a global pandemic going on. The response from some is.....quick load the car up with food and let's go on a skiing holiday

Entitled fuckwits will always fuckwit

[tc27]

January shaping up to be a horror show..record new cases today and ancedotally many more infections amongst people I know.

Vaccinations a real ray of light but if but the prospect of a strain that is resistant is terrifying.

We need a national vaccination effort on a war scale (every possible resource thrown at it), a spring style lockdown and closed borders now.

[Paddington Bear]

Can't see any way through this bar a proper lockdown.

[frodder]

Looks like we're going to make the 50k after all

[Sandstorm]

Can't see any way through this bar a proper lockdown.

Good luck getting 40% of the population to follow it properly.

[Paddington Bear]

Can't see any way through this bar a proper lockdown.

Good luck getting 40% of the population to follow it properly.

Well it was very well observed when we had a proper lockdown earlier in the year.

[Ymx]

What is the difference between that lockdown and tier 4??

[Ymx]

Also, I think people were more diligent in the first lockdown. By now people are flouting the rules.

So it’s not a reflection on the current state of rules.

[SaintK]

What is the difference between that lockdown and tier 4??

No schools or other educational premises open otherwise pretty similar

[Denny Crane]

Also, I think people were more diligent in the first lockdown. By now people are flouting the rules.

So it’s not a reflection on the current state of rules.

I think the novelty of a lockdown has worn off and people are probably a bit fed up of it

[Slick]

What is the difference between that lockdown and tier 4??

No schools or other educational premises open otherwise pretty similar

Only allowed out for exercise, no meeting others etc

[Ymx]

What is the difference between that lockdown and tier 4??

No schools or other educational premises open otherwise pretty similar

Only allowed out for exercise, no meeting others etc

Exercise with one other came in fairly quickly I’d thought.

But yes, schools probably the biggest difference.

[Ymx]

In terms of vaccine prioritisation, once the very old and at risk are done, should they not focus more on those cohorts more likely to be spreaders, even if less at risk.

Eg school children, and those who need to travel to work.

[Jock42]

In terms of vaccine prioritisation, once the very old and at risk are done, should they not focus more on those cohorts more likely to be spreaders, even if less at risk.

Eg school children, and those who need to travel to work.

Sounds sensible. There's also little need for lockdowns when those at risk are vaccinated. If they're immune then the pressure on the NHS is eased.