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My sister is a nurse medical practitioner and I’ve been following a lot of epidemiologists on social media - they are indeed saying that many people are not fighting off the virus in the traditional manner especially the young. Their thoughts are that the older generation are showing high...

well yes I’m sure most reading here know this - but it’s seems like the uk public are just waiting for bad news. We expected a second wave after VE Day parties, packed beaches, opening - it hasn’t happened yet -now people are waiting with baited breath after the protests last weekend with some...

It’s funny isn’t it - the uk govt are desperate for people to come forward for tests atm as we aren’t always using capacity and we assume there are more cases out there than we are finding (1200 today from 67 million people) but I know if we do test more and find more people positive (and are...

I just cant see this happening - we have put our (crazy) quarantine rules in today and I cant see the flight ban being lifted for another few months at least -

As a perspective from the uk - we are seeing the same sort of trends - our case numbers go down and then plateau for a few days and then drop - problem is that we are doing record amounts of testing (220,000 a day) now although caution has to be taken with the way we are recording number of...

but then tell people just that - there are so many people with October and November reservations who are desperate to go and from noises coming from both sides of the Atlantic borders will be opened up prior to then. Just tell people that the parks will be open to international visitors after a...

This is going to affect the uk bookings massively and I wonder if that is deliberate. We get the free dining plan almost year round with packages and therefore everyone’s free dining plan is cancelled now which makes the holiday at least £1000 more expensive / ice also noticed that the 35% off a...

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/burton/major-changes-announced-alton-towers-4169183?fbclid=IwAR1vaqGfAXrjUKyjdg7uapHE8mxPBM2pg11ruX_F2vFZ6R12hXm7uCbmeeA Although our theme parks probably wont be open until end July/August - our biggest one (part of the Merlin brand) has put out their proposed...

Our latest seroprevalence study suggests that 17.5% of all Londoners have had the virus and this could be as high as 22.5% by the middle of April - this is adjusted for the sensitivity of the test but doesn’t take into account that some people don’t produce antibodies so could be higher. This...

Germany and Austria are fine they're opening up for tourists - im assuming transmitting through LHR would be fine tbh - I also believe that this policy will be gone almost as soon as they impose it. Problem we have IMO is that our PM and half his cabinet and 'advisors' caught Covid and it seems...

We have also of course imposed a 14 day quarantine for all overseas visitors (even the ones with no or little virus i.e. Australia and NZ which is a joke being as most of Europe is opening up again now for tourism - we are going to get left behind economically with so many businesses destroyed.

Jwink - Please dont even quote the UK we are a bloody nightmare! Our media are 24/7 doom mongers, our population is almost exclusively paralysed with fear, with my sister saying that she will never feel safe sending her daughter back to school again = she's going to home school her. The furlough...

We have this issue in the uk atm with the media - because our cases are plateauing around the 3K mark - our testing has been ramped you and our positive case rate is at about 4% which is the lowest since March but still because our cases are not going down rapidly we have the blame game of...

Well - lovely to see that in the midst of the lockdown the guy that modelled 100,000s of deaths which changed government policies across the globe had his married loved over twice to break lockdown rules in the uk.... do as we say not as we do I guess... makes tot wonder how seriously he does...

As a uk person I have to agree with this - even though I know we won’t be over in the US for a few months yet (thank goodness our picture seems to be improving a bit now though) it would mean a lot to me psychologically to see any of the disney parks open tbf but especially the US ones - now I...

This argument about essential and non essential still rumbles on in the uk. Many of our stores such as The Range and Home bargains are open as they sell food stuff and homeware which are deemed essential the problem we have is the policing of our restrictions as our law enforcement have had to...

From the uk https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/uk-coronavirus-mass-home-testing-to-be-made-available-within-days I think this is the first tiny step to getting back to normality - if we can see how many people have already had this in the uk and that they are immune (this is an...

Yep at the moment although the uk government have said they believe up to 100,000 may already be infected so work out the mortality rate from that. obviously I’m in as much shock as marni1971 - I’ve lost my job due to this and all of a sudden my cancelled Wdw holiday seems totally trivial now I...

my sister works in the medical profession and says that it is the medication taken for blood pressure that is the problem as it means that the receptors multiply due the medication which allows more of the virus to attach on to them - meaning that more of the body is overwhelmed; so undiagnosed...

Its okay - just get that "I told you so" post in if it makes you feel better!