The General Covid19 Thread

IndustryStandard

Seems to me a lot of people in the UK are in this little bubble of being furloughed , still getting paid , great weather and statisticaly unlikely to catch Covid. Hence off to the beach and the like. When pubs open they will be rammed if people are still furloughed.

shits gonna get real once people have to go back to work and navigate the new world we live in . Or if they are laid off and we start hitting 15% unemployment . Some of the numbers I’m seeing at work are scary .

How the govt can’t make masks mandatory is beyond me. About 10% of people I see in supermarkets have them on. No ones gonna wear them down a boozer.

I love pubs but I’m fucked if I’m gonna risk it at the moment . Luckily I’m an old bastard and can live on my memories for a good while yet 🤣

Along_the_Wire

gcw The blame lies with the government, their poor planning and even poorer comms. It’s a shitshow. Masks should be mandatory in shops and public transport - that’s not a difficult to get across, is it?

Also, all this announcing a week or two before something else opens up is just heaping the blame on the public when they do it immediately - it really fucking boils my piss.

LT42

Along_the_Wire Exactly, not blaming the Govt and pointing the finger at ignorant types is ridiculous. The very reason people are doing what they like is because the Govt aren’t strict and don’t seem to care. Pop a £500 quid fine on anybody not wearing a mask, do you think that would make a diff?

Homegrove

New cases ramping up in Sweden, and the main science guy there (Swedish Fauci if you will) gave an interview to Finnish media yesterday where he said he was shocked that other Nordic countries chose lockdown instead of doing what Sweden did in March. Seven times as many dead per capita than Finland and the guy still can’t admit they fucked up majorly.

rhouses

Hearing a lot more stories of people who I know and family of friends who are all getting infected in the last two weeks. No deaths close to home yet, but some of the stories are pretty fucking scary.

@jonattonyeah - I’m hearing SF is in bad shape and things are on the verge of taking off. Kinda surprised you’re so chill about it. Relieved you beat it.

jonattonyeah

rhouses I’m hearing SF is in bad shape and things are on the verge of taking off

No we’re good over here. We have the lowest hospitalization rate, lowest death rate, and highest testing rate of any metropolitan area in the country. We’ll see a jump in cases over the next month as things reopen, but we have plenty of ICU space. Of the 49 who have passed, all had major health conditions - many with multiple - including a woman who was 106 years old. If you’re reasonably healthy, the only thing to worry about is what you’re going to do with yourself for 10+ days in isolation. That WAS THE WORST.

Along_the_Wire

Pretty much the same infections and deaths as last week today. Way to go UK

Along_the_Wire

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/25/major-incident-declared-as-people-flock-to-england-south-coast?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Along_the_Wire

Close the beaches.

C_J

Along_the_Wire

Along_the_Wire Close the beaches.

Naaahhhh. No way mate. The beach is an essential source of minge-ogling ops.

What they should do is just execute anyone who tests positive for Corona. A bit of a hardline stance I grant you, but I bet everyone would start wearing masks on their Tesco runs.

Hursty

Some incredible scenes from the south coast, no fucks given.

Mad_Cyril

Hursty
Mills will clear them with 3 hours of upfront chug.

Kells77

So this is a thing that’s happening now:

Homegrove

Kells77 😂😂😂😂

Millsy

Mad_Cyril not a bad shout that MC. Would like to see them camp overnight next to the pier with 50db of ultra chug playing throughout the night.

Mad_Cyril

Literally wouldn’t know what hit them mate

Melons twisted

IndustryStandard

jonattonyeah A few of my guys in TN have reported record numbers yesterday, but state entering Phase 3 of lockdown lifting which basically means back to normal .

As they say down there’ “Let Jesus take the wheel……”

Kells77

jonattonyeah
We’re pretty good down here in SD too, but LA…not so much

rhouses

jonattonyeah That’s good news, I’ll let me friend know the same. He’s seeing the cases rise fast and seeing a lot of crowds at restaurants and such. He’s worried and staying put at home.

Bangalore seems to have the same story as SF, going by what you’re saying.

Mad_Cyril

Texas seem to have called a halt to reopening.

See global cases are climbing where it has the potential to go postal, eg. South America.

Be ‘funny’ if C19 ‘pivots’ and takes us all down because we’re such a smug, self obsessed race

303abuser

Mad_Cyril we need a population check, there’s simply too many of us. if muppets won’t stop having 5 kids, i would assume that nature will take over the job at some point. no politician will ever sell it and it’ll never happen, but a one child policy for the entire world would be a good start.

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