#lockdown 2.0

[whentheynameyoujoy]

Best In Covid

[afrofuturiststudent]

27/11/20: halfway through editing this chapter draft. It's not great. It's not good. But it's a draft, and I'll be damned if it's not sent to my supervisors before Cyberpunk 2077 is released

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Although our case numbers have been orders of magnitude higher than the first wave, so far, deaths and hospitalisations have been lower. During the first wave, we weren’t testing widely, so most people in the community with Covid didn’t know they had it.

However, today, hospitalisation numbers are starting to look comparable to the peak of the first wave.

In the first wave, we had a hard lockdown across the whole country and hospitalisations fell very rapidly. Now, things are a lot looser. Schools closing for the holidays may help a bit, and hopefully tier 4 will have an impact. We can even see the impact of the second lockdown on this graph- but it wasn’t enough and it didn’t last long enough.

This is nothing to do with a new, “mutant strain”. This is the government failing to act and failing to put the right restrictions in place soon enough.

Graph sourced from here: https://twitter.com/chrischirp

[cali-r0se]

it's a get high and watch SpongeBob in my pjs kinda day

[a-l-y]

Lockdown 2.0 work out ✅

[greyscalegoth]

[milkywayan]

austrian government fucking clowning again

make mass tests but make them voluntary? so all the shit idiots who think corona is not real anyway and go out meeting people all the time, and all the fuck karens who dont believe in vaccinations wont get tested, making the mass tests completely pointless? yea, test me, but im home 90%-100% of the time anyways, and meet 0 people

people who dont care about the restrictions are not going to get tested!! they dont fucking care!!! they are idiots!!! voluntary mass tests dont do shit!!!

we are in full lockdown by tomorrow because you thought you could count on the people to be responsible! see where that got us! number 1 of new infections per 1mio!

people are stupid, they dont care! see how it does not work to count on responsibility and voluntarily following guidelines! clown fest, just clowns all of them, fucking hell

edit: i lnow mass tests cant be mandatory, i was really mad when i wrote this post. still, the government acted too late, and still, a lot of people (not the majority but enough) dont give a shit and act carelessly

[faithhopeloveandtherapy]

What has changed in the UK since the beginning of the pandemic?

Oh my, where to start....

So first we had lockdown 1, where schools closed to most children and we all had to stay at home unless exercising, shopping or attending medical appointments. Keyworkers still went to work and schools stayed open to provide childcare for their children. The government motto was “Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save lives”

Then that lockdown gradually got lifted, and over the summer we had some degree of normality back. The new motto was “Hands, Face, Space” ie wash hands, wear a face covering, social distance. Oh and we had “Eat Out to Help Out”, where meals out were half funded by the government Mon-Wed to help the economy.

Cases started to rise and England went into a tier system 1-3 with varying rules on what we could and couldn’t do in each tier. Cases continued to rise and now we are in Lockdown 2.0. Schools have stayed open but we are supposed to be staying at home unless necessary to go out. However people are weary of everything and this lockdown has quite a different feel. It’s not the same shut down as the first lockdown. If you go out, cars are still on the road, people are still walking down the street.

In terms of what is different right now to before the pandemic, we all wear face masks when in any indoor public space, we can’t meet indoors or in a private garden with anyone from another household. We are allowed to meet one person from another household in an outdoor public space, such as a park, so I suspect we are all doing a lot more walking than before because it’s the only way to see a friend face to face. Currently non-essential shops are closed. Restaurants and cafes can only serve takeaway. Most doctors appointments take place over the phone or video call unless they decide we need to be seen in person. We are supposed to avoid using public transport unless absolutely necessary. There’s a whole load of other rules about specific things and specific exemptions. All these things are put into law by the government so we can be fined if we don’t follow the rules. Several people around the country have been fined £10,000 for hosting house parties in direct contravention of the rules.

We are all a bit focused on Christmas and whether we will be able to get together in family gatherings. Right now, who knows? It makes it hard to plan.