Coronavirus (2021) thread

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roubaixtuesday said:
The PCR false positive stuff is absolute and complete bollocks. I could post you articles all day long.

Doesn't need anything more than taking a look at how many positives there are in OZ.
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Not all tests are PCR. And not all people appear to be in agreement on PCR accuracy.
 
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roubaixtuesday said:
Wonder if they're using lateral flow tests?
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No, all swabbed and sent off. They're now awaiting the results of a follow up test.
In the meantime the whole place is confined to their rooms, once more, with 3 members of staff self isolating. One of whom is on her second isolation from a false positive a few weeks back. An antibody test confirmed no trace on that occasion.
 
UK Cases without England 4649. Which is a bit down.

3 wks v 2 wks v last week v TODAY:- 3773 v 4912 (+ about 1200 from N Ireland added later) v 8137 (about 2000 catch up add ons from New Year) v 4649 TODAY
 
Stoned Rose said:
1. Instruct the public to stay at home.

2. Allow millions of them to go to these sites to "see if I've got it".

3. At those sites those who do have it are "taking it to" those sites which allows it to spread at those sites.

4. Those without it who go to those sites are now in a location where the virus is definitely present, hence potentially exposing themselves to it.

Having seen it in action, its utter idiocy mate.
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Very good post. I have often thought about this and been of the opinion that these test sites are fucking mental! They’re surely covid hotspots?

You can go there with symptoms but you actually don’t have it then pick it up on site as thousands of others with the virus have been there, and because you tested negative you’re here there and everywhere spreading it to all and sundry!
 
More on the 508 England hospital deaths:

142 London 102 Midlands 81 East 62 South East 45 NE & Yorks 39 North West 37 South West
 
give it to gordon said:
My workmates 6 off us had to get tested yesterday 4 of us went to the one were you get results within the hour. 2 went to the 'wrong' test place which can tack longer.
Just send the WhatsApp group chat and the manager isn't happy as they might miss Monday work waiting for the results.
Yes they went to the wrong place but missing one day in the middle of winter is no big problem, just means the towns xmas lights are a day late coming down and no one should be in the town to complain anyway!
Management seem more worried about a missed day work than us being negative.

Think I need to change job !!
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You've been bringing them down for ages....get the fuck on with it!!!!!!! ;)
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Very good post. I have often thought about this and been of the opinion that these test sites are fucking mental! They’re surely covid hotspots?

You can go there with symptoms but you actually don’t have it then pick it up on site and because you tested negative you’re here there and everywhere spreading it to all and sundry
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Go past the one on Kirkmanshulme Lane and there's groups of people outside with masks round their chins
 
ctwrd said:
As I keep telling you you are wrong. I have given you the evidence and you keep ignoring it.
Those in gogglebox aren’t bubbling.

re disgusting. It’s disgusting that some people would rather see greater long term deaths versus less short term deaths
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Short term deaths are here and now and are measurable (and are appallingly high).

Long term deaths, how many and over what period, please tell us so we can see whether you have a valid argument or not.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I’d rather do that.

Id rather stay in this full lockdown for longer than come out of it but then go into tiers.

Just keep us going like this.
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Spot on, when we look back at this saga people will wonder what was going on when the Government encouraged people to "eat out to help out". Should have been a relaxation in the rules in summer and then a complete lockdown in October when cases were rising, and the tier system should have been binned.

Dipperville and London now paying the price of crazy politics.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Very good post. I have often thought about this and been of the opinion that these test sites are fucking mental! They’re surely covid hotspots?

You can go there with symptoms but you actually don’t have it then pick it up on site as thousands of others with the virus have been there, and because you tested negative you’re here there and everywhere spreading it to all and sundry!
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Yeh if I need to go for a test I’ll be travelling abit further and going to the drive thru ones.
 
The London and South data has been falling. But the North West rising. Does that Zoe ap say anything about that does anyone know?

As I noted last night with the regional data NW was higher than one of the three big number southern regions for the first time since they kept on rising before and after Christmas.

The England death figures have been showing some truly awful upturns in the day of death data as opposed to the raw number you see posted every day which contains deaths tallied across often more than 20 different dates.

Here are the current totals of deaths in hospital ON the actual day references as they stand today day by day from Christmas Eve. We are still even today adding unusually big numbers like 6 or 7 from days over Christmas because of the delay over registering. But these will reduce now we are back to 'normal' and far enough away from there for too many add ons to be likely.

24 Dec 334

25 Dec 403

26 Dec 430

27 Dec 426

28 Dec 413

29 Dec 421

30 Dec 440

31 Dec 469

1 Jan 456

2 Jan 458

3 Jan 441

4 Jan 525

5 Jan 547 - this is the last 5 day total and is the highest at 5 days since the 16 April just ONE WEEK after the peak of the first wave, Over the week before it fell from a peak at 5 days of 737


If you look at the 4 days since then things look continuingly grim

6 Jan at just 4 days is at 537

7 Jan at just 3 days is at 498 (this 3 day number has risen very fast in the past week alone. Last Sunday the equivalent number was just 292

8 Jan at just 2 days is at 297 - and this is weekend data always low.

Aside from today (always lower on Sunday) the death numbers for the FIRST day have been 88, 90 and 89.

These are well up on even recent past days and are also back at the kind of level we saw within days of the peak of the first wave in April.

That is good news IF right now we are near the peak again. But not if it keeps going up. As it means we will peak this wave well above the number of deaths we had in April.
 
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