1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Off Topic Coronavirus

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Sooperhoop, Feb 8, 2020.

  1. stick

    stick Bumper King

    Joined:
    Jan 17, 2012
    Messages:
    18,670
    Likes Received:
    10,890
    The ONS numbers would be "really interesting" if they were published in cause of death numbers. I know all the talk is covid but the interesting stuff for me would be how many had strokes and heart attacks but didnt want go to hospital.
    62,000 above average since the start of March and we know they are not all covid so what else has been spiking.
    They are probably available somewhere but I guess the figures get skewed by more than one cause????
     
    #9341
  2. Staines R's

    Staines R's Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 2, 2011
    Messages:
    14,743
    Likes Received:
    16,556
    I have heard rumours that some people who have tested positive for COVID are testing negative for antibodies. The reason why is yet unknown but either the tests are giving false readings or antibodies aren’t being produced.
     
    #9342
    bobmid and stick like this.
  3. Bwood_Ranger

    Bwood_Ranger 2023 Funniest Poster

    Joined:
    Mar 27, 2011
    Messages:
    57,221
    Likes Received:
    45,150


    No one could have predicted that.
     
    #9343
  4. Steelmonkey

    Steelmonkey Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Apr 11, 2011
    Messages:
    22,766
    Likes Received:
    43,499
    Hope he's called in to Track and Trace - a good 600 people for them to check on, good job they've all got public profiles so should be easier to trace
     
    #9344
    bobmid and kiwiqpr like this.
  5. bobmid

    bobmid Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 5, 2011
    Messages:
    13,488
    Likes Received:
    14,910
    Hilarious. Let's see if this system works.
     
    #9345
  6. Bwood_Ranger

    Bwood_Ranger 2023 Funniest Poster

    Joined:
    Mar 27, 2011
    Messages:
    57,221
    Likes Received:
    45,150
    Hope none of them had to travel back to literally every part of the country on public transport.
     
    #9346
    QPR Oslo likes this.
  7. Steelmonkey

    Steelmonkey Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Apr 11, 2011
    Messages:
    22,766
    Likes Received:
    43,499
    I hear Durham is the place to go...
     
    #9347
    QPR Oslo, bobmid and kiwiqpr like this.
  8. ELLERS

    ELLERS Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 17, 2011
    Messages:
    22,785
    Likes Received:
    11,186
    How is Barry Gardiner getting on with the social distancing? :emoticon-0100-smile
     
    #9348
  9. bobmid

    bobmid Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 5, 2011
    Messages:
    13,488
    Likes Received:
    14,910
    Only if your eyesight is playing up apparantly
     
    #9349
    QPR Oslo likes this.
  10. bobmid

    bobmid Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 5, 2011
    Messages:
    13,488
    Likes Received:
    14,910
    Whose gardener?
     
    #9350

  11. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 18, 2012
    Messages:
    29,195
    Likes Received:
    26,549
    Brandon Lewis, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (of course you knew that...), lying on the radio this morning. He described Test and Trace as ‘world beating’ drawing a laugh from whoever was interviewing him. They must know that they are being widely mocked on this and many other issues. I can only assume that the Tory boys have got some kind of bet on as to who can use the phrase ‘world beating’ and keep a straight face. He also dropped a strong hint that the quarantine for people entering the country will be dropped after three weeks, after asserting that the policy is science based because a scientist was in the room when the politicians decided to do it. And that Alok Sharma sweating like a melting iceberg in the Commons was an example of the wisdom of making MPs attend the commons as if technology enabling them to work from home didn’t exist.

    These people are idiots, but they are pretty sure that we are bigger idiots.
     
    #9351
    bobmid likes this.
  12. Ninj

    Ninj Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 29, 2011
    Messages:
    4,457
    Likes Received:
    3,136
    On a flip side, making the MP's attend Parliament, and then to have one show signs of an illness, might show the idiots that went to the beaches and left their rubbish behind, that the virus (a virus) is still around in the UK.

    Additionally, I have just caught the end of a radio 5 live interview where the Chinese government now believe that Rhino horn cures the virus. There are some absolutely stupid idiots in senior places....
    The Rhino horn needs to stay on the Rhino
     
    #9352
  13. qprbeth

    qprbeth Wicked Witch of West12
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 13, 2011
    Messages:
    14,401
    Likes Received:
    12,574
    Brandon Lewis, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (of course I knew that... NOT), got asked in the same interview...if a family from Spain could come and go on holiday to the lake district and holiday there....whilst a similar family from UK could not he ummed and arrrred and tried so hard to say it was different, but he again fell flat on his face.


    Anyone see Dispatches on Channel 4 last night.
    I knew most of it already, but seeing the pictures on a time line of Boris' superman speech about taking advantage of the pandemic...and shaking hands with everyone at the hospital....and the words of the modellers who could not believe what we were doing. Finally the Spanish story of how the Madrid footy fans could not see their team in their own country but could travel 400 miles to see them here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    And the damning disclosure that Macron phoned Boris to tell him his plans over the response were dumb.

    I cannot believe some of the things...I was always giving them leeway as it was such abig and novel pandemic...but this was not mistakes...it was arrogance...it could not happen here
     
    #9353
    Last edited: Jun 4, 2020
  14. Stroller

    Stroller Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 2013
    Messages:
    22,267
    Likes Received:
    21,602
    Apparently the 14-day quarantine for people coming into the country is supported by 60% of the country. Why? It only makes sense if we have low levels of infection compared to the rest of the world, as we did back in February.
     
    #9354
    KooPeeArr, sb_73 and qprbeth like this.
  15. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 18, 2012
    Messages:
    29,195
    Likes Received:
    26,549
    Have you tried explaining osmosis to the average voter?

    I have just heard that Warwickshire is a Test and Trace Pilot local authority! Hooray for me! Although why are there pilot areas when the world beating system was up and running, fully operational, working brilliantly, from Thursday last week? Mysterious!
     
    #9355
    Last edited: Jun 4, 2020
    bobmid likes this.
  16. qprbeth

    qprbeth Wicked Witch of West12
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 13, 2011
    Messages:
    14,401
    Likes Received:
    12,574
    Like Isle of Wight is the pilot for the app....which we do not seem to be mentioning now
    There are a lot we are not mentioning now...


    The army of volunteers, anyone getting tasks?
    The nightingale hospitals
    Dyson's ventilators
    Vaccine by the end of July
    Testing 100,000 a DAY
     
    #9356
    bobmid, Ranger4ever and sb_73 like this.
  17. Ranger4ever

    Ranger4ever Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 16, 2011
    Messages:
    2,774
    Likes Received:
    2,240
    Add to that list:
    Creating capacity for testing 200,000 per day;
    Turning round tests in 24 hours;
    Calling all contacts of the thousands still reporting symptoms
     
    #9357
    bobmid likes this.
  18. Bwood_Ranger

    Bwood_Ranger 2023 Funniest Poster

    Joined:
    Mar 27, 2011
    Messages:
    57,221
    Likes Received:
    45,150
  19. ELLERS

    ELLERS Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 17, 2011
    Messages:
    22,785
    Likes Received:
    11,186
    Bloody hell you lot don't give it a rest do you? Still moaning about everything the government does. They should rename this thread :)
     
    #9359
  20. KooPeeArr

    KooPeeArr Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 9, 2011
    Messages:
    5,903
    Likes Received:
    2,260
    I notice that the two weeks we were behind the other large Western European countries now looks more like a month with our death rate dropping so slowly.

    I think we're going to be in the **** for a long time.
     
    #9360

Share This Page