Brexit, for once some facts.

[oyster]

Do you all think we could lower the 2m distancing rule? The WHO, Hong Kong, Singapore, France and China all say 1m is enough. Australia, Germany and the Netherlands recommend 1.5m and South Korea has 1.4m.

No matter what the distance is I doubt I will be sitting in a cafe for a long time, but I am sure many cafes would not be viable with a 2m rule but might be with 1.5 or 1m rule, any thoughts?

Distancing advice in England could change to allow closer contact

Precautionary 2 metre guidance out of step with advice of other countries, which typically recommend 1 metre

www.theguardian.com

Having just been to a shop, some people seem utterly unable to even vaguely estimate two metres. Had two or three people "pushing" through when they should have waited. Others were being excessively cautious.

Changing seems without merit. Because many of us would carry on pretty much as we have been. I'd certainly not be saying to myself "Great, I can get 500 millimetres closer to others now!" Those who are already getting too close need no excuse for caring even less.

 

[oyster]

Surely with Brexit we will have to start using imperial measures. 6 ft will totally confuse the virus, plus we'll be world leaders with the first to introduce a distancing requirement of 6.

The virus couldn't fathom it out?

 

[flecc]

The virus couldn't fathom it out?

Not in its league.
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[RossG]

It all depends of course on where you are in the UK as far as avoiding infection is concerned. Still there are some constants that apply no matter what your location. With covid there is no scientific or medical prevention, no treatment and no cure so all you can do is protect yourself which I would have thought means don't cram yourself into a packed tube train for starters. Here in town you can't pack into public transport, only so many are allowed on a bus at one time you're counted in and counted out...simple.

 

[sjpt]

The virus couldn't fathom it out?

Ah, yes, I forgot, Trump had told us how the virus was really smart ...

 

[RossG]

Gotcha !

 

[RossG]

Apparently it has the Presidential Seal...just like his underwear.

 

[wheeler]

Apparently it has the Presidential Seal...just like his underwear.

I'd like to see the orange moron balance a beachball on his nose.

 

[RossG]

I'd like to see the orange moron balance a beachball on his nose.

He's the President, he can do anything.

 

[oyster]

He's the President, he can do anything.

He has proved beyond all doubt that is not true.

 

[RossG]

I watched him on TV a few days ago where he was saying because he's the President what he says goes and that's it.
Nothing and no one is above him and no one can stop him from doing whatever he wants, he really does believe that so to him at least it's true.

 

[vfr400]

Note I asked you kindly, were I the administrator, I would not have ASKED.

I think the real reason you want me to go away is that I'm going to show how silly your understandings are.

The only salient fact is that 90,000 USA citizens will have died by Saturday night due to CV19. ,And that 1.5M have the infection. With a 10% mortality rate that would give 150k deaths within the next three weeks,and that is before the great opening up commences . Note the USA is already 60% there.

They had 5000 in the last week since you made that prediction and it's decreasing all the time. 55,000 in the next two weeks puts you in the same class as Neil Ferguson. It might be time to update your WATFOR programs.

 

[wheeler]

He's the President, he can do anything.

Not even he can slam a revolving door.

 

[Woosh]

They had 5000 in the last week since you made that prediction and it's decreasing all the time. 55,000 in the next two weeks puts you in the same class as Neil Ferguson.

John Hopkins has US fatalities due to COVID at 96,709 two days ago.
Like UK figures, this is an underestimate because they are deaths where COVID is mentioned on the death certificates as reported by their National Health board. By the time you take into account indirect deaths or where COVID is not the only cause, the number is bound to be about 30% higher. US time lag is also longer than UK time lag for accounting death certificates.

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

Fat Arse Patel is actually wider than the podium. Her fat arse is probably the reason they use that room with the double entry doors.

Anyway, she’s announcin’ that the government is takin’ measures for savin’ lives by stoppin’ people walkin’ into the country without any checkin’. She seems to have a problem with ing and pronounces it as in. Just sayin’.

Who’s that copper flanking Fat Arse? Is he involved in the missing person investigation into Boris Johnson’s whereabouts?

 

[Danidl]

I think the real reason you want me to go away is that I'm going to show how silly your understandings are.

They had 5000 in the last week since you made that prediction and it's decreasing all the time. 55,000 in the next two weeks puts you in the same class as Neil Ferguson. It might be time to update your WATFOR programs.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. But today Friday, the USA number is quoted at 96,000 dead. And currently running at about 1.5K deaths per day. Now everywhere else in the world it has been shown that at this stage the published deaths are a fraction of the true rate. There is no reason to suppose that the USA is any different. I am not attributing this to malice, or incompetence...It is just that the needs of the living take priority over those of the dead,in the short term. Ultimately the public authorities close the gap. I have no idea what this discrepancy is in the USA at present, but 30% underreported is plausible.

Looking at the ultimate deaths it is running at about 10% of the confirmed positives .. again in the initial stages, where only serious cases are diagnosed. This is a world wide average, and can be seen by scanning Worldofmeters
Finally it takes close to a month for people to succumb , after infection and the protests about opening started???.. . So symptoms start to appear as early 5 days from infection, but can be as long as 14 days. As I say do the math, its only arithmetic.

 

[jonathan.agnew]

Fat Arse Patel is actually wider than the podium. Her fat arse is probably the reason they use that room with the double entry doors.

Anyway, she’s announcin’ that the government is takin’ measures for savin’ lives by stoppin’ people walkin’ into the country without any checkin’. She seems to have a problem with ing and pronounces it as in. Just sayin’.

Who’s that copper flanking Fat Arse? Is he involved in the missing person investigation into Boris Johnson’s whereabouts?

I quite fancy her geezer-ive-just-made-my-first-scam-pay newly rich tory twang. Its halfway between desperate estate agent closing first deal and spad sucking up to Dom. And it transmits to anyone with more than two brain cells the moral and existential vacuum behind all those conservative grins.

 

[oyster]

Please let it be so. As a one-off, fine. The media have blown it out of all proportion.

Let's stop clapping for the NHS, says woman who started the ritual

Dutch national living in London fears Clap for Carers during coronavirus lockdown has become politicised
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/lets-stop-clapping-for-the-nhs-says-woman-who-started-the-ritual

 

[RossG]

Not even he can slam a revolving door.

I'd like to volunteer to slam that door if he puts his head in it.

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

Please let it be so. As a one-off, fine. The media have blown it out of all proportion.

Let's stop clapping for the NHS, says woman who started the ritual

Dutch national living in London fears Clap for Carers during coronavirus lockdown has become politicised
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/lets-stop-clapping-for-the-nhs-says-woman-who-started-the-ritual

I've said, Boo for Boris, every Monday at 8:00 pm. See ya there.