COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Healdplace]

Briefing from Hancock at 3pm today.

Thank you. Hopefully sense has prevailed.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Press conference coming up on BBC 1 I assume. Just changed schedules for an 'update' right now.

Hopefully this'll be the pathway to going into lockdown.

 

[Healdplace]

416 England hospital deaths. Worst yet sadly.

We may have over 700 UK deaths today.

 

[Healdplace]

Sadly - too - NW is climbing in the deaths again.

We had 42 last week from 369.

Today we have 71 from the 416. Biggest rise in the region in a while.

This is always a big catch up day fr0om weekend non registrations but even so there is no question the NW fall has stopped and like everywhere else in the UK are climbing again on all measures.

 

[kaz7]

I thought my coughing and sore throat, bad as it is/was, would be the end of it.

I can't quite explain what happened to me when I went to bed last night, it was like some bizarre out-of-body-experience.

I was asleep for about an hour when I jumped awake with a horrible metallic taste in my mouth?

I couldn't believe it, soaked head-to-toe in ice-cold sweat, like I'd been for a cold shower in my T-shirt.

I'd no temperature, didn't feel hot, whatsoever, but spent the rest of the night with the shivers.

I'm in front of my desk today, never really have sick days, but there is little snap in my legs.

I consider myself pretty fit, but it just goes to show how it can grab a hold quickly even after four days in.

I'm even more fully appreciative now how easy it is to kill older people or those who have underlying health conditions.

My wife is still tired but my 13-year-old boy is pretty much back on form after nine days in for their own positive results.

We are all out of a 16-day isolation on New Year's Eve. There is hopefully some symbolism I want to take from that...

Stay safe my fellow Blue Mooners. I've made more friends on this board during the last ten months, than I have in ten years in my 'normal' day-to-day life.

They say you find out who your true friends are when the chips are down, I've since discovered all these people I've worked alongside down the years are only there if you can remain useful to them.

Have a wonderful Christmas, best you can, knowing I will see many of you for the first time in hopefully a brighter 2021.

x

Rest up , chill, no work for now , plenty of fluids , paracetamol or neurofen regularly for a couple of days , this bastard thing has a second go at you after feeling better for a day or two , you cant outrun it , rest

 

[Bovril]

And still there are lunatics in denial, very grim news today thanks as always HP.

 

[kaz7]

Yep I’m fine you idiot as are the vest fucking majority of the country. Wake up and smell the coffee. Fucking bowing down to a clueless government who don’t know their ass from their elbow brain washing people with shite about bubbles. These arent bubbles. These are your mum, your dad, your gran, your brother. The people you share DNA with, the people you shared food with, that gave birth to you and the government have managed to convince you in 9 months these are now the most dangerous people you can come in contact with. Get a grip. Your own family are going to be much cleaner and safer than some stranger at work that you have worked with for the whole of 2020 and you are still here now to tell the tale yet in one day you are going to end your family. Yeah right pull the other one

That is ridiculous bollocks , you are taking your hatred for the gov too far

 

[Healdplace]

Tiers before bedtime again by sounds of it according to the BBC.

Maybe they will wake up when we are on tier 27 and the UK is full of zombies.

Expecting more areas to go into tier 4 they are suggesting.

They can see the new strain moving north apparently.

So when it reaches Carlisle maybe they will see these tiers are not stopping it.

But as I said earlier England will have fallen into the hole long before then.

 

[kaz7]

There have been 72,244 excess deaths this year (and that’s only up to 4th December). Greater Manchester hospitals were saying they were overrun in October, never mind now when things are much worse than they were in October.

Could you just imagine how many excess deaths and how bad hospital over capacities would be if all 67m people in this country had the attitude of @itsnevereasy?

81,000

 

[kaz7]

With respect Karen that idiot Neil Ferguson hasn't got a clue and is constantly and consistently wrong with what he says.
This is a guy who broke covid rules in May to see his married lover.
This is a guy who over estimated massively the figures on bird flu, BSE, Foot and Mouth and swine Flu.
And now hes doing the same thing with Covid.
Why the media keep giving this idiot air time is beyond comprehension.
I believe he does still sit on some commities and the government still seem to be still listening to him, if so its disgraceful and a sign the government has lost control of this crisis.

Erm, it was two lines, the rest was not him but one looking at the mutation

 

[Healdplace]

England 416 hospital deaths more details:

Midlands 82, NW 71, London 71, NE/Yorkshire 59, South East 59, East England 44 and South West 30.

Already obvious this is everywhere again and must have been for several weeks.

 

[Healdplace]

Age ranges of 416 England hospital deaths:

20 - 39 (2), 40 - 59 (19), 60 - 79 (146) and 80+ (249)

25 deaths in Barking by far the most today.

10 in East Lancashire and 9 in Manchester the most in the NW.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

With respect Karen that idiot Neil Ferguson hasn't got a clue and is constantly and consistently wrong with what he says.
This is a guy who broke covid rules in May to see his married lover.
This is a guy who over estimated massively the figures on bird flu, BSE, Foot and Mouth and swine Flu.
And now hes doing the same thing with Covid.
Why the media keep giving this idiot air time is beyond comprehension.
I believe he does still sit on some commities and the government still seem to be still listening to him, if so its disgraceful and a sign the government has lost control of this crisis.

With respect, Ferguson has great expertise and should be listened to.

His original modelling has held up very well in reality, it's just inconvenient to you.

And it's not significantly different to anyone else's modeling either.

 

[give it to gordon]

Son been stuck in dover for over 5 hours just trying to get to work. Asked his boss if he could turned around and go home. No come into work !!

 

[Toney’s bookie]

Get well soon Tolm.
The metallic taste was truely a bizarre symptom.
I'm sorry to say that you will feel like you have been badly beaten up tomorrow and for quite a few days after that.

Since having covid I’ve found that eggs and mint both taste very different. A weird taste - not sure if I’d describe as metallic or not. Interesting

 

[Healdplace]

There is actually a BIG caveat to todays England numbers.

248 extra than the 416 are also added today from the FIRST wave and allocated to 19 April.

 

[meeesh]

Brace yourselves here comes the smuggest of smuggest dickheads you could ever wish to see,with more words of wisdom for the masses

 

[sky tot]

81,000

So does that mean if you compare this years deaths against 2019 deaths there has been 81,000 more ?

 

[kaz7]

Hancock

New variant spreading at fast rate , vital we act now

Minimise holiday contacts for everyone please

Tiers not working completely for the new variant

More areas going into tier four in the south and south west , somerset , bristol

Other areas going up tiers as well , i will do a list in a min

Another variant has come about from south africa, further mutation and faster spread than new variant , travel restriction and those come back and their contacts must isolate

 

[Healdplace]

An even worse caveat to the England hospital deaths.

On 21 December (Monday) 190 deaths occurred on THAT day.

This is the biggest number allocated to the second day since 26 April

I have not had to mention England hospital deaths settings records like that in wave 2 as we stalled and started to go down when the North got this under control.

Now sadly it has reversed and deaths are soaring.