Gold Coast Covid

Chunkylad

Chunkylad

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Yesterday we drove upto the Gold coast and took a drive from Starr Gate to Bispham. It was absolutely heaving with people on the Golden Mile, absolutely no obvious social distancing in place, I think 1 in 200 were wearing a mask walking along and queues to get into everybuilding but people bumping into each other.
We crawled along the entire journey (it was day time so illuminations not on) so saw the GM in it's true glory.
It was as always great fun people watching but if anyone is worried about the R rate, there was no OB in site to police social distancing yesterday and the Great British public clearly have scant regard for it too.
I was a little shocked to be honest. I saw it alot in the Lakes this summer, but thought with all the media announcements and local lockdown this would have reduced but sadly not.
 
Chunky

Did the reverse journey myself yesterday from Cleveleys to Squires Gate.

Lets hope all of these morons went back to their Covid infested houses in Greater Manchester and East Lancashire, but I fear they may have infected some locals as well.

Waiting for the R rate to rocket on the Fylde Coast in the next couple of weeks as a result.

Prepare for lockdown.
 
Ollygon said:
Chunky

Did the reverse journey myself yesterday from Cleveleys to Squires Gate.

Lets hope all of these morons went back to their Covid infested houses in Greater Manchester and East Lancashire, but I fear they may have infected some locals as well.

Waiting for the R rate to rocket on the Fylde Coast in the next couple of weeks as a result.

Prepare for lockdown.
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We saw a big group of women with Horwich on the back of their T-shirts (looked like a Hen do). I would have thought Horwich would be classed as Bolton for the lockdown but haven't checked.
 
Chunkylad said:
In what way? It was absolutely heaving Bifster.
I am not making any other statement than there was very little social distancing and it was a crawl of cars.
You can decide the rest yourselves.
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"People bumping into each other!!" Were they all wearing blindfolds?

Surely we've heard all this kind of nonsense before when people came to the beach? We know full well that virus transmission outdoors is limited and so people walking along a relatively busy street doesn't pose a huge risk.

In fact sitting in a restaurant 2M from other people to eat a meal or going to a pub is likely significantly more risky than walking along a busy Blackpool Prom.
 
And in more news, the Government have announced the appointment of the world's leading expert on virology and public health, a Mr BFC3 from Blackpool.

A Government spokesman said - "now we'll get the real truth"
 
We've had raves, riots, protests beach full and still the R rate fell proving that it doesn't spread outside and its in people's homes the number one cause and inviting folk around.
 
Ollygon said:
And in more news, the Government have announced the appointment of the world's leading expert on virology and public health, a Mr BFC3 from Blackpool.

A Government spokesman said - "now we'll get the real truth"
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When you look out of your window, do you need a gardening expert to tell you that the grass is green or a meteorologist to confirm that the sky is blue?
 
poolseasider said:
We've had raves, riots, protests beach full and still the R rate fell proving that it doesn't spread outside and its in people's homes the number one cause and inviting folk around.
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They are starting to remind me of someone who has a gambling problem and has lost lots of money. ‘The second wave will definitely be here in 2 weeks’ = ‘I’ll win my next bet and wipe out all my losses’
 
That's fine chaps. Now I understand a little better I am good to go. Just as long as the spread is only in the houses and buidlings and not outdoors we can set a clear policy nationally and crack on.
 
It’s been mobbed since the Scottish kids broke up for the Summer, 2 months (ish), with loads of visitors from areas with spikes. It’s not caused a spike here yet.
 
Whatever next a holiday town having loads of visitors this might catch on.
I'd rather have a British holiday at mo than sit in a tin can for a few hours where SD is impossible.
 
Talk of a second wave is absolute nonsense.
Government driven false narrative because they won’t back down from Ferguson’s 250,000 death prediction.
The testing protocols are wrong with loads of false positives being recorded.
There’s a reason you can’t currently get a test online (as of last night anyway)..The Government has made a massive u turn on how testing is carried out, but they don’t want you to know that.
They’re more than happy to have Covid free Hospitals turn away people with other illnesses and let them die to ‘protect the NHS’
This is the Tory scum government people voted for. Johnson and Hancock and co,deserve to catch a very serious disease themselves and suffer a painful demise.
 
People should really look at what the R rate actually is.Its another Imperial College model with little if any science behind it. This model makes assumptions based on different locked down areas being reopened and fed into the model.So its essentially estimated and most epidemiologists dont use this method of R rate at all.

Just like the PCR test it isnt backed by evidence and we are building this whole charade around these flawed approaches.

Time to bin off Imperial College advice.They have done enough harm throughout this from Fergusons fear model to Openshaw being wheeled out to scaremonger every weekend.Many of the SAGE committee are Imperial College and I dont need to remind you who funds Imperial through grants every year.
 
Infection rates are rising yet hospital admissions and deaths are not or at least not at the same rate. The explanation offered for this is that younger people have been infected not at risk groups. If this is so why were these groups not protected to the same extent before.
 
Scarborian said:
Infection rates are rising yet hospital admissions and deaths are not or at least not at the same rate. The explanation offered for this is that younger people have been infected not at risk groups. If this is so why were these groups not protected to the same extent before.
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There is a time lag as seen in France.

Think of COVID as mouse bait, people crack on get the bait and take it back to their nests where they feed the mouths of the hungry who get ill and in the mouse case, die.
 
fcblackpool said:
There is a time lag as seen in France.

Think of COVID as mouse bait, people crack on get the bait and take it back to their nests where they feed the mouths of the hungry who get ill and in the mouse case, die.
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Not sure it’s that cut and dried anymore. Yesterday in France over 7K new cases, 6 deaths. Two weeks ago cases of over 6K per day were reported. Given the lag the death rate is still low.
 
So this timelag in France
Scarborian said:
Infection rates are rising yet hospital admissions and deaths are not or at least not at the same rate. The explanation offered for this is that younger people have been infected not at risk groups. If this is so why were these groups not protected to the same extent before.
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Unfortunately they need to maintain the fear and sense of looming doom in order to keep the whole charade going. If they simply admitted the truth (i.e. that Covid 19 is nowhere near as deadly as they had originally thought), then it would be difficult to get us all doing the 'Simon Says' routine.
 
There was an interesting article in the Sunday Times a week yesterday
The pattern of low hospital admissions is an international one with the so called second wave
There’s a number of potential explanations
The one I’m hoping is the correct one is that which suggests that the amount of virus load being transmitted has reduced as a result of masking and social distancing etc and that leads to the infection dose being lower than pre-lockdown and far less lethal
 
cruzzer said:
Not sure it’s that cut and dried anymore. Yesterday in France over 7K new cases, 6 deaths. Two weeks ago cases of over 6K per day were reported. Given the lag the death rate is still low.
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It's the hospital admissions that are rising as well as the cases. Will deaths then result? Hopefully not, but we don't know.
 
I also think like bifster the chance of transmission outdoors is way lower.
Thats not to say there isnt any risk & I still try to avoid super busy places.
But im not panicking if someone walks past me in the street 🤣 .
 
TwelveAngryMen said:
There was an interesting article in the Sunday Times a week yesterday
The pattern of low hospital admissions is an international one with the so called second wave
There’s a number of potential explanations
The one I’m hoping is the correct one is that which suggests that the amount of virus load being transmitted has reduced as a result of masking and social distancing etc and that leads to the infection dose being lower than pre-lockdown and far less lethal
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I'm sorry but AVFTT experts have deemed that masks and social distancing have no impact.
 
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