Coronavirus (2021) thread

[kevin horlocks wand]

Being as Bolton has pretty much been in perpetual lockdown since last March, it can’t be that, surely?

if only it was just Bolton. The whole of greater Manchester will get the same treatment if they do local lockdowns again (which they said they wouldn’t, but of course they will)

 

[Healdplace]

Unfortunately the hospital data is not looking too cheerful either.

England back to where it was two days ago - down by the 8 it went up yesterday.

But the NW rose both in patients and ventilators today and is now up on both week to week where it was falling.

3 more patients and 6 more on ventilators than 7 days ago.

Small numbers so far but not what we want to be seeing. The ventilator rise especially concerning.

The admissions in the NW today were also up on last week from 15 to 19.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Texas cases, hospitalisations and deaths continue to drop, the “just wait 2weeks” crowds are now staring at week 11 of Nightclubs, bars, restaurants and totally full stadiums, all being open and no vaccine passports.
Texas has 29 million people.

They don’t let every man and dog through their border controls, unlike us.

 

[antspider]

I get your point but it all becomes rather mundane and predictable every day.
I appreciate SAGE are doing their job but personally I think some of their "experts" are enjoying their moment in the sun too much and don't want to relinquish the spotlight they are having and will do anything to scare and cause anxiety.
That idiot Ferguson too gets an interview every week, the idiot who broke lockdown rules last year, another one who makes wild predictions and forecasts throughout his career and has consistently been proved wrong. Yet they keep asking him for interviews, why?

Just my take but what lots of people are forgetting is the mental health issues it's creating with all this, now nearly 14 months in. The press, SAGE and the goverment need to just fucking get on with it and stop pussy footing around and been ruled by SAGE.

I completely agree SAGE are enjoying their moment in the sun!
What does he even mean by a third wave?
The Indian variant some people would have you believe Is rife , as far as I know has killed nobody that has been vaccinated,
7 deaths was it yesterday in a country of nearly 70 million,,
Still they want us running scared FFS

 

[Manc in London]

On BBC News just announced track and trace messed up and did not notify local areas about the cases that seem to have triggered the Indian variant wave for three weeks. Preventing measures being taken early, Amongst those areas not notified were Blackburn and Blackpool in the NW.

A 'glitch' in the system was blamed.

Surely the whole system is the glitch if it fails to pass on key data about what it was created to prevent?

So the public sector have done their job effectively and elements of the private sector have messed up again during the pandemic. No surprise to me.

 

[M18CTID]

Concerns about Bolton cases and the Indian variant aside, that’s the 6th day in a row that the UK has reported deaths in single figures.

 

[True_Blue69]

Concerns about Bolton cases and the Indian variant aside, that’s the 6th day in a row that the UK has reported deaths in single figures.

Not sure why people are obsessing over a very small number of cases which is barely rising week to week. If they don’t open up on June 21st and the deaths are still this low there needs to be mass protests. It can’t be allowed to go on.

 

[splinter]

Keeping a close eye on Bolton hospital deaths..if its low this time next month, then surely June 21st gets the green light?

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Not sure why people are obsessing over a very small number of cases which is barely rising week to week. If they don’t open up on June 21st and the deaths are still this low there needs to be mass protests. It can’t be allowed to go on.

Bolton is up 100 cases week on week. That's pretty big is it not? Granted the surge testing is going on, and obviously we're all hoping these are mainly asymptomatic finds but their hospital figures are on a knife edge so it's understandable people are watching this closely imo.

 

[paulchapo]

Not sure why people are obsessing over a very small number of cases which is barely rising week to week. If they don’t open up on June 21st and the deaths are still this low there needs to be mass protests. It can’t be allowed to go on.

Life has to go on at some point. We need to know who amongst the recent hospitalisations and deaths were vaccinated and who weren't. If the vaccinated are at minimal risk then we open up. The unvaccinated have a choice. They can isolate or take a chance, or have the vaccination.