Other than the potential to increase RTA's a bit (and the NHS can probably handle that again now) I'm not overly concerned. People in their cars are not going to have any bad affect on transmission if they are on their own or with a household members and it may just be a sign that people are more in the swing of dropping off shopping, saying hello from a distance for e.g a birthday and a few more going back to work of sorts.

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Apparently it is measured by the amount of traffic going over automatic traffic counters.

 

Data source

The analysis is based on around 275 automatic traffic count sites across Great Britain. These sites are used for DfT’s Quarterly Road Traffic National Statistics series to estimate traffic change and as such the samples of automatic traffic counters are stratified by area, road type, and traffic flow levels and have been designed to be representative of national traffic.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-transport-data-methodology-note/covid-19-transport-data-methodology-note#road-traffic

Pillar 1 - 2,750
Pillar 2 - 2,056

Total: 4,806

My wife wouldn't agree with you 

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Or Mohammed! 

I doubt his life was ever in danger and his symptoms became worse because he's a fat lump

He is treated like a hero for recovering from this, even though his carelessness (boasting about shaking hands with patients) probably led to him catching it in the first place

 

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Yes that makes more sence, I drive for a living and 7% would match my thoughts, the graph just to look at quickly though doesn't give the impression of a 7% change,  biggest change I have seen is during the middle of the day with rush hour in the morning still being very quite.

Or Mahadaji Dattachaudhuri
Or Tina.
Perhaps they thought it would be a good choice and appropriate.

But probably never expected it would be a gift for cheap point scoring by baby haters

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Government actively preventing Trusts from buying PPE.

https://www.hsj.co.uk/coronavirus/government-bans-trusts-from-major-ppe-deals-to-stop-them-competing-for-scarce-equipment/7027554.article

Doesn't that just make you feel all warm inside?

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I think you are missing point. If the Doctor was called Abdul, I doubt very much he would have named his child that!

Lighten up you snowflake

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Some people have all the luck I'm afraid I have nun

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Most. But certainly not all.

 

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Newsnight now believes that 32 Filipino healthcare workers have died of Coronavirus in the U.K. 32.

That’s around one in five healthcare worker deaths

Our Newsnight report into why this is happeninghttps://t.co/eY6wdcY6w9@YasminaraKhan @jackwgarland

— JamesClayton (@JamesClayton5) May 2, 2020

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Has anyone come across this live data map on you tube

https://youtu.be/NMre6IAAAiU

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The government may well be telling trusts not to buy PPE and it makes sense because the government are paying for it out of central funds.  They have paid the company I work for to make and deliver PPE at no cost to the NHS trusts themselves!  

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Well, there has been virtually no change round here for weeks. On most of the lanes you can walk down the middle and hardly have to move out of the way, and then more often for cyclists.

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There have been times when I’ve heard traffic and thought it was on the increase, but then it occurred to me that I notice it more now because it’s unusual to hear it.  When we first locked down it stopped suddenly and was noticeable by its absence.  Now it’s noticeable by its presence!  So it may be more to do with what we perceive as normal. If you see what I mean!

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Here the traffic is mostly commercial - vans and HGVs - agricultural - and emergency, as we have a fire station - with a few plonkers in high performance cars - often well beyond their capability. Lincolnshire has dreadful RTC statistics. No buses at present. One of our cars will need a battery charge - that's how much we have been using it - and I think we are fairly typical - but there are cyclists everywhere.

Roger

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Italy

• 1,900 new cases 


• 474 new deaths 

France

• 1,050 new cases 


• 166 new deaths

Still high death figures in Italy even now 

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Tajikistan reported it's first 15 cases yesterday. Today a further 61 cases and first 2 deaths. Interesting how this appeared so suddenly.

No, it doesn't make sense.

Do you remember the short debate on here a few weeks back about the inability of trusts to buy PPE even when it was available? I suggested back then that HMG was preventing them from providing their staff with proper PPE and that turns out to have been true.

Just think through the implications of that. What are trusts for? They have budgets and huge administrative departments to manage them yet they aren't allowed to buy PPE without direct approval from government. Haven't we been told that Trusts were all about dismantling vast centralised bureaucracy and letting regions manage their own budgets? Now, it turns out that HMG has arranged purchasing itself and "at no cost to the NHS trusts". Hey presto, all the taxpayer money goes to the "right" place and no oversight.

Honestly, what do you really think is going on?

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This has got a while to run yet.

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Johnson has given his first proper interview. It does now appear that it was genuinely touch and go and that even a statement regarding his death and a contingency had been prepared. I was one of the people who was skeptical about that at the time but it looks as though I was wrong and regret implying that it had been overplayed, although I don't think the Government were prepared to let on; Seeing how his deputies have performed I can see why.

I  still have an inkling that he will come through this a better person and a better father. I really hope so.

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The way figures have been altered, reworked, restated, included this, excluded that, weekend data, delays in reporting deaths etc, I wouldn't take one days data in isolation. Not just making excuses, it seems countries data isn't comparing apples with apples as they say. See how Italy 'plays out' in the next few days.

On country's data, the Russian death data is totally out of sync with other countries data which more or less follow the same curves. Steadily rising they have just under 10k new cases each day now but deaths have fallen the last three days to 53. That is good if real, but with those images of 9 hour ambulance queues for hospitals, ministers going down with the virus like flies, I strongly suspect there is also a cover up here and just waiting for someone there to let the cat out of the bag.