Reply to: Local lockdown

[PCTNN]

In a month or two we’ll have bars closed again - even before normal flu season strikes, which in the past was enough to stress NHS, this year it will be Covid enhanced

DOOM

The NHS will cope just fine now that they're getting 350 millions a week.

[vetran]

Yep. Those are the tossers to whom I was alluding, thereby attempting to demonstrate that OG Paddy's argument was perhaps not entirely cogent.

My word. Even when I am indirectly slightly agreeing with you, you're so incredibly thick (or pig headed or both) that you don't notice.


Edit: mean Paddy, not OG.

Sorry not used to you agreeing with me!

[NickFitz]

What are you doing up so late?

We're in lockdown here, it's not like I have anywhere to go in the morning

[NotAllThere]

Have another read. I wasn't making an argument.

HTH

Have another read. I wasn't quoting you. I just mistakenly attributed it to you.

HTH

[Paddy]

What are you doing up so late?

[NickFitz]

Coronavirus: Why has Leicester had a spike of coronavirus? - BBC News

The east of the city appears to be the epicentre of this local outbreak. The area includes streets with tightly packed terraced housing, and has a high proportion of ethnic minority families where multi-generational living is more common.

Indeed, Leicester as a whole is one of the most culturally diverse areas in the country, with about half of its residents from ethnic minority groups.

If only somebody who knows the city well, maybe even lives there, had posted something like that upthread. It could have saved everybody a lot of argufying.

Oh, hang on, what's this:

I gather many or even most of the new cases are in areas such as Belgrave and Spinney Hill that have a high BAME population and a lot of Victorian terraced housing, so it's probably due to a combination of the higher susceptibility that has been observed among BAME people and comparatively cramped living conditions. Remember, the population of Leicester has the highest proportion of BAME people of anywhere in the country, at around 50%.

[Paddy]

Coronavirus: Why has Leicester had a spike of coronavirus? - BBC News

The east of the city appears to be the epicentre of this local outbreak. The area includes streets with tightly packed terraced housing, and has a high proportion of ethnic minority families where multi-generational living is more common.

Indeed, Leicester as a whole is one of the most culturally diverse areas in the country, with about half of its residents from ethnic minority groups.

[Mordac]

well this bloke misunderstood!

Leicester mayor Sir Peter Soulsby, 71,broke Covid rules to visit his girlfriend | Daily Mail Online



maybe he was checking his eyes?

He popped round to clean her windows. And if you think that's a euphemism, you've clearly done the whole hundred days...

[Old Greg]

Yep. Those are the tossers to whom I was alluding, thereby attempting to demonstrate that OG's argument was perhaps not entirely cogent.

My word. Even when I am indirectly slightly agreeing with you, you're so incredibly thick (or pig headed or both) that you don't notice.

Have another read. I wasn't making an argument.

HTH

[NotAllThere]

You mean the ones sent to prison?

Yep. Those are the tossers to whom I was alluding, thereby attempting to demonstrate that OG Paddy's argument was perhaps not entirely cogent.

Definitely not playing with a full deck today are you? Been on the cough syrup?

My word. Even when I am indirectly slightly agreeing with you, you're so incredibly thick (or pig headed or both) that you don't notice.


Edit: mean Paddy, not OG.

[AtW]

It's more than that. How are they going to tell who is Covid and who is not Covid during the seasonal cold / flu outbreak? Easy at the moment.

By reading the death certificate

[Old Greg]

In a month or two we’ll have bars closed again - even before normal flu season strikes, which in the past was enough to stress NHS, this year it will be Covid enhanced

DOOM

It's more than that. How are they going to tell who is Covid and who is not Covid during the seasonal cold / flu outbreak? Easy at the moment.

[Old Greg]

Misleading statistics. Most cars were parked near home but even a short trip to the shops rather than a sixty mile journey to work would be counted. The first four weeks of lock down the road were very quite and the car parks empty. Birmingham may have been different however, Birmingham happens to be another hot-spot for the virus.

Squirrel-******* is a known vector. In Mandarin the euphemism is "eating bat".

[AtW]

In a month or two we’ll have bars closed again - even before normal flu season strikes, which in the past was enough to stress NHS, this year it will be Covid enhanced

DOOM

[BlueSharp]

Trigger warning, Daily Mail link but finally reports have asked the local leaders what their thoughts on the reason for the spike is.

Councillor blames a perfect storm of 'cultural, health and economic factors' for Leicester outbreak | Daily Mail Online

So why do leaders think they are going to listen this time around?