Coronavirus (2021) thread

[kevin horlocks wand]

Weird. Must be to do with not subscribing. I can't find any other articles relating to it at the moment

UK's Covid R rate now falls below 1 in EVERY region

Department of Health bosses declared another 15,144 coronavirus infections - down almost 21 per cent in a week, meaning 4million Britons have tested positive since the pandemic began.

www.dailymail.co.uk

this was one I saw , hope it works. It’s free to read shit

 

[roubaixtuesday]

My point still stands tho, a tighter lockdown would have to lead to a steeper fall in cases as there would be less transmission.

Yes, absolutely. I think many people feared the lockdown would not be harsh enough to reduce cases with the new variant, and wed end up in a vaccine vs virus race.

There's a tradeoff between how long the lockdown is and how harsh, I guess. Personally I'm very pleasantly surprised how fast and how consistently all the numbers have gone in the right direction.

 

[andyhinch]

Got my vaccine booked for next Wednesday :-)

 

[M18CTID]

Another week on and further improvements. Today my Dad and I were discharged from the care of the Covid virtual ward, our oxygen levels have remained over 96 for 4 consecutive days, and no oxygen used since last Saturday.

Taking in full breaths still feels amazing!

Great stuff - glad you’re well on the way to recovery mate

 

[Healdplace]

The grey bits are just the most recent days, which will rise as more deaths are reported. They're not a prediction.

Christmas was a disaster predicted. You can clearly see in the regional data those areas left in tiers 2 and 3 over Christmas suffered far more than the tier 4 areas (which was essentially the same as current lockdown)

As plenty in here predicted and as the government had to know and so should when this is over be held accountable for deciding to prioritise fulfilling a promise to let Christmas happen knowing it would kill people taking that choice.

But that is for politics and not for now.

There was an out. As I said in here then. Create a new Thanksgiving Bank Holiday for when we got out of the inevitable Winter Wave and vaccinations made a difference. And we could see daylight, To thank all those who got us there - medics, front line workers etc. Most people would have supported that just not the thought of waiting until next Christmas understandably.

We knew it would be early Spring. It would have taken guts to do this and seemed mean and because of the promises made too soon was hard to do instead of giving people Christmas Day but it was the option someone like Churchill would have taken. The brave not popular.

And therein is the problem. Modern life does not create Churchill's. It creates Trumps. This has dogged the pandemic around the world and will still do so even when we here have got out towards the other side.

A global catastrophy needs unity of spirit not party politic blame games.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Modern life does not create Churchill's. It creates Trumps.

There were plenty of them, and worse in the olden days!

But I agree with the rest, wholeheartedly.

 

[Blue and still suffering]

Got my vaccine booked for next Wednesday :-)

Going for mine on Sunday

Keep thinking about the line from Robert Shaw in Jaws when he is talking about being on the Indianapolis, saying that the scariest time was when he waiting to be picked up from the water. The three weeks till protection kicks in are going to drag.

 

[M18CTID]

What are all these places that are open and where are they ?

Garden centres?.....

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Anyway happy Friday everyone we are definitely getting on top of this much better times ahead.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Anyway happy Friday everyone we are definitely getting on top of this much better times ahead.

Yep. There's been a good feel about this thread today. Concerns, optimism and encouragement all shared without a falling out. We all have a world we'd like to return to but it doesn't include leaving anyone behind, to get there.