COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[BlueHammer85]

A personal post here.
Always been a pub man, pre corona watch the football then down the pub 3 or 4 pints.
No football on bit earlier maybe 5 pints.
Always, always used to laugh at people who drank in home.

So first lock down grin and bear it, towards the end started with a box of beer in home 1 or 2 bottles a night

Second lockdown, depressed, straight into 8 bottles a night. Every night.
Must be many with similiar stories.

I've never got drinking from home, just the thought of it is depressing.

 

[cleavers]

Lateral Flow Tests, agreed by PHE as 99.7% accurate, show 80% fewer cases in Liverpool v. Govt standard PCR tests.

Do you understand the difference ?

The LF tests are testing people without symptoms, ie the majority probably don't have it - 700/100,000

The other tests are testing people who have symptoms, ie quite probably do have it, or have something else.

 

[Blue and still suffering]

So you know for certain that he can't catch it again?

Also think about the message it sends out to everyone else "If Boris doesn't need to self isolate then why should I. It would be like Cummings all over again, do as I say not do as I do.

 

[Healdplace]

Italy 32, 191 cases and 731 deaths - up nearly 5000 cases and 227 deaths,

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Will you have a vaccine if offered as you seem very sceptical about everything.

Sceptical? Not me mate, I just think we should be led by evidence and the whole decision making process should be a lot more transparent.

 

[03 March 2002]

Sceptical? Not me mate, I just think we should be led by evidence and the whole decision making process should be a lot more transparent.

Decisions on what exactly?

Unless you work in the field it's a fairly niche area and as such you'll have to do a bit of digging.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Decisions on what exactly?

Unless you work in the field it's a fairly niche area and as such you'll have to do a bit of digging.

What needs to happen to come out of lockdown? What needs to be happening to go into Tier 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 or back into a full lockdown? It’s 9 months since lockdown 1 and we’ve got no idea upon what the governments decisions are based, which can’t be asking for too much can it?

 

[peter101]

look even if it is only 20% of nurses not taking the vaccine that is still a huge number of nurses
and the pcr test is oversensitive and throws out many false positives. the elon musk event is a case in point. So ok you are picking holes in my numbers fair enough but the overall argument i make is valid

 

[peter101]

with many not taking the vaccine the pcr test will continue to show many positives thus we will be in endless winter lockdowns

 

[03 March 2002]

What needs to happen to come out of lockdown? What needs to be happening to go into Tier 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 or back into a full lockdown? It’s 9 months since lockdown 1 and we’ve got no idea upon what the governments decisions are based, which can’t be asking for too much can it?

You were asked about a vaccine initially and therefore I thought you meant decisions on approving a vaccine.

 

[kaz7]

Well out of over 5500000 recorded positive tests and likely almost a billion actual positives, there have been about 5 suggestions of reinfection, so probably not. Also, if he’s going to self isolate, why bother with the test (testing‘s the way out of lockdown, remember).

We dont know that if you get it again do you get symptoms, if not or minor you wouldnt get a test , so much we do not know yet

 

[Len Rum]

Italy 32, 191 cases and 731 deaths - up nearly 5000 cases and 227 deaths,

But is the rate of increase decreasing?

 

[03 March 2002]

look even if it is only 20% of nurses not taking the vaccine that is still a huge number of nurses
and the pcr test is oversensitive and throws out many false positives. the elon musk event is a case in point. So ok you are picking holes in my numbers fair enough but the overall argument i make is valid

with many not taking the vaccine the pcr test will continue to show many positives thus we will be in endless winter lockdowns

Peter with absolutely no due respect you have no idea about any of this. You're probably not a scientist and you probably don't work in healthcare so just give up already. The adults are talking.

 

[peter101]

the point is that people are panicking stupidly over the number of positive tests which are likely exagerrated. Remember most of these people are not ill they are asymptotic the only danger is if they infect older more vulnerable people. However even older people are likely ok if in good health. It is the obese who are the problem here and who are overburdening the health system

 

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[mosssideblue]

with many not taking the vaccine the pcr test will continue to show many positives thus we will be in endless winter lockdowns

Take time out Pete and bash your bish, you might cheer up a little

 

[roubaixtuesday]

pcr test is oversensitive and throws out many false positives

More bollocks

 

[mosssideblue]

the point is that people are panicking stupidly over the number of positive tests which are likely exagerrated. Remember most of these people are not ill they are asymptotic the only danger is if they infect older more vulnerable people. However even older people are likely ok if in good health. It is the obese who are the problem here and who are overburdening the health system

FFS, give it a rest, your bullshit meter is off the scale

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Remember most of these people are not ill they are asymptotic

More bollocks, you generally have to have symptoms to even get a test.

 

[mackenzie]

More bollocks, you generally have to have symptoms to even get a test.

Not if you lie on the online home test you don't. Or turn up at a testing centre when they are quiet (like my colleague did).