When will this shit end?

[shoptildrop]

2 hours ago, zahidf said:

 

We do this on everything that comes in the house, if it can be left for 72hrs it will be in our designated quarantine zone otherwise it will be washed and wiped.

When I go food shopping I don't touch my face or glasses unless used anti-bac and when get to car anti-bac before touching keys opening boot and again when loading shopping.... 

Bugs are on surfaces (or formites) so I'd rather keep my hygiene up as it's the only time I come into contact with others and what they touch... so far (touch wood) I haven't catch anything but I'm heavily limiting contact and keeping hygiene up 🙂

I feel safer for doing it and I know the other half (who is a germophobe anyway) insists on it - we have some strict protocols in our house and tbh it's going to be hard to let them go as we try to ease restrictions and when I will eventually will have to go back to the office 

[ace56blaa]

4 minutes ago, Billy Corgan's Ego said:

Said it a few days ago, we will do 70-80k

 

10 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Today’s figures:

 

 

53k cases before any of the Christmas mixing is taken into account.

Woah. This is fucked. Less tests conducted today too

[zahidf]

Just now, ace56blaa said:

 

Woah. This is fucked. Less tests conducted today too

Catch up of tests over Xmas? What's the specimen date?

Not great clearly though.

[shoptildrop]

Actually meant to say a gig that has already moved twice to Feb 2021 has now moved again to Oct 2021, I'm not sure we'll see many bands if any before the summer unless they do one of those socially distanced numbers

Edited December 29, 2020 by shoptildrop

[Chapple12345]

1 minute ago, zahidf said:

Catch up of tests over Xmas? What's the specimen date?

Sorry to be devils advocate but they did say that there would be data lags over the Christmas and new year period so it could be a catch up on that, also it’s been 2 weeks since tier 3 was put on London/SE and coming up to 2 weeks for tier 4 too which was the worst effected area so judging by the previous times they will be reaching their peaks and coming down again afterwards so we have hope it’ll get better soon 

[jannybruck]

I'm very wary of reading too much into individual day data around Christmas/New Year. There's all sorts of catch-up, lag, backlog, and non-reporting things going on that's going to make the data look mad. It'll be like this until well in the new year when things have evened out.

[Guest]

It isn’t data lag unfortunately as all nations have reported over the period. England is the big reason for the large cases today and they’ve reported throughout. Sorry. 

[topmarksbri]

18 minutes ago, shoptildrop said:

We do this on everything that comes in the house, if it can be left for 72hrs it will be in our designated quarantine zone otherwise it will be washed and wiped.

When I go food shopping I don't touch my face or glasses unless used anti-bac and when get to car anti-bac before touching keys opening boot and again when loading shopping.... 

Bugs are on surfaces (or formites) so I'd rather keep my hygiene up as it's the only time I come into contact with others and what they touch... so far (touch wood) I haven't catch anything but I'm heavily limiting contact and keeping hygiene up 🙂

I feel safer for doing it and I know the other half (who is a germophobe anyway) insists on it - we have some strict protocols in our house and tbh it's going to be hard to let them go as we try to ease restrictions and when I will eventually will have to go back to the office 

Crikey, how do you manage at Glasto?!

[oneeye]

3 minutes ago, topmarksbri said:

Crikey, how do you manage at Glasto?!

[stephos83]

50 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

It isn’t data lag unfortunately as all nations have reported over the period. England is the big reason for the large cases today and they’ve reported throughout. Sorry. 

Yep, sadly seems to be the case. This is what PHE have just tweeted:

 

 

 

Edited December 29, 2020 by stephos83
Correcting tweet

[shoptildrop]

5 minutes ago, topmarksbri said:

Crikey, how do you manage at Glasto?!

probably the same as anyone else wet wipes, anti-bac and occasional soap/water - there isn't usually a global pandemic on in normal times, I see this as enhanced measures in not catching a virus that lets be frank we still don't know a lot about...

I'm not the only one who washes stuff and uses anti-bac when out but I'm sure some folk will think its over the top, fair enough but it's what this household does to stay safe 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, stephos83 said:

Yep, sadly seems to be the case. This is what PHE have just tweeted: 

https://www.twitter.com/PHE_uk/status/1343960840974848008

I feel we need a stricter national lockdown ASAP. 

[topmarksbri]

2 minutes ago, shoptildrop said:

probably the same as anyone else wet wipes, anti-bac and occasional soap/water - there isn't usually a global pandemic on in normal times, I see this as enhanced measures in not catching a virus that lets be frank we still don't know a lot about...

I'm not the only one who washes stuff and uses anti-bac when out but I'm sure some folk will think its over the top, fair enough but it's what this household does to stay safe 

Ha, was only kidding of course different circumstances and you should do whatever you can to feel safe!

[Billy Corgan's Ego]

I think we are in for a stay at home order strickter than April..

[parsonjack]

15 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

It isn’t data lag unfortunately as all nations have reported over the period. England is the big reason for the large cases today and they’ve reported throughout. Sorry. 

I'm guessing there could still be a lag on deaths as today could be first day since last Thursday to register them.  I don't have a good feeling about tomorrow's numbers ☹

[StuMalinas]

1 minute ago, Billy Corgan's Ego said:

I think we are in for a stay at home order strickter than April..

Fingers crossed, this is starting to get scary.

[Ryan1984]

The leader of my local borough council, who is your typical lazy Tory, has issued a plea on their gov.uk section pleading with residents to stay at home/not mix over New Year’s etc. Not sure if it’s a coordinated approach across places with high levels of infections?

[Crazyfool01]

And nothing from any members of the cabinet today .... meeting tonight weren't they ? 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:

The leader of my local borough council, who is your typical lazy Tory, has issued a plea on their gov.uk section pleading with residents to stay at home/not mix over New Year’s etc. Not sure if it’s a coordinated approach across places with high levels of infections?

 Who reads that!? 😂

[Chapple12345]

1 minute ago, Ryan1984 said:

The leader of my local borough council, who is your typical lazy Tory, has issued a plea on their gov.uk section pleading with residents to stay at home/not mix over New Year’s etc. Not sure if it’s a coordinated approach across places with high levels of infections?

I've seen some Facebook posts from my nearest hospital encouraging people to stick to the rules and not mix on new years eve, I'm currently in tier 4 Norfolk but they did it as more of a preemptive measure rather than things being really bad here 

[BobWillis]

5 hours ago, zahidf said:

Different evidence showing that the new strain ISNT more infectious 

 

This post got completely ignored, bizzare. 

[Crazyfool01]

talk of a 2 week break from football in Premier league .... source Sky sports news  think they said feb 

Edited December 29, 2020 by crazyfool1

[parsonjack]

I was pondering today on why hospitals are reporting greater Covid occupancy with 40-50k positive cases per day than back in April with the estimated 100k/day.

It seems from reports on this that the unfortunate paradox of improved treatment and care for Covid is longer bed occupancy than back in April, where such patients would have previously lost their lives, and sadly vacated a bed for a new case ☹

Beggars belief therefore on why there are reports of Nightingale hospitals being decommissioned?

[Homer]

6 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

And nothing from any members of the cabinet today .... meeting tonight weren't they ? 

Was it at 6pm?

He's had bigger fish to fry to be fair = sorting out Brexit this afternoon.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, parsonjack said:

I was pondering today on why hospitals are reporting greater Covid occupancy with 40-50k positive cases per day than back in April with the estimated 100k/day.

It seems from reports on this that the unfortunate paradox of improved treatment and care for Covid is longer bed occupancy than back in April, where such patients would have previously lost their lives, and sadly vacated a bed for a new case ☹

Beggars belief therefore on why there are reports of Nightingale hospitals being decommissioned?

Plus it’s winter?