Off Topic Covid 19 restrictions have done one

I have heard this morning(rumour) that Hibs and Livingston have had players (2 & 1respectively) tested positive for Covid.Both have played Celtic in the last week or so....Rumours up here that Eva Braun is going to stop football,for how long,if it's correct, I'm not sure???

 

Nah - Celtic aren't capable of passing anything on at the moment.

 

Good for her, it must come as a real relief.

 

And we’re onto the last page! Decent drop in infection rate and slid 8 more places.

 

Its nice to see the whole "Humber" region as they have placed us in all on that last page , signs that if this continues we are in prime place to come out in a decent tier in March

 

BBC
Premier League games to be shown live in UK till end of February
The Premier League has confirmed that all fixtures from Saturday, 30 January, to the last weekend of February will be shown live in the UK.

Matches will continue to be shown via the existing services of broadcast partners Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime Video and BBC.

Details of all broadcast selections will be announced later on Wednesday, along with early additional selections.

"The Premier League and its clubs are committed to an accessible solution for fans," reads a league statement. "These plans have been made with the cooperation of our broadcast partners, working with us to deliver these additional matches while stadiums are missing the supporters who are such an integral part of the game."

 

Today's looking good to

I think it's down again to 222 ish (depends on which day you look at)

Right directions anyway.

 

That’s grim


Two-thirds of residents die in Covid outbreak at Lincolnshire care home

Exclusive: eighteen out of 27 people living at The Old Hall near Spilsby died and two staff were treated in hospital

Diane Vale, manager at The Old Hall care home, said: ‘You expect to lose residents periodically but not that quickly and in that number. The effects on staff emotionally and mentally are horrendous.’
Tue 19 Jan 2021 11.02 GMT
Last modified on Wed 20 Jan 2021 04.37 GMT

A care home in Lincolnshire has been left devastated after Covid killed two-thirds of its residents with two staff treated in hospital in an outbreak the manager described as “horrendous”.

Eighteen of 27 residents at The Old Hall at Halton Holegate, near Spilsby, died in the run-up to Christmas, the care home’s manager, Diane Vale, told the Guardian. Most of those who died were in their 90s – the youngest was 79 and the oldest 99.

Some of the deaths were so sudden staff did not have the chance to administer end-of-life treatment or arrange for loved ones to say goodbye.

It is the most devastating outbreak in a care home in England to have emerged in the second wave of the pandemic, as the new, more transmissible, variant of the virus spreads and GPs race to vaccinate all residents by the end of this week.

Covid outbreaks in England’s care homes almost tripled in the three weeks to 10 January, according to data from Public Health England. This month, the Guardian revealed that 13 of 27 residents had died from Covid at Edendale Lodge care home in Crowhurst, East Sussex, since 13 December.

“The outbreak started on 16 November and lasted around six weeks,” Vale said. “All 27 residents tested positive at the same time, as well as 20 out of 28 staff. It was awful, we lost 18 residents altogether. I have been a manager for 40 years and have never had to deal with anything like it – it was horrendous.”

Two members of staff were so ill they were taken to hospital with one still off sick. The home’s infection control procedures were validated as safe by regulators at the end of November. Core staff had moved in to reduce the risk of infection spreading.

The home is in East Lindsey, the district of Lincolnshire that recorded one of the highest weekly number of Covid care homes deaths in England last month. Fifty-two people died from Covid in the district’s care homes in the five weeks to 3 January, second only to the number of care home deaths, 71, in East Riding.

Across the UK, 23,916 people had died from confirmed or suspected Covid in care homes by 1 January 2021 – 31% of all deaths from the virus.

The first death from Covid at The Old Hall was on 18 November, two days after the residents were all tested for Covid.

“Originally there were no symptoms and the symptoms they tell you to look for, such as a continuous cough or high temperature, there was no indication of that,” Vale said.

The manager said panic went through her mind as she had been able to keep coronavirus out of her care home during the first wave of the virus.

“You get used to losing residents. That is the nature of a care home and the life expectancy when you are in a care home is two years. You expect to lose residents periodically but not that quickly and in that number. The effects on staff emotionally and mentally are horrendous,” she said.

Vale said staff spent a lot of time crying and they moved into a caravan nearby to be around to help.

“For a lot of residents, we did not have time to bring them to the hospital because they were not poorly for long enough,” she said. “We were talking to doctors on a daily basis but with a lot of them there were no signs they were going to die. We had one lady who had a full bowl of porridge in the morning, and ate her lunch and she died the next day. Some of the deaths were even quicker than that.”

Vale said a lot of residents did not get to say goodbye to loved ones or receive the normal end-of-life care. “Some did pass on their own because there was no suggestion anything was going to happen. We went in to do checks and they had gone,” she added.

Vale is proud of her staff, who found the experience very hard. “It was the staff that got me through it and my deputy, Andrea, I would not have been able to do it without her … The staff were amazing.”

She added: “People who think Covid is a hoax want to come to a care home or hospital. They are on their knees.”

 

Well and truly on the slide

 

We seem to be passing the worst of it. Hopefully, that death rate starts to slide like the infection rate.

 

There’ll be a 3-6 week delay before it does sadly, but it will as long as cases don’t rise again

 

There's generally a lag, some say of around three weeks, between the positive tests and the death rate. We're just over two weeks from the peak, but the positives are liable to include less vulnerable people, so it could be a reduced increase in deaths, if that makes sense?

Basically, it's liable to be a bit grim on the death rate for a while, but the broader picture seems to be an optimistic one.

 

Not completely sure there’ll be less vulnerable now (although maybe as younger people seem to be going into hospital) but certainly vaccines will help
There will be more deaths, but if we can keep infection rates down at the same time as getting vaccines delivered then there’s a potential much improved outcome over next few months
Hopefully

 

The number of cars passing through South Cave village the last few days has been disgusting. Not the lorries and workers vans, but the cars. The problem is, no to stop them, they dont give a ****.

 

To be fair, there's no good reason to stop there really is there.

 

I think the numbers may have been swollen following the closure of Willow Flats - diverted traffic will be passing through the town centre and constant congestion in Main Street with on street parking emphasizes the problem.

 

So what do you expect them to pass through on a Horse and Cart ?

In other news WHO have finally asked health providers to show the ct value in pcr tests so expect a significant drop of positive cases if they start using the pcr tests at the proper value of 35 cycles