Worried About Coronavirus- thread 34

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What new measures could be introduced as a result of the increase in deaths? Sorry, I can't remember who said about new measures.

Bercows I’ve wondered about a 7pm-7am curfew unless you are a key worker.
My city centre has been full of youths and gatherings of people generally in the evening!

"most people don't seem to care about the rest of the UK."

??

I don't understand how you can say that - we've spent good chunks of the thread talking about Aneurin Bevan Health Board - as at least three of us here (i think?) live in it?!

Jemimapuddleca
Why do you think no one cares about the rest of the UK?
Of course the number of deaths and cases in the less densely populated parts of the UK aren’t going to be as dramatic as the England figures, which is why they draw more comments.

TBH I don’t know why the figures are announced separately - it should be one daily figure.

Can someone explain who are making up the negative tests? If they are only testing people in hospital how can there be so many? Or so they have to test the same people every day assuming one day they don't have it and the next they might??

Just like there have been loads of comments about Italy and Spain, but that doesn’t mean people don’t care about Portugal and Germany!

Our new case numbers have just dropped by about 100 on Worldometers

Are we expecting a briefing today? I'm not sure how long the daily briefings are going on for. I think tighter measures do need to be brought in. People are not obeying the instructions and they all have an excuse that makes them special if they threads on here are anything to go by. They need to be very clear about what exercise is allowed first a start.

Went for a walk today, local area. 6 teenagers came out of a house, 2 couples holding hands. I am quietly despairing now. Still so many cars on the roads, many with several people in, including whole families, so not going to and from work.

It's becoming apparent that we need to be spoonfed sensible advice in very short sentences. They need to clarify what daily exercise can and can't entail, whether walking to the shops for essential groceries counts as daily exercise, which businesses should and should not be open, and I think we need a curfew as well, especially for the young.

It's so counter-intuitive to be advocating for handing over our basic human liberties to a right-wing cabal of sociopathic thieves, though, I'm developing a permanent eyelid twitch

There was a long queue of traffic this morning around 11am like any other day. Rush hour is definitely no longer a thing but people are treating it like the holidays. We are still in isolation and haven't been out in almost two weeks but I bet the park is heaving today. I didn't see it all but they were talking on tv about what you could and couldn't do and to keep away from the Peak District as people had flocked there for their daily exercise.

Numbers are out for the Lombardy region:

+2409 cases (2500ish yesterday)
+541 deaths (385 yesterday)

Is there an update today?

@turkeyontheplate

Weirdly the government has taken 36 cases from the official number on the website too.

The negative tests are often wrong and often turn into positive ones later - according to that French report wasn't it only 60-70 per cent accuracy?

Chris Witty is now displaying symptoms and self isolating

Chris Whittey now isolating with symptoms! BoJo has infected them all.

Jenny harries will be next and sunak seeing as they've all been stood next to each other regularly.

I've just been to the doctors. Empty waiting room, only 5 chairs now which are massively spread out. No touch screen and you have to wear a mask and gloves to be seen. Very eerie

Oh man it’s too much

They could force businesses to let staff work from home. Countless call centres, insurance firms, banks and telecommunications have they entire admin, support and customer service offices in. They’re making them come in and most of them use public transport. They’re being forced to spread the virus.

No press conference.

Chris Whitty has symptoms...

I was so sure he’d already had it. Poor guy.

After feeling fairly calm about all this I am really starting to worry today. Even more so than the virus I keep thinking about problems with thw food supply, civil unrest and even a collapse of society. Think I may be hormonal but I just can't see how this is all going to end...

I also thought Whitty had it before!

So def no conference today? I thought a message before the weekend would be good.