Corona Virus Concerns
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Don't worry Tinwheeler. I have got your message loud and clear. I wont be visiting anytime soon. Nice to know that you accept us when things are better, even though it impacts in a bad way on the lives of every local person. By the way, I am sure people who live in cities know what it's like to be overrun with swarms of people most of the time, not just at popular times.
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"agreed, actual total numbers of infections will be higher in, say, London than the South West but following the marked drop in the London infections curve, surely their 'rate' is slowing faster than anywhere else?"
In the context of this discussion, I think it is definitely the numbers that count. The very same numbers that may visit other areas.
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Strangely enough I read that Barrow in Furness had the highest per capita rate of infection, right on the edge of the Lakes, in fact the top three places for the infection are in the north west. We just don't know enough at the moment to consider travel on any scale. Let's hope some progress in understanding this disease begins to emerge sooner rather than later.
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That’s pretty obvious but wasn't my point. I’m not talking about cities where the infrastructure is geared to cope with large numbers of people and traffic but rural areas where roads and facilities are not.
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It means more than 99.5% of the country are not infected👍🏻. If my mental maths still work🤷🏻♂️
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I’m afraid you have misunderstood my message, Compo. See my other posts for further detail.
It's good to hear that you see the sense of staying away for the time being until we can welcome you back.
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Mmmm - not doubting your mental maths Rocky, but I think that would only be true if the entire population had been tested.
148000 out of what ever the total number of tests taken is would affect that figure greatly. But I'll leave it for others to do the maths!
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The numbers won't go down if this sort of thing goes ahead. I think several are planned across the country
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Hmm, try the A390 at any time of day in August. Some of our roads aren't wide enough for 2 cars to pass. 😄
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Latest Cambridge university and PHE study released today estimates R value by region. Believe it or not London value is now reduced to O.4 whilst SW is 0.76, NW 0.73 and Yorkshire and NE 0.80.
However as usual there is some disagreement amongst the experts as to the validity of the model used.
Just been on ITV news. One major reason for the high numbers of infections detected in Barrow, South Lakeland and Lancaster is that they are all in one Hospital Trust that has been mass testing all its staff, patients, their families and care homes since the end of February. They have therefore carried out three times the average number of tests.
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Some of the politicians & Van -tam must live in a different world to the rest of us, as he had not thought about opening c’van / camping sites up. He (Van -tam ) said he had concerns about c’van /tents had confined spaces, some if not most have as much room If not more as small rooms in a house. Plus we don’t tend to confine ourselves to stay indoors only to sleep and then we are with our own household.
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