Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Marvin]

Jesus christ, don't think I could cope with another lockdown.

Surely everyone now knows zero covid is not a possibility. For the sake sake of my mental health, no more lockdowns, surely vaccines was the key, if not we are fucked with endless lockdowns

It's one thing innoculating a population who have no exposure to a novel virus, whilst the novel virus is circulating, and then innoculating the population with a booster. At least I hope it is.

 

[frothy]

What news article was that? Are you sure it was not a year old? I Googled and could not find one saying this.

Nowhere in the UK has a Pop of 900 right now or anywhere near. Bolton is only a third of that and Blackburm aroumd half.

One good thing about this wave versus January when much of the SE was over 1000. Nobody is that high.

Tameside as you see above is the lowest in GMs 10 boroughs.

Zoe App suggested it was the worst in the UK from data collected locally as I have beem reporting for a couple of weeks in my Zoe App data posts in here every day here.

But they gave up this over a week ago realising there was a glitch caused by too few people in the area knowing what an app was perhaps?

In any case it was glaringly obvious it was nonsense from the moment they reported this as I said in the Zoe reports here two weeks back and they soon figured that out and removed the data.

In any case Tameside is in reality the only GM borough right now not really in any trouble. Though even here has risen via the variant from 3 cases 2 weeks ago to 11 last week to 28 today - but in GM terms that is very good!


Manchester in the same period has gone 49 to 74 to 210. And Salford 8 to 28 to 122. And Stockport 8 to 15 to 102.

Would love to see the artcle claming Tameside is worse than those.

It was on Crux news app i think, or Breaking news app, it definitely mentioned Zoe app

 

[frothy]

It was on Crux news app i think, or Breaking news app, it definitely mentioned Zoe app

11 hotspots added to UK watchlist as rising Covid cases puts June 21 in doubt

The update comes after cases of the Covid-19 variant that originated in India jumped by nearly 80% in the space of a week.

metro.co.uk

 

[Craig]

It wont come to that, everyone will have been fully vaccinated by then.

It will unfortunately.For some reason it is what the powers that be want.

 

[BlueAnorak]

The facts are:
- Hospitalisations barely up.
- Deaths slightly down.
If this keeps up for two weeks, then regardless of cases, we need to open up completely.
Any one who hasn't been vaccinated and is at-risk - then tough - you had your opportunity. You need to isolate

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Rhe facts are:
- Hospitalisations barely up.
- Deaths slightly down.
If this keeps up for two weeks, then regardless of cases, we need to open up completely.
Any one who hasn't been vaccinated and is at-risk - then tough - you had your opportunity. You need to isolate

and what about those of us who haven't been offered a vaccine and don't know whether we're at risk because we're young enough for any underlying conditions to have manifested yet?

****'s mentality.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Rhe facts are:
- Hospitalisations barely up.
- Deaths slightly down.
If this keeps up for two weeks, then regardless of cases, we need to open up completely.
Any one who hasn't been vaccinated and is at-risk - then tough - you had your opportunity. You need to isolate

it takes 3-4 weeks from infection point to turn into deaths

It’s only these last few days infections have rocketed from 2/3000 to 5/6000 with the now Indian Variant being the dominant strain.

hopefully the vaccines are working wonders and will keep the hospitalisations and deaths at a minimum but the full picture won’t be till a few weeks.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

The Mail and ITV reporting they’re pushing it back to July 5th.

Sensible decision IMO.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

and what about those of us who haven't been offered a vaccine and don't know whether we're at risk because we're young enough for any underlying conditions to have manifested yet?

****'s mentality.

hancock saying on sky offering it up to all under 30s this week , obvs not sure how old you are .

 

[roubaixtuesday]

- Hospitalisations barely up.

As posted upthread, hospitalizations are tracking cases, at ~half the rate they were before vaccination. Hopefully that will reduce, but it gives plenty of scope to have a huge impact on the NHS with another major wave.

Any one who hasn't been vaccinated and is at-risk - then tough - you had your opportunity.

If hospitals are full of the unvaccinated, they're still full. Which is "tough" on everyone with a non COVID condition.