Coronavirus - the new strain IX
- Thread starter gavreid
- Start date
- Status
ff1d1l
pfm Member
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
I honestly don't know and would never profess to know how to make any kind of call of that nature. That's why running a country isn't for me. It's easier and has less potential to kill people by just discussing it on the Internet.
You had to sms them. They sms back to you with a 10 minute timeslot and you had to show it on entry.
All manual records here had phone and email contacts.
I suppose a club should have the contacts for members but of course NZ closed all clubs.
From 25th March to 27th April only essential workers went to work. Only supermarkets, pharmacies, hospitals/clinics and petrol stations were open. You could go out for a walk but asked to stay at least 2m from anyone not in your bubble.
NZ has had no community transmission since 22nd May. Life is normal.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Strong criticism of the test and trace set up from Allyson Pollock, clinical professor of public health at Newcastle University
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/31/outsourcing-england-test-trace-nhs-private
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/31/outsourcing-england-test-trace-nhs-private
Andrew C!
Been around a while....
No turn up and play without booking a time at my place. Details required.
gingermrkettle
Deep vein trombonist
Yes, well it's all well and good holding them up a bastion of how to do it right, but they do have a significant advantage over us in that they're an island
What they don't have that we do is a self entitled greedy power crazed twat as a PM!
SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
Testing just makes your country look bad.
Yes, well it's all well and good holding them up a bastion of how to do it right, but they do have a significant advantage over us in that they're an island
What they don't have that we do is a self entitled greedy power crazed twat as a PM!
Apologies. I should have just answered the specific question.
Hoping the Oxford Covid vaccine will save the UK from the Oxford PM.
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
Mandryka were you impressed by the joined up thinking from the press conference?
Boris Johnson: We will be opening up further as soon as possible
Chris Whitty: We have probably reached the limits of what we can do in terms of opening up society
IN THE SAME PRESS CONFERENCE.
Boris Johnson: We will be opening up further as soon as possible
Chris Whitty: We have probably reached the limits of what we can do in terms of opening up society
IN THE SAME PRESS CONFERENCE.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
who cares? does anyone actually believe anything either says.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
I think I've got my head around the apparent discrepancy in case numbers between the PHE regional figures and the ONS. Forgive me if it's been obvious it may be my cognitive problem, but it's been bothering me for a while. The ONS is giving a country-wide average based on random swab samples taken in homes, and so quoting a straight up 1 in 2000 people. It's likely to be undersampled and so doesn't capture the peaks at all well, smoothing out those numbers greatly. They will also include samples from a lot of people who are largely isolated, working at home etc etc, as well as those who live in more rural and secluded locations. Those people just aren't important at this point in time because they are extremely unlikely to be spreaders and unlikely to be infected anyway, so could perhaps be excluded from the 'active population'. However, that's the number usually given by the BBC. As a measure it's pretty useless, but politically very convenient if the aim is to downplay the problem. PHE is capturing postcode information from real infections and averaging over a much smaller population and so will be a much truer representation of the peak numbers. Clearly the virus will spread from the peak locations where people are more congested, i.e. in the northwest at present, just as it did from the London area previously, unless strict measures are in place, so that's the number we need. I've long suspected that Government is using a much finer distribution of postcodes than PHE is actually publishing, but is keeping it to themselves in order not to scare us.
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
I’d trust Whitty but not a word Johnson utters.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
given what i have seen it does have some quite fine grained information. It could be used to identify individual households if it were in the wider public domain
stephen bennett
Mr Enigma
The northern lockdown represents government failure. There is a better way
All sensible stuff.
I only see one problem. How will this allow the Government to continue to enable their families, friends and donors to make huge profits from the public finances while still not delivering the promised Apps/PPE/Track and Trace etc?
Stephen
*Even the right-wing papers are commenting on this! Maybe because they're being cut out of the deals. I mean, the Telegraph could easily do PCR testing and make masks out of old copies of the papoer.
All sensible stuff.
I only see one problem. How will this allow the Government to continue to enable their families, friends and donors to make huge profits from the public finances while still not delivering the promised Apps/PPE/Track and Trace etc?
Stephen
*Even the right-wing papers are commenting on this! Maybe because they're being cut out of the deals. I mean, the Telegraph could easily do PCR testing and make masks out of old copies of the papoer.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Yes very much so. They could, however, go finer than borough council, just by way of comment on problematic areas when numbers are high, I suspect. The first 3 'numbers' of a postcode represent many thousands of people after all.
davidsrsb
pfm Member
Malaysia has QR code registration at every shop and restaurant
Everything is open EXCEPT pubs and nightclubs as drunks cannot be trusted to distance
gingermrkettle
Deep vein trombonist
- Status