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  • Much like a lockdown is not the answer to dealing with this pandemic.

    I’d actually quite like to read about the alternative answers, as long as they’re not related to conspiracy theories.

  • They can group hug in the cemetery.

  • Goverment tell people to stay home. Then, by inference, say it is Ok to go to B&Q, McDonalds, your out of town Nursery. So not Ok to go 5miles for a walk, It is Ok to go 5miles for a new pair of marigolds.

    Too many mixed messages.

  • Having lost a job in the last one and not entitled to anything other than the £74 for job seekers allowance I can fully understand why people and businesses are pushing it in a way that they didn’t last time.

    If the government wants people to listen then they should make it that doing the right thing is no worse than the alternative.

  • Governments must make the most of the extra time granted by ‘lockdown’ measures by doing all they can to build their capacities to detect, isolate, test and care for all cases; trace and quarantine all contacts; engage, empower and enable populations to drive the societal response and more.

    Seems reasonable to me and even with a vaccine we are likely to need effective track and trace for years. Sadly our government don't seem to be putting any effort into it.

    I found this podcast with Larry Brilliant very interesting although it did leave me feeling we in the UK are doomed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000qz3p

  • The test codes we got with our positive results weren’t recognised by the COVID App. The track & trace lady that called my wife was no help with that but did give her some questionable medical advice she’d read on Facebook.

    We’re now both 11 days since my wife’s symptoms started. She’s had the hot & colds, headaches and a bad stomach, I’ve had a head cold, tight chest and cold hands/feet. I guess we got lucky.

  • How did you get your code? I got mine in a separate email after the one confirming a positive test and it worked with the app.

  • I've not had a peep from the app for months now.

  • It’s rather frustrating, for the operatives as well I imagine, that there seems to be no grouping of results or households. We’ve had numerous calls from 4 positive tests, as contacts of the other 3. Not really a productive use of time.

  • Modelling suggests 1 in 5 people in England have had Covid, 1 in 2 in some London boroughs.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2021/jan/10/one-in-five-have-had-coronavirus-in-england-new-modelling-says

  • So many cars parked on Maze Hill yesterday, I'm trying to stay away from people and avoiding Greenwich entirely seems the best way to do that currently.

  • Same, this is what happened


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  • Isle of Wight is a real plague island now... from one of the few tier 1 areas, to one of the highest infection rates in the country in about 2 weeks.
    Christmas family travel, and clearly there are some prolific super spreaders.

    https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/18999997.isle-wight-covid-levels-now-among-highest-country/

  • Wow

  • Its higher than Portsmouth now, which was the first tier 4 area in Hampshire.

    Isle of wight had an infection rate jump of 255.3 to 1132.1 in 1 week.
    50% of the population is above 50, 28% above 65. Not a good combination...

  • Isle of Wight

    If this becomes the T-virus, its going to start in IoW....

  • That's due to the stupidity of having differing Tiers. People will have to cross into them, and others will choose to to circumvent restrictions in their own area. It has to be one rule for all in a country this size with the population of 66m

  • I will raise your iow level and give you halton in warrington which now leads the dead pool table of ignorance.

  • know someone from work who went back to IoW over Christmas.. Another colleague had a test came back negative, flew, then did another test once in home country. It came back positive and they infected both their parents who are currently recovering. Happy Christmas!

  • Is there a news story behind this?

  • Up to Jan 4th:

    The 10 areas with the biggest week-on-week rise in rates are:

    1 Halton, Cheshire (up from 279.7 to 1,172.2)

    2 Isle of Wight, Hampshire (255.3 to 1,132.1)

    3 Knowsley, Merseyside (254.5 to 1,118.9)

    4 Tendring, Essex (508.3 to 1,182.4)

    5 Corby, Northamptonshire (263.1 to 913.9)

    6 Crawley, West Sussex (568.5 to 1,206.3)

    7 Liverpool, Merseyside (241.5 to 859.0)

    8 Sefton, Merseyside (251.8 to 867.6)

    9 Carlisle, Cumbria (539.2 to 1,134.5)

    10 Rushmoor, Hampshire (842.5 to 1,419.7)

  • I think in the case of England, (or even the UK), that could be true. But in Spain, a country with a slightly smaller population, they've done quite well at keeping each comunidad (state/county) separate in terms of autonomy and rules. I can't leave Valencia right now and we have some of the stricter regulations in the country, for example, and it is being strongly policed.

    Apart from the different approach to policing (the head honcho here has openly said they'll use the fines to pay for council expenses, so will go looking for them), I think the more defined borders is a big difference. County lines mean nothing to most people in the UK and police forces aren't set up around the same system.

  • I'm in Hampshire, so keeping an eye out on local news.
    125 people have died so far on the island.

  • Jesus! 1 in 1000 dead.

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