Coronavirus - is enough being done to contain it?

The Liverpool Major is not happy that gyms are allowed to remain open in Lancashire and that they are shut in Liverpool.

When the daily figures are announced, they alway have a footnote 'All but 5 (for example) had underlying health issues'.

What do they class as underlying health issues... asthma probably, but do they include things like overweight, heavy drinker or a smoker?

(16-10-2020 12:38 )Charlemagne Wrote:  When the daily figures are announced, they alway have a footnote 'All but 5 (for example) had underlying health issues'.

What do they class as underlying health issues... asthma probably, but do they include things like overweight, heavy drinker or a smoker?

prob Diabetes, heart conditions lung conditions compromised immune systems ,cancer

anything that would be a contributing factor to not surviving

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/indoo...1602859485

hmmm Dogging ?

(16-10-2020 12:38 )Charlemagne Wrote:  When the daily figures are announced, they alway have a footnote 'All but 5 (for example) had underlying health issues'.

Maybe they need to start framing it the other way and people might take more notice.

"5 were perfectly healthy until covid killed them"

The Government are changing the rules as to which health workers can administer vaccines once they are clinically approved.
Independent nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists will be able to give vaccinations after undergoing training.

The government has brought in this 3 tier system. But that have failed to say what constitues each tier. Is it numbers catching covid each day, is the rate of numbers going into hospital. We need to know.

Even the local Tory MP's have been asking what has to be achieved to have a tiering reduced.

Yasmin Quershi who is Labour's Shadow development minister has been taken into hospital. She been isolating due the virus for 10 days, but has now been admitted to hopital with pnuemonia due to the virus.

She's a 57 year old Manchester MP.

Tier 2 is an absolute nightmare for the hospitality industry. One restaurant in London “The Wolseley” had 2500 cancellations on Friday/Saturday for bookings through the next few weeks. That was 9000 diners and in Tier 2 there is no financial help for them at all.

Johnson has lost sight of the people in this crisis - both the ill and the employed. No wonder all these people are ignoring the regulations.

We have been living in tier 2 for a few months and you wonder why Andy Burnham dont want to go there