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Local lockdowns in the UK
May 27, 23, 8:57 am
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In Great Britain I would say less than 0.1% of people are wearing masks these days, and those who do are mostly wearing FFP2. (Of course this is personal experience, but I have travelled around a lot of GB in the past few months.)
I've just been on a short trip to several places across Northern Ireland and I was surprised by the number of people wearing masks, including outdoors. I would say it was approaching 1% of people, but a majority of these were cloth masks and mostly worn badly, with the nose exposed, big gaps between mask and skin, etc. I found this somewhat bizarre.
I've just been on a short trip to several places across Northern Ireland and I was surprised by the number of people wearing masks, including outdoors. I would say it was approaching 1% of people, but a majority of these were cloth masks and mostly worn badly, with the nose exposed, big gaps between mask and skin, etc. I found this somewhat bizarre.
May 28, 23, 9:11 am
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May 28, 23, 3:59 pm
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There are several, about 40-ish a week at the moment.
It's been like that for several weeks already. A flight between the UK and China is at the moment more likely to be bringing COVID to the UK, China is experiencing a 2nd wave of COVID at the moment.
It's been like that for several weeks already. A flight between the UK and China is at the moment more likely to be bringing COVID to the UK, China is experiencing a 2nd wave of COVID at the moment.
May 29, 23, 11:19 am
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Jun 1, 23, 1:26 pm
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The usefulness of the data provided by HMG continues to decline. Fortunately so do the important figures. So far this week the only useful data published is that deaths have fallen 10% week on week. There is a data issue that affects the other metrics which they may resolve for next week. Either way, I feel we are close to wrapping this up at last.
Jun 15, 23, 2:49 pm
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I do wonder if HMG are going to officially end the data releases or just let it fall apart. No cases data this week and most of the other data has not been updated, with a vague promise of something next week. With things continuing to go the right way, I think it is time to end this and allow this thread to quietly drop away. The FT covid forum has been demoted to somewhere in the travel health section yesterday. Not that it has had many posts in the last few months. Stay safe everyone!
Jun 18, 23, 11:35 am
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Looks like the latter. The dates of the metrics no longer align, not just by days but by weeks.
If I look at my Tier 2 local authority infection rate, one method (using the maps) puts the rate at 9.5 based on 10 infections - correct for the population.
If I directly put my postcode in it reports to Tier 2 level rather than resolving to the town, which it's done for several weeks, and has that at 9 infections with a day difference in data. Apparently this translates to an infection rate of zero ...
So I agree, database links are clearly broken, the data is to most intents and purposes useless, there's near-zero prospect of returning to any sort of restrictions or testing regime, and we're probably all wasting our time and bandwidth even downloading what's there.
If I look at my Tier 2 local authority infection rate, one method (using the maps) puts the rate at 9.5 based on 10 infections - correct for the population.
If I directly put my postcode in it reports to Tier 2 level rather than resolving to the town, which it's done for several weeks, and has that at 9 infections with a day difference in data. Apparently this translates to an infection rate of zero ...
So I agree, database links are clearly broken, the data is to most intents and purposes useless, there's near-zero prospect of returning to any sort of restrictions or testing regime, and we're probably all wasting our time and bandwidth even downloading what's there.
Last edited by NWIFlyer; Jun 18, 23 at 11:59 am
