Off Topic Coronavirus

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sb_73 said:
Baroness Dido Harding ex CEO of TalkTalk, who didn’t know whether they had encrypted customer data when they had a massive data leak in 2015, which cost the company £60m and 95,000 customers, is in charge of test and trace. She has zero clinical expertise and a negative record on data protection. However, she is a Tory peer and has been chair of something called NHS Improvement, while her husband John Penrose MP, is on the board of a right wing think tank called 1828, which calls for the NHS and Public Health England to be abolished.

A third of people diagnosed positive are declining to give their contact details to test and trace, and who the **** can blame them.

Handjob: ‘we’ve been incredibly frank about the fact that test and trace will get better and better’. Jolly D, we’ll take your word for it, it’s not as if you are a serial liar is it?
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The latest from Hancock is to blame our disastrous outcomes on the fact that London is a transport hub. No **** Matty, maybe we should have closed the borders then? Perhaps then we could have kept the rest of the economy open (whilst washing hands & distancing of course). Instead we have the worst of all worlds.

As Rory Stewart said, scientists advise but politicians decide.
 
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sb_73 said:
Find out how many have officially died in your patch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53021942

My list of current ‘risk factors’ now encompasses:
Age
Weight
Ethnicity
Poverty/deprivation
Existing illnesses especially diabetes
Vitamin d deficiency
Blood type - type A riskier than type O (new one)
Profession
Living in the UK
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You're sacked as official fact finder - put my postcode in - it gave me the two fingers and told me it doesn't do Scotland!

We've a population of about 78K, last I saw about 120 deaths. Poverty and age definately local factors, along with diabetes and over-weight due to the local poor diet.
 
Steelmonkey said:
You're sacked as official fact finder - put my postcode in - it gave me the two fingers and told me it doesn't do Scotland!

We've a population of about 78K, last I saw about 120 deaths. Poverty and age definately local factors, along with diabetes and over-weight due to the local poor diet.
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Mate
It doesn't do sweaty land
 
So in my village with a population of 4500 we have had 20 deaths
1:225. We are a hot spot in Buckinghamshire.

Middle class, ethnically un balanced towards the WASP end.

It must be the scarecrow festival, that is still ongoing
 
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qprbeth said:
So in my village with a population of 4500 we have had 20 deaths
1:225. We are a hot spot in Buckinghamshire.

Middle class, ethnically un balanced towards the WASP end.

It must be the scarecrow festival, that is still ongoing
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Do you have a care home or two?
 
there is a part of me that thinks that this is part of an "ethnic cleansing" process, which would have been released at some point however the "virus" escaped from the lab it is was being worked on. And yes, I do blame the Chinese...…..especially for the fact they do not provide answers to questions which might just help find a cure....
 
Stroller said:
World-beating....

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Don’t know where you got that graphic from Strolls but it’s wrong. 4.77 deaths per million people gives us a total deaths of 320 (4.77 x 67 - UK population as 67 million). In fact the death rate is 614 per million, which puts us 4th, behind SAN Marino, Belgium and Andorra. Sweden is down in 7th with 483 deaths per million, probably a decent trade for its economy.

This is the source I refer to. All the usual caveats about competence of data collection and different metrics. Striking that the UK doesn’t even measure some things most other do.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
 
sb_73 said:
Don’t know where you got that graphic from Strolls but it’s wrong. 4.77 deaths per million people gives us a total deaths of 320 (4.77 x 67 - UK population as 67 million). In fact the death rate is 614 per million, which puts us 4th, behind SAN Marino, Belgium and Andorra. Sweden is down in 7th with 483 deaths per million, probably a decent trade for its economy.

This is the source I refer to. All the usual caveats about competence of data collection and different metrics. Striking that the UK doesn’t even measure some things most other do.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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Except that Sweden's death graph seems to be going upwards, while other countries are in decline at present
 
sb_73 said:
Don’t know where you got that graphic from Strolls but it’s wrong. 4.77 deaths per million people gives us a total deaths of 320 (4.77 x 67 - UK population as 67 million). In fact the death rate is 614 per million, which puts us 4th, behind SAN Marino, Belgium and Andorra. Sweden is down in 7th with 483 deaths per million, probably a decent trade for its economy.

This is the source I refer to. All the usual caveats about competence of data collection and different metrics. Striking that the UK doesn’t even measure some things most other do.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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I must admit that I didn't interrogate the numbers in the table. Having done so, it seems te be based on daily death rates (i.e. 320 per day) since week-ending March 20th, so not giving the full picture and even then the totals seem too low. The source you quote is almost certainly more reliable but the overall picture is not much different.
 
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