Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

What do you make of this, start from 8 mins in

https://youtu.be/CrxVkjKiNs0

I think she makes some very good points and it the absence of anything from the government on most of it shows how useless they are.

The point at the beginning about March for the infection rate down to 0.6 and yet the new variant adds 0.5 added to the current lockdown doesn't seem nearly as locked down as March suggests we will all be infected before the summer.

I also wish they would stop moving the studio camera around.

I was very impressed but it’s a stark message she’s imparting

Start it at 7:20 for the graphs.

Start it at 0:00 for the whole kaboodle.

#pagefail

Had one yesterday.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/fraudster-elderly-woman-fake-covid-jab-charged-her-ps160-b748789.html

would you have a covid injection from this man ?

radio 4 this morning said something about hospitals discharging covid patients to nursing homes again

that didn't end well the first time round

I suspect a lot people don't think before climbing in their car and driving to the park. Then when they get there they realise 1000s of people have had the same idea and the park and the surrounding roads have been turn into a car park ruining the experience for everyone and causing pollution and congestion. Which is why the royal parks and the surrounding authorities need to manage the situation much more and communicate with motorists about maybe not just driving whenever and wherever they want but they don't seem to be doing enough.

The pressure on beds is immense, they may have to to free up space. Hopefully there will be provisions in place to isolate.

I’m really glad school closed not just cause it help save lives but also mean traffic will not be completely fucked.

Still a lots of congestion on the way to work, maybe winter means everyone drive?

I’m really glad school closed

They aren't though.

My daughter's school has about 1/3 of the pupils in.

Now that children without access to a laptop are considered vulnerable and allowed to attend some schools are up to about 2/3 attendance.

Still a lots of congestion on the way to work, maybe winter means everyone drive?

Public transport is massively down. Tube to 18% for example. People see private car travel as safer.

At my work we have one person in the office each day. The company is paying for a cab for them rather than them getting on public transport.

I wonder if there is a correlation between people that drive to school and have lots of devices at home?

Tube to 18% for example

where these numbers from? keen to see more of this insight

You can look up google big data
Here; https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/

I believe from TfL, presumably from things ticket barriers.

I saw the numbers at https://twitter.com/BBCTomEdwards/status/1346433461620498442

Thanks

Public transport is massively down. Tube to 18% for example. People see private car travel as safer.

At my work we have one person in the office each day. The company is paying for a cab for them rather than them getting on public transport.

Shanghai had similar back in April when we went back to the office, it was a fucking nightmare to try to get a taxi and the roads were super busy with people driving as everyone considered it to be safer (LOL you should see the standard of driving here). I think my office paid for taxis for anyone who wanted it (I cycle/run/metro so didn't look into it). Public transport was super quiet. Rammed again now.

During the first lockdown the gates were locked at the entrance to the car parks for the park and woods around my way. They are not this time.

I was out a couple of times yesterday (driving doing dropoffs for a charity and a walk) and the roads in hackney are much less busy when compared to doing the same drives in December, and generally walking around. Especially noticeable at the normal bottlenecks (pembury, homerton high Street/lower Clapton road, green lanes by the brownswood) and where there are road works taking place (Amhurst road). I get some people are seeing something different, but could be some confirmation bias taking place.

Richmond Park felt like doing laps of a car park in late December. Only bothered to go there once and then bailed back to Regents Park because it was so unpleasant

It’s a bit of a godsend that they close the gates at 4 at the moment. At least it’s just the deer that try to kill you now...

Citymapper have some interesting data of relative mobility over time by city—presumably mostly public transport usage.

As 2 doses of vaccine are required, and we have been told up to 2 million jabs per week is the target, how will that be maintained alongside once the 2nd jabs has to be delivered? Surely it will become 4 million jabs per week at some point.