Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Hilts]

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Whitty 'there are no good solutions all solutions are bad'. They really are Professor Doom and Gloom.

[the other bob wilson]

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He's combed his hair hasn't he - things must be serious. He's not being "Boris".

[cyril evans awaydays]

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Whitty 'there are no good solutions all solutions are bad'. They really are Professor Doom and Gloom.

Quite. What we really need is another uplifting message from Johnson saying a world-beating Test and Trace system is just around the corner. Feel reassured already!

[Jordi Culé]

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Agree with you about the slides, I couldn't make head nor tail of most of them.

Neither has Boris since about September.

[Hilts]

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Quite. What we really need is another uplifting message from Johnson saying a world-beating Test and Trace system is just around the corner. Feel reassured already!

Weve already got a world class track and trace.

[cyril evans awaydays]

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Weve already got a world class track and trace.

I think you will find that the one just around the corner that will really sort things out this time is even better...Duh!

[Hilts]

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Things will be better by Spring. Boris says so. Something to look forward to I suppose.

[life on mars]

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Pursuing herd immunity is ridiculous when there are studies out there showing that "immunity" can last as little as three months. My sense of smell virtually disappeared at the beginning of June and has not returned, most medical people I speak to about it now say that I had Covid, but I'm certainly not thinking that I'm immune to it, why should I when there are recorded cases out there of people catching it for a second time a few months after first having it?

It is a great unknown I guess , listening to the scientists tonight they use the words like projects, modelling, predicting , I hope they have it right as others will suffer from non Covid health issues , can't wait to see the review if this ever ends .

[life on mars]

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Weve already got a world class track and trace.

has anyone got one

[Elwood Blues]

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Agree with you about the slides, I couldn't make head nor tail of most of them.

I missed the start of the press conference.

Usually I find the slides Messrs Vallance and Whitty produce fairly clear.

I was going to have a look because Sky has the option of going back for the last hour but because they stopped the conference on BBC 1 ( can't delay Strictly for a national emergency can we)I switched to the BBC News channel and can't now see the start.

I'll take your word for it though

[City123]

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Show a bunch of slides suggesting young people are spreading the virus only to then announce you're keeping the universities and colleges open

Genius.

[Hilts]

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has anyone got one

No idea.

We were told we were having one though.

[cyril evans awaydays]

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Show a bunch of slides suggesting young people are spreading the virus only to then announce you're keeping the universities and colleges open

Genius.

The slides were deliberately over-complicated to try and mask the fact that the reason we are where we are now was because of the political decisions that were made in that timeframe.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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A great deal less. And what they do say they should be saying far more concisely and clearly. A multitude of complicated slides with two ‘experts’ droning on and on helps nobody.

.but the slides are a feature of the 'modelling' , which SAGE etc. have been so committed to since day 1. What the slides don't illustrate is that practically every prediction that they have made has been significantly wrong. As many epidemiologists disagree with SAGE as agree with them, but tonight the BBC brought out at least half a dozen different ones all saying the same. I can understand to a degree why the main news channels desist from airing views and opinions that may run counter to the Govt's/SAGE's message, but - not just in the UK, but in Germany, France, Spain, Italy - there's a growing consensus that the incumbent scientists and governments are 'winging it'. No real idea how to beat the virus, but too far down the road to change direction..

[life on mars]

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No idea.

We were told we were having one though.

https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/