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[martinuzz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK__9UIN5gk

[scriver]

Oh FFS stop putting words in my mouth, they are NOT workers, they are invalids!

IMO It is every citizen's final duty to go into the factories, and become one with all the people

As Our Lord Jesus Christ the Meatssiah before us

[Bumber]

The World Health Organization's special envoy on COVID-19 Dr. David Nabarro in an interview stated lockdowns are not helpful as the primary means to control COVID-19. He advocated a middle path which means holding the virus at bay whilst keeping economy and social life going. It would require "high level of organisation by governments and remarkable degree of engagement of people" with robust infectious disease control services or public health. He emphasised on combining of several measures such as "physical distancing, face protection, hygiene, isolating the ill and protecting the vulnerable" as an effective method. See the complete interview here on YouTube.

[Bumber]

Who is internationalsos, anyways?

Looks like they're a medical and travel security services firm. Only other sources I could find commenting on the interview were right-wing ones.

[misko27]

Meanwhile NYC is shutting down neighborhoods due to not following guidelines and rising cases. A shame for all those in those neighborhoods who are doing the right thing; they're being hurt by all this.

[scriver]

Sweden is rising too. Mainly tracked down not to jobs or similar but to parties and events. Age group mostly 20-35.

Yeah, letting people back into the univerisites was a mistake, basically.

[feelotraveller]

Cooler weather arriving in the northern hemisphere won't be helping either.  See the second half of this report https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-12/coronavirus-can-live-on-surfaces-28-days-australian-scientists/12752108 the first half being concered with the headline.

[Reelya]

Who is internationalsos, anyways?

Looks like they're a medical and travel security services firm. Only other sources I could find commenting on the interview were right-wing ones.

International SOS look like a corporate consulting firm who promise to guide you on protecting your workers from the virus. I can't help but think that the virus running loose would drum up more business in their direction.

[Zangi]

Reckon some businesses do benefit in these trying times. 
Like debt relief companies and cleaning services.

[MorleyDev]

It's getting to the point where the only course of action I can think of for the UK to take is a regular, repeating and scheduled lockdown until vaccines are produced. Something like every 2 months, lockdown for 2 weeks and operate on a reduced contact system with restricted gatherings of 6 or less the rest of the time. So kick the transmission rate down, on regular intervals knowing it'll grow in between them but schedule it so that the kick down happens often enough to stop it escalating out of control.

Doing it on a repeating schedule lets people, businesses and state budget and plan for it rather than the current uncertainty around the if/when.

Economic damage is temporary and fixable even if it takes years, debilitating illness lasts a lifetime, death is permanent and lasts forever.

[Starver]

Ironically, that shared trip across the Scottish border I mentioned a week or so ago... It was postponed for unrelated reasons. The person prompting the journey 'plans' it to happen next week, but that was before the whole L2/L3 lockdown announcements yesterday Monday, with one end-point now in an L2 area, which recomplicates everything on the English side!

(UK politics is 'fun'. Even excluding the thing about devolved regions, when the national Opposition declines to utterly support the government in seemingly arbitrary lical lockdowns t(hat it can't even agree within itself about) it is accused of not being helpful, and when they suggest that the government go with the actual scientific recommendation of the circuit-breaking they're told not to be silly.)

[TD1]

Ironically, that shared trip across the Scottish border I mentioned a week or so ago... It was postponed for unrelated reasons. The person prompting the journey 'plans' it to happen next week, but that was before the whole L2/L3 lockdown announcements yesterday Monday, with one end-point now in an L2 area, which recomplicates everything on the English side!

(UK politics is 'fun'. Even excluding the thing about devolved regions, when the national Opposition declines to utterly support the government in seemingly arbitrary lical lockdowns t(hat it can't even agree within itself about) it is accused of not being helpful, and when they suggest that the government go with the actual scientific recommendation of the circuit-breaking they're told not to be silly.)

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-northern-ireland-set-to-impose-circuit-breaker-lockdown-for-four-weeks-12103640

[Starver]

Aye, but that's (mostly) devolved stuff.  Westminster politics seems to be largely doing exactly what the three other semi-independent governments aren't doing (and quite possibly would be at odds with the fourth, if there was one for England too).

[ChairmanPoo]

Meanwhile in Southern Ireland: the county I" m on has few infections/100k inhabitants and I think a cute blonde girl is hitting on me.

[nenjin]

"Pardon me m'lady, verily thou art quite fetching. Alas, Covid-19 comes betwixt us, and I must bid you farewell."