Coronavirus

[TheHowieLama]

Brazil --- 55 thousand new cases in a day.

 

55 thousand - by far the worst day on record.

[johnsusername]

14 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 Because I truly despise the cunts I’ll disavow any evidence and say this is the worst ever.

 

Their moral authority was obliterated the moment that fucking charlatan Alex was anointed leader by manipulating a fractured populous.

 

The seeds were sown.

 

Only today a new report came out about how ‘bored’ he was by the entire thing and wanted it over and how eager ‘’they’ are to replace him at the first opportunity.
 

It’s just beyond belief now. 

It's hard to believe that at one point over 1000 people a day were dying in this country and yet people STILL thought the government were doing a good job. 

[Mudface]

Just now, johnsusername said:

It's hard to believe that at one point over 1000 people a day were dying in this country and yet people STILL thought the government were doing a good job. 

Just goes to show that their constant lying works, at least on a significant proportion of the population.

[Numero Veinticinco]

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

Brazil --- 55 thousand new cases in a day.

 

55 thousand - by far the worst day on record.

What’s the death rate like? Considering they don’t seem to give a fuck about it spreading. 

[Mudface]

2 minutes ago, Hank Moody said:

What’s the death rate like? Considering they don’t seem to give a fuck about it spreading. 

Pretty horrific- https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/. Bolsonaro should be indicted for crimes against humanity, the fucking pig.

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, Hank Moody said:

What’s the death rate like? Considering they don’t seem to give a fuck about it spreading. 

I think they just went over 50k - and they test very little.

 

Mexico making a run up the table too - another with very little testing.

[DJLJ]

New case in Denmark shows that the exact same strain is in mink as in a close by nursing home, so according to Center for Danish Disease control, one has infected the other. It is just not known who has infected who. 
 

https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/ssi-bekraefter-de-har-smittet-hinanden/8171576

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

On 17/05/2020 at 08:09, TheHowieLama said:

US notches it over 90,000 today.

UK seems to be holding off as they will get it over 35k in a few hours time.

 

The only challenger is Brazil - and that fella is killing off people on purpose.

 

3 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Pretty horrific- https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/. Bolsonaro should be indicted for crimes against humanity, the fucking pig.

This is the guy who tried to stop death counts from being made public whilst out on the town eating hot dogs and kissing babies.

Same lads who pointed out the "positive" effect it will have on their gubmint pension bank balances.

[Mudface]

4 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

This is the guy who tried to stop death counts from being made public whilst out on the town eating hot dogs and kissing babies.

Same lads who pointed out the "positive" effect it will have on their gubmint pension bank balances.

Funny how the small government, wannabe strongmen have fucked up so much with this, a crisis that demands people work together for the common good. If it doesn't involve grandstanding against imaginary enemies to divide and conquer or siphoning off tax payers' money to their cronies then they're badly exposed.

[cloggypop]

16 minutes ago, DJLJ said:

New case in Denmark shows that the exact same strain is in mink as in a close by nursing home, so according to Center for Danish Disease control, one has infected the other. It is just not known who has infected who. 
 

https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/ssi-bekraefter-de-har-smittet-hinanden/8171576

 

 

Mink have been a problem here as well. 

 

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-netherlands-mink-idUKKBN23D0KR

[Mudface]

 

Dose of reality.

[Spy Bee]

Numbers are looking a lot better over here now. I was worried about the number of infections not dropping, but we are now identifying loads of asymptomatic people that we previously wouldn't have, so the numbers are effectively going down. 

 

As it is starting to look more positive over here, of course it's tragic where cases are booming in other parts of the world

[sir roger]

Just been enrolled on the ICL testing regime, and the wife is a bit put out that she has not been chosen after digesting every last story about every aspect of Covid, while my investigations have been mainly limited to checking Bargain Booze's opening times.

[skend04]

Everyone got the Covid-19 Notification option on their phones now?

 

On Google it's in Settings>Google and the first option at the top. Not so sure on iOS.

[Anubis]

If anyone is in any doubt that the 60,000 deaths we’ve had won’t make the doffers in this country blink, just have a look at the replies under Karl Sikora’s tweet this morning about the government relaxing the 2m rule.

[Barrington Womble]

3 hours ago, Mudface said:

Pretty horrific- https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/. Bolsonaro should be indicted for crimes against humanity, the fucking pig.

Has he done anything different than trump and Johnson or just carried less luck?

2 hours ago, Mudface said:

 

Dose of reality.

Let's hope it makes people here sit up and take notice and not take the lack of a 2nd wave for granted. 

[Barrington Womble]

Still 1300 cases per day and 128 deaths. 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

52 minutes ago, The Gaul said:

Has he done anything different than trump and Johnson or just carried less luck?

 

He was out leading rallies during the time Johnson was in the hospital and Trump was locked down for a month.

Thats different. You know, in hindsight.

[Barrington Womble]

58 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

He was out leading rallies during the time Johnson was in the hospital and Trump was locked down for a month.

Thats different. You know, in hindsight.

I didn't know that. Hasn't trump run a rally and is doing so this week?

 

To be fair Johnson wouldn't hold a rally as it might require him expressing a thought publicly 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, The Gaul said:

I didn't know that. Hasn't trump run a rally and is doing so this week?

 

To be fair Johnson wouldn't hold a rally as it might require him expressing a thought publicly 

Johnson doesn't like public appearances because he generally gets booed everywhere he goes and he is such an arrogant petulant cunt that he wants to spit back and shout back at them but knows his mask will slip. 

[Section_31]

3 hours ago, Spy Bee said:

Numbers are looking a lot better over here now. I was worried about the number of infections not dropping, but we are now identifying loads of asymptomatic people that we previously wouldn't have, so the numbers are effectively going down. 

 

As it is starting to look more positive over here, of course it's tragic where cases are booming in other parts of the world

They're letting us gringos into Wales next month, I'm off to Barmouth with my bucket and spade. Told the Mrs I'll go on my own if necessary, I need to see the sea.

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, The Gaul said:

Hasn't trump run a rally and is doing so this week?

 

 

He's throwing a dinger tonight.

[Dougie Do'ins]

On 19/06/2020 at 10:07, Section_31 said:

it was Cummings' mate that got the gig wasn't it? That's how it works, it doesn't matter if it's fit for purpose or not, someone just has to get paid. 

 

It will transpire that all these "wartime measures" adopted to push through purchase orders to get us ready for the peak will have resulted in huge sums of our money ending up under the bed in the cayman Islands. Capita, G4S, ferry companies with no boats, all those cuts and more, nailed on. The corruption is out in the open now.

Any idea who it was, and what the company was and how much it cost ?

[Barrington Womble]

From the guardian....

 

NHS Covid app developers 'tried to block rival symptom trackers'

Developers claim government technology unit was hostile to other groups, hampering the fight against the disease

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NHSX, the health service technology unit responsible for the government’s failed contact-tracing app, attempted to block rival apps to protect its own, hampering efforts to track the early spread of the coronavirus.

Developers of several apps were urged to stop work by either NHSX or the Ministry of Defence, who told them their apps might distract attention from NHSX’s app when it was launched. Last week the app was abandoned after three months, with work beginning on an alternative design without any deadline.

Prof Tim Spector, of King’s College London, said that NHSX had treated his Covid symptom tracker research team as “the enemy”. “We were hampered from the beginning, in March when we first contacted NHSX,” he told the Observer. “They were very worried about our app taking attention away from theirs and confusing the public.

“Lots of signals went to places like the universities, my university, the medical charities and the royal colleges not to back our app because that would interfere with their one.”

When the pandemic hit the UK, tech workers, academics and health professionals responded to Boris Johnson’s call for a national effort by creating smartphone apps to help track the spread of the virus.

The Covid Sympton Study app has 3.5 million users and has helped chart the emergence of symptoms such as the loss of taste and smell. Evergreen Life, with 800,000 users, has been working with the universities of Liverpool and Manchester and spotted signs of the outbreak in Middlesbrough before tests had been carried out. The government’s app, meanwhile, was downloaded by tens of thousands of people on the Isle of Wight and never formally launched.

The rival apps could still form a vital part of the early warning system if, as some scientists fear, a second wave of Covid-19 hits the UK. The Covid Symptom Study app indicates that while the number of people reporting symptoms across the UK has been decreasing, numbers in London have remained static for the past three weeks.

Spector said that although people in the NHS had wanted to work with his team, they told him privately that everything needed to go through NHSX, which was set up by Matt Hancock after he became health secretary, and previously operated outside the main structure of the health service. “We naively thought they would sort of take our app over or incorporate them into one,” he said. “The whole point was to help the NHS, to find the hotspots so they could get the resources to the right hospitals.”

Instead, he said he was told the app was a problem. “The idea was that this NHSX app was going to be the saviour, another world-beating thing,” Spector said. “It was going to be an all-singing, all-dancing app that does everything: diagnoses you, it tells you about tests for you and who you’ve come into contact with.

“They were saying: ‘This will make your app redundant’. Their app would come out, there’d be a huge blaze of publicity and everyone would drop our app. We said: ‘Well, if that does happen, we’ll hand over and work with you, it’s in the interests of the country.’ Theirs just got more and more delayed – nothing ever happened. Ours got more and more successful,” Spector said.

Had ministers backed the app in England, more people would have signed up more quickly, Spector said. “We would have got more fine-grained data earlier. Their attitude prevented other branches of government working with us.” Users of the Covid Symptom Study who report symptoms can now order a test directly through the app. “That would have started earlier,” he said.

Health secretary Matt Hancock announced that the government had abandoned its own tracker app last week. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/Getty Images

Spector said he was working with the joint biosecurity centre, which has been set up to create an early warning system for Covid-19 and other diseases. “Plenty of people within the NHS have been very helpful,” he said, naming Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser. King’s will be launching a campaign on Monday to persuade the government to support the app.

The devolved administrations in Wales and Scotland also adopted the app early on. “We have proportionally many more users there,” he said. “I know, from speaking to other people from the Ministry of Defence who were helping out, they put even more pressure on some of the other apps to close them down early.”

NHSX has set up “Project Oasis” to gather data from eight tracking apps. One technology firm characterised the relationship between them as “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”.

Ian Gass of Agitate, which set up Ink C-19, an app designed to make reporting symptoms as simple as possible, said he was approached by the MoD in March and described the interaction as “not friendly”: “Not that it was aggressive, but I got the impression that there was just a lot of panic going on in governmental circles, and they didn’t know what to do or how to do it. They intimated that they’re doing stuff, and we don’t want others doing it.”

Agitate is a leading expert in tech security and Gass tried to advise NHSX in March that its app design, which attempted to use Bluetooth signals to sense when a phone came close to another, was flawed. In theory, the app was supposed to keep a record of other phones, and if a person developed symptoms, the app could send an alert to those phones. Yet the app only recognised 4% of Apple phones using Bluetooth.

“The whole overall approach at the moment is this weird, almost paranoid state where the government says publicly that they’re asking for help, but then they don’t want it,” Gass said.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Spanish officials have said Brits can holiday in their country and move freely without any quarantine. Uk law remains that they have to quarantine for two weeks on their return, although that will be reviewed at the end of June. Not sure about this being a good move.