Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Blue and still suffering]

Truly awful numbers, but I can try and take solace that it looks like we're at the peak of this now and the cases are falling very quickly, consistently. I'd not be surprised if next week's deaths start to be down each day when we look back week on week. Fingers crossed.

Think we have reached the date that Prof Whitty referred to a couple of weeks ago when he thought the highest number would be.

 

[grunge]

I’m starting to think we had the wrong approach to all this. We should’ve had mass DNR forms made from the start... All those hellbent on getting themselves killed are put on the list. Worry about the ethics behind it later.

Yep. Let them take him home and give it to the bed of someone who deserves it. Ideally send in a TV crew to watch him die and have a documentry of it for the rest of the muppets.

 

[abu13]

Im lost for words at this video. These people need dealing with properly

I dispair with people at times.

 

[Blue tube]

What a brill reply, you're a dab hand at this not like the other lost soles

I dont blame them, i think everyones a bit crabby at the moment. Whoever you mean though, eel get over it

 

[Healdplace]

There is some slightly bad news though.

All the regions are falling fast. But the NW actually went UP slightly today after the lowest fall yesterday.

We are now almost the worst place in England for case numbers.

London is only 819 ahead after being 10,000 more 3 or 4 weeks ago.

Though the NW is down to levels that are not catastrophic and well below what we had at the peak of that second wave in October - up all of 68 today to 2997.

The trend though is still a little concerning.

 

[unicorn]

Is our mass vaccination program paying off combined with the high numbers we already had from past waves making driving this wave down easier?

Anecdotally I think much of the country has been infected over the past 6/8 weeks. And I think I had it last Spring. Why I have self isolated ever since. In my own family almost everyone but me caught it inside a couple of weeks since Christmas. Think in double figures now. And all survived with modest at worst symptoms.

I genuinely expected the low numbers to be an anomaly and if not due to low testing. As it seems to be neither something else is going on.

In many ways I wish you were right, @Healdplace, and that many of us HAD had it already.

I suspect that the number who've caught it is still well under a third of the population, and even on the higher Zoe numbers we're only adding a few percentage points to the overall total each week. The vaccine is the only way out.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

A lot of attention will understandably be given to the 100,000 barrier of deaths being crossed but that was inevitable for some time.

Tragic as every death is the cases literally falling off a cliff is the big news today. As there is no obvious explanation by the looks of it outside a real fall.

Just said before the briefing on the News that the ONS had it recorded at 100,000+ on 7th January.

 

[Mayor West]

A little education is a dangerous thing.
Distressing.

Dont you mean little education is a dangerous thing?

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

First question regarding when they can travel. The only thing people seem arsed about.

 

[Rammy Blue]

First question regarding when they can travel. The only thing people seem arsed about.

Turned straight off as soon as I heard that, fucking muppets.