RedArmy

Being closer than 2 metres for 15 minutes or longer increases your chance of catching the virus from an infected person. That guidance has been on the governments website since day 1.

All you’ve done is post the same graph that shows what I just said?

What data are you looking at? On Friday 20th March road traffic was still at 80%, it wasn’t until 2 days into lockdown that it finally halved to 40%. TFL usage didn’t drop prior to the lockdown because the public were acting differently, it dropped because they closed a number of tube stations and started to run a massively reduced service.

ONS are also now including deaths of suspected cases, not just confirmed tests.

Do you understand what the word ‘related’ means? Excess deaths includes the indirect deaths caused by the pandemic. Suicides, acute stress related deaths and those who didn’t seek emergency help when they needed it. It is not 54,000 deaths WITH Coronavirus. You also can’t really look at anything meaningful with excess deaths for another year. Only then will it be clearer how many had their lives cut short by weeks or months rather than years and decades.

54k excess deaths is not 54k Coronavirus deaths.

Which probably means we have too.

Laura Keunssberg should be banned from asking questions if she can’t come up with anything new to ask. It’s always the same questions with her.

Is Spanish flu racist? Is MERS racist? Is Zika virus racist? Or are they fine because Trump didn’t say them?

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/COVID-19-total-announced-deaths-30-April-2020.xlsx 3 weeks beyond the peak now, yet they still want to keep the lockdown in place. It’s time to shield the care homes and start slowly relaxing the lockdown after bank holiday weekend.

If your glasses were steaming up you weren’t wearing the mask correctly, and likely had very limited protection.

Hancock yesterday “We don’t see the questions beforehand” Hancock today just so happens to have all of the stats ready on the right page in front of him and reads from it to answer a question about the North East. But they definitely don’t have an idea of the questions they’re going to get.

Clearly masks work to keep the wearer safe or NHS and care staff would be dying at a faster rate than the general public, which isn’t happening.

Yeah you buy a box of 100, not 50 pairs. Unless they were expecting them to list 1 box as 1 item of PPE which is ludicrous.

My favourite part was when they tried to claim it was a national scandal that 1 glove = 1 item of PPE, that really got the faux outrage mob triggered. “In normal times this would end a government” All disposable are sold in totals not pairs, it’s nothing new.

Viral load.

Today’s announced deaths are from as far back as 11th March. It’s almost as if they save a few to add on to the daily total when they feel people need scaring back indoors.

It was made clear that antibody testing was going to be a big part of the 100,000 tests per day, the government had an order in place to buy enough to test 45,000 per day for the next year. It’s not completely their fault they turned out to be unreliable, I don’t know why they don’t come out and say that it was never in the plan to test 100,000 a day to see if they HAVE the virus, and revise their target instead of letting the media hammer them over it.

Seems like there’s a game of lockdown tennis going on. The government are trying to pass the buck to the “science” because they’re too scared to make decisions themselves, and it sounds like they’re planning to give the government a list of potential strategies to try and force them into taking responsibility for any lifting of lockdown restrictions. Get ready for this to carry on for months, especially as they’re relying on antibody testing data to help shape some of those options but there aren’t any reliable antibody tests available.

Yes, but the true curve is going down steadily.

759 people that died between March 22nd and 5pm yesterday.

Heads gone.

Also interesting to note that 91.4% of hospital deaths in England have been people over 60 years old.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/COVID-19-total-announced-deaths-20-April-2020.xlsx Definitely some catching up to do tomorrow but it seems fairly clear that deaths are on the decline.

The Yanks reckon it could be as high as 5.8. Christ knows what that would be as a percentage