Prime minister announcement at 12

[Hugglespuffed]

Is it going to be drastic changes? Or just 'work at home if you can'?

I can’t believe what I am reading. Who actually thinks some exam is more important than protecting more vulnerable groups?? I say more vulnerable because it affects health and younger people too.

Would you actually be happy to say to your mother or grandmother that she needs to accept her death because of your child’s exams?

Also if it is a toss up between A levels for a whole generation or a few vulnerable people dying then I am afraid A levels should win out.

Not sure there are any words (well, I have a few choice ones that I would share with you but I suspect I would get deleted if I used them right now).

I'm assuming you have no one vulnerable close to you? You're parents aren't old? or ill? Your children are healthy? Lucky you.

Herd immunity is possible without vaccine, it just means that the immunity is acquired through catching the virus and recovering, rather than through immunisation.

Not necessarily though. Not all illnesses leave people with an immunity eg flu. There simply isn't enough evidence yet to know if Coronavirus reinfection is possible.

You can’t get immunity from a flu like illness it replicates itself all the time!?!!!!! That’s why you need a new vaccine every year.

Purple

It would have been cheaper to have shut down weeks ago. The gov didn't want to contain it at all, they missed this part completely. Neither do they want to delay really, or 3000 Spaniards wouldn't be here, unchecked.
They don't give a shit, are people really that naive to believe gov act in our best interests.
I don't get it, why people are so happy to roll over and accept gov decisions.

Not quite true @PreseaCombatir. They want to see if they can slow the spread whilst minimising damage to the economy which is not quite the same thing

The idea is to delay a large sudden spike in cases and have a more gradual slower rise. This is so the NHS won't be overwhelmed all at once, but rather more gradually

If A levels don't take place, then a whole university year will be lost, that's a year longer to wait for nurses etc
Can't see why A level exams cannot happen even if schools close, marking schemes can be recalculated, classes done remotely and exam hall spacing can be increased, with separate entry/exits, its not an impossible problem to solve.

Also if it is a toss up between A levels for a whole generation or a few vulnerable people dying then I am afraid A levels should win out

You're a nasty piece of work. Shall I tell my disabled dd her life doesn't matter !!!

Also if it is a toss up between A levels for a whole generation or a few vulnerable people dying then I am afraid A levels should win out.

I don't care either.

Yes that's the theory Flax but what actually is bring done to slow the spread?

My mum used to say to me when I started walking home from primary school to be careful crossing roads to take my time and not rush
‘Better to be 5 minutes late home in this world than 60 years too early in the next’

Things can be put on hold. Things can close. Classes can be taught online. We can adapt and then catch up later down the line.
You can’t get life back. Once it’s gone it’s gone

Or exam boards could simply accept teacher predictions instead of running exams.

We already know you don’t care about anything or anyone undead. You’ve shared that before.

I have NO words. How dare someone say that A level exams are more important than life. Awful human being.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/live-cobra-meeting-coronavirus-government-17911199

According to this people are still arriving for the meeting, though there may well be a delay in reporting.

I thought mail published something

I'm a university admin and the management have been quite cagey today, checking that we have laptops at home/know how to use Skype for Business/can access drives remotely. I think they are poised for a shut-down, either now or in the near future.

They are ‘slowing the spread’ by not testing enough
Keeps the figures down so they can justify doing f all

Also if it is a toss up between A levels for a whole generation or a few vulnerable people dying then I am afraid A levels should win out

Have you gone wrong? Dafuq did I just read?

Universities wouldn't miss out on a year group - exams can be re-sat at literally any time. Whereas if Grandma's dead, she's dead.

To only wish the UK gov would follow THE science, rather than their own out of date science:
From the UK Action Plan

Don’t listen to WHO, don’t update your science with new data, instead rely on data gathered before 16th January and some modelling.

UK fatality rate = 1%
WHO = 3.4%

UK modelling relies on vast numbers of asymptomatic cases (not mild, but without any symptoms at all).

WHO state, there is no hidden iceberg of asymptotic cases (maybe 1% of all cases are asymptomatic).

I wish the people who didn’t care about dying or not could be useful in some way

Cohle yes, that is true. I was being a bit general I.e. if herd immunity is possible, then that is how it is acquired (immunisation or infection + recovery).

If infection with CV doesn't confer immunity, then neither will a vaccine (as with the common cold) and herd immunity will not be possible at all. Doesn't bear thinking about really.

Ok I’m going possibly to out myself here but here goes.

I have posted a lot about this. The reason being I have had viral pneumonia as a child.

It was possibly a corona like virus as I lived on a farm. It left me in very poor health.

It stunted my growth (this is outing!!) and much more. The virus seem to come back on me many months after I thought I had cleared it.

It’s not pretty I would not wish it on anyone.

I think what the government need to do is stop public events whete people are in close proximity seated or inside - conferences of over 10 people, theatres, cinemas, football matches, other sports events where spectators are in close proximity, concerts, crowded tube trains and buses, plane flights where air is just re-circulated, visiting on acute hospital wards.