Coronavirus (2022) thread

Thankfully we've seen the last of these scientists..well until the enquiry if we ever get one
 
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Sage scenarios vs actual: an update | The Spectator

‘Deaths could hit 6,000 a day,’ reported the newspapers on 17 December. A day later documents for the 99th meeting of Sage were released which said that, without restrictions over and above ‘Plan B’, deaths would range from 600 to 6,000 a day. A summary of Sage advice, prepared for the Cabinet...
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Alan Harper's Tash said:
Omicron is doing a hell of a lot of lifting in your argument.

If it had been a severe variant, we would have been royally fucked.

Fortunately, it wasn’t.

A dozen soothsayers on this thread looking at trends in live South African data which showed signs of it not being as severe, without having the hospitalisation data 3-4 weeks down the line made your predictions before mid December dangerous, not visionary.

But yet again, you are calling our modellers out with the benefit of hindsight. It proved you right in the end, not during Omicron.
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Because it was Omicron so of course it’s doing the heavy lifting in the sentence. It’s the whole point of the fucking sentence. IT WAS OMICRON. IT WAS NOT DELTA. South Africa already had a month of data on how severe (or should we say mild) it was. SAGE ignored that and lobbied for a lockdown before Christmas.

There’s literally no point talking about ‘what if it was a more severe strain’ as it was and there was data around showing that. Did you not post on this thread in November and December?
 
SWP's back said:
Because it was Omicron so of course it’s doing the heavy lifting in the sentence. It’s the whole point of the fucking sentence. IT WAS OMICRON. IT WAS NOT DELTA. South Africa already had a month of data on how severe (or should we say mild) it was. SAGE ignored that and lobbied for a lockdown before Christmas.

There’s literally no point talking about ‘what if it was a more severe strain’ as it was and there was data around showing that. Did you not post on this thread in November and December?
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So you’ve no problem with the modellers apart from with Omicron?

I don’t even know why we’re having this debate. It’s done with.

Maybe you should switch your ire to weather forecasters next time they predict 100mph winds and on.y 85mph ones arrive.
 
splinter said:
Thankfully we've seen the last of these scientists..well until the enquiry if we ever get one
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Hopefully we have, because that will mean there are no new variants of concern. However if there are any new variants we will be using scientists, not people sat around on the internet or some random opinions from down the pub.
 
Rammy Blue said:
I’m glad I refrain in the main from posting in this thread nowadays, always a chuckle catching up on it though, same shit from the same few.
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Its incredible. A week it so ago this thread fucked off to page 2. I was delighted. I thought it was a sign of covid generally fucking off in life, which for most it has i think.

but no. One or two loons on here wont let that happen. Whilst covid can make them feel important and relevant theyll keep banging on about it .

weird
As
Fuck
 
marcus said:
Its incredible. A week it so ago this thread fucked off to page 2. I was delighted. I thought it was a sign of covid generally fucking off in life, which for most it has i think.

but no. One or two loons on here wont let that happen. Whilst covid can make them feel important and relevant theyll keep banging on about it .

weird
As
Fuck
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It would die a death if the anti SAGE frothers could keep their mouths shut.

They can’t, so the same debate/argument recurs.
 
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