Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

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186 dead today, up from last week

https://twitter.com/BrummieBoy5/status/1276562745090027521?s=20

[lisvaneblue]

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That is interesting. Some of the points i took from that as interesting theories were

1) Clinicians are becoming more skilled at treating the virus. We should also consider the success of the steroid treatment on critically ill patients.
2) The virus is less severe. A number of virologists have been labelled "lazy" for suggesting that the virus will lose strength. I don't think these figures back that up, but the USA's death rate is falling despite the huge numbers of people testing positive. Usually, this is put down to "more testing" and "better testing" - but coupled with the falling death rate in the US it does suggest that there maybe two elements at play here.

It will be interesting to see if there is more data that backs up a decline in the morbidity rate of the virus, and whether that is down to age groups (maybe older people are staying away from crowdded areas) of patients getting younger, or down to better and more effective treatment or (hopefully) the virus evolving into something less severe - something that is evident in other viruses.

Similar has been noted in Italy and the theory is that the virus is weakening and may fizzle out. Some UK experts like Prof Sakora postulate that this could be the likely outcome

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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England and Wales. I have been from Gloucester to Taunton and places in between in the last week as well as Cardiff and very very few people are wearing them.
The really sad thing is that most of those I have met wearing them have been middle aged ladies who seem to think that wearing a mask protect them from me.
with regard to London, it is a far more cosmopolitan community and there are certain nationalities like Chinese Korean and the like that are far more likely to wear a mask. Indeed a lot of them always wear one even before the virus struck. Perhaps that adds to the percentage wearing them in the metropolis.

Oi, I'm the Taunton correspondent on here! Stay off my patch!

[Jordi Culé]

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Good to see the Prime Minister laying down the law and warning the irresponsible among us “not to take liberties...” as lockdown restrictions are eased.

They should have taken the piss when lockdown was more stringent like his master Dominic Cummings.

You gotta give it to him mind (Boris) he doesn’t care one ****ing bit

[CCFCC3PO]

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Good to see the Prime Minister laying down the law and warning the irresponsible among us “not to take liberties...” as lockdown restrictions are eased.

They should have taken the piss when lockdown was more stringent like his master Dominic Cummings.

You gotta give it to him mind (Boris) he doesn’t care one ****ing bit

European holidays start on July 6th. Than **** he's only easing out of lock down.

[goats]

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So all these air bridge countries are just chasing the dollar over lives then? Thought Spain/Greece was going to ban the Brits?

[lisvaneblue]

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European holidays start on July 6th. Than **** he's only easing out of lock down.

Wonder if Cardiff airport is included in the bridge?

[Jordi Culé]

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Wonder if Cardiff airport is included in the bridge?

My holiday to Greece where I was due to leave from Rhoose (Cardiff) airport on July 29th has been cancelled by the travel agent.

[xsnaggle]

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Oi, I'm the Taunton correspondent on here! Stay off my patch!

Well I did try to contact you to get a visa but in the end I was told it wasn't necessary as I was on government business and anyway as you were unavailable they assumed you were off somewhere adding another country to your list.

I do apologise, and just to let you know, I'm off to there again in a couple of hours. Is that OK?

[Rjk]

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https://t.co/aSpjaFD7o5

[CCFCC3PO]

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Well, this is effing marvellous.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53218704

[lardy]

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Well, this is effing marvellous.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53218704

But but but I thought china was making its own viruses to attack the world.

[Jordi Culé]

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Well, this is effing marvellous.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53218704

I bet David Cameron is feeling uneasy

[the other bob wilson]

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More evidence of how badly the pandemic was handled in the UK - a couple of months ago, we were being told to wait until more comprehensive figures were available before criticising this country's response, well, the sort of data we were told was needed is now available and it still looks pretty pathetic doesn't it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53222182

[lisvaneblue]

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More evidence of how badly the pandemic was handled in the UK - a couple of months ago, we were being told to wait until more comprehensive figures were available before criticising this country's response, well, the sort of data we were told was needed is now available and it still looks pretty pathetic doesn't it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53222182

Damming report, but it doesn't give any evidence how badly the pandemic was handled, although we all think we know why.

But the stats raise questions, why are England's results so much worse than Wales for example, when, at the peak 11 weeks, the UK had a uniform approach. Why is N Ireland best of the lot.....Within the UK some of the home nations results were not bad compared to other European nations, yet we had a UK wide approach.

Still a lot to be disclosed