The insanity over masking up has been a great social experiment.
Especially when you consider people directly breathing into mask they then touch with their hands, repeatedly, then touch common areas a lot of other people touch, doing the same thing.
When I got out somewhere, I’m more concerned than anything with washing my hands when I get home or in my car with purell.
But yea masks bro. They’ve really stopped the spread lol.
tom cruise still isn't no Christian Bale
Well here we go. Sydney got cases popping up in the far north of the city which is fine and easy to contain until one of them turned out to be a super spreader that lives near me in the far south lol we had 2 cases turn in to 20+ overnight.
Oh yeah I’m supposed to be going to a nearby suburb for Christmas lol that’s a no from me
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That ain’t right for Australia, business might be getting that but the employees aren’t. Single, no kid jobseeker + Newstart is like $715 a fortnight
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Lockdown for London, many nations now banning flights from the UK. France has stop all freight from the UK as well effectively closing the UK's routes into Europe. The Virus has apparently mutated, whatever happened it's basically trippled the number of cases in London in just a week. Case numbers were relatively low 10 days ago but since then the city being packed with Christmas shoppers, schools still being open despite a rise in cases among schoolchildren. The government encouraging people to eat out, shop and spend their money. Now this. The police are stopping people from leaving London as well which is hilarious. Some have even suggested the police go knocking on people's doors to see if they are complying with Corona laws which the police said is something they won't do.
With a hard Brexit looming we now gotta deal with Covid 2.0.
This Christmas season, you thought it was over, but now.....it’s here......
CORONAVIRUS 2: THE MUTATION
Rated R
sequels are always worse
Great tag line!Originally Posted by Hal Incandenza
Another fucking Lockdown, it's become a trilogy.
Now they’re just trying to milk the franchise.
CORONAVIRUS 3: LOCKDOWN IN LONDON
Yeah they're either going to have to accept that maybe ppl should just effing die, or just permanently change human culture to not encourage going outside
It's one of those unknown straight to DVD trash sequels to.
Issue with England is we have seen 50k cases daily for the past 5 days now. Some major hospitals in London have cancelled cancer surgeries for example. The infastructure just isn't designed to cope with soo many people needing oxygen. It's spreading so quickly now, I mean before in March-April when it hit it's original peak you really didn't know of many people who got Covid. Now though it's different. A shitload of people have caught it.
Yea I’ve know quite a few who have had it this fall/ winter. Didn’t know anyone last spring.
But the bigger question is, they had almost a full year to prep for an increase and they don’t have an emergency plan for a rush of hospitalizations?
valid point, definitely. but there's the problem that medical practitioners get COVID too and are sometimes out for long stretches of time. there's only so many retirees in the medical field, volunteers who have a basic medical knowledge, med students, Red cross workers, army meds etc. that you can substitute those with
while you can always create more space, more beds, buy more medical supplies (which they still might have not done in the right amounts, which is part of your argument I think) you can't create aptly medically trained 'manpower' within 9 to 10 months in large numbers
also, and we have to be honest here, people who work in homes for the elderly only get very basic medical training (at least down here). they are not even officially called nurses but 'caregivers' - so those who own those homes can pay them less. down here it took ages for those caregivers to grasp what COVID was (in general : how viruses can behave), what protection was necessary and especially how NOT to infect patients when doing their rounds. the anecdotes are plenty. caretakers stuffing their one time use only facemasks in their pockets, taking it home, using it again the next day, using the same equipment from patient to patient without disinfecting items. really basic stuff, things everybody on wucorp knows about just because, but they don't because - again, let's be real here - some of them are REALLY on the slow side and took caregiver classes as the highest possible degree for them.
I don't want to sound like a cunt (I do) but I taught caregivers age 16 and onward, trust me, you don't feel safe knowing these are the kind of people that will take care of you in your old age
just one anecdote, there was a volunteer down here with basic medical training who decided to surprise the elderly at the home where his father also resided by turning up in (the local version of) a Santaclaus suit, taking pictures with them, standing right next to them etc. caregivers assisted him without asking any questions. this happened early December. it turns out he was infected with COVID but asymptomatic and had not taken a test before going to the home for the elderly. by now 27 residents have died (tests have shown they carry the same strain as the volunteer) and very large numbers have been infected. he has received death threats and the home for the elderly is being taken to court
anyway, you've got a whole bunch of people that needed urgent medical training first (and they received it on the go during the first wave and afterwards) and those who taught them could not be used elsewhere to train others, or to a lesser extent
what this health crisis shows is that, probably, in some countries more (tax) money should be spent in the medical field BUT MAKE THAT MONEY COUNT don't squander it where it isn't needed
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