36 COVID fatalities reported today. We are on the way out of this 🌟🌟

[Jkslays]

36 reported fatalities today (weekend caveat), the lowest number since the day before lockdown was announced. 77 & 115 the last two Sundays for comparison

Mercifully, the human toll of this crisis is easing

I'm hopeful the trends will continue to improve

As reported by Professor Karol Sikora on Twitter

This is amazing news and surely our schools should be able to open as normal come September!

Oh my god, I
Hope I'm like that if I get old!

When my medical advice changes and the drs tell me I can stop shielding then I'll do it. Until then, if you don't mind, I won't be taking medical advice from randoms on the internet

Then please, for the love of God, stop moaning about it.

@Jkslays Your granny sounds fantastic If my MIL was still alive I think she'd have the same approach - although she'd probably be drinking brandy and Babycham instead of tea!

@Alsohuman

When my medical advice changes and the drs tell me I can stop shielding then I'll do it. Until then, if you don't mind, I won't be taking medical advice from randoms on the internet

Then please, for the love of God, stop moaning about it.

No thanks.

If you don't want to take advice from randoms on the internet then why do you keep engaging with us all? Reading your posts is so exhausting. Seriously, does anything fill you with joy? You know that saying 'misery loves company'? You know what? It's not true, none of us are enjoying reading this right now. So many people have tried to help you and written kind, caring posts but you negatively, spitefully and peevishly shout them down every time. And then there's people like me, you don't bring out any kindness or understanding in me, you just make me cross. Why, why, why do you have to be so negative? And please actually answer that question, not trot out your usual answer about the shielded being left behind and the pavements being too crowded. We all know your thoughts on that because you've told us so many times. I'm asking you to genuinely do some inward looking and ask yourself why your first and immediate response is always negative.

Mercifully cancer doesn't usually kill you within two weeks and prevent your loved ones from being beside you.

What a cold hearted ignorant post.

My mum was rushed in with neutropenic sepsis the other week due to chemo for cancer. That kills in hours. We had weeks of not being to visit as she recovered alone in a room alone in hospital. A room she couldn't leave.

All due to infection control because of Coronavirus.

It's not always the cancer that kills with cancer. And even cancers can be discovered and fatal in a few days.

I know a man in his 30's this happened to

It's good that our death rate is dropping. I am concerned that infection rates and admissions don't appear to be following suit.
But I also realise it maybe everyone now gets a test so they find mild cases and hospitals can now take in cases who aren't already turning blue and unable to speak.

What are you getting out of this thread? What keeps you coming back

Sums up the thread perfectly, bully anyone off with a different opinion to your own, Hester even told Hear to Piss Off... charming!

So it’s not just me @Ibake. Thank goodness.

Mercifully cancer doesn't usually kill you within two weeks and prevent your loved ones from being beside you

Oh that’s alright then. Let’s all pray for a slow, lingering cancer death

I work in healthcare. We are all being prepped for a second wave. This is far from over I'm afraid.

So many people have tried to help you and written kind, caring posts but you negatively, spitefully and peevishly shout them down every time.

Where would that be then? All I'm seeing is people referring to me as a dementia etc.

Sorry, I don't want to celebrate the possibility that 5000 could have been saved because even if true, 40000 still died and nothing could have changed that.

Other than that, my point has been it looks positive but it's early stages and we should wait and see what happens.

How is that being a misery? If you look on Twitter there are many drs, virologists etc saying that this shouldn't have been released as a press release, that the full study is needed so that they can review it, that they advise caution - so basically my initial view.

Just because everyone doesn't want to jump up and down cheering at every announcement it doesn't make people miserable. I am measured in my reactions, I'm not impulsive.

Why, why, why do you have to be so negative? And please actually answer that question

Sorry, I don't have anything to be positive about right now.

I'm asking you to genuinely do some inward looking and ask yourself why your first and immediate response is always negative.

And I'm asking you to look inward and ask yourself why you need to attack someone on the internet and be insulting and hurtful.

I didn't tell her to piss off actually. You misread that.

I told her to piss on her own chips instead of constantly pissing over everyone else's.

Am loving the idea of the brilliant old lady in her cruise clothes sitting in her camping chair.

This drug does seem like something even Whitty is optimistic about.

I work in healthcare. We are all being prepped for a second wave

Well of course you are. It would be totally fucking stupid not to prepare for something that has a possibility of having (just like it was stupid not to prepare for a pandemic in the first place when there was plenty of warning that one was coming). That’s what organisations do (or should do)... scenario planning. Imagine if a second wave did hit and the NHS had taken its foot off the gas, sent everyone on annual leave and used up all the PPE?
Doesn’t mean anyone knows that a second wave definitely is coming. It’s a scenario that is sensibly being prepared for.

@Rcampbell91

I work in healthcare. We are all being prepped for a second wave. This is far from over I'm afraid.

How long have you been “prepped” for a second wave? After VE day? When we were allowed to travel further afield and apparently the nation descended on the beaches? Because there were legions of dire warnings of a second wave then and - guess what? The number of cases and deaths kept going down.

@itsgettingweird

Mercifully cancer doesn't usually kill you within two weeks and prevent your loved ones from being beside you.

What a cold hearted ignorant post.

My mum was rushed in with neutropenic sepsis the other week due to chemo for cancer. That kills in hours. We had weeks of not being to visit as she recovered alone in a room alone in hospital. A room she couldn't leave.

All due to infection control because of Coronavirus.

It's not always the cancer that kills with cancer. And even cancers can be discovered and fatal in a few days.

I know a man in his 30's this happened to

It's good that our death rate is dropping. I am concerned that infection rates and admissions don't appear to be following suit.
But I also realise it maybe everyone now gets a test so they find mild cases and hospitals can now take in cases who aren't already turning blue and unable to speak.

Ouf, really? Someone said that? There is a reason why people who have blood cancers and people on chemo are told to ring the hospital instantly if they get unwell. It's because you could get really, really unwell, really quickly. It isn't just because the hospital staff enjoy their company (much as I'd like to believe that 😂).

I hope your mum is doing better now. It must have been so scary for you.

The news about the £5 treatment is so positive!

@Drivingdownthe101

Mercifully cancer doesn't usually kill you within two weeks and prevent your loved ones from being beside you

Oh that’s alright then. Let’s all pray for a slow, lingering cancer death

Lucky, lucky cancer patients!

Granny is a star and I think some people could learn a thing or two from her!

Yes to Chris. I know we not out of the woods but break throughs like this are something to be optimistic about.

Babycham! I was actually allowed to have sips of this when I was about 8 at Christmas

Sorry, I don't have anything to be positive about right now.

Then I'm sorry for you. But that doesn't give you the right to target people who do see things to be positive about and try to drown their comments in your negativity.

@BamboozledandBefuddled

Sorry, I don't have anything to be positive about right now.

Then I'm sorry for you. But that doesn't give you the right to target people who do see things to be positive about and try to drown their comments in your negativity.

Here here!

Or rather ‘hear hear’!

I work in healthcare. We are all being prepped for a second wave. This is far from over I'm afraid

Just because you work in healthcare doesn't give you any particular insight. Even the most renowned virologists will admit that they don't really know how the virus may behave over the coming months.

And as a PP said, of course you're being 'prepped'. It would be highly irresponsible for you not to be. Hospitals have all sorts of contingency plans for different eventualities. That doesn't mean they're definitely - or even probably - going to happen.

And I'm asking you to look inward and ask yourself why you need to attack someone on the internet and be insulting and hurtful

It’s because you’ve been like a dark cloud over the entire thread. Maybe you don’t realise you are doing it but I think posters are getting exasperated with it now

Babycham! I was actually allowed to have sips of this when I was about 8 at Christmas

Me too Tried it again as an adult and thought it was vile! Even brandy doesn't do much to improve it.

I used to love a brandy and Babycham, is it really vile? It must be 40 years since I had it.

My word, every silver lining has a cloud here doesn't it.

Never got pollyanna as an insult, surely it's better to go through life with a positive outlook even if if sometimes it's misplaced?