Golfer Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 1 hour ago, winnie said: Why not test every one as they enter. Request that they isolate for a couple of days until the results come through, then test after day 4. Most people would happily pay £100 not to isolate for 14 day. Don't understand the problem doing this. Howie was asked this today and sad we monitor other islands and if they have something that works we will consider it etc. why can't IOM come up with something different like Jersey & Guernsey are doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 20 hours ago, Utah 01 said: ......to immigrants from Leicester, I agree. Too late...... I'm from Leicestershire and already here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dog's Dangly Bits Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 2 hours ago, Neil Down said: As you seem so keen for the borders to open, why not avail yourself of the opportunity to buy a boat ticket and go. Eh? That doesn't make any sense as usual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Newbie Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 4 hours ago, quilp said: This headline may alarm a few people... https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/ramsey-grammar-preparing-for-second-wave-of-covid/ Just a cautionary measure I'm sure... More like teachers preparing themselves for the second wave of being paid to do fuck all. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Who the feck wants to go to Guernsey and bump into several hundred people from here they know - all day and every day? This just seems a stupid risk we don't need to take, for little economic benefit - let's just wait till that common area the UK - where all kinds of airline staff will be in and out of - starts rolling out vaccines. If people were arsed about Guernsey, we'd already have lots of flights going there. It's asking for trouble at a dangerous stage, when we've just jump-started the local economy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 6 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: Who the feck wants to go to Guernsey and bump into several hundred people from here they know - all day and every day? This just seems a stupid risk we don't need to take, for little economic benefit - let's just wait till that common area the UK - where all kinds of airline staff will be in and out of - starts rolling out vaccines. If people were arsed about Guernsey, we'd already have lots of flights going there. It's asking for trouble at a dangerous stage, when we've just jump-started the local economy. How so if it's two islands that don't have the infection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Rushen Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 You might bump into some boating enthusiasts who have slipped over from France............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dog's Dangly Bits Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 59 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: Who the feck wants to go to Guernsey and bump into several hundred people from here they know - all day and every day? This just seems a stupid risk we don't need to take, for little economic benefit - let's just wait till that common area the UK - where all kinds of airline staff will be in and out of - starts rolling out vaccines. If people were arsed about Guernsey, we'd already have lots of flights going there. It's asking for trouble at a dangerous stage, when we've just jump-started the local economy. Seems like overly paranoid nonsense right there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 It's not paranoid at all. We're incredibly lucky to be here. Now that the pandemic has been running a while we're beginning to see some patterns, and the more data you have the more accurate the patterns can be. Here's some stats sourced from worldometres. Diagnosed global cases 10329918 Official Global Deaths 506068 Death to cases 4.9% US: 2652334/128557 4.9% Brazil:1352078/57774 4.2% Spain 296050/28346 9.5% Italy 240236/34744 14.4% UK 311965/43575 14% Now you can say that Europe is over the peak of their infections for now and those rates to cases are pretty high, while those countries in the Americas are a little while behind and those rates are likely to rise. I accept that there are likely to be a large number of people who will have had the virus with no symptoms and probably not tested, its a weird one, but those are big rates of death to diagnosed cases. Still, its just a bit of flu that only affects the old and fat so nothing to worry about I guess. Open the borders, lets push on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Oh hang on, what about all those states in the US that pushed on with reopenings for the economy? 'We can't let the cure be worse than the disease'. Yeah, well done, you idiots. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golfer Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 57 minutes ago, The Dog's Dangly Bits said: Seems like overly paranoid nonsense right there. There’s an awful lot of paranoid nonsense spouted on here!! isle of man will be isolated soon as other crown dependencies move on. Airlines will have planes allocated by the time we want them back. City already gone, how many more routes will we lose 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman34 Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 5 minutes ago, Golfer said: There’s an awful lot of paranoid nonsense spouted on here!! isle of man will be isolated soon as other crown dependencies move on. Airlines will have planes allocated by the time we want them back. City already gone, how many more routes will we lose As long as you find some way to leave there's no problem 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dog's Dangly Bits Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 51 minutes ago, TheTeapot said: It's not paranoid at all. We're incredibly lucky to be here. Now that the pandemic has been running a while we're beginning to see some patterns, and the more data you have the more accurate the patterns can be. Here's some stats sourced from worldometres. Diagnosed global cases 10329918 Official Global Deaths 506068 Death to cases 4.9% US: 2652334/128557 4.9% Brazil:1352078/57774 4.2% Spain 296050/28346 9.5% Italy 240236/34744 14.4% UK 311965/43575 14% Now you can say that Europe is over the peak of their infections for now and those rates to cases are pretty high, while those countries in the Americas are a little while behind and those rates are likely to rise. I accept that there are likely to be a large number of people who will have had the virus with no symptoms and probably not tested, its a weird one, but those are big rates of death to diagnosed cases. Still, its just a bit of flu that only affects the old and fat so nothing to worry about I guess. Open the borders, lets push on. You're are being a bit overly dramatic there. Aren't death to diagnosed cases actually deaths to hospitalised cases? It doesn't kill 14% of people that get it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dog's Dangly Bits Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 57 minutes ago, TheTeapot said: Oh hang on, what about all those states in the US that pushed on with reopenings for the economy? 'We can't let the cure be worse than the disease'. Yeah, well done, you idiots. Plenty of places in the US are fine. When you have nearly 300m people the numbers look big regardless. I would agree though that certain areas are not in great shape. There is a tipping point though which needs to be weighed off in relation to lock down and the impacts. The percentage of population dying (anywhere) is still minute. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 27 minutes ago, manxman34 said: As long as you find some way to leave there's no problem And take your mate dangly bits with you... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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