Coronavirus (2021) thread

[The Black Shed]

all negative Friday ready to go back. Many positive today and a number of close contacts sent home.

Wow, that was fast.

 

[shemnel]

The evidence is stacking up against vitamin D supplements and deficiencies with regards covid. Both pre print still.

Vitamin D supplements may offer no Covid benefits, data suggests

Two studies fail to find evidence to support claims supplements protect against coronavirus

www.theguardian.com

Vitamin D and COVID-19 susceptibility and severity in the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative: A Mendelian randomization study

Background Increased vitamin D levels, as reflected by 25OHD measurements, have been proposed to protect against COVID-19 disease based on in-vitro , observational, and ecological studies. However, vitamin D levels are associated with many confounding variables and thus associations described to...

www.medrxiv.org

Prevalence of vitamin D is not associated with the COVID-19 epidemic in Europe. A judicial update of the existing evidence

Background COVID-19 has emerged as a global pandemic, affecting nearly 104 million people worldwide as of February 4th 2021. In previous published studies, the association between the mean Vit D status of each country and COVID-19 infection rate, and mortality among the adult population in...

www.medrxiv.org

 

[cleavers]

Surely they couldn’t have contracted it at school though, too quick for positive results. Be interested to hear why this has happened, doesn’t make sense to me.

I'm guessing here, but were they proper tests last week, and now this week the LF tests, which are not very accurate ?

 

[Rammy Blue]

I'm guessing here, but were they proper tests last week, and now this week the LF tests, which are not very accurate ?

Suppose what we don’t know is how many are positive tests as opposed to kids just having to isolate due to close contact. Could only be a couple of positives? And yes, of course might be down to a false positive with a lateral flow test too.

 

[ctwrd]

What utter shite journalism. Would they have been happier if we had to use them FFS???

On a different topic however, a salutary reminder of just how utterly shit our handling of this has been here in the UK:

South Korea: population 51m; average age 43.7; COVID deaths 1,645; Deaths per 1m of population 32

UK: population 68m; average age 40.5; COVID deaths 124,797; Deaths per 1m of population 1,832

We are comparable countries in terms of population size and demographics and just look at the bloody difference! Even compared to western countries, our performance has been abjectly awful. We have the highest death toll per capita of any major country on planet earth. Absolutely woeful performance.

We have put peoples' freedoms and a desire to disrupt peoples' lives, too high up the agenda and as a result we have consistently locked down too late, too lightly, with too little deterent and punishments, and come out of lock downs too soon. And we have done so repeatedly, learning nothing from the previous mistakes. And the results speak for themselves. We score an F for Fail and our only redemption is the speed with which we are (thank God) rolling out the vaccines or else our performance would continue to be bottom of the class.

They were a publicity stunt as there was never the manwomanpower to use them.

 

[blueparrot]

They were a publicity stunt as there was never the manwomanpower to use them.

Not true, if they had needed to be used then they’d have used, military, students, retired volunteers etc. They weren’t used and we should be thankful for that. We did come worryingly close though and if we had needed them and they weren’t there that would have been far worse.
You don’t buy insurance then be disappointed you didn’t use it.

 

[johnnytapia]

Surely they couldn’t have contracted it at school though, too quick for positive results. Be interested to hear why this has happened, doesn’t make sense to me.

They had lateral flow tests last week. Might as well toss a coin for reliability.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Apparently the media aren't interested in the progress of the pandemic. A minor family squabble is more important.

Problem is and always has been, as soon as the media start reporting good news - people relax, don’t take the rules seriously and think it’s all over.

this has been mentioned so many times. I wish people would stop calling for the news to report the positive stuff (which in the main they actually do, but cautiously)

 

[ctwrd]

Not true, if they had needed to be used then they’d have used, military, students, retired volunteers etc. They weren’t used and we should be thankful for that. We did come worryingly close though and if we had needed them and they weren’t there that would have been far worse.
You don’t buy insurance then be disappointed you didn’t use it.

That wasn’t how they were sold and when it came down to it any retired staffers struggle to make the bill as they hadn’t done their terrorism training.

 

[ctwrd]

Problem is and always has been, as soon as the media start reporting good news - people relax, don’t take the rules seriously and think it’s all over.

this has been mentioned so many times. I wish people would stop calling for the news to report the positive stuff (which in the main they actually do, but cautiously)

Or perhaps the news could report the news, whether that be good or bad. It’s not meant to be propaganda.

is there not a case to be said that the elderly/vulnerable some of who are scared to come out are harmed by constant negativity which you want to be the only thing they hear.

I will say it again, those people who “relax” don’t follow rules etc... are not those closely following the story anyway.