Coronavirus (2022) thread

[Johnny Mars Bar]

From the BBC
Asked about mandatory vaccination for NHS staff, Johnson says there are 18,000 people currently in hospital with Covid, which is "massively up", with the numbers increasing.

A sizeable percentage - 30% or more - of those patients have caught Covid in hospital, he says, before calling it "not acceptable".


Unless Boris has his figures wrong, 30%+ catching it in hospital is quite shocking.

It's mental isn't it.

I've told this story before on here, my aunty went into hospital for heart surgery in 2020 and caught covid in there. She never came out. While covid was one of a number of contributing factors and far from the "cause" of her death, if vaccinated staff can reduce the risk to patents by even 1% has got to be a good thing.

So frankly if you're a doctor, nurse, receptionist or toilet cleaner in a clinical setting and you've not been vaccinated, you're a fucking stupid selfish **** and I'm glad you've lost your job. I hope these people get struck off for life.

Tbh it's how I feel about the general population too. I've said multiple times on here I wouldn't employ anti vaxxers, give them sick pay or NHS treatment.

Fuck the lot of them, they can drop dead I'm not arsed.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Not in the middle of winter we wont , we have a lot of older people in this country , imagine a covid positive nurse or dr treating them, as i say , madness

but surely they can work on covid wards

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

It's mental isn't it.

I've told this story before on here, my aunty went into hospital for heart surgery in 2020 and caught covid in there. She never came out. While covid was one of a number of contributing factors and far from the "cause" of her death, if vaccinated staff can reduce the risk to patents by even 1% has got to be a good thing.

So frankly if you're a doctor, nurse, receptionist or toilet cleaner in a clinical setting and you've not been vaccinated, you're a fucking stupid selfish **** and I'm glad you've lost your job. I hope these people get struck off for life.

Tbh it's how I feel about the general population too. I've said multiple times on here I wouldn't employ anti vaxxers, give them sick pay or NHS treatment.

Fuck the lot of them, they can drop dead I'm not arsed.

Mandatory vaccines have certainly worked in care homes, where all non vaccinated staff were all sacked in November, in order to prevent outbreaks in those very care homes.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Mandatory vaccines have certainly worked in care homes, where all non vaccinated staff were all sacked in November, in order to prevent outbreaks in those very care homes.

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To be fair, nothing is stopping omicron, and it’ll be a blessing in the end.

 

[mackenzie]

I've had "proper" flu twice in my 57 years. Wiped me out and I thought I would never get well again, but I did.
I haven't had Covid so far though (touch wood) and I've been in the office all the way through it. So, what I'm asking is, will we eventually see people with Covid, who perhaps have no symptoms other than a bit of a cold/sore throat etc (which my partners 74 year old dad had last week..."Covid" for the second time for him) being allowed into the workplace soon? As we did before when colds/chest infections could still be transferred to the vulnerable?

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Anybody watched the Royal Institute Christmas lectures by JVT? Highly recommended if you haven't, you can find them on I player.

 

[Octavian]

Mandatory vaccines have certainly worked in care homes, where all non vaccinated staff were all sacked in November, in order to prevent outbreaks in those very care homes.

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That figure could have been significantly higher with significantly more deaths if that policy wasn’t introduced.

 

[Octavian]

I've had "proper" flu twice in my 57 years. Wiped me out and I thought I would never get well again, but I did.
I haven't had Covid so far though (touch wood) and I've been in the office all the way through it. So, what I'm asking is, will we eventually see people with Covid, who perhaps have no symptoms other than a bit of a cold/sore throat etc (which my partners 74 year old dad had last week..."Covid" for the second time for him) being allowed into the workplace soon? As we did before when colds/chest infections could still be transferred to the vulnerable?

Eventually yes.

 

[artfuldodger]

It's mental isn't it.

I've told this story before on here, my aunty went into hospital for heart surgery in 2020 and caught covid in there. She never came out. While covid was one of a number of contributing factors and far from the "cause" of her death, if vaccinated staff can reduce the risk to patents by even 1% has got to be a good thing.

So frankly if you're a doctor, nurse, receptionist or toilet cleaner in a clinical setting and you've not been vaccinated, you're a fucking stupid selfish **** and I'm glad you've lost your job. I hope these people get struck off for life.

Tbh it's how I feel about the general population too. I've said multiple times on here I wouldn't employ anti vaxxers, give them sick pay or NHS treatment.

Fuck the lot of them, they can drop dead I'm not arsed.

Problem is they won’t get sacked. They will be moved to non public facing jobs.

 

[hammocity]

Not really. Pretty much everyone is now going in this direction and the virus is clearly nothing like what it was even 12 months ago. Time to move on.

Almost everyone who’s worked, attended events or socialised recently will have been exposed to Omicron, just crack on but don’t have any contact with the vulnerable who are shielding.