Coronavirus

[Deutsch Wolf]

Problem with London is that you can't stop manky bastards from Kent/Essex from travelling in. That's a big factor as those areas are genuinely riddled.

Funnily enough though, they haven't been immediately slapped unlike anywhere north of Watford. I mean Leicester has had some form of restrictions now since the end of June. Greater Manchester wasn't long after that either.

It's all so arbitrary and they still don't publish any evidence backing up what they're doing.

 

[Kenny]

London's issues is very much the outer boroughs. Central is pretty low. They seem to think its school related and are doing mass school testing next week

 

[PuntsWolf]

New cross was struggling a bit last time i was told. Now in south staffs as you are probably going to New cross as your nearest hospital then going with the Wolverhampton stats would probably be best so you’d still be in the same tier anyway.

 

[Kenny]

New cross was struggling a bit last time i was told. Now in south staffs as you are probably going to New cross as your nearest hospital then going with the Wolverhampton stats would probably be best so you’d still be in the same tier anyway.

Guess it depends on where in South Staffs you are. Dan would 100% be sent to New Cross but across t'other side of the area they would be visiting the Manor in Walsall

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If we can not be sending me to hospital...

I do understand it's not that simple but it's the fact that they never explain how you ever get out. Liverpool seemed to get out because Fat Joe said "how high" when Boris asked him to jump.

We have a lot of old people here which will push things a bit higher (and I think there were outbreaks in at least one of the prison facilities which are within the borders, although again, not really anywhere near here and they're literally locked up, so why they got included I don't know) but equally we don't have a lot of low density housing, we don't have massive family groups living together, there's tons of open space.

Just let me sit down and have a fucking coffee you wankers.

 

[Kenny]

Well the Covid shit is about to hit the fan where my wife works.

A member of the office staff felt a bit rough last week, bad chest etc...told no one and went into work for 4 days before calling in sick. Then she got quite ill and was taken to hospital on Friday evening. Tested positive.
4 days in an office!! All those with direct contact currently waiting on test results and now isolating. What happens with the rest of the office and factory depends on the results of the 5 people having tests. Any 1 of them comes back positive it would mean the majority of people in the offices (wife inc) and factory floor will have stay off work

1 person could take out an entire business for 2 weeks. Then the domino effect. Just in our house = me having to isolate , MiL is over 70 so classed at risk, Daughter works in a Hotel so she will have to isolate and everyone who she has seen in the last week and on it goes on.

All because someone with symptons ignored them

 

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

Hard lockdown from Wednesday in Germany, schools and all but supermarkets shut till Jan 10th and curfew from 9pm till 5am.

Pretty fucking sick of it all, got enough issues and problems without the extra kick in the teeth

 

[Johnny75]

Well the Covid shit is about to hit the fan where my wife works.

A member of the office staff felt a bit rough last week, bad chest etc...told no one and went into work for 4 days before calling in sick. Then she got quite ill and was taken to hospital on Friday evening. Tested positive.
4 days in an office!! All those with direct contact currently waiting on test results and now isolating. What happens with the rest of the office and factory depends on the results of the 5 people having tests. Any 1 of them comes back positive it would mean the majority of people in the offices (wife inc) and factory floor will have stay off work

1 person could take out an entire business for 2 weeks. Then the domino effect. Just in our house = me having to isolate , MiL is over 70 so classed at risk, Daughter works in a Hotel so she will have to isolate and everyone who she has seen in the last week and on it goes on.

All because someone with symptons ignored them

Fooking hell.

 

[AndyWolves]

Bit of minge teasing

Oxford vaccine rollout 'likely' by New Year | ITV News

Lead researcher on the Oxford programme Sarah Gilbert said chances were 'pretty high'. But hospitals warn against easing Covid rules in case of third wave | ITV News Meridian

www.itv.com

 

[Johnny75]

That really is a dreadful turn of phrase

 

[AndyWolves]

South east driving a lot of recent cases

https://twitter.com/x/status/1338160844727836672

Wolverhampton has now dropped out of the top 40

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We're 138th. Bet we still don't get moved out of Tier 3.

 

[AndyWolves]

That really is a dreadful turn of phrase

How about vinegar strokes instead?

 

[Tredman]

They are still deseperate to keep the poor little southerners out of Tier 3:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1338109008536891392

Fuck the rest of us though.

 

[Kenny]

They are still deseperate to keep the poor little southerners out of Tier 3:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1338109008536891392

Fuck the rest of us though.

Taking a totally selfish view for 5 seconds....if they could keep Central London in Tier 2 until the 31st December so I can still visit on the 30th, watch a show and enjoy a brief glimpse of normality with the wife (even if that normality means wearing a mask when watching a show) that would be great


(obviously if they do go full Tier 3 that is life and I will just sit watch shit TV and eat chocolate for an extra day)

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Guarantee we stay in Tier 3 for absolutely no fucking reason at all.

 

[BillyDee]

6/10 LA in my county in that top 160 (including my own...). I know tiering isn't based purely on cases, but I'm not confident of staying in T2, whereas a couple of weeks ago cases were plummeting and it looked like T1 beckoned...

 

[AndyWolves]

Guarantee we stay in Tier 3 for absolutely no fucking reason at all.

I'd guess your nearest hospital for Covid type things would be new cross? My geography is a bit rubbish so I might be off. I'd guess whilst the region new cross is in is at tier 3, so will all places who would go there

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I'd guess your nearest hospital for Covid type things would be new cross? My geography is a bit rubbish so I might be off. I'd guess whilst the region new cross is in is at tier 3, so will all places who would go there

Think it's a bit more nuanced that either of 'cases going down lets drop a tier' or busy hospital = everywhere nearby gets tarred with that brush but they're both factors.

Was reading something the other day and there were four key factors they mentioned that went in to determining tiers. As you'd imagine the ultimate number of cases coming in is one of them, local hospital capacity another but then they were also looking at the general trend in the area, so low cases alone aren't enough to keep you out of trouble if the rates starting to build, and think it was also the proportion of cases that were attributed to 60/65+.

So dropping numbers alone might not be enough to see you into brighter pastures, if the remaining cases are predominantly with the older age group then you're probably staying in a higher tier to protect the more vulnerable, ditto if hospital capacity isn't great because it's seen that it doesn't take a huge spike in that area to put people at a significant risk without proper treatment being immediately available.

On a more positive note, read yesterday that more LAs are soon to start more widespread testing, akin to what's been happening in Liverpool, and I think even their own track/trace systems to work in tandem with that testing in an attempt to restrict transmissions from asymptomatic cases. Sounds like LAs or NHS trusts have submitted their own plans for implementing these systems and have to await approval for their schemes to be put in place, think the first approved are potentially being rolled out from this coming week, and looks like Derbyshire is potentially one of the first to go ahead so I may be able to be a guinea pig this side of Christmas. Not entirely sure how these processes work but could see it being a bit of a double edged sword, say I could get tested pre-Christmas and manage to keep myself isolated thereafter I'd be a bit more comfortable visiting more vulnerable relatives over the Christmas period but conversely, that test is just a snapshot in time and obviously doesn't prevent anything occurring thereafter so I fear it may give some a false sense of security if they test negative.

 

[YoungWolf]

They are still deseperate to keep the poor little southerners out of Tier 3:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1338109008536891392

Fuck the rest of us though.

Well we are more important right??