Coronavirus - Part Two.

[nightrider 13]

8 hours ago, Anna B said:

I see they are transferring elderly people from hospital into care homes again to free up beds. 

 

Why?

 

Surely they could be transferred to the Nightingale hospitals if they are not being used much, or better still, empty hotels reserved for recovering covid patients' convalescence. They need rest and recuperation until they are well enough to return home, but putting them together with old and vulnerable people in care homes seems like a repeat of last year's  care home disaster. 

We don't have any staff for the nightingales. We do have staff in care homes. Perhaps that is the reason.

[Olive 10]

1 hour ago, nightrider said:

How do you define 5 km. A circle strictly centred on the home? Or how far you need to drive along the road? If the former can you drive out of the circle if thats the only way to access some other point within the circle? Nothing is simple!

Its not spreading from people exercising outside.

 

Just go to your local high street and see how many premises think they are essential...is a coffee shop really essential retail? There is an invention called a thermos.

 

Schools all open and many at 50% occupancy....

 

Lots of households having visitors indoors...

 

 

 

Bingo. They have managed to get everyone at each others throats over how far you can go for exercise, whilst no-one is talking about the lack of measures from the government to shut down indoor settings. 

Humberside Police, on the other hand are showing that when necessary they can think things through to reach sensible solutions.  They have announced that they will not be taking draconian measures agains people travelling for exercise, but will speak to people they believe have stretched the guidance too far.   No need for heavy handed tactics like other forces have tried, which has only made things worse.   Travelling for exercise isn't a big issue after all.

[tinfoilhat 11]

10 hours ago, Anna B said:

I see they are transferring elderly people from hospital into care homes again to free up beds. 

 

Why?

 

Surely they could be transferred to the Nightingale hospitals if they are not being used much, or better still, empty hotels reserved for recovering covid patients' convalescence. They need rest and recuperation until they are well enough to return home, but putting them together with old and vulnerable people in care homes seems like a repeat of last year's  care home disaster. 

No staff for nightingale hospitals. Care homes have staff. And great swathes of care home staff and residents have been vaccinated.

 

 

The other reason it's spreading - even at "covid safe" workplaces is when some people have to isolate, they can't afford to and go to work anyway.

Edited January 13, 2021 by tinfoilhat

[RiffRaff 10]

5 hours ago, nightrider said:

Its not spreading from people exercising outside.

 

Just go to your local high street and see how many premises think they are essential...is a coffee shop really essential retail? There is an invention called a thermos.

 

Schools all open and many at 50% occupancy....

 

Lots of households having visitors indoors...

If that's the case, police time would be as well spent shutting said coffee shop - and non-essential businesses - down.

Schools are supposedly covid safe.  The school authorities claim it. Are they all kidding themselves? Fibbing then, perhaps.

We've had no visitors to our house since day one. Likewise, we've not entered anybody else's. In fact, I personally don't know of anybody who has, or admits to it.

On the latest figures showing that perhaps 1 in 50 are carriers, and from the daily rise in cases and admissions, your logic would lean towards literally thousands of households having visitors indoors?

 

 

 

 

Edited January 13, 2021 by RiffRaff

[Thirsty Relic 209]

4 minutes ago, RiffRaff said:

On the latest figures showing that perhaps 1 in 50 are carriers, and from the daily rise in cases and admissions, your logic would lean towards literally thousands of households having visitors indoors?

sounds right to me - and add to that groups gathering together both inside and outside "big name" fast food places, reports of parties etc - the minority of those not obeying the Covid regulations seems to me to be growing.  I've stopped buying fresh meat from my local supermarket as I see that the butchers are wearing face masks, but on their chins and chatting together while they work.  If key workers are not following the rules, you can bet many many others aren't either.

[Anna B 1,401]

7 hours ago, nightrider said:

We don't have any staff for the nightingales. We do have staff in care homes. Perhaps that is the reason.

I know intensive care, doctors and nurses are in short supply, but these elderly people are only in need mainly of rest and recuperation, which can be done by care staff in a Nightingale or hotel setting. Otherwise what use are they going to be?

 

The reason care homes are agreeing to take them is because they are being paid per covid patient they admit, (I believe it's around £1,000 each.) But care homes run on minimum wage, minimum staff anyway. This money could be used to pay care workers to staff them. 

[Becky B 31]

31 minutes ago, Anna B said:

I know intensive care, doctors and nurses are in short supply, but these elderly people are only in need mainly of rest and recuperation, which can be done by care staff in a Nightingale or hotel setting. Otherwise what use are they going to be?

 

The reason care homes are agreeing to take them is because they are being paid per covid patient they admit, (I believe it's around £1,000 each.) But care homes run on minimum wage, minimum staff anyway. This money could be used to pay care workers to staff them. 

Care homes are already staffed.

Nightingale hospitals are (or would be) staffed from staff seconded from NHS hospitals.  You can't rob Peter to pay Paul, when the  hospitals are full already.

These elderly people don't get escalated to intensive care, so numbers of staff on ICU aren't relevant to them. 

[Olive 10]

4 hours ago, RiffRaff said:

If that's the case, police time would be as well spent shutting said coffee shop - and non-essential businesses - down.

Schools are supposedly covid safe.  The school authorities claim it. Are they all kidding themselves? Fibbing then, perhaps.

We've had no visitors to our house since day one. Likewise, we've not entered anybody else's. In fact, I personally don't know of anybody who has, or admits to it.

On the latest figures showing that perhaps 1 in 50 are carriers, and from the daily rise in cases and admissions, your logic would lean towards literally thousands of households having visitors indoors?

 

 

 

 

The term 'Covid safe' is, and always has been, a nonsense. 

 

'Covid a bit safer' might be a better description.

 

Covid is a respiratory disease, spread primarily through the air in droplets and aerosols.

 

If you have a room, with people in it, who are breathing in and out, then you have transmission risk.  Proximity and time spent in the room effects risk.

 

You can mitigate to an extent with ventilation to get any virus filled air and replace it with fresh air. Wearing masks will have some limited effect.  

 

But really, pubs, schools, workplaces, anywhere people spend any kind of significant time indoors with other people, are always going to be a problem, no matter how many one way systems are put in place.

Edited January 13, 2021 by Olive

[Jim117 72]

My other half has just been given a letter by her employer stating that she’s a key worker in the event she is challenged by police. The letter ends by thanking her for continuing to come in to her Covid safe office. The office is an open plan call centre so no masks cos they wear headsets and are constantly on the phone. Windows are never allowed to be open for security reasons. Covid safe apparently means they’ve staggered the desks and instituted a one way system.

[RiffRaff 10]

3 hours ago, Olive said:

The term 'Covid safe' is, and always has been, a nonsense. 

 

'Covid a bit safer' might be a better description.

 

Covid is a respiratory disease, spread primarily through the air in droplets and aerosols.

 

If you have a room, with people in it, who are breathing in and out, then you have transmission risk.  Proximity and time spent in the room effects risk.

 

You can mitigate to an extent with ventilation to get any virus filled air and replace it with fresh air. Wearing masks will have some limited effect.  

 

But really, pubs, schools, workplaces, anywhere people spend any kind of significant time indoors with other people, are always going to be a problem, no matter how many one way systems are put in place.

In other words, from your description, we're stuck with it.

 

[The Joker 10]

Today we've had the terrible news that not only have we hit 100,000 Coronavirus deaths in the UK, but we've also had the highest one-day number of UK deaths too, at 1564.

 

You'd expect the press to hold BoJo to account for this, instead of whether he is allowed to cycle seven miles or not.

 

Still, that's what the UK voted for.

 

No wonder the UK's in such a mess, eh folks?

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/uk-coronavirus-deaths-pass-100000

 

UK coronavirus deaths pass 100,000 after 1,564 reported in one day

More than 100,000 people have died from coronavirus in the UK since the disease first appeared in the country almost a year ago, in what public health experts said is a sign of “phenomenal failure of policy and practice”.

 

On Wednesday the daily figure for recorded deaths was 1,564 – a new record high bringing the total to 101,160, according to analysis of figures from government and statistical agencies. The toll far exceeds some of the worst-case scenario estimates made during the first wave of the pandemic.

 

 

[ECCOnoob 1,020]

"From" coronavirus is a strong choice of words by The Guardian there.

 

I'd like to see their detailed figures on that statement and find out exactly how those deaths are recorded. Even the daily briefings and the most anti-government television news sources are very careful with their wording of exactly how deaths have arisen and the range of nuiances of what exactly gets recorded.

 

There has already been plenty of criticism on the statistics bandied about and how easy it could be for someone to be knocked down by a bus who just coincidentally happens to have coronavirus to be included in the big scary death numbers.

 

Of course irrelevant to all that - to some people nothing will get to over the fact that "...everything's is all Boris' fault..." right?