Concern for Barnsley & Rotherham

It's just been said on the ITV lunchtime news that there's signs cases are starting to fall in Sheffield, but there's concern for the situation in Barnsley and Rotherham. I've just taken the screenshot below, which shows Barnsley is back in the top 20 for cases in the last 7 days with 860. To put this into perspective, 6 weeks ago, our figure fluctuated between 10 and 60. Talks are ongoing about putting South Yorkshire into Tier 3.

 

Quite a few people where I work have been tested and come back Covid positive,personally I’m self isolating (no symptoms)thankfully.

 

I read something last night which said that the 'Sheffield city region' (such a thing does not exist in my eyes), consisting of 1.8million people, is likely to go to Tier 3 in the next few days.

It added that the Barnsley infection rate was just below that of Merseyside.

It's worrying. God knows when I'll ever see either of my parents again.

 

I was told that as of yesterday there were 62 cases in the hospital

 

Heard 58 at the weekend so that’s gone up more still.

 

And yet total cases for the entire 10 months since it's been around wouldn't even fill the West stand and fatalities wouldn't fill the corner stand across the entire borough over a 10 month period.

Covid-19 has been detected within 1 month of around 55,000 people have sadly died this year in the UK (though the figure for people killed by covid is much lower). in the same period around 80,000 have died due to smoking. Around 800,000 have tested positive for covid, many asymptomatic with no ill effects at all, in the same period last year there were half a million admissions to hospital due to smoking.

One means businesses forced to close, mass job losses and the ruining of countless lives. The other is used as a cash cow for the government.

It's ok using 'number of cases' as a means of locking down towns and forcing people out of their jobs but it's all completely hypocritical when we are happy for people to die of other things regularly.

The only reason anyone in government actually cares is that everyone can see a sick league table of deaths. If there was a league table of deaths for other causes published daily for the world to see then they'd be doing something about those and not caring about the relatively low amount of people dying of covid.

 

The sad thing is that because our government hasn't even attempted to shield the vulnerable in any way then many many famies will have their loved ones die alone of natural causes, unnecessarily suffering

 

My wife works at Sheffield hospital and ICU is very near capacity and non emergency operations will be cancelled in next couple of week

 

I think ‘long Covid’ is becoming a concern now. Those who didn’t suffer too much while infected but are showing up months later with heart or lung trouble that might be permanent.

God knows what to really do about it at this point. It’s been handled shockingly since the outset and we’re paying the price for it now, both in infection rate and lockdown rules.

 

I honestly think there are a lot of people who 'think' they have long covid because they've heard about it so much. It's a bit like googling your symptoms when you sneeze and convincing yourself you're dying of cancer

 

I’m sure there will be a lot of that going on, but there are people who are having to actually be treated for heart/lung damage

 

It's taken 25 minutes for you to play it down. You're getting slack SuperTyke.

 

It's all about the money for the councils and nothing about the people they govern. Will tier 3 areas be given extensive testing so as many different people as possible symptoms or not can get a test? Will they ask the government what level they need to get to so they move not only back to tier 2 but have hope of tier 2? All you hear is government bribing councils, councils selling out to the cash and then silence of the plan for the future.

 

Is it playing it down or is it putting it into perspective that people die. People die all the time. We tax about 100k people in their attempts to smoke themselves to death every year and nobody cares. Those deaths are nice deaths, they're money making deaths.

 

I would argue that it slightly different, because it's my choice. If I want to smoke I can smoke (passive smoking being a slight difference) - it's a personal decision.

I see your point, but it's probably a bad example.

 

Yeah I get that and did think it at the time but there are many many examples where death is considered ok. Cancer treatment is regularly denied in the UK purely because of its cost. That's not a choice for the victim but is a choice where the government says the life isn't worth the money and as horrific as the reality is that happens with children. With covid it doesn't matter how much the cost is, not just to the government but to innocent people, they will cost people as much money as it takes to try to save every single covid patient. Why? Why are these lives so much more valuable? I honestly think it is only because otherwise we look bad in a league table of deaths.

 

Hardly. They are now trying to do COVID on the cheap, hence no 80% furlough.

 

On the cheap to them. At the cost of everything to innocent members of the public

 

When will Wigan get a 350-person deduction to put them back below Barnsley?