Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

The arrogance of these fools is truly astonishing.

They think they know more about the vaccine than virtually the entire medical profession. It’s actually unbelievable how off the scale preposterous it is, that a sales rep from Wigston thinks they know more than virtually every doctor on the planet about the safety and efficacy of this vaccine.

Dangerous pricks.

They did their own research don't you know?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

They did their own research don't you know?

There’s a few active ones on the Spot Check thread. They know better than scientists!

 

[frothy]

ZOE APP DATA


TODAY


GREATER MANCHESTER:-


Bury - very surprisingly - stays top on Zoe making it the highest in GM . But DOWN on 20, 904 FROM 21, 959

Tameside - unsurprisingly - stays in second place and is rising today - UP on 16, 073 FROM 14, 733

Salford edges UP into third on 12, 753 FROM 11, 265

Stockport just below in fourth despite inching up slightly UP on 12, 595 FROM 12, 423

Manchester is up to fifth though DOWN on 11, 759 FROM 12, 131


THERE ARE NOW FIVE BOROUGHS IN THE LOWER SUB 10K WATCH ZONE


Trafford is in sixth and still falling fast as real data confirms - DOWN on 9542 FROM 12, 202

Oldham is seventh region but DOWN on 9167 FROM 9266

Wigan in eighth has improved a lot and again DOWN on 7931 FROM 8639

Bolton in ninth DOWN on 5051 FROM 5440


BUT BEST IN GM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE IS NOW:-

Rochdale in tenth and has improved even more DOWN on 4709 FROM 5616













REST OF NORTH WEST


West Lancashire - the region between Bootle, Formby and Southport in west and Wigan is UP on10, 719


Liverpool UP on 10, 565 FROM 9743

AND St Helens WAY DOWN on 6774 FROM over 20 K 3 days ago.

also

Though Sefton (the coastal part of Merseyside and Lancashire) is DOWN on 8531 FROM 10, 720
the Blackpool coast area and the Fylde is now the new problem area of the North West.

In the sun and with the illuminations opening ON 14, 325 (slightly down).

ALSO VERY NOTABLE THAT SUNSHINE ARRIVES AND BOTH NORTH WALES AND THE LAKE DISTRICT HAVE SHOT UP IN NUMBERS IN THE PAST FEW DAYS


Chorley is UP again too on 13, 554 FROM 10, 046




Cheshire East - is still low but has gone UP again tracking Stockport on 9471 FROM 8156.

But behind Stockport still and much better than Chester and Cheshire West - now the worst part of the NW outside of BURY - though a bit DOWN on 17, 437 FROM 18, 490

Still can't understand why they are so far out with the Tameside figures

 

[BlueAnorak]

Moderate fall in case numbers over the last two days yet schools restarted last week.
Fingers crossed.

 

[hammocity]

a study recently done in America shows that vaccine hesitancy is higher in the more educated and the highest group of hesitancy is amongst those with PHDs

so not sure about your stupid and thick comment tbf

Subjective post?

 

[hammocity]

Text from a mate:

"Hammo you heard about Keith Parker? Bazs mate super fit marathons tour of tameside every year really was a fit man just died of covid 63 Yr old shocking double jabbed etc "

Very scary

 

[grunge]

The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs

There has been much debate over how to get the unvaccinated to get their jabs — shame them, bribe them, persuade them, or treat them as victims of mis- and disinformation campaigns — but who, exactly, are these people? Most of the coverage would have you believe that the surge in cases is...

unherd.com

I read the paper the other week when it first came out. A study paid for and executed on Facebook. Where anyone can claim to be anything.

While interesting at the surface it has about as much scientific validity as me creating a poll on here.

 

[M18CTID]

Did anyone else see the anti vaxx idiots with the placards on the way to the King Power from Junction 21 yesterday?

Bunch of fucking losers.

Thank fuck I travelled to the match by train!

While we're on this topic, a mate who was at the match with us on Saturday said this is happening near him on Friday evenings in Heaton Norris at the Tiviot Dale/Lanky Hill roundabout. After we all discussed it, we suggested a measured solution - anyone driving past should just run the fuckers over ;)

 

[Healdplace]

Still can't understand why they are so far out with the Tameside figures

It has to just be the numbers who use it. Below a certain threshold if the numbers are small tiny changes make big differences to the estimates.

Zoe is largely educated guesswork everywhere and no location is perfect by any means. And some they just gave up on entirely (like Blackburn) and just never posted and accepted as unreliable. They did this with Tameside too for a time but tweaked it twice since and it is more accurate than it was.

But Zoe is easy to misinterpret as it is really all just educated guesswork turning small numbers into population level estimates and its numbers should never be regarded as literally real for anywhere.

They see trends well. I would not consider it as more than a guide to the direction anywhere is going. And it is right most of the the time for Tameside now.
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But they have still never considered East Lancashire safe to guesstimate possibly as it has been one of the most watched places with the highest cases throughout much of the pandemic and so they are sensitive to getting it wrong.

I think Blackburn STILL has the highest Pop Score across the pandemic in the UK on 18, 403. Three whole steps above the 15K club that is the highest for any GM borough and 5 above Tameside in the 13,000s and 6 above Stockport & Trafford in the 12Ks and lowest in GM.

Nobody else is that high but the second highest is in the same area - Burnley- in the 17K club.

Cheshire East by the way on the edge of GM but always below it has yet to reach the 10 K club though it is only a week or two away from getting there.

Nowhere in GM is now in the 10 K club OR the 11K club.

 

[Healdplace]

There are only 3 boroughs in the UK now in either the 1K or 2 K club and NOBODY below 1000. This time last year some rural areas in places like Devon were sub 100 let alone 1000.

Now only the Orkney Islands and the Shetlands are below 3000.

In terms of big cities

Belfast 12, 128, Birmingham 13, 303, Bristol 12, 338. Cardiff 9622, Coventry 10, 470, Derby 11, 838, Glasgow 13, 016 , Hull 13, 485, Leeds 13, 534, Liverpool 14, 861, Manchester 15, 458, Newcastle 13, 873, Nottingham 14, 033, Oxford 10, 677, Preston 14, 841, Salford 15, 158, Sheffield, 12, 097, Stoke 12, 313, Sunderland 14, 097, Swansea 10, 458, York 9950

As you can see the twin cities of Manchester and Salford are the two highest in the UK.

The North West throughout the pandemic has been the epicentre.
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Though also worth bearing in mind that Manchester and Salford have the two LOWEST vaccination rates in the 10 GM boroughs.