Coronavirus (2021) thread

[blueparrot]

I would say its a little easier for her as she doesn't have to fund her own decisions, they are funded by the UK as a whole. The decisions that affect the UK economy are made by Johnson and Sunak so its slightly easier for her. If Scotland were independent I am sure she wouldn't find making these decisions quite so easy.

So she has to make the decisions not knowing what funding will be given and having no power toincrease the funding, Johnson can make them knowing what funding he has and can get, yet he always behind the curve. The infections in the south and and England in general he's weeks late to the decision.

 

[cleavers]

Political one up man ship removed to political Covid thread.

PLEASE reply to those posts in the poitical thread, I'm just going to delete any more.

 

[Gabriel]

This thread is turning rather political when there is already one designated for that. Not sure we have a specific misogyny thread, however.

 

[kaz7]

The UK's coronavirus alert level will be raised from 4 to 5 for the first time, government sources have said.

Level 5 or "red" means there is a "material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed", compared to Level 4 when transmission of the virus is "high or rising exponentially".

The COVID-19 alert level refers to the threat of the epidemic and is separate from the tiering system in England.

It is set by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, which includes all four nations' chief medical officers, and determines how strict coronavirus restrictions should be.

COVID-19: UK coronavirus alert level to be raised as NHS 'could be overwhelmed without more action'

The UK's chief medical officers warn there is a "material risk" of the NHS being overwhelmed over the next 21 days.

news.sky.com

 

[cleavers]

This thread is turning rather political when there is already one designated for that. Not sure we have a specific misogyny thread, however.

It isn't, I'm not going to let it.

Take the Sturgeon v Boris debate elsewhere.

 

[Cityfan]

Vaccines absolutely can eliminate COVID, by proxy of stopping transmission. The more prevalent the virus is, the more reproduction it is doing and thus the more mutations (strains) appear.

Think it depends what you mean by eliminate. The only disease we appear to have entirely eliminated by vaccination is Smallpox.
Be surprised if we eliminate this though we may well suppress it very successfully, but with it's apparent spread world wide plus the probability that animals may act as a reservoir means elimination is unlikely.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Yeah, I can't help feeling that in years to come there will be major health issues traced back to this virus.

If there is any truth to these stories regarding exercise then it opens a whole new can of worms.

I remember reading a scientific article back in the Summer which mentioned that there is scarring on lung tissue that is like a muscle injury.

We see how muscle injuries affect the likes of Kompany and Kun, these lung injuries will surely have an impact n’all.

 

[grunge]

The UK's coronavirus alert level will be raised from 4 to 5 for the first time, government sources have said.

Level 5 or "red" means there is a "material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed", compared to Level 4 when transmission of the virus is "high or rising exponentially".

The COVID-19 alert level refers to the threat of the epidemic and is separate from the tiering system in England.

It is set by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, which includes all four nations' chief medical officers, and determines how strict coronavirus restrictions should be.

COVID-19: UK coronavirus alert level to be raised as NHS 'could be overwhelmed without more action'

The UK's chief medical officers warn there is a "material risk" of the NHS being overwhelmed over the next 21 days.

news.sky.com

T5 = Highest possible. Until Jan 15th when T6 will be added.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Think you mean CFR is 3% not 0.3%

You're right of course, but hell, what's an order of magnitude between friends?

 

[Gabriel]

My local synagogue took the decision to close a couple of weeks ago rather than wait to be told. Made sense despite no cases linking back to it since it reopened.

Had friends who decided individually to stop attending their various places of worship, too, but the fact that those centres remained open made that a more difficult decision for them.