Is everything you say there 100% correct? Someone who lives with someone who tested positive has to wait four days to get tested? That’s shocking, if so.
Unfortunately yeah, its a 4 day wait. Not sure how he's going about isolating himself from his own sister in the meantime or what's happening there.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then you have to at least consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the genus Anatidae on our hands.
Feck me the UK rules are complicated, no wonder nobody pays attention. Every week they change and they're different depending where you are. "Household gathering limit to be cut" next.
I'm pretty surprised by this. Anyone I know who's wanted a test has gotten them really quick. Supposedly you just get an automated text that says when and where, you go, and then an automated response a day later with the results (well, if you're negative, anyway). Seemed pretty painless from what they showed me. Maybe a lot more people are getting tested now than a few weeks ago?
That’s what gets me, I just can’t see any possibly logic in what the ECDC are claiming. We know schools are famously incubators for spreading disease because kids are naturally irresponsible, so unless kids can’t catch the virus (which we know isn’t true) or somehow magically can’t pass it on to others (which also seems nonsensical) then how can schools not be a super high risk factor for spreading Covid? It just seems bizarre. Especially considering how many kids are looked after by elderly people.
Agreed. Wishful thinking I suspect. Which is always crap science.
Again, the important thing is deaths, ICU numbers, hospital admissions etc. when have all remained low and stable throughout the rise in cases. Plus it's always higher on a Tuesday. We all knew there would be an increase as we opened up and schools went back, it's fine.
Leaked from where? Sure this isn’t another whatsapp rumour?
Its the not being able to contain it and community transmissions Im worried about. All if that is grand if we can keep it at 300 but we are as likely to keep it at 300 as 0. I can see 1k a day again by Christmas, I jist dont know how we can slow it
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if it is 1,000 a day again then we need to be able to handle it. Like I said, they've had plenty of time to prepare for that possibility. Obviously the big unknown is flu season and cold weather.
Contracting both covid and flu could be really bad.
This is probably a really dumb question but wouldnt one take control and not allow the other to get a hold?
From what I know and it isn't much I admit you can have both, clinical picture is similar for both and it would be a too much of an attack on organism as a whole. That's why its important to vaccine for flu.
Hate to say it but isn’t it much more likely this is being driven by return to work/schools? (plus general dicking about by people bored of social distancing)
You keep trying to imply that this is all down to the HSE to keep a lid on. If the cases go exponential it’s all their fault. Unfortunately there’s feck all they can do if the Irish people don’t do what they’re being asked to do. And it looks like they aren’t.
That is exactly what you said yesterday though? I'm not sure what I said that implies it's all the fault of the HSE.
It’s when you said “they’ve had plenty of time” as though that’s “their” responsibility to keep cases down. I’m probably nit-picking. And me saying we’ll muddle through without a lockdown was about as optimistic as I get in this thread!
I'm not sure what I said that implies it's all the fault of the HSE.
Yeah. In fairness they’ve already hinted at that to prepare the nation’s psyche. I think they may keep restaurants open. I hope they allow us to keep playing 5-aside...I’ve only just got fit again
I don't think you should pay much attention to that.
Deaths on the rise with cases. Not good. I know you’d usually expect that but France and Spain have been in the 5-7000 new for a few weeks with less daily deaths than that.
Schools have only been back a few days, so I don't think we'd see that effect yet anyway. Contact tracing in Bolton, where everything's going to hell, has apparently traced a lot of cases to people socialising in pubs (shock!) so Bolton's pubs are going to have to close at 10pm, and their restaurants are going to takeaway only. Fortunately, there isn't an easily accessible major city on Bolton's doorstep where all the locals can go instead... (oh, wait...). My vague hope was that people were having one last big end-of-summer night out before they get back to work, and might start being sensible again. Even as I write this, I'm writing it off as stupidly optimistic.
Seems like the perfect time for everyone to be shoved back into their offices.second wave is well and truly growing in UK. Will surely translate into increased deaths within a few weeks.
and schools!
I think there's a fair old weekend effect in that number. English hospitals only announced 8 new deaths today.
Not a single school kid has died here in Sweden and we kept schools open the entire time, even the Stockholm hotspots.
But it's a true statement. And by they I wasn't specifically referring to the HSE but everyone involved. Not sure what the issue is.
Oh wow. So it’s a virtual 0% risk for school age children? Is that corroborated across the world?
Thought UK were meant to have a world class test and trace system in place months ago?
Haven’t the UK, Ireland and a host of other countries been on a gradual upwards curve since just a few weeks post lockdown?
