Chris Whitty to hold briefing tomorrow

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According to sky news, Chris Witty is to hold a briefing tomorrow and will not be joined by any members of the cabinet or Boris Johnson and won't take questions. He will apparently discuss different scenarios.

Does that sound odd to anyone else and does this maybe mean no further restrictions this week, let's just try and scare us all into being good instead?

Link: Coronavirus: 'Critical point' in pandemic as UK infection rate heading in wrong direction, says chief medical officer news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-critical-point-in-pandemic-as-uk-infection-rate-heading-in-wrong-direction-says-chief-medical-officer-12077482

If you had a positive test result @TheMurk would you not tell people you had seen in the last few days? Or do you include yourself in the do not give a fuck brigade.

@Fruitsaladjelly

Just let it run! It’s the one thing they haven’t tried and yet it’ll be the thing that would work, isolate those who need isolating for their protection and then let the rest of us take the hit.

Would you stand up at the inevitable public inquiry and take responsibility for the avoidable deaths?

Hospital admissions are bring to creep up, there is a time lag between that and death rates going up. Maybe they are hoping they can stall that, with all the other winter illnesses that hit as well.

@ineedaholidaynow I live in the middle
Of the don’t give a fuck brigade - left right, above, below.

I haven’t really been paying much attention to it all.
No apps on my phone or any of that.

Have people been writing down every encounter they’ve had every day? I can barely remember what i did this morning.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/20/patrick-vallance-chris-whitty-uk-critical-point-covid-19-top-scientists-public-coronavirus

Seems to just be an appeal to public?

@TheMurk

Deaths aren’t going up. The “curve” in that respect is flat. Quite simple to find this information. It’s not “science” either.

It is flat, I just rechecked before I posted.

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

Because they are loyal to him not because they are any good
Anyone talented or accomplished would not want to stain their reputation by serving under an incompetent leader, or risk having to take a hit for the inevitable failings and mistakes of the leader.

@justasking111 which begs the question, why the “concerning, critical, dangerous tipping point”

You don't need an app to know whether you had family or friends round your house, or whether you went to the pub with them

Echoing @Dustballs and other pp’s - something just isn’t adding up now

@ineedaholidaynow like I said, I couldn’t tell you what I did this morning.

I’m not keeping track of who I’m seeing or when.

I mean are we counting the nurse who was breathing in my face for 15 minutes while she took blood (through the mask I might add) or the complete stranger who engulfed me in a cloud of vape as I walked down the street? Or the guy in Asda who helped me to the car with a large box? Because I don’t know their names.

@TheMurk

Deaths aren’t going up. The “curve” in that respect is flat. Quite simple to find this information. It’s not “science” either.

Go to fuck. Are you one of those that doesn't wear a mask for non-medical reasons because it affects your civil liberties? I can imagine in the next few weeks the curve will appear despite your very confident proclamations that it won't.

You need to be within 2m of someone for more than 15 minutes. So the stranger in the street doesn't count and the person at Asda doesn't count. Nurse probably would but with mask maybe ok. Why can't you remember if you have a visitor in the house?

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/healthcare

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@ineedaholidaynow och shoosh. Utter nonsense.

Does it have to be before 10pm on a Wednesday too?

@SpecialWGM

Nah mate, I wear a mask because I’m doing what I’m telt.

But please show me where the chart shows deaths increasing. Because the curve I see is flat as a pancake.

Go to fuck indeed. How rude.

Have you got children at school @TheMurk?

@ineedaholidaynow what has that got to do with it?

1141 patients in hospital in England today with Covid. Compared with 661 a week ago (13/9/20) and 464 two weeks ago (6/9/20).

142 patients on a ventilation in England today with Covid. Compared with 74 a week ago (13/9/20) and 52 two weeks ago (6/9/20).

@TheMurk Would you follow the rules if they are sick or would you let them go to school if they have had a positive test result/would you bother getting them tested?

Or if you had a positive test result would you send them to school?

The deaths usually follow the admissions and ventilator use a few weeks later. The data is visible on coronavirus.data.gov.uk/healthcare

@ineedaholidaynow

You need to be within 2m of someone for more than 15 minutes. So the stranger in the street doesn't count and the person at Asda doesn't count. Nurse probably would but with mask maybe ok. Why can't you remember if you have a visitor in the house?

But what if they are a super spreader with projectile breath?

@ineedaholidaynow hasn’t been an issue thus far but if I can avoid a pointless, intrusive, often distressing test on my young children I will.