Don’t bother listening or reading the news on any TV channel or from any newspaper at all anymore. They’re a bunch of fucking idiots, to a man on every channel and at every paper.Thats what I thought the data said - why I was surprised at the TV news. Maybe it was ITV. Not payng full attention.
It has to be milder. Quite a bit milder.Didn’t see that coming…
Any chance of all restrictions being reversed now?
Again, it’s not cases that’s important in a majority vaccinated population, but hospitalizations and deaths.
If those are higher than before, then people will lose faith in the vaccination protocols we all undertook for our health and safety, and the looney toons who denigrated the vaccines will think they’ve been vindicated!
Immunology is hard, and the lay person simply isn’t equipped for the multi-step intellectual process that tries to explain why vaccines are a good thing, even if this new variant is spreading like wildfire and even vaccinated people might get it!
Wildfire is a good analogy, though, if you think of the vaccines as a fire suit! Would you rather stand naked before the wildfire as it sweeps across your path, in the hope that it won’t burn you, or would you rather wear a fire suit, in the same hope?
I’ve made my choice.
It’s ridiculous. Even at the peak of the January wave when I went for a PCR test (and subsequently tested positive), I got my result back the following day in the early hours of the morningThat's terrible. Surely people working in the NHS must be given priority on all testing. This just sounds like stupidity. To think that people are only infectious for a few days but have to wait 96 hours for a result is ridiculous.
They’d argue they did, their October models being a good example. More examples in here -
What they wouldn’t have done is hit anywhere near their worst case scenario modelling, which are the figures that get over reported by the media.
Absolute bullshit.
just because it’s milder doesn’t mean the NHS is under severe pressure at the moment