Coronavirus

[jules_darby]

27 minutes ago, only1swanny said:

Pre existing covers a lot though. 

Mrs Swanny was lucky shes 37 with asthma.  So underlying issue. 

Shes on oxygen now just to move around having spent 3 weeks in hospital with the virus.  

 

Girl who works for me has asthma and caught it; she was in for 2 days on oxygen as she was short of breath. Was fine a week later so lucky.

 

[ZiggyStardust]

3 minutes ago, boltondiver said:

Bonkers that we have fucked our country for 370 deaths?

Its bonkers that people believe we have.

[tyldesley_white]

28 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

It would have gone if the entire population of America had croaked.

3249 dead so far today, its going to be a grim winter over here

[Tonge moor green jacket]

3 minutes ago, tyldesley_white said:

3249 dead so far today, its going to be a grim winter over here

Plenty of snow days in the offing?

[Farrelli]

28 minutes ago, boltondiver said:

Bonkers that we have fucked our country for 370 deaths?

People over 60 don’t matter?

[jules_darby]

5 minutes ago, tyldesley_white said:

3249 dead so far today, its going to be a grim winter over here

Just come off the phone to Texas actually. I believe it’s very lax there and Governor Abbott has said he’ll refuse any more measures

Funny old place the states 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

People over 60 don’t matter?

That’s not a nice thing to say

[birch-chorley]

5 hours ago, wiggy said:

I call massive bullshit. We’re all guessing to some extent, but I suspect we will get very close to that number even with various impending levels of lockdown.

Looking at the numbers again I think we will finish up on circa 90k with likely restrictions over the coming weeks. Add say 30k on if they let it go and banged us all in tier 1 from now on 

All depends on how fast they roll out the vaccine really, if 15m were vaccinated this week then the deaths would grind to a halt and we would finish on little over 70k deaths, granted that’s not happening this week 

Get the first 5m done and you can expect half the deaths as the most vulnerable carry a bigger share of the risk 

They normally vaccinate 5m a month for Winter flu (1 dose), throwing the kitchen sink at it they should be able to mobilise to get at least 5m people done in January (both doses) 

[royal white]

 

For the in the know type people on here what do you make to these figures? Are they the kind of percentages expected from other vaccines? 

[birch-chorley]

6 minutes ago, jules_darby said:

Just come off the phone to Texas actually. I believe it’s very lax there and Governor Abbott has said he’ll refuse any more measures

Funny old place the states 

GDP has held up relatively well, three times better than ours has 

[birch-chorley]

13 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

People over 60 don’t matter?

Of course they do 

Less so than working age people, who in turn matter less than kids 

That’s according to the Department of Health’s usually cost / benefit analysis , when it comes to deciding where to invest their budget (in a normal year) 

Edited December 22, 2020 by birch-chorley

[tyldesley_white]

9 minutes ago, jules_darby said:

Just come off the phone to Texas actually. I believe it’s very lax there and Governor Abbott has said he’ll refuse any more measures

Funny old place the states 

To be fair, I'm only going out to the store and everyone is fully masked up

[Spider]

I saw a tweet earlier (and can’t fucking find it now) that suggested the mutated variant is possibly weaker in terms of severity of illness and suggest the virus may be mutating itself out of danger eventually.

Quite common apparently.

lets fucking we’ll hope so

[Escobarp]

1 minute ago, Spider said:

I saw a tweet earlier (and can’t fucking find it now) that suggested the mutated variant is possibly weaker in terms of severity of illness and suggest the virus may be mutating itself out of danger eventually.

Quite common apparently.

lets fucking we’ll hope so

Saw that chain of thought myself few days ago also from some professor.  Amazing how many of these cunts have popped up this year eh?

[birch-chorley]

1 minute ago, Spider said:

I saw a tweet earlier (and can’t fucking find it now) that suggested the mutated variant is possibly weaker in terms of severity of illness and suggest the virus may be mutating itself out of danger eventually.

Quite common apparently.

lets fucking we’ll hope so

Seem to recall something on this early doors back in March 

Basically, viruses that make you very ill, make you very ill, so your likely to be laid up somewhere rather than interacting with people. Less severe viruses are less severe so multiple quicker as the host is out an about spreading it 

[Farrelli]

17 minutes ago, boltondiver said:

That’s not a nice thing to say

It was a question to you

[jules_darby]

10 minutes ago, tyldesley_white said:

To be fair, I'm only going out to the store and everyone is fully masked up

Sounds a lot more vigilant than I’d heard 

[Escobarp]

Shouldn’t folk who ask questions answer them also? 

[Escobarp]

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6442097/nicola-sturgeon-sorry-mask-covid-breach/

[wiggy]

https://twitter.com/cricketwyvern/status/1340644282273828865?s=20

Thought this tweet was interesting. A while back this guy was being regularly cited by critics of lockdown. He was supposed to have been using scientific evidence to support his and their criticism of lockdowns. This tweet shows he actually has an inherent bias against them. Not trying to use this as a way of criticising him or others but I think it shows how difficult it is for people not to allow their personal beliefs to influence what they are saying - however impartial they valid to be.

[miamiwhite]

32 minutes ago, jules_darby said:

Just come off the phone to Texas actually. I believe it’s very lax there and Governor Abbott has said he’ll refuse any more measures

Funny old place the states 

What, the DIY place ? 

 

Courtesy of Fools and Horses 😃 

[jules_darby]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-in-four-diagnosed-with-covid-is-infected-in-hospital-g3fwltcgf

[Spider]

I’m saying Covid is ready to burn itself out.

Be reet.

[Escobarp]

Fuck me that’s some u turn 

[Farrelli]

1 hour ago, boltondiver said:

Bonkers that we have fucked our country for 370 deaths?

Are you dodging answering why you think over 60's don't matter or is that not what you meant ?