The Coronavirus thread.

[Northern_Brewer]

Does anyone report on the COVID 19 app?

Friend of mine uses it, and just sent me this screenshot.

It has over 3.8 million users and appears to conflict with the ONS’s figure of 5,600 daily cases of COVID19.

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That's 5600 (well, an average of 39000 per week) in England between 26 April and 30 May 2020. But on a weekly basis, infections in the first week of that period were 4x the last week. However the ONS data is based on a survey of households and doesn't include institutions like hospitals and care homes.

The app data is for the whole of the UK, apparently it's 7400 for England and 2000 for the other home nations combined. So already you can see where the discrepancy might come - considering England vs UK, and community spread versus community+institutions.

Also you can imagine there could be a bit of bias in the people who choose to download the app being more interested in the subject, perhaps because they are at higher risk, so basing data on the app sample may not be completely representative of the population as a whole.

 

[MyQul]

Just come back from an afternoon constitutional. Quite an eye opener.

Firstly I saw a pub that was open in Kennington. You could go in and buy a pint in a plastic glass and stand outside and drink it. Couple of groups of people who weren't socially distancing. They may as well have been all in the pub.

On the way back I got a little caught up in the black lives matter protest in Vauxhall. There were thousands and thousands of protesters. Noneone of course was socially distancing. All young people (I didnt see anyone my age - 40s) in their 20's/30s. So most of them wont get C-19 but they'll be taking it home to older relatives

 

[Chippy_Tea]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZ1NHgzXsAEFkL0?format=jpg&name=small

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Just come back from an afternoon constitutional. Quite an eye opener.

Firstly I saw a pub that was open in Kennington. You could go in and buy a pint in a plastic glass and stand outside and drink it. Couple of groups of people who weren't socially distancing. They may as well have been all in the pub.

On the way back I got a little caught up in the black lives matter protest in Vauxhall. There were thousands and thousands of protesters. Noneone of course was socially distancing. All young people (I didnt see anyone my age - 40s) in their 20's/30s. So most of them wont get C-19 but they'll be taking it home to older relatives

Its going to go tits up big style and these numb nuts will be the ones doing the most shouting when they get locked down again.

 

[Drunkula]

So most of them wont get C-19 but they'll be taking it home to older relatives

They will get it, their symptoms are just likely to be less severe.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[MyQul]

This article would make you laugh if it wasnt so tragic

"The official US advice has been to disinfect high-touch surfaces to minimise the spread of Covid-19.

Taking that advice to the extreme, Lisa filled a sink with a mixture of 10% bleach solution, vinegar and hot water and soaked her vegetables and other food in it.

Soon, she noticed a powerful odour of chlorine in the kitchen and was having difficulty breathing.

Lisa (not her real name) was discharged from hospital within a few hours of arriving there earlier this year. The outcome was more tragic for an Arizona couple who swallowed fish tank cleaner containing chloroquine phosphate in March after hearing Donald Trump recommend the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine for its anti-Covid-19 effects."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tiser-poison-centre-cases-rise-under-covid-19

 

[Cheshire Cat]

We'll all be eating chlorinated food soon

 

[MyQul]

We'll all be eating chlorinated food soon

I wont. I dont eat chicken. Im powered by spuds

 

[kelper]

If UK shops offer US chicken we can choose not to buy it! I don't think they use chlorine now, they use a different chemical. I will buy British or, even better, Scottish and I'm not a 'sweaty'.

 

[trueblue]

If UK shops offer US chicken we can choose not to buy it! I don't think they use chlorine now, they use a different chemical. I will buy British or, even better, Scottish and I'm not a 'sweaty'.

If it's labeled correctly in the shop that's fine but would your local Indian, chinese or chip shop advertise they are cooking with Donald's finest.

 

[Shirley Bassett]

Can I ask?

Is referring to our Scottish friends as “Sweatys” not a tad racist?

Can I also ask?

What do you call an American with brains?

Answer.

A Canadian.

 

[MyQul]

If UK shops offer US chicken we can choose not to buy it! I don't think they use chlorine now, they use a different chemical. I will buy British or, even better, Scottish and I'm not a 'sweaty'.

You think the American negotiators wont push for non labeling of origin for all chicken. So you wont know. I think the only way you might be able to avoid chlorochook is by buying chicken labeled as organic (or giving up eating chicken altogether)

 

[MyQul]

Can I ask?

Is referring to our Scottish friends as “Sweatys” not a tad racist?

No. Unless the Scottish are a race not a nation. Possibly xenophobic but not racist

 

[Shirley Bassett]

Well there are many other nations with carrot / ginger hair, so I would say that constitutes a race.

 

[MyQul]

Well there are many other nations with carrot / ginger hair, so I would say that constitutes a race.

Even if that were true, not all Scottish have ginger hair so their still not a race on their own

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Even if that were true, not all Scottish have ginger hair so their still not a race on their own

We are all one race, the human race. That's why racism is so wrong.

 

[An Ankoù]

This looks like a race to the bottom.

 

[MyQul]

We are all one race, the human race. That's why racism is so wrong.

If you go back far enough technically thats true. Be even then, some of us have DNA from other extinct human sub species like Neanderthal whilst others dont. We then branch out into different sub sets, like races and ethnic groups. I've been watching vids on this on a you tube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vVNQN-TCy8d3Mb_Owr2Kw/featured
But on your other point, yes racism is wrong

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I wont. I dont eat chicken. Im powered by spuds

And mushy peas n sprouts.