Coronavirus

I reckon they're being told to go easy on the populist conspiracy bunch because it means nasty posts on social media otherwise. But yes, having seen police over here react to a small and completely peaceful animal rights protest in the past, not to mention the total overkill at a three-man picket line, they're being really lax considering these people are screwing life up for everyone else and putting lives at risk.
 
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Can't help but wonder why the police aren't cracking skulls, they used to love taking their badges off and running amok a few years ago when hippies used to have a may day march.
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Starting to really believe that cops are exactly as useless and shitty as the defund police people want me to believe.
 
Im told there was a large Antifa contingent in Dublin today, too. Maybe the police didn't want to be seen to be pickin sides. Or maybe they hoped that the 2 groups would just take eachother out.
 
I only heard about Grafton Street today but I did see something earlier in the week about antifa types reclaiming the GPO from the conspiracy crowd which might be why the conspiracy types were on Grafton Street to begin with
 
Looks like Ireland will not be going back to full lockdown just yet. The government had been advised to return to full lockdown but have instead opted to only slightly increase the current measures with a supposedly tougher emphasis on enforcing them than has been seen previously.
 
Looks like a new lockdown is imminent in Berlin. All the numbers are increasing while people party every night. A curfew for 23:00 was announced today starting on the weekend.
 
In Poland we have new record - over 3000 daily cases and 70+ dead since yesterday. I hope that government is happy - before the elections and the opening of the schools, they said "the virus is no longer to be feared, it is on the retreat" and everyone has since forgotten the basics of safety. And their party at that time rose to power.
 
After some sort of data mess up last week, cases are now (officially) higher than they've ever been in the UK, although the numbers of deaths and hospitalisations would suggest it was more in the region of 30k+ cases a day in late March/April. Scotland is going to close pubs for a couple of weeks after a surge in cases, and there are talks about doing the same in the areas with the highest number of cases in England - notably Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle.

University students are at the heart of several outbreaks. Several thousand students in Newcastle, which has two universities, have now been diagnosed, and universities are supposedly making lectures virtual again. The issue is most likely to be the accommodation sharing and social life, though.
 
When I was at Uni ('99-'02) "Freshers' flu" was a catch-all (sorry, unavoidable pun) term for anything you hadn't been exposed to previously that someone else happened to be carrying. So it could be pretty much anything, and not necessarily restricted to just one thing. The thing is, back then it wouldn't have got you put under house arrest for two weeks ...
 
This is the first time in many years that I have not caught Freshers' flu!

As a lecturer I am somewhat grateful for it but, to be honest, I'd choose going back to the days of catching Freshers' flu and living a normal life than the current Covid-19 madness and associated disruption, made more shambolic by the donkeys leading our country.
 
Poland has a huge surge of new cases - today we've got 5300 new cases, yesterday ~4500 and day before that ~4000. The whole country is now in the 'yellow' zone meaning we had to wear masks at all times, there are restrictions for mass transportation etc., schools probably will be soon closed because yesterday all teachers send invites to MS Teams for kids. Flu vaccine supply is very low (hospitals etc. withheld immunization last week - quote from one of biggest online portals: There are 5 doses of the influenza vaccine for adults in 200 Polish pharmacies, according to the UCE Research study for money.pl. Most pharmacies do not know when to expect deliveries. And it is already known that they are not enough for everyone. ) and there are rumours from hospitals that COVID drugs are also running low.

Our government claims that we're doing great, better than others, although the first cases are emerging among ministers.
 
1012 cases in Ireland today (and 3 deaths) , up from 613 last Saturday, looks like the government where wrong to ignore the advise given last weekend to go into full lockdown and I'll be very surprised if we don't now go to lockdown soon.

EDIT: Northern Ireland had another 900 today as well so nearly 2000 cases across the island.
 
It beggars belief that in the 21st century the solution to stop the spread of the virus ends up being exactly the same used in Spain 100 years ago during the outbreak of the so-called “Spanish flu”. Back then the message was: stay in your village, don’t go to the closest village celebrations honouring the patron saint, don’t dance with people...
 
My dad seems to think that reopening the schools has been the trigger for the second wave, I think it's just one of the factors, the main one being complacency has crept in. People are generally doing well in wearing masks in shops and the likes, but I think this has given a false sense of security as social distancing has really fallen by the wayside when people are out on the streets.

Judging by what's been sold in the supermarkets Halloween has not been cancelled, I can't be the only one that thinks having gangs of kids going around knocking on all the doors in a neighbourhood is a recipe for disaster.
 
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Scapegoating young people is utterly wrong. Where I live the people not respecting social distancing are part of the most at risk age groups!
 
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