Who remembers social distancing?

[BushInn1746]

Isle of Man now 100 days Covid free!

Gaiety Theatre opened this week - showing "Calender Girls".
Music gigs back on; DC-AC yesterday, Pigs On The Wing tomorrow.
Long Bank Holiday weekend as well.
Beach Festivals at Laxey and Port Erin.

Pretty good for

our own miniature fascist state over there.

It may be Draconian but it is working.

Worryingly I see social distancing in decline and nearly half visiting the Coop at Meriden were without any mask.

Some people seem to have returned to a blase or indifferent attitude and you'll see a rise in positives.

Yes my glasses do steam up wearing a mask, but at least I'm minimising the swallowing and breathing in of tiny globbles of someone else's spit / saliva, should they speak, or shout at their children or block the shopping aisle whilst speaking on their mobile 'phone. How do you think colds and winter flu are transmitted?

Since my brush this year with something viral, which resembled something like the plague, with spots, rash, welt like swellings, lesions, severe itching, eratic high blood pressure, my urine going dark brown in under 2 hours, sudden severe pain in the brain (like someone had struck my skull with a hammer blow) and a stinging burning inside both my leg muscles ... although I'm refusing to be a hermit, I'll continue taking precautions and wearing a Surgeon's mask especially when out in busy or enclosed public spaces!

My sole problem is to have Neuro deterioration discovered 20 years ago (cause unknown), but whatever the latest was, it saw a weakness in my body and attacked.

I feel very very lucky still to be here  all I could do was lie down, but realised stinging burning and brown urine might be my body requiring substantial amounts of fluid, so drank and drank. The pain in the brain began to subside, the burning inside my legs went after a few weeks, but the rash has taken very much longer.

Our Dentist is still not doing inspections and Doctors here have stopped routine appointments and told me if it comes back I should seek urgent help.

Take care of your health, Mark

[BushInn1746]

Prof. Van Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, England, in the last few hours

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54065793

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-09-07/rise-in-coronavirus-cases-a-great-concern-deputy-chief-medical-officer-warns

[roopat]

My daughter was just telling us about her friend whose husband's relatives (different households) have all announced they will be coming to stay with her for a family occasion (as she has a big house). Because of this friend's awkward current domestic circumstances this could be a problem for her but she will 'go along with it anyway'. I pointed out that she simply had to say it's currently against the rules to have more than 2 households together like that. My daughter patronisingly told us that we must realise most people are 'getting on with their lives' & ignoring 'the rules' & anyway this is part of her friend's Asian culture to have an open house for all the family.


Seemingly she told OH in a separate conversation about illegal raves that 'people need to let off steam'.


 

[LizzieL]

Prof. Van Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, England, in the last few hours

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54065793

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-09-07/rise-in-coronavirus-cases-a-great-concern-deputy-chief-medical-officer-warns

Unfortunately it is the politicians who make the rules not the scientists.

So many times when these parties / illegal raves etc make the headlines, you read of very little action being taken as regards the participants. The police "engage" with them, explain the rules (as if everyone didn't know what they are by now)  and disperse them - so they can do the same thing next week and the week after etc etc.. A couple of organisers might get a fine - a large sum to most people - but does it make much difference to their profits?

A school not far from where I live has been closed after 8 teachers tested positive - it was only 5 on yesterday's news, so there may still be more to come. The pupils only started back last Thursday, but there were staff training days on Tuesday and Wednesday. Yesterday the number of people told asked to self isolate for 14 days included 90 pupils. With a further 3 teachers confirmed positive, that may well rise today.
This is in an area which is not on the government's watch list - latest info on below map puts the area in the lowest category of 0 - 2 cases

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=47574f7a6e454dc6a42c5f6912ed7076

[LizzieL]

Another map with future predictions from Imperial College. very very worrying

https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/covid19local/

[jillruss]

Here we go again! Frighten the life out of everybody when the main reason the number of cases are going up is because they're finally doing more testing.

I'm fed up of statistics which - as we've all seen over the past few months - can be manipulated in order to prove just about anything. Hospital cases? Hardly any. Most of these young people who we're told are now the main victims don't even know they've got it or had it. I suspect that is also a manipulation in order to try and frighten the youngsters the way they scared the bejesus out of us oldies. "Don't kill granny" indeed! I'm not sure they even know if the virus has mutated, as I've read that most do (like the flu) over time and become a lot less virulent.

They really need to get things in proportion, stop throwing their collective weights around and let people live their lives. What truly shocks me is hearing of people who are still waiting for operations or consultations about cancer and other serious conditions; about people whose mental health has deteriorated drastically and people who are losing their jobs left, right and centre.  I also have some sympathy for people whose holidays have been ruined but that's obviously not as critical.

I'm feeling that the whole thing has become a farce in this country. I bet we're the laughing stock of the rest of Europe.

I blame face masks for the rise in cases! Not the lack of them; just the opposite. I think people have now assumed they are protected by a mask (they are not) and can disregard any attempt at social distancing. I sat on the bus this morning sporting one of those infernal face masks (because I 'have to') making me feel hot and flustered and totally cut off from everyone else. It made me feel even more like an ant than normal! All these little people scurrying around, avoiding each other and taking things back to the communal nest! Faces are important - they show our individuality and personality. We shouldn't be covering them up just because some man in a suit decided (belatedly) that they are a good thing.

[LizzieL]

Here we go again! Frighten the life out of everybody when the main reason the number of cases are going up is because they're finally doing more testing.

Obviously if there is little or no testing then you won't find the cases. But in the last month the number of tests processed per day has not risen substantially, but the number of cases has almost doubled. So you cannot say that the huge increase recently is just down to more testing

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing

For example for cases the 7 day average for 1st Aug was 800 and on 1st Sep was 1529
Tests processed (7 day ave) on 1st Aug was 171,692 and on  1st Sep was 181,934.

At beginning of August 0.47% of people tested were positive and at beginning September it was 0.84%. That is a rise which cannot be attributed to more testing being done.

The 7 day average of cases by 4th Sept was 2,032, which obviously does not include the two latest days with cases just short of 3000 each. Number of tests processed figures are only given up to 2nd Sept which was 175,687.

[BushInn1746]

I'm feeling that the whole thing has become a farce in this country. I bet we're the laughing stock of the rest of Europe.

Nobody is laughing, we are seeing rising cases elsewhere.

My Wife's contact in Spain, suggest they have problems and are socialising in small groups, gatherings with some forgetting social distancing etc.

Points you make well are the people waiting for other treatments and the lost jobs are awful.

We'll only have an Isle of Man situation  if everyone does their bit to stop it spreading     

Mark

[KGarrad]

We'll only have an Isle of Man situation  if everyone does their bit to stop it spreading     

Mark

Sadly we have had 1 positive Covid test - a passenger returning from UK, who was already self-isolating.
Hopefully, that's been nipped in the bud?