COVID-19 infection numbers nearly 100k daily

its not surprising the infection rate is ramping up throughout the Country, Sewerby hall had a Hallowe'en event on yesterday ( probably all week), the car park was full with dozens of cars parked outside along grass verges.
We had our face masks on  throughout our dog walk around the woods and garden grounds, serval hundred young families decented on the event, only two with face masks worn by two young men, the excitable young kids were running amok, no social distancing whatever as everyone headed for the entrances , didn't see any warning signs, marshals at the event.
We are still in an low tier area and it will be interesting to see if our numbers will climb soon.  
Boaby

Around here, still in the lowest tier, but almost surrounded by higher ones, restrictions are largely ignored. Apart from face masks in shops, things are carrying on as normal.
Talking to family and friends, the feeling seems to be that if after contracting and recovering from CV19, immunity lasts only a few months, and the same is forecast for any future vaccine, what's the point of lockdowns and putting life on perpetual hold? 
Herd immunity will never be achieved.
Yes, it'll be at the cost of the old and weak, but hasn't evolution been doing this for millions of years? Survival of the fittest.
Environmental experts have said for years that the earth can't support the present population. Maybe this pandemic is the solution.
Not really my views, but those of a growing minority.
Al.

Strikes me that many people are getting complacent through lockdown fatigue and just implementing the rules when they absolutely have to. We have been very lucky down here and most people have behaved impeccably but over half term an influx of visitors has caused the single local hospital it to go in to the highest state of alert with reports of ambulances unable to offload and patients being attended to on board. There are only a handful of patients who actually have covid but all the extra precautions plus an unfortunate though not major fire has meant the hospital just cannot cope, a spokesperson has said people are blocking A&E with things they should have just rung their local GP wherever they live to get sorted.

I was in a shop today and there was a family, clearly on holiday, who had no masks and not social distancing in any way. Locals are castigated for moaning about our visitors but when they act so irresponsibly who can be surprised. What does surprise me is that if you live in a high covid area you can still travel anywhere you want in the Country with only "advice" not to. Makes no sense to me.

When we come out of this so much will change and I suspect some things for the better, until then let's all protect as many lives as possible in the meantime. 

I also ask the question whether many are just jumping on the bandwagon of needing help for stress or hardship. Of course many cases are genuine but I was watching the local news last night and see a fund has been started by Plymouth Argyle to help those under stress because that cannot see their mates at the footie on a Saturday. Come on!!

Good job lunch is ready or I would be ranting on here for a while yet....

groundhog wrote:single local hospital it to go in to the highest state of alert with reports of ambulances unable to offload and patients being attended to on board. There are only a handful of patients who actually have covid but all the extra precautions plus an unfortunate though not major fire has meant the hospital just cannot cope, a spokesperson has said people are blocking A&E with things they should have just rung their local GP wherever they live to get sorted.

Nothing changed then. My mother died on 8th February 2015. During January and early February that year I recon I spent a total of five days standing beside her when she was on a trolley in the corridors of Stoke hospital.

burlingtonboaby wrote:its not surprising the infection rate is ramping up throughout the Country, Sewerby hall had a Hallowe'en event on yesterday ( probably all week), the car park was full with dozens of cars parked outside along grass verges.
We had our face masks on  throughout our dog walk around the woods and garden grounds, serval hundred young families decented on the event, only two with face masks worn by two young men, the excitable young kids were running amok, no social distancing whatever as everyone headed for the entrances , didn't see any warning signs, marshals at the event.
We are still in an low tier area and it will be interesting to see if our numbers will climb soon.  
Boaby

Is it a coincidence or what,      east Yorks going into tier two on Saturday, just to add to my original post, my wife noticed two mini buses from Bradford empting youngsters and adults out into the venue, NO masks ,No social distancing.
Boaby

Our local Gas safe engineer has just received a positive result and has returned home to isolate 
Problem is he's half way through fitting a new gas boiler into my neighbours bungalow, fortunately my neighbour has electric radiator s and hot water tank to use until the engineer returns.
Hope Ian ,our engineer doesn't fall ill.    
Boaby

Hull has the highest rate of COVId-19 infections, no wonder, the population around this area still isn't getting it.
Hordes of school children with mums (some Dads) clued to their I phones , not ONE wearing a face mask, when will they learn.      We have elderly neighbours with positive test results,fortunately they have family to support them, feel sorry for those who are alone.
Boaby

burlingtonboaby wrote:Hull has the highest rate of COVId-19 infections, no wonder, the population around this area still isn't getting it.
Hordes of school children with mums (some Dads) clued to their I phones , not ONE wearing a face mask, when will they learn.      We have elderly neighbours with positive test results,fortunately they have family to support them, feel sorry for those who are alone.
Boaby

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, out of lockdown 2 straight into teir 3       , we are roped in with Hull and other areas with high COVID -19 infections., on the border with North Riding, we carnt even get out to Filey or Scarborough.
Boaby

Yep, out of tier 1 straight into tier 2 despite our figures hardly changing.
Seems like the plan has been to upgrade many areas into a higher tier.

My mate lives in a tiny village in deepest rural Lincolnshire, now in the highest tier going!!

We're going to be in the highest tier, a rural area with extremely low cases lumped in with urban Derby. 
Straight from lockdown to, er, lockdown then.
Al.

I’ve been going along with the rules to date because I believed that even if I didn’t always agree, it was the right thing to do and those in charge didn’t stand a chance whatever they did.

Today is when my mindset has changed. 

Apologies now if others disagree but in many areas this has now become a joke.

They say the Isle of Wight is very nice this time of year or I can do you a very isolated pitch with EHU and hard standing in Cornwall for say £50 a night if you are from tier 2. If you look like you come from tier 3 I am afraid you may be shot crossing the Tamar.
You will see the pub is open just down then road serving all the locals with pints of the local hard stuff, if you walk in but live in a tier 2 area, sorry, you can only have a drink if you buy a meal as Boris says you must follow tier 2 rules. Rigorous checks will of course be made and proof must be provided. Saying "My luvver" or " My 'ansome" at the end of each sentence will not cut it.
You can of course swim in the local pool as long as you can convince everyone else to get out first as you dirty tier 2 people are not allowed to socialise indoors other than with your family and we do not allow bubbles in the pool unless they are in the hot tub.
If you want to enter 'hog castle you will have to marry Lady G first, this may be tricky as she is already married to me but for a price anything is possible.
No vehicle fitted with more than six seats will be allowed in, nor any vehicle with a grockle box capable of carrying grandma on the roof. Only those in Tier 1 are legally allowed to smuggle contraband as has been the law for many years.

This is all going to work really well isn't it!

The even better news of course is that after Christmas EVERYONE will be back in he same boat as the moronic amongst the population go about a very jolly social Christmas and we are back to square one. Never mind at least we can all clear off to France next year.... oh hang on a minute... we have all forgotten about B.....!

Our local positive testing numbers are down to 202 last night, let's see how that number increases after the Christmas break with thousands traveling around the country.
It's mainly old folk around here who have generally followed the guidelines , with the odd exception,but still the younger generation don't wear masks or keep their distances.   
Boaby

Our area 108 cases per 100,000, tier 3.
My best mate in East London, 291 cases per 100,000, tier 2.
The average for England 130.
It makes no sense to me.
Al.

Give it a couple of weeks and some will go lower.

Micky

I think the first minister uses one size fits all.! Pain for all.

Micky