Coronavirus (2021) thread

[BlueHammer85]

I'm guessing they will say in a few months, the booster only gives you a small limited time of immunity and a new variant will come along so we have to go get the booster plus

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I'm guessing they will say in a few months, the booster only gives you a small limited time of immunity and a new variant will come along so we have to go get the booster plus

It’ll be when Pfizer have adapted their vaccine to incorporate Omicron in about100 days, they said a week or two back.

 

[inbetween]

Same, sorta. Wife has just tested positive via LFT. She's got cold-like symptoms. Awaiting a PCR result. Can only presume ive got it coming on too as ive got a banging headache today. Neither of us are remotely concerned about anything serious (fingers crossed), more just gutted that we're gonna have to cancel some plans really. Is this basically the end goal really? Eventually it becomes endemic and no one is really that worried about it anymore?

Interesting that the LFT's are working as I know a few people who'd had symptoms but were negative and later PCR proved they were positive. I had headaches and a bad cold earlier in the month, it only lasted about a week and now it's passed. I did multiple LFT's and all were negative, obviously it was probably just a cold but I couldn't have a PCR because I didn't have the classic symptoms so who knows?

The government needs to seriously think about changing the symptom criteria for PCR testing, does anyone really get the holy 3 symptoms? How many people are not going to isolate and spread it because the unreliable LFT is negative and they don't have the 'right' symptoms?

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

It’ll be when Pfizer have adapted their vaccine to incorporate Omicron in about100 days, they said a week or two back.

Omicron will be done and dusted in much less time than a 100 days.

 

[BlueHammer85]

A third of Londoners are completely unvaccinated, as a surge of Omicron cases sweeps the capital.

The proportion of the population without a single jab is three times as high in London as in the country as a whole, and the 14 areas with the country’s lowest vaccination rates are all London boroughs. In Westminster four in ten people have not had a single jab.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

It’ll be when Pfizer have adapted their vaccine to incorporate Omicron in about100 days, they said a week or two back.

If they think I'm having a fourth jab in 100 days they're having a fucking laugh.

 

[Summerbuzz]

I can't stand wet socks. I refuse to wear shoes around the house, but I being a clumsy ape, whenever I do the washing up, or go to the bathroom, you can be sure I'll be left with wet fucking socks. And there is nothing worse on this earth than wet socks.

For me. Also clammy, stuffy rooms. Fuck stuffy rooms. I have windows open on the coldest days. It's not like every time I'm in a stuffy room, I get a headache or feel sleepy. But I probably would feel a bit shit, one way or another. Also, traffic. Can't stand people driving fast, dodging orange lights at traffic. The noise and smell is just awful.

That's me, all over. Personal stuff. We're all different.

I find it easy to believe that facemasks are the same to some people as stuffy rooms are to me. If I was looking at 6 months of enforced stuffy rooms, I might well use the term, "horrendous".

Possibly, to some people, they are as bad as wearing damp socks.

If that's you, thanks for wearing one.

THANKYOU.

It's possible we could be doing enough in other ways to make up for the requirement to wear a mask, but we aren't. And anyway, whatever it was we chose to do, someone, somewhere, would hate it, and not because it's COVID or Nanny state. If a thing exists, you can guarantee, someone, somewhere hates it with a passion, because it just doesn't agree with them. We're all different, and that is for the best.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

A third of Londoners are completely unvaccinated, as a surge of Omicron cases sweeps the capital.

The proportion of the population without a single jab is three times as high in London as in the country as a whole, and the 14 areas with the country’s lowest vaccination rates are all London boroughs. In Westminster four in ten people have not had a single jab.

That can't be right surely?

In some of the more "diverse" areas I can believe it, but Westminster?

 

[Marvin]

And 25 million boosted and most of those will not get symptomatic infection but they should remind anyone who is boosted that you can still infect parents, and it takes 7-14 days to generate a good immune response. The 70% effectiveness refers to protection against symptoms, not transmission.

In every previous wave the peak does not go all the way to encompass the population, it reaches an equilibrium and then falls. Obviously that is going to feed into the serious illness calculation. It isn't going to rise inexorably with a constant doubling rate. We need to get a handle on the transmission rate, how it will change, and the extent of serious illness.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I can't stand wet socks. I refuse to wear shoes around the house, but I being a clumsy ape, whenever I do the washing up, or go to the bathroom, you can be sure I'll be left with wet fucking socks. And there is nothing worse on this earth than wet socks.

For me. Also clammy, stuffy rooms. Fuck stuffy rooms. I have windows open on the coldest days. It's not like every time I'm in a stuffy room, I get a headache or feel sleepy. But I probably would feel a bit shit, one way or another. Also, traffic. Can't stand people driving fast, dodging orange lights at traffic. The noise and smell is just awful.

That's me, all over. Personal stuff. We're all different.

I find it easy to believe that facemasks are the same to some people as stuffy rooms are to me. If I was looking at 6 months of enforced stuffy rooms, I might well use the term, "horrendous".

Possibly, to some people, they are as bad as wearing damp socks.

If that's you, thanks for wearing one.

THANKYOU.

It's possible we could be doing enough in other ways to make up for the requirement to wear a mask, but we aren't. And anyway, whatever it was we chose to do, someone, somewhere, would hate it, and not because it's COVID or Nanny state. If a thing exists, you can guarantee, someone, somewhere hates it with a passion, because it just doesn't agree with them. We're all different, and that is for the best.

I don't understand how some people can't get it into their heads that other people might find face masks claustrophobic and psychologically oppressive.

One man's "fuck all" is another man's panic attack trigger.