Mudface

Fuck 'em. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36616172

Summary from the Guardian- Hospital numbers, and ventilation cases, rising in England, Scotland and Wales, latest figures show. The UK coronavirus dashboard also covers hospital figure. There were 275 hospital admissions for coronavirus patients in England on Monday, the most recent day for which figures are available. That is up from 237 the previous day, and the highest daily figure since late June. There are now 1,381 patients in hospital in England with coronavirus. A week ago the figure was 894. In Scotland there were 73 coronavirus patients in hospital on Tuesday (the most recent day for which figures are available on the dashboard). A week earlier was 48. In Wales there were 93 coronavirus patients in hospital on Tuesday (the most recent day for which figures are available on the dashboard). A week earlier was 53. There are 192 coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in hospitals in England. A week ago the figure was 107. In Scotland there were 10 patients on mechanical ventilation in hospital on Tuesday (the most recent figure for which figures are available on the dashboard). A week earlier the figure was six. In Wales there were 18 patients on mechanical ventilation in hospital on Tuesday (the most recent figure for which figures are available on the dashboard). A week earlier the figure was six. In Northern Ireland there were two patients on mechanical ventilation in hospital on Tuesday (the most recent figure for which figures are available on the dashboard). A week earlier the figure was two.

We got Super Saturday/ Independence Day barely two weeks after that article.

It already is, sadly- the 7 day rolling average has tripled in a fortnight. Still relatively low, but hospitalisations and numbers on ventilators have doubled in the last ten days too. Grim as fuck, and those laughable new restrictions yesterday aren't going to make a fuck of difference.

But, they didn't. Here, Scotland's easy to find- Glasgow and Clyde went up by about 40% in the last 3 weeks (i.e. since schools went back). Forth Valley by under 20%, other areas lower.

Fucking hell. They haven't risen 'spontaneously' in all areas at the same time. Just a few days ago, you and Strontium Dog were going on about London and the South West having low figures. This is the current map, it's not uniform by any means-

It's almost as though the infection rate's exponential, starting off slow and then getting rapid once it reaches a threshold. Funny that.

Well, that never happened, but even if it did, I'd say trying to keep millions of people isolated is far more impractical.

It isn't beyond the whit of man, but on the scale required (it's not just care homes by any means), it's simply impractical.

I'm not entirely sure we can. This was in the Guardian this morning- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/23/covid-ban-on-care-home-visitors-risks-premature-deaths-experts-warn Given that care home residents are amongst the most vulnerable, how do you protect them? If it's going to be an 'aggressive' protection- and let's face it, it's pointless otherwise- then keeping them completely isolated for an unspecified period is going to cause the problem outlined in the Guardian article. What do you then do with the people who work in care homes and their own families and close contacts- do they have to be isolated along with the residents? If not, how do we stop them potentially passing on the virus? And that's just one vulnerable group, people over 60, the obese, people with asthma and some groups within the BAME umbrella also appear to be particularly susceptible. Pretty soon, you're running into potentially tens of millions of vulnerable people, their families and close contacts that have to be isolated from everyone else. It's just not workable.

We'll all be over 80 by then.

*runs*

That's ridiculous. You need to carry on defending your position, citing ever more dubious and esoteric sites and sniping at each other in unrelated threads.

Of course not, Operation Blame Everyone Else is top of the list in the Tory play book. It worked so well with austerity.

God, he looks good. Incredibly busy and confident. Fuck taking 6 months to settle in, he looks ready made like Mascherano, Alonso or Torres. Or Mane and Salah. Fantastic attitude.

That was an entertaining game. Reality hits so hard.

It was fucked beyond belief way before then. Sadly.

Don't punish yourself so much...

It was funny, but it just demonstrated how easy it was to manipulate the charts by then. I remember being really excited when The Jam went straight in at no 1 a few times in the early '80s, it was a real event (and awestruck when they had 6 or 7 singles in the top 40 when they broke up). By the early '90s, it seemed it was just de rigeur for stuff to fly in at no 1, then vanish within a couple of weeks.

Even earlier than that for me, probably 1986 or so. Greed fucked it up, why bother with a £2.50 single when you can get the whole album for a fiver? Plus there were weird 'loopholes' like that Iron Maiden song that went straight to number 1 despite selling fuck all, simply because it was released in Christmas week. Going straight to no 1 was really quite rare, it soon became commonplace and the whole thing collapsed in on itself.

Certainly a challenging wank. I mean, I managed it, but it kind of ruined the second half for my mate. And my eldest.

Have you got a link to the Tweet? I'm the same as most others, can only see the dog.

They've spent over a billion on transfers since Ferguson left, and nearly a quarter of that since last season. It's just been stunningly bad recruitment of managers and players.

Judging by the picture, it's a euphemism for Alsatian vomit.

Christ. Thank God I'm using a VPN.