Yoda
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From todays report the daily deaths recorded up to 17:00 yesterday:
30/04/2020 - 277
01/05/2020 - 253
02/05/2020 - 218
03/05/2020 - 181
04/05/2020 - 66
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From todays report the daily deaths recorded up to 17:00 yesterday:
30/04/2020 - 277
01/05/2020 - 253
02/05/2020 - 218
03/05/2020 - 181
04/05/2020 - 66
2-3 more weeks of lockdown should see these numbers come down to levels that you’d hope the testing system will be able to keep on top of.
oldboyroy
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Been on downward trend for couple of weeks now just badly need the new infection rates to plummet and some sort of normality to return however gradual.
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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The thing is as much as it doesn’t seem infection rates are coming down they absolutely are, a few weeks ago we have 5/6000 cases daily with mostly just hospital testing and under 15k tests, now we have between 50-100k people being tested each day with capacity for more and there been around 4K new cases consistently recently, it is still too many of course but I would wager if we had the number of tests we had now at peak time for infections it would have been at LEAST triple that 6k.
Yep. BBC landing page though says 'Minister to update UK as virus deaths mount' and I guarantee their 'breaking news' ticker will be today's and the cumulative death numbers rather than anything positive to take from the trend.
Definitely looking on the right path in most European countries now. Good chances of a fairly normal (except for globetrotters and people who go to massive culture events) summer in most places.
Finally a summer where people will be pleased by just having a small picnic in the park rather than dreaming about doing a bunch of fancy shit.
Finally a summer where people will be pleased by just having a small picnic in the park rather than dreaming about doing a bunch of fancy shit.
Agree. Testing numbers are up dramatically, but the number of infected doesn't seem to be changing much - on the basis that the numbers in hospital (and in ITU), and being admitted to hospital, and number of deaths in hospital are all falling, we can deduce that far more people have had this than indicated (unless it's mutated into something less serious and a lower % of people are needing to be hospitalised) - we just didn't know because they weren't being tested.
Apart from the tragedy of deaths, job losses do you think the financial cost is a nation state issue or is it a global issue for example the USA has borrowed $3tn so far which is 5 times more that they borrowed following the 2008 global crash.
How will nation states pay for their own debts this could bankrupt a number, in my option this is being treated as nation state issue just listening to today's press briefing shows just how this is the case the question from the public was why was the tracking App not developed globally
I cannot not see the likes of the USA or China being willing to bail out other nations well not without somthing in return
Should the world just write the loans off and we all just start again is that even possible?
How will nation states pay for their own debts this could bankrupt a number, in my option this is being treated as nation state issue just listening to today's press briefing shows just how this is the case the question from the public was why was the tracking App not developed globally
I cannot not see the likes of the USA or China being willing to bail out other nations well not without somthing in return
Should the world just write the loans off and we all just start again is that even possible?
nicko31
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They will just be reporting facts the good and the bad. It ain't Fox News mate....
I know....but they always lead with the bad. Always. It's depressing. Wonder what it's going to take for them to have something positive as their lead statement..........
darkwolf666
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Sorry, what exactly are the positives, ONLY 600+ people died, that's a fact, not someone's twisted idea of political reporting!
Ok, you're right. Absolutely nothing positive to report and never will be. People only want to read entirely negative news. Got it.
Ok, you're right. Absolutely nothing positive to report and never will be. People only want to read entirely negative news. Got it.
Suggestion for lead story?
darkwolf666
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It was unexpectedly sunny in Kent...
kemptown kid
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- Apr 17, 2011
- 362
I sincerely hope they do lead with this grim statistic rather than falling for one of the numerous distraction sagas - footballers' wages, consignment of PPE in Turkey, trial of app...
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
- 4,119
I have up watching the news years ago, there is never anything good on there, even more so now.
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Really don't mind - but not the same thing, every bulletin, every day and the relentless, depressing negativity. Maybe just a bit more profile for things like the Roche antibody test for example which is a massive deal but almost a buried footnote. Maybe I should just stop watching
Yoda
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oldboyroy
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Meanwhile professor Neil Ferguson of SAGE been caught with his pants down has allegedly quit!!