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We were up to 999 posts so thought we needed a new thread!

Of course, elite javelin athletes would make excellent covid vaccine distributors. Just line people up & start chucking those syringes....

Yeah we outrun the virus, we rock

@TheOrchidKiller

Of course, elite javelin athletes would make excellent covid vaccine distributors. Just line people up & start chucking those syringes....

That's just randomly reminded me of my grandma. Many years ago she was I hospital and I went to visit her. She had to have a blood test and so they closed the curtain round her bed. I could hear a lot of "oooo" "ouch" coming from her, then "at last! You'd struggle to get on a darts team"

@Iheartmysmart I'm certain there will be a positive change in the reporting, when Saint Boris orders it. He tried to do this in the summer, hence "eat out to help out". He'll do it when the magic money tree runs out, and he needs people to be working and spending. Like Tony Blair's government before him, he relies on spin doctors; it's just painfully obvious when he lies, unlike that master of deception Blair.

At the moment, Saint Boris has to stick to his fictional to keep the plebs in obedience school over Christmas tale of the new killer strain of the virus: it would look suspicious if he changed his tune now, so they're having to paint the tale of doom and gloom. He's kicking himself that the border issues and teaching unions are taking it seriously, he was hoping to send the schools back, come what may. When he realises that he's backed himself into a total no-win with the schools, attacked on both sides, he's going to bribe a scientist to say "Look, the vaccine is working!!! Numbers are going down!!!!!! We are beating Covid!!!!! Oh, and we've found from nowhere enough vaccines for the teachers!!!!"

Must. Stop. Reading. Schools. Threads.

I'm genuinely in favour of teachers being vaccinated ASAP just to control the overwhelming anxiety out there.

It is sobering that the UK is second in the world for positive cases after USA our titchy little bit of island is a petrie dish of covid. India seems to be coming down, ditto Brazil, we are going up and up as are USA. Bit depressing to be honest.

I think we may just test more. If you test you find. That's why cases are higher than first time, more testing.

Last lockdown I just did timetable and basic addition, subtraction, division etc with dyslexic and dyscalculaic DD. The foundation stones of maths have helped her improve a lot, and also helped her be less afraid of maths. She has one of those brains that freezes so helping it not freeze made a big difference. We are both critical workers so she will stay in school now, but any parent out there who is struggling I would advise focusing on the building blocks of the subject, everything else after that is a lot easier.

It's all very depressing to be honest. Despite not liking a lot of the restrictions and not feeling that some of them even do any good, hence my posting here as a safe space, I do recognize that the rates are very high right now and we do have to do something. For the sake of my sanity I have actually logged out of Facebook and don't do Twitter at all anymore because I cannot bear the blaming! I am trying my best to remain hopeful and today I am quite enjoying a lazy Sunday...tomorrow won't be so fun but I will just put one foot in front of the other and keep on.

@justasking111

It is sobering that the UK is second in the world for positive cases after USA our titchy little bit of island is a petrie dish of covid. India seems to be coming down, ditto Brazil, we are going up and up as are USA. Bit depressing to be honest.

I can't speak for the others but India reopened hospitality etc about 2 months ago. Happy days. Operating more common sense there. Tests show good immunity in the slums.

I think their immense population means they had to be more calm about it., although their initial lockdown was horrendous.

Schools and unis are online though, which is obviously an unpopular choice with some.

In march I went back to mathfactor for my youngest - she'd already finished it all three did it and it massively helped their maths - and bluetick which was slightly less sucessful for her.

Also did Nessy for spelling and reading - and few other on-line things and tried to get her to sit down and do a bit more but she wasn't keen.

I'm really hoping the welsh government stick to their guns and after the week of on-line learning they get back the secondary schools or very least get exam years back.

Worryingly the week before chistmas distance learning was cut from all day to just mornings as apparently parents complained their kids were in front of the screen all day. I'm really hoping they don't lose teaching time this next week like that as well.

You can check deaths by postcode on this map - deaths with Covid, as usual, not of.

My allegedly hard hit part of town has 41 deaths since march, even as a lockdown sceptic, I was surprised.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19interactivemap/2020-06-12

@AcornAutumn thank you for that. In my immediate area there have been 9 deaths over all of the months and none in November- I am really surprised at that as being in London I am always hearing how bad we have been affected. I am aware though that certain people are more affected by the virus than others, I do know one person who was very unwell with it and has been left with respiratory problems (don't know her well so don't know if she had any underlying health conditions but she was very overweight which I know is a bigger risk).

By pure coincidence this article about India came up in my Facebook feed today. If closing our schools has bad knock on effects, closing theirs has been devastating. uni.cf/3pFUaEl

I have a relative who works (mostly in the UK) for an Indian company - the situation of the poor in India is desperate at the moment because of their previous lockdown. People are starving, particularly migrant workers. Presumably those aren't sadly deaths though.

[quote AcornAutumn]You can check deaths by postcode on this map - deaths with Covid, as usual, not of.

My allegedly hard hit part of town has 41 deaths since march, even as a lockdown sceptic, I was surprised.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19interactivemap/2020-06-12[/quote]
thank you have averaged one death a month over 9 months here. Keep meaning to save this site. Have now.

5 in my immediate area. Considering it's bungalow central and we bring the average age down by 40 years that's not too bad going. I suspect the average for a non-Covid year isn't that far off it either.

Bloody hell - there has been one in my area since March!

[quote AcornAutumn]You can check deaths by postcode on this map - deaths with Covid, as usual, not of.

My allegedly hard hit part of town has 41 deaths since march, even as a lockdown sceptic, I was surprised.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19interactivemap/2020-06-12[/quote]
Thanks for posting this, really interesting.

The postcode where I live has recorded three (3) deaths since March, all in March/April by the looks of it. And I'm in a relatively central(ish) part of London, supposedly plaguesville, and this postcode area covers thousands of homes and businesses and probably tens of thousands of people.

In contrast, the postcode area in the village where my parents live has recorded more than ten times as many deaths, for a far smaller population (i.e. fewer houses and people within that postcode area).

Glad the map was useful

I considered posting it on the C board but it's not worth it. I will be shunned for not self flagellating over every death with Covid.

[quote TabbyStar]Here's the Adapnation dashboard. From what I can see the greatest increase in mortality is in the age group 45-64 (that's the age group I'm in! adapnation.io/covid-insights/[/quote]
Looks like it's curtains for me, then.

Actually it looks like I got the wrong end of the stick on the population thing, it seems these areas are mapped out for being comparable in terms of population.

Thinking about it, there are two big care homes right in the centre of my parents' village. And none in my postcode area here in London. So that possibly explains it.

Oops, I just bit on one of the masks in schools threads and immediately got called a psychopath I happened to ask the question why the sudden fear when schools have been open without masks since September. I was also treated to full capitals telling me that TEACHERS HAVE DIED. Forgot how mad it was if you comment over there, have been reading too much common sense on this thread clearly.

[quote AcornAutumn]You can check deaths by postcode on this map - deaths with Covid, as usual, not of.

My allegedly hard hit part of town has 41 deaths since march, even as a lockdown sceptic, I was surprised.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19interactivemap/2020-06-12[/quote]
My city has been in red a lot since March but in our postcode area - 11 deaths there overall and worse grouping in April and none since May- two care homes and an assisted living complex in there.

Bloody Nora we've had 13. The way our neighbours go on you'd think we were plague city.