Coronavirus (2021) thread

[twosips]

He comes across as a genuine bell end. My first thought is that he is lying

Same. Genuine bellends exaggerate everything. I know because there are plenty in my own family and I've literally witnessed the occasions that they then later lie about, then called them out on that and they just gaslight the fuck out of you. Everything about that timeline screams knobhead. He's full on crank 'scamdemic'.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Anyone know what the state of play is in Portugal? Their numbers are well down in comparison with almost everywhere else in Europe. Are they managing to accelerate their vaccine programme much quicker than others, or are they in a much tighter lockdown than everywhere else? Just seems strange (but positive!) that they're managing to keep it so well under control in comparison to the majority of their neighbours. @AlgarveBlu ?

 

[Healdplace]

HOSPITAL DATA

Another reasonable fall and spread across the regions. England drop to below 3000 patients for first time 6 months. UK patients fell in every nation today too. Ventilators down a little but slower than was. Sub 500 in England and possibly the UK by tomorrow. Admissions too falling down wk on wk. Another good indicator.



UK total:


Patients down to 3545 - it was 39, 248 at the peak on 18 Jan - (fall of 35, 703 in 73 days) :- lowest since 5 October

Ventilators down to 516 it was 4077 at the peak on 24 Jan - (fall of 3561 in 67 days) : lowest since 13 October


England only:-


ADMISSIONS:-

217 Covid admissions (28 March) following 206, 221, 217, 245, 283, 277, 295 in the week before.



PATIENTS:-

Patients down in day by 156 to 2928 v 3763 last week :- lowest since 6 October.

Peak was 34, 336 on 18 Jan (fall 31, 408 in 73 days)

Ventilators: down 31 to 470 v 566 last week :- lowest since 14 October

Peak was 3736 on 24 Jan (fall 3266 in 67 days)



Regions:



Patient // Ventilators // change in past 24 hours and v last week


East down 25 to 212 v 345 // down 4 to 42 v 58

London down 21 to 668 v 811 // down 6 to 147 v 169

Midlands down 25 to 606 v 773 // down 7 to 104 v 126

NE & Yorks down 16 to 498 v 616 // down 4 to 75 v 84

North West down 33 to 558 v 693 // down 1 to 68 v 82

South East down 33 to 276 v 377 // down 9 to 22 v 24

South West down 3 to 110 v 148 // stays at 12 v 23`

 

[Healdplace]

GM Weekly Pop Scores after today:~

Borough / Score Today / Score 7 days ago / up or down wk to wk/ Testing is % of local population who have tested positive for Covid over past year.

As ever with Pop scores going up is bad, going down good - the higher the number the better or worse depending on direction moving. The Pop Score is total cases in past week versus 100,000 POPulation to even out the comparison versus size and expected cases based on numbers living there.



Oldham 106 / 108 Down 2 Testing positive 9.6%

Bolton 96 / 105 / Down 9 Testing positive 8.9%

Tameside 94 / 110 / Down 16 Testing positive 8.0%

Manchester 94 / 91 / UP 3 Testing positive 9.4%

Rochdale 88 / 109 / Down 21 Testing positive 9.4%

Salford 81 / 88 / Down 7 Testing positive 8.9%

Trafford 75 / 46 / UP 29 Testing positive 6.9%

Wigan 74 / 101 / Down 27 Testing positive 8.7%

Bury 61 / 87 / Down 26 Testing positive 8.9%

Stockport 59 / 79 / Down 10 Testing positive 7.0%


As you see very good day for most places with only Manchester really losing ground today. Stockport and Bury pulling away at the moment with Bury lowest scorer most days and Stockport with a low weekly Pop it has not had since August. Trafford had a better day too and ate back 4 more from the overall Pop lead on Stockport back to 177. May be starting to stabilise again hopefully.

The lowest scorers in the early days of the pandemic have re-established the old normality as numbers have tumbled.

Oldham had a better day and fell a little but is now the only GM borough still over 100.

Weekly cases:- Bury increased its lead to sit on just 117 whilst - at 175 Trafford has catching up to do. At 173 Stockport - though up day to day was well down week to week enough to overtake Trafford and have the second lowest weekly GM cases total for first time in months. Rochdale also joined the sub 200 scrum with 196

Others:- Bolton 278, Manchester 520, Oldham 250. Salford 209, Tameside 213, Wigan 244

 

[03 March 2002]

I came across this Tweet. It sounded genuine enough - and it might well be although I’m calling bullshit - but upon checking his Twitter feed I found it full of Covid denial conspiracy shite going back way before this one:

Denialists always have some outlandish story to tell don't they?

 

[somapop]

Had a company talk/presentation at work (zoom at desk) today and one of my colleagues gave a talk on her work on the vaccine rollout programme via the digital sector. She praised highly the work of Dr Emily Lawson (who shuns the media spotlight) and said she was an incredible woman in an incredible team.

If you were witness to all this (and these intelligent, genuine people) and still believed there was some nefarious nature to a mass vaccination program I'd have no other option but to suggest you 'weren't right'', sadly.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

The figures all heading in the right direction. The only concern I have is I'm not sure they are that much different to last year - when the weather got warmer covid like coughs and colds pretty much disappeared. I think we'll only really know if the vaccine is doing its stuff in Sep/Oct when we (hopefully) don't see the same climb in infections /deaths through the winter.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

are we just going to be surveilled wherever we go now? Can't even go to the pub without movements being tracked.

Whatever happened to freedom and democracy. It's either safe to open up or it isn't. Anything else is a con.

 

[BlueHammer85]

are we just going to be surveilled wherever we go now? Can't even go to the pub without movements being tracked.

Whatever happened to freedom and democracy. It's either safe to open up or it isn't. Anything else is a con.

you are anyway. iPhones and Cameras everywhere. I don’t think the powers to be are that interested in you going down the Kings Arms for a couple pints though.

 

[cleavers]

are we just going to be surveilled wherever we go now? Can't even go to the pub without movements being tracked.

Whatever happened to freedom and democracy. It's either safe to open up or it isn't. Anything else is a con.

Can't say I'm bothered, if I'm not doing something I shouldn't be doing, then is it a problem ?

They'll get very bored monitoring me, very very bored, whoever "they" are.