Even if he did, a lot of people that age don't know they do have underlying health issues because they've not yet manifested themselves, so foolish to play roulette with your life in the hope you haven't.
How many avoidable deaths would you like to see? What’s your limit? The media are actually, for once, doing society a favour if they are doing as you say. Why do we “have to be careful”?I.e basically the media are going out of their way to report a death or two when loads have recovered in the same boat.
Some extraordinarily high week to week falls. Not seen so many in one go. In seven days Wigan down 331 is unprecedented in one go
These drops are so large it's hard to believe they truly reflect the change in transmission of the virus over the week. Particularly because they seem to be almost uniform across the country, which isn't what you'd expect if it was a herd immunity thing.
That's not at all to suggest that they're faked, or anything like that, I'm sure they genuinely show the level of positive tests.
But perhaps there's something going on here with people being less likely to come forward for testing with the end of restrictions and not wanting to isolate through holidays? Plus maybe many people reacted to "freedom day" by keeping the hell away from the unmasked revellers out to lick as many people as possible??
Anyway, surely at least some of this must be real and excellent news.
As I say my only true guide is the current hospital data pattern matching the expected lag to the fall in cases in Scotland and North West in admissions and to a degree ventilators and deaths are starting to equalise too as the other regions are going up and three have overtaken the NW in the past week.These drops are so large it's hard to believe they truly reflect the change in transmission of the virus over the week. Particularly because they seem to be almost uniform across the country, which isn't what you'd expect if it was a herd immunity thing.
That's not at all to suggest that they're faked, or anything like that, I'm sure they genuinely show the level of positive tests.
But perhaps there's something going on here with people being less likely to come forward for testing with the end of restrictions and not wanting to isolate through holidays? Plus maybe many people reacted to "freedom day" by keeping the hell away from the unmasked revellers out to lick as many people as possible??
Anyway, surely at least some of this must be real and excellent news.
I suspect you are correct. In my area the council bin services have been disrupted by staff being pinged and supposedly having to isolate. It didn't stop a bunch of them (who I recognised) enjoying a Pingday drink in one of our local pub beer gardens.Don’t want to sound negative- but with restrictions all back open, I think people with a cold and some of the symptoms just don’t bother getting tested now as for many it’s not worth the hassle isolating and getting time off work etc.
How many avoidable deaths would you like to see? What’s your limit? The media are actually, for once, doing society a favour if they are doing as you say. Why do we “have to be careful”?
Cases falling though - and the number of deaths from Delta is still far less than an average flu season.Data finally up.
31, 795 cases as we knew
86 all settings deaths - as we did not.
That means 74 in England - so a high number here from A Friday.
It was jut 35 last Friday,
Deaths lag cases by a week or two remember, So these come from before these case falls.
North West was still the highest region on 17 deaths yesterday,