Coronavirus (2021) thread

[BlueAnorak]

I wonder if anyone is watching the scenes in India and still thinking it's all a big hoax?

Sadly they do.
India and Brazil are what happens when you let the virus rip and health services collapse. 80%+ of those who need oxygen and other medical interventions to live will die.

 

[bluetonium]

Finally eligible for my vaccine. Tried to book via the NHS website and its sending me 40miles away to St Helens.

 

[BlueHammer85]

I wonder if anyone is watching the scenes in India and still thinking it's all a big hoax?

already asked someone i know who massively downplays Covid and spouts against lockdown all the tiime, what about India... his reply was -

''i'm not saying it's bad over there, but there's no evidence to suggest that lack of lockdowns had any effect - also India is the most dirty, unhygienic, most polluted country on the planet ''

 

[RobMCFC]

With the evidence in front of our eyes, via the TV and newspaper reports, if people don't believe that COVID is a real problem now, they probably never will. You just have to accept that there is a percentage of people who are as thick as two short planks.

 

[inchy14]

already asked someone i know who massively downplays Covid and spouts against lockdown all the tiime, what about India... his reply was -

''i'm not saying it's bad over there, but there's no evidence to suggest that lack of lockdowns had any effect - also India is the most dirty, unhygienic, most polluted country on the planet ''

He’s not wrong with that last line!!

 

[Manchester33]

already asked someone i know who massively downplays Covid and spouts against lockdown all the tiime, what about India... his reply was -

''i'm not saying it's bad over there, but there's no evidence to suggest that lack of lockdowns had any effect - also India is the most dirty, unhygienic, most polluted country on the planet ''

That guy sounds like a racist, to be honest.

 

[BlueHammer85]

That guy sounds like a racist, to be honest.

he's a top guy, but since Covid he's gone down the conspiracy rabbit hole - believes it's all designed for control by the 'powers' and to boost the digital company's, he's also an anti vaxxer surprisingly

 

[SWP's back]

Shows just how unlucky WW has been still catching it after one dose.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Does anyone have any figures for the AZ one please?

 

[SWP's back]

You'd have to be stupid to think so, however the scenes in India are not necessarily a direct consequence of COVID or COVID mutations but rather a consequence of some of the worst public health decisions ever. They have just allowed one of the biggest festivals (Holi) in March to be held without any enforced restrictions.

India should of been under total lockdown a month ago, yet here they are just starting to impose lockdowns with cases now spiking at 500k per day. The thing is though that number will be at least double that because the testing capacity does not exist to capture so many cases.

This probably represents the worst of COVID but let's not forget that it was completely avoidable.

Yep, and it’s not the first time India has handled a pandemic poorly, some estimates put the 1918-20 Spanish flu death toll at 18-20m people. Roughly 6% of its then population.