Current Affairs

[Manoverboard]

Absolutely inundated with Caravans and Motor Homes yesterday.
Summer has officially started in the West Country.
What is it like where you are?

Our roads are too narrow for those big boys but I dare say the jungle drums will soon be telling of ' strangers ' ereabouts.

[Onelife]

Whilst I understand there are more tests being done it is worrying that the government are saying infection rates are coming down and yet when I take my area Shropshire the figures has gone up drastically in the past few weeks. When I started looking about a month ago, they stood around 840 cases and yet today they are showing 1,390 cases. In Dorset during the same period they were around 325 cases now they are 596…is someone telling porkies or are we underestimating how many cases there really are out there?

Keep wearing those masks

[Onelife]

Absolutely inundated with Caravans and Motor Homes yesterday.
Summer has officially started in the West Country.
What is it like where you are?

It hasn’t been announced yet but I’m happy to give any prospective caravaners the heads up…Shropshire County Council are banning caravans from Monday

[david63]

Whilst I understand there are more tests being done it is worrying that the government are saying infection rates are coming down and yet when I take my area Shropshire the figures has gone up drastically in the past few weeks. When I started looking about a month ago, they stood around 840 cases and yet today they are showing 1,390 cases. In Dorset during the same period they were around 325 cases now they are 596…is someone telling porkies or are we underestimating how many cases there really are out there?

The problem with the number of "cases" figure is that it is cumulative and there does not seem to be, or at least I cannot find, the number of active cases.

Also I think that there is a difference between "infection rate" which is the speed at which the infection is spreading and the number of positive tests - which to a large extent is dependant upon the number of tests being carried out.

[Onelife]

Whilst I understand there are more tests being done it is worrying that the government are saying infection rates are coming down and yet when I take my area Shropshire the figures has gone up drastically in the past few weeks. When I started looking about a month ago, they stood around 840 cases and yet today they are showing 1,390 cases. In Dorset during the same period they were around 325 cases now they are 596…is someone telling porkies or are we underestimating how many cases there really are out there?

The problem with the number of "cases" figure is that it is cumulative and there does not seem to be, or at least I cannot find, the number of active cases.

Also I think that there is a difference between "infection rate" which is the speed at which the infection is spreading and the number of positive tests - which to a large extent is dependant upon the number of tests being carried out.

Not wishing to jump to any conclusion David but I can’t find any stats on hospital admissions either

[towny44]

Whilst I understand there are more tests being done it is worrying that the government are saying infection rates are coming down and yet when I take my area Shropshire the figures has gone up drastically in the past few weeks. When I started looking about a month ago, they stood around 840 cases and yet today they are showing 1,390 cases. In Dorset during the same period they were around 325 cases now they are 596…is someone telling porkies or are we underestimating how many cases there really are out there?

Keep wearing those masks

Apparently they originally only quoted Pilar 1 tests, they now include Pilar 2 and the increase is due to the total of these being added in one go.

[Onelife]

Whilst I understand there are more tests being done it is worrying that the government are saying infection rates are coming down and yet when I take my area Shropshire the figures has gone up drastically in the past few weeks. When I started looking about a month ago, they stood around 840 cases and yet today they are showing 1,390 cases. In Dorset during the same period they were around 325 cases now they are 596…is someone telling porkies or are we underestimating how many cases there really are out there?

Keep wearing those masks

Apparently they originally only quoted Pilar 1 tests, they now include Pilar 2 and the increase is due to the total of these being added in one go.

For a moment there I thought you were talking about Rice

Pillar 1 data for England is provided by the NHS and PHE, and data from the devolved administrations are provided by the Department of Health of Northern Ireland, the Scottish Government, and Public Health Wales.

Public Health Wales provide combined pillar 1 and partial pillar 2 data where tests are processed in NHS Wales labs.

Pillar 2 data for the UK (excluding Wales tests processed in NHS labs in Wales) is collected by commercial partners.

Pillar 3 data is provided for England by NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI).

Pillar 4 data is collected by the NHS, PHE, and individual research study leads for the UK
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No wonder there is confusion as to what and how data is collected

[Manoverboard]

For a moment there I thought you were talking about Rice

I can only sleep using one Pilar, Mobietta is just the same .... Rice indeed

[Ray Scully]

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[Onelife]

For a moment there I thought you were talking about Rice

I can only sleep using one Pilar, Mobietta is just the same .... Rice indeed

I don't want to know about your sleeping habits. ....your not taking this thread seriously

[Manoverboard]

I don't want to know about your sleeping habits. ....your not taking this thread seriously

Is your post #5210 in Morse Code ' ... . ... ' please advise in case we have an emergency

[Onelife]

I don't want to know about your sleeping habits. ....your not taking this thread seriously

Is your post #5210 in Morse Code ' ... . ... ' please advise in case we have an emergency

I've just moderated it

[oldbluefox]

I don't want to know about your sleeping habits. ....your not taking this thread seriously

Is your post #5210 in Morse Code ' ... . ... ' please advise in case we have an emergency

I thought he was stuttering

[Manoverboard]

I don't want to know about your sleeping habits. ....your not taking this thread seriously

Is your post #5210 in Morse Code ' ... . ... ' please advise in case we have an emergency

I've just moderated it

I have just deleted it

[Stephen]

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[Onelife]

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Don’t encourage him Stephen he’ll think it was funny

[Onelife]

I don't want to know about your sleeping habits. ....your not taking this thread seriously

Is your post #5210 in Morse Code ' ... . ... ' please advise in case we have an emergency

I thought he was stuttering

you you you pulling my my leg ain't yeah !

[oldbluefox]

No, no, no, no, yes!!!!

[Stephen]

No. .

[Onelife]

Well I don't No either

[Mervyn and Trish]

Damn I missed it. Can you undelete it?

[Onelife]

Caroline Chen.

If You’ve got the stamina, she writes some interesting articles about Covid 19

https://www.propublica.org/people/caroline-chen

[Onelife]

Damn I missed it. Can you undelete it?

You missed nothing Sir Merv…It was nothing more than the usual culprits trying to make Onelife look a fool…. perhaps its best that you don’t comment on that

[Onelife]

The symptoms app is highlighting Dudley and Wolverhampton as the next likely lock down areas.

[Manoverboard]

Damn I missed it. Can you undelete it?

You missed nothing Sir Merv…It was nothing more than the usual culprits trying to make Onelife look a fool…. perhaps its best that you don’t comment on that

Make no mistake ... we were all laughing with you, not at you