Covid-19 pandemic

[Balderdasha]

Yesterday the USA reported 101,461 new cases, the first country to report more than 100k cases in one day. India got close, but peaked at around 97-98k new cases in one day.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1322294630906503171

Maybe they'd be better off allowing essential shops to remain open, and close the non essential shops.

[Sporting]

Maybe they'd be better off allowing essential shops to remain open, and close the non essential shops.

Define essential and non-essential.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

And now the government is furious at itself for doing the thing that it has been deliberately and constantly doing for the last 9 months:

https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1322472470901915648?s=19

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Define essential and non-essential.

That's a whole other debate, but on this occasion I was facetiously pointing out the error in the tweet.

[ChrisJ]

I'm expecting all the gammon Tories who have been screaming at the Welsh Government for killing the economy with its lockdown suddenly becoming very pro-lockdown and supportive of measures to control the virus and encouraging everyone to do the right thing.

Yes. To "Save Christmas." That's what it's all about.

Do you recall those imaginary "concerned doctors" predicting massive spreading by Muslims ignoring the rules and holding Eid parties? And not the tiniest recognition of the thousands of families who cancelled their celebrations at a couple of day's notice, IIRC? Bet you the same fuckers will be demanding they get to have the rules changed for Christmas.

I. Hate. This. Fucking. Country.

[ad hoc]

Not sure where this belongs really - article (in English) from a very good Romanian paper on the unionisation of people (more or less all immigrants, 50% Romanian) working in a sandwich factory in Northampton, as they were affected by the Covid pandemic (and of course like all of these low wage, on-the-edge-of-poverty-workforces, an environment rich in super spreader potential) https://www.dor.ro/how-the-pandemic-...t-of-the-cold/

[Balderdasha]

The global death toll hit over 7,500 yesterday, for the first time since April 17th.

[ursus arctos]

Balders, do you know why "your" US case figure (presumably from Hopkins) is about 4K higher than that reported by the COVID Tracking Project (see my post about six above yours)?

[Balderdasha]

Balders, do you know why "your" US case figure (presumably from Hopkins) is about 4K higher than that reported by the COVID Tracking Project (see my post about six above yours)?

I'm not 100% sure. I think it might be to do with where the 24 hours are sliced. Worldometer is using GMT, whereas I suspect the Covid tracking project is using EST or something similar.

[ursus arctos]

Ta

I thought it was likely something like that. The Tracking Project usually reports around 19h00 New York time.

[Balderdasha]

Yesterday Europe was 75 cases shy of reporting 300,000 new cases in one day. Which is roughly how many cases were being reported globally a month or two ago.

[Balderdasha]

Andorra has reached 60,000+ cases per million population, or more than 6% of the population confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19, the highest percentage in the world.

[S. aureus]

Ta

I thought it was likely something like that. The Tracking Project usually reports around 19h00 New York time.

A report I saw (don't recall where now) described it as "passed 100k cases reported in a 24-hour period for the first time".

[Satchmo Distel]

I think Xmas is another bread and circuses thing, as with football.

[Antepli Ejderha]

4 confirmed cases in our school but it's all OK as they happened in half term so nobody was infected in school.

That's the gist of the email we've just received.

[ursus arctos]

A report I saw (don't recall where now) described it as "passed 100k cases reported in a 24-hour period for the first time".

Perhaps today's Reuters report, which has a figure between that of the Tracking Project and Worldometer

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1322527556126605313

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/abiwilks/status/1322567879007571971?s=21

[Snake Plissken]

The head of the Police Federation of England and Wales even tweeted (ironically enough) that the Government should stop briefing this way as it is making their job harder. But OTOH, how are Ministers in charge of this supposed to find out what they are doing if not from Cummings bagmen?

[Mr Beast]

Peston really is a dreadful Tory stooge.

He went into quite a bit of detail, it would be interesting to see if he got anything wrong. I presume not as it was dictated word for word to him.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Peston really is a dreadful Tory stooge.

He went into quite a bit of detail, it would be interesting to see if he got anything wrong. I presume not as it was dictated word for word to him.

They are operating his Twitter account, no need for dictation at all.

Has Laura K been silenced?

[Nocturnal Submission]

Month-long lockdown in England ahoy.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Month-long lockdown in England ahoy.

It'll all be over by Christmas.

[Snake Plissken]

Month-long lockdown in England ahoy.

It isn't a national lockdown. They have said, repeatedly, that it isn't a national lockdown.

It is a "putting the country into Tier 4".