Coronavirus .... just in case anybody has any doubts that this is serious - Page 2

Well - it just goes to show the press is out of touch. I have been in UK since the start of the pandemic. The NHS has not been overwhelmed and the new Nightingale hospitals have not been needed. People have stayed in. The government has performed excellently ( god knows if Corbyn was in power!). As for the EU it appears even more countries are yearning to leave after their inadequate performance 

Hi Sarge, Re: "press is out of touch....."

It must be me then, that´s out of touch, unless I´m reading the wrong press.

"As for the EU it appears even more countries are yearning to leave....."

As for the UK (I don´t live there) & when the authorities eventually decided to implement a lockdown, it was of no surprise that the pre-prepared NHS quote: Dr. Ian M Higginson , vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine

“We were worried the first phase would be a lot worse than it has proved to be . . . ICUs haven’t been overwhelmed, although some of them got pretty close to full and in parts of London they had to move patients [to other hospitals],” said Dr Higginson.

Finally, 

I don´t understand some, (let´s say eg:) in the UK. During the pandemic, why staying home, is so hard in 2020?

Out of the UK, 17.4 million who voted to leave the EU In 2016, for the 31.5 million who didn't, there didn´t seem a problem to stay in their homes: “Quedarse en casa”.

(a little tongue-in-cheek)

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As you said I don’t live Their so don’t comment you only read and watch the news . Concentrate on Spain’s Problems. Find out why nursing staff walked out on care homes for the elderly and they had to fend for themselves I read and saw it on TV ,so I don’t know if it’s true, can you see where I am coming from.

Euro Weekly News ! What more needs to be said? 

Forget the propaganda . This tells the story

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Do you spend all day dreaming up this rubbish.absolute crap you have been to long in the Sun . Stop reading rubbish and watching TV. Stop being so Anti British the country that probably gave you a Salary pension and future and the chance to live your dream.

Look up the definition of opinion something not based on fact or knowledge mostly what you come out with on this Forum ,Negativity is very common in your comments about most things .as the saying goes to much knowledge can be dangerous.fact is what’s needed not opinion.

This is from a woman called Jennie Spence who flew back into uk 

I am so angry and pained this morning... arrived into Heathrow yesterday and heartbroken to see absolutely ZERO checks being done to arriving passengers who have travelled right around the globe.  No masks or Protection on airport workers/emigration, no questions asked on health, no information given on Covid-19, no temperatures taken and absolutely no social distancing measurements enforced. Not even a presence of virus protection anywhere - you would think nothing was happening. People everywhere. No self quarantine advised or enforced quarantine to non uk citizens, no matter what nationality and where they have been travelling.

We had flown into Melbourne from probably one of the safest islands to be right now, kept on the aircraft and given a 20 minute brief on covid by the Australian health authority. All passengers who were not onward travelling out of Oz would be escorted to a government facility and quarantined for 14 days. We were then escorted off the plane family by family, one by one taken away, temperatures taken and questioned about our health, given masks, hand sanitised, explanation of the virus again, signed a health declaration then escorted into a quarantined departure area, told to social distance from every other family and to sit for 8 hours to wait for our connecting flight with only a vending machine.

Driving home from Heathrow to Manchester, not one police stop to check what we were doing out and traffic everywhere with numerous people sharing vehicles. People out walking in groups, children playing outside with no supervision... the list continues.

I’ve turned on the TV this morning and yet again there is so much news on key workers, nhs, nurses, doctors, carers working their butts off and risking their own health - I am so saddened and angry and feel that the UK government is massively failing in protecting the Uk people. Our fellow Europeans have been locked in their homes, living solitary for weeks on end and airport boarders around the world are closed and we are here “welcoming” everyone in with absolutely no checks and no questions asked. So sad. So sorry. Heart broken.

Any negative comments welcome as no words can change how disgusted I am with the care of this country and it’s people.

Totally agree Ray. I’m fed up of people bashing UK. Funny how they need the UK after 9-11 when we went into Afghanistan. What did Germany supply - a few non frontline staff. The Spanish immediately surrendered following the Madrid bombings and withdrew the few troops they had in theatre. As for the rest of the EU countries enough said! I think people will be eating their own words in a few years after we leave the EU

Actually New Zealand has come out with clean hands. We have just returned after 2 months and the government and the people have been exemplary. Yes a small. Country 5 million people, but only 21 deaths ,15 hospitalisations 3500 confirmed cases.Why because as soon as it was recognised they shut the airports only NZ national allowed in, 2 weeks quarantine on arrival ,ban on travel,all shops closed. Contact tracing and 99% of people complying to the rules.30 days later no covid 19.