Coronavirus (2022) thread

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kaz7 said:
Christ you people dont like the numbers up you if they are bad and a valid reason why , enjoy the pile on , you are all on ignore
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We just don’t want millions of people to isolate and be miserable, for the fact 400 have died within 28 days of a positive test, when every adult of sound mind knows exactly what the virus does and can make their own decisions on risks.

Plus a significant amount of those will be unvaccinated and therefore made their bed…
 
kaz7 said:
Christ you people dont like the numbers up you if they are bad and a valid reason why , enjoy the pile on , you are all on ignore
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It is nothing to do with the numbers being up! Deaths are tragic for whatever reason and we have lost too many people to Covid over the past 2 years as shown by the excess deaths.

However, you only post negative things about Covid and you fail to say what you would have done differently than to what was done over Christmas.

An 'I told you so' attitude is a poor attitude.
 
kaz7 said:
What is happening could have been forseen by a chimp , vaccinated or not doesnt matter , they are still deaths to families
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Actually it really does matter.

What's your bright idea then, we all spend another Christmas away from our families so a load of anti vaxxers "stay safe"?

You'd have to be absolutely mental.
 
wolfie1988 said:
So do what? What should have happened instead? Stop people from seeing their families again? Allow people one trip outside a day?

There are probably hundreds of thousands of people for whom the Christmas that has just passed, would have been their last anyway, regardless of Covid. How inhumane would it have been to deny these people the chance to see their families, AGAIN?

We are at a completely different point in this pandemic than we were pre-vaccination and booster programme.
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Real world example. My father in law's 90+ year old mum got to spend Christmas Day with her family. The poor old dear was overwhelmed.

How many more has she got?
 
BlueAnorak said:
Its generally the personal freedom nutters who are most vocal being anti vax - both left and right (though 3:1 more on the right than left). That said, the UK's ethnic minorities are the ones who are the largest group not taken up the vaccine. Around 45% in some places.
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By the way - I'm all for personal freedom but not the right to harm others with your actions.
Killing someone else with your stupidity is a not a freedom I recognise.
 
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Very good news on cases front, hospitalisation looks close to peak too now. ICU still flat, which is best news of all.

No idea what is driving such high death numbers (reporting, spread into older ages, sheer weight of infections, incidental covid, something else...?).

Thread is getting increasingly abusive and bullying, not a good look. It won't make the disease go away.
 
grunge said:
www.eurogamer.net

Wife of late Just Add Water founder Stewart Gilray urges people to get vaccinated

Last week, the games industry paid tribute to Just Add Water founder Stewart Gilray, who died of Covid aged just 51.
www.eurogamer.net www.eurogamer.net

I have a lot of sympathy to this guy, crippling needle phobia resulting in being unvaccinated, He died last week, while I didn't know him directly ( I knew him on a different forum online ) I know a lot of people who did know him personally and every single person only has good things to say abut him. was genuinely a great bloke.

Get Vaccinated. If you have a needle phobia, And I know someone who does, there is help available to try to get past it as much as is possible, Talk to your Dr for help.

RIP.
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Another toothpick. Next.
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Very good news on cases front, hospitalisation looks close to peak too now. ICU still flat, which is best news of all.

No idea what is driving such high death numbers (reporting, spread into older ages, sheer weight of infections, incidental covid, something else...?).

Thread is getting increasingly abusive and bullying, not a good look. It won't make the disease go away.
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I think incidental is probably a big part of it purely because of the sheer volume of numbers infected.

On your 2nd point, I think bullying is a very strong word. The poster in question left a post on the forum that was always going to be called out for what it was. And when questioned, failed to suggest an alternative plan but implied full lockdown.
 
kaz7 said:
What is happening could have been forseen by a chimp , vaccinated or not doesnt matter , they are still deaths to families
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Natural selection at work for the vast majority who were unvaccinated.
My thoughts and prayers go to their family members but they made a choice.
Also:
1. Countries with severe restrictions in place are producing as big a set of numbers than we are and they are earlier in the wave.
2. A huge chuck of the UK population will test positive for Covid and 2000+ people a day die in the winter months. Around 600 a day of these will have tested positive for Covid within 28 days by the end of Jan though the UK excess deaths total will only increase very modestly.
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Very good news on cases front, hospitalisation looks close to peak too now. ICU still flat, which is best news of all.

No idea what is driving such high death numbers (reporting, spread into older ages, sheer weight of infections, incidental covid, something else...?).

Thread is getting increasingly abusive and bullying, not a good look. It won't make the disease go away.
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Deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.
2000+ die every day in the winter months. If 40% of the British public catch Covid then 800 Covid deaths will be added to the total. Even if they only had a sniffle.
Statistical magic.
Deaths under reported as the pandemic arrives without sufficient testing and deaths over reported as it becomes endemic when we can test all with symptoms.
 
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BlueAnorak said:
2. A huge chuck of the UK population will test positive for Covid and 2000+ people a day die in the winter months. Around 600 a day of these will have tested positive for Covid within 28 days by the end of Jan though the UK excess deaths total will only increase very modestly
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I don't think your numbers add up?

We're currently reporting an average of what, 100,000ish or so infections daily over the last month? That's about 3 million in total, or just 5% of the population.

So that would translate to 100 of those 2000, not 600?

It's a real phenomenon sure, but I think you're way overstating it.

I've no idea what current xs deaths are, do you?
 
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kaz7 said:
Do one , it is fact
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It’s a fact they all died because of covid is it? Or is it a fact that half the population will have bloody had this latest variant so half the people dying on that day are likely to have had it at some point. Christ they’d say if there was a fire in a hospital that half of the fatalities were down to covid currently and you and a few others would lap it up.
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Very good news on cases front, hospitalisation looks close to peak too now. ICU still flat, which is best news of all.

No idea what is driving such high death numbers (reporting, spread into older ages, sheer weight of infections, incidental covid, something else...?).

Thread is getting increasingly abusive and bullying, not a good look. It won't make the disease go away.
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My theory is because of how contagious Omicron is and the amount of people in hospital that have it. There’s so many in hospital dying of other things with omicron as a side note, that the Covid test is adding these to the statistics. Of course people are also dying of it but I think it’s the testing that’s driving these stats up, over the severity of omicron.

Once a level of immunity happens in the public and hospitals they’ll start to fall.
 
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