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Sail By wrote: Any chance of pointing us to the evidence of a second wave please? All the scientific data that I see is that hospital admissions and deaths are flattening out. Genuinely interested in where the stats are.

Read the news on the Internet - a number of countries are already seeing a rise in cases, particularly amongst younger adults (lack of social distancing?) - this is why quarantine has been introduced for travellers from those countries.

Around 30 teenagers from Devon tested positive after returning from an organised trip abroad.

There are also a number of conurbations (mainly northern) where localised lockdown measures are in place.


Much as it would be nice to be true, complacency and sticking ones head in the sand is not going to make Covid disappear.

Edited by Raider999 - 28 Aug 2020 at 11:57

Raider999 wrote: Sail By wrote: Any chance of pointing us to the evidence of a second wave please? All the scientific data that I see is that hospital admissions and deaths are flattening out. Genuinely interested in where the stats are. Read the news on the Internet - a number of countries are already seeing a rise in cases, particularly amongst younger adults (lack of social distancing?) - this is why quarantine has been introduced for travellers from those countries. Around 30 teenagers from Devon tested positive after returning from an organised trip abroad. There are also a number of conurbations (mainly northern) where localised lockdown measures are in place. Much as it would be nice to be true, complacency and sticking ones head in the sand is not going to make Covid disappear.

Only one place to go that is the information supplied by Public Health England to the .gov site

Sail By wrote: Only one place to go that is the information supplied by Public Health England to the .gov site https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ The real difference is the interpretation of these results. There is always a positive and negative spin on the data....as you are probably aware I am on the positive side of what I am seeing. The most significant data point for me was the end of May when we really started to come out of lock down and mix. Follow the graphs from there. But overall we should not argue over this, we should be grateful that we are here to type / moan and agree that we are all missing our great game of rugby!

Umm, isn't that on the Internet?

Word out from Yorkshire is that Bill Sweeney is pushing for November start up.

1025 tests done last Thursday for the Premiership players and staff.

Sail By wrote: Raider999 wrote: Sail By wrote: Any chance of pointing us to the evidence of a second wave please? All the scientific data that I see is that hospital admissions and deaths are flattening out. Genuinely interested in where the stats are. Read the news on the Internet - a number of countries are already seeing a rise in cases, particularly amongst younger adults (lack of social distancing?) - this is why quarantine has been introduced for travellers from those countries. Around 30 teenagers from Devon tested positive after returning from an organised trip abroad. There are also a number of conurbations (mainly northern) where localised lockdown measures are in place. Much as it would be nice to be true, complacency and sticking ones head in the sand is not going to make Covid disappear. So the science of a 2nd wave is what? You quoted that some young kids tested positive, currently we see around 1200 positive cases a day and hospital admissions going down. We are seeing more cases as we are testing more frequently. Can you imagine the amount of positive tests that would have been registered when we saw the devastating 1200 deaths per day? At a death rate of less than 1% this would have been massive. Yes we have to be careful but the positive cases are minimal to what was around in April. Can I politely suggest that you look at actual stats and do not read the news on the internet. As a scientist I follow stats not the media