United Kingdom VI: Summer Lovin'

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/03/matt-hancock-england-in-good-position-to-avoid-major-covid-resurgence

Hancock has the gall to say the UK's track and trace and other measures are so good now that there'll be no surge in cases expected. That despite the rise from 400-1500 in the last few weeks

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/sep/03/uk-coronavirus-live-quarantine-portugal-covid-19-latest-news

Whilst Sturgeon says that the Scottish R rate might be as high now as 1.4

[MartyG]

Is that the same track and trace that abandoned the multi-million pound phone app because it didn't work and isn't meeting its own internally set targets?

[QualityChimp]

Hancock has the gall to say the UK's track and trace and other measures are so good now that there'll be no surge in cases expected. That despite the rise from 400-1500 in the last few weeks

->Open Spoiler<-

[MartyG]

And drum roll ......

The UK has recorded 1,735 new cases of coronavirus, which is the highest daily total since 4 June (1,805) - that daily rate curve is now starting to go exponential.

Daily case numbers have been rising steadily for two months now, but originally that was attributed to the increase in testing. However it is now clear that the proportion of people testing positive is also increasing

Well yeah duh, given the number of people being tested per day is pretty much static due to being at capacity unless you want to travel hundreds of miles to be tested at a non-local station.

[Neon Ignition]

It's Thursday so we'll probably miss cracking that 2K marker this week but I await the Tories efforts to normalise these figures Trump style already

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/sep/04/coronavirus-live-news-brazil-cases-pass-4m-israel-to-impose-partial-lockdown

The World Health Organisation has said that there will be no widespread vaccination for Coronavirus this side of mid-2021

[Brad]

What do they know!? Trump and Boris will have this solved in short order I reckon...

[Neon Ignition]

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

UK daily cases hit 1,940 today. Still no sign on an impending second wave it seems...

[Cassius_Smoke]

If only there were some kind of graph to show the government an upwards trend in cases.

[MartyG]

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
UK daily cases hit 1,940 today. Still no sign on an impending second wave it seems...

France was at that level a couple of weeks ago, now at 7000 a day, Spain four weeks ago now at over 10000 a day - but yeah, no sign of a second wave.

At this point the kindest thing for humanity would be to put all the politicians on Ark B.

[kryss]

France was at that level a couple of weeks ago, now at 7000 a day, Spain four weeks ago now at over 10000 a day - but yeah, no sign of a second wave.

At this point the kindest thing for humanity would be to put all the politicians on Ark B.

That already happened, just ask the mice.

[monel]

They won't lockdown again unless it gets extreme? Is it ego and money?

[MartyG]

It's the scene from Aliens where Ripley is meeting the Interstellar Commerce Commission

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/05/desperate-boris-johnson-to-step-up-personal-attacks-on-keir-starmer

Apparently Boris is so annoyed at being told to withdraw a comment about Starmer in Wednesdays PMQs that he's ordered staff to up their attacks on Keir and his record as a lawyer.

Basically then Johnson having a Trump-Tantrum because Starmer is all...

[Neon Ignition]

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

I mean there's nothing else you can say. Level of testing remained the same but the number of daily positives today for the last 24hrs has just been updated as...

2,988

2,988


and we're nowhere near the reopening of schools, return to work, furlough wrap up, winter season etc kicking in. That's 3/5's of the way to the Wave One peak already.

Reset the clock, countdown to the Third Wave begins in...