Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

46,169 Last Monday though BlueHammer. Which was higher than the day after.

Tests are the issue (when we get them that is due to yet another data failure!)

That Sunday figure last week was about 440,000 - well down and the high positivities from other nations today suggest a low test number yesterday may well be true also.

But we do not even know the last two days testing data as they never bother releasing it in England at weekend.

 

[BlueHammer85]

46,169 Last Monday though BlueHammer. Which was higher than the day after.

Tests are the issue (when we get them that is due to yet another data failure!)

That Sunday figure last week was about 440,000 - well down and the high positivities from other nations today suggest a low test number yesterday may well be true also.

But we do not even know the last two days testing data as they never bother releasing it in England at weekend.

good news then.

 

[WNRH]

Absolute Must watch documentary on BBC2 about the Covid 19 pandemic, tomorrow night 9.00pm..
2 brothers from the Wuhan research centre, where Trump suspects it was engineered, were due to get on Flight MH370 that miraculously disappeared.
Seems they were the guys behind the development of the new strain, and intending to use it as a weapon, someone caught wind of their plans and purposefully downed the plane. Neither of them got on the flight though. It’s really interesting. Have a look at it - it's called:
Two Wongs Don't Make a Flight!

Got me, I was searching for it on the sky guide before I read the whole thing!

 

[WNRH]

Question to any Kiwi blues out there; how have you got to that point? Is the whole country vaccinated now? It only takes one infected person in that crowd, and you're back to square one. And yes; I'm aware that NZ's geographical location, vis a vis their relative isolation, gives them an advantage in controlling the virus. But with air travel so commonplace these days, is anywhere truly "isolated" any more?

It’s summer over there? Must contribute as well?

 

[Healdplace]

Testing WAS low yesterday 395, 737. Pillar 1 & 2. For 37, 535 cases

Compared with last two days:-

469, 404 for 38, 598

575, 337 for 41, 346

And it is a whopping 278, 000 down on last Thursday when there were nearly 56K cases!

As I have been saying all weekend the idiotic decision never to release testing numbers for England is something the media should be calling out. As it is vital to give context and every other home nation DOES do it but England.

Positivity numbers which all other nations report depend on it and Gov UK has no apparemt interest in revealing that data.

You have to ask why. It is not that thet do not sere its importance and starts to look like deliberate deception unless there is another very good explanation.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Cases 20% down on last Monday

4 million vaccinated

it’s good news but

press conference with Hancock at 5pm

to quote Piccadilly radio back in the day. ...

OOOOOOHHHHHH NNNNNNOOOOOO.

 

[grunge]

Question to any Kiwi blues out there; how have you got to that point? Is the whole country vaccinated now? It only takes one infected person in that crowd, and you're back to square one. And yes; I'm aware that NZ's geographical location, vis a vis their relative isolation, gives them an advantage in controlling the virus. But with air travel so commonplace these days, is anywhere truly "isolated" any more?

Vast majority of the time they are in single digits of cases per day meaning they can do a really solid track and trace system.

in total they have had 2,262 known cases.

it was something we could have had if we had used the time we had wisely and not unlocked too quickly 1st time around. as well as not gone down the route of creating our own track and trace app which was a massive money and time hole as it was never going to work.

 

[Eds]

Testing WAS low yesterday 395, 737. Pillar 1 & 2.

Compared with last two days:-

469, 404

575, 337

And 278, 000 down on last Thursday!

positivity just under 10% so whilst low cases we must take into account low number of tests

 

[Healdplace]

Cases 20% down on last Monday

4 million vaccinated

it’s good news but

press conference with Hancock at 5pm

to quote Piccadilly radio back in the day. ...

OOOOOOHHHHHH NNNNNNOOOOOO.

It is nothing like the good news concealing the positivity number for days by deliberating not giving the testing numbers all weekend implies.

It is about time some big I am journalist started doing their job and asking WHY they do this when every other country and the other three nations do and are open and honest. And cite the positivity rating as the key figure the WHO say it is.

Not doing this is clearly deception.

If it is not deliberate deception then they need to be asked why they do not do it.

If it is deliberate explain why.

I have been making this point all weekend because it matters.

And high paid reporters ought to get this.

 

[Uwe`s Grandad]

positivity just under 10% so whilst low cases we must take into account low number of tests

Could it not be seen as a positive that less people have asked for a test or is that just wishful thinking on my part.