Coronavirus (2022) thread

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Can't argue with that mate. It is certainly strange that one person and not the other has it, unless you've locked her in the shed:-)

Believe me, I tried!!

We weren’t in the same rooms at the same time, had the windows open and used designated bathrooms.

 

[m7mcfc]

I've been exactly the same, aching, headache runny nose and cough but all tests negative. Missus says man flu and to stop sniffing. Always full of sympathy

Exactly the same symptoms with sneezing episodes too.
I even went out and bought different lateral flow tests as I thought the box in the house was telling lies. Still negative.

 

[Healdplace]

Just for those in Greater Manchester here is the current state of the ten boroughs by Pop Score (cases evened out V POPulation) Not done this for a few weeks so worth a catch up now cases are falling.

Higher the more Covid there is locally - Lower the better

Borough Today V Last Monday



MANCHESTER 237 V 480

OLDHAM 247 V 399

BOLTON 262 V 457

ROCHDALE 274 V 441

TAMESIDE 301 V 579

SALFORD 308 V 544

BURY 322 V 527

WIGAN 333 V 532

STOCKPORT 360 V 639

TRAFFORD 398 V 627

 

[Healdplace]

Last post for a few days unless anything big changes.

Here s today's Zoe App Graph. As you can see it is falling but quite slowly and not as fast as it rose.

In fact the rate of fall is actually slower than a few days ago. Preducted cases today on 286,794 down just 3051 - the third day running the fall has been less than the day before.

North West though is now falling more and was top five days ago but is now fifth with all the other North and Midlands regions ahead of it.In order Yorkshire, North East, West MIdlands & East MIdlands are the four all above NW but falling mainly just a little.Whilst NW falling two or three times as much.

The southern regions that rose first were the first tp fall and all below the North & Midlands regions.

The lowest is Scotland though it is actually up a little today.

 

[twosips]

Just got back from Seoul in South Korea. They take it all so seriously there still. Felt like stepping back in time. Public alerts on your phone, sanitiser and distancing still, plus the highest mask-uptake in the world. Literally *everyone* was wearing one. I saw so many put their masks back on between bites of food too, with people sat in bars wearing them still while talking to their friends...there's even a curfew in place still, and people can only really visit if they're triple vaccinated. Yet they've got one of the the highest case rates in the world (if not *the* highest).

Thankfully it's a high vaccine uptake so the deaths are low, but it just goes to show that the intervention methods that were maybe useful with the original strain just can't really do anything in the face of Omicron. If they can't stop it, then there's not really much anyone can do other than locking everyone indoors.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Just got back from Seoul in South Korea. They take it all so seriously there still. Felt like stepping back in time. Public alerts on your phone, sanitiser and distancing still, plus the highest mask-uptake in the world. Literally *everyone* was wearing one. I saw so many put their masks back on between bites of food too, with people sat in bars wearing them still while talking to their friends...there's even a curfew in place still, and people can only really visit if they're triple vaccinated. Yet they've got one of the the highest case rates in the world (if not *the* highest).

Thankfully it's a high vaccine uptake so the deaths are low, but it just goes to show that the intervention methods that were maybe useful with the original strain just can't really do anything in the face of Omicron. If they can't stop it, then there's not really much anyone can do other than locking everyone indoors.

Locking everyone indoors as per Shanghai, fucking mental what’s going on in China.

 

[twosips]

Locking everyone indoors as per Shanghai, fucking mental what’s going on in China.

Yeah its horrific. I think other than encouraging vaccination uptake and encouraging people to be sensible about socialising if they feel unwell, there's nothing we can really do now anymore. It's insanely contagious and we'd have to change society and how we live, socialise and work dramatically to counter it, and obviously that isn't gonna happen anytime soon

 

[Healdplace]

As you are here- It looks like hospital patients are now clearly falling.

England down today 311 to 16,131 V 16,552 last Tuesday (which was then a rise on the day of 86)

Down 421 on the week - biggest drop since the second Omicron variant arrived.

Only MIdlands - which had the most deaths today - 87 - was UP by 1 patient. Everywhere else down - East and South East both falling by over 100.

North West down 35 to 2438 - up by just 3 on last Tuesday.

All the indications are falling numbers are not just fewer test related but a real effect as hospital testing is still happening but patients now clearly falling.

England hospital deaths today were 315 V 314 last Tuesday. This is nearly always the biggest day of the week so that looks like clear signs of the final measure on cases - patients - deaths to also now have peaked.

Both Scotland (2118 patients V 2380 last week) & N Ireland (440 V 530 last week) are falling too.

So this does look like a genuine downturn.


Will not post in more detail just updates when news is worth giving as this.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Yeah its horrific. I think other than encouraging vaccination uptake and encouraging people to be sensible about socialising if they feel unwell, there's nothing we can really do now anymore. It's insanely contagious and we'd have to change society and how we live, socialise and work dramatically to counter it, and obviously that isn't gonna happen anytime soon

Think I’m on my 3rd bout of covid, but can’t be arsed doing a test. Current standard symptoms of tickly cough, headaches, fatigue. Fucking bored of it tbh, I’ve been ill on and off for about 6 weeks now.

 

[Blue and still suffering]

Hope you manage to shake it off for good this time.