Coronavirus (2022) thread

[blueparrot]

It’s all about opinions of course.

Mine is she’s full of shit.

Okay, not your problem anyway, as Drakeford isn't mine. Johnson is everyones problem

 

[shemnel]

Mancheser hospitals have just reported that the situation declared last week as becoming critical has eased this week. Patient numbers not rapidly escalating. ICUs not being stretched. And staff levels are back up after many off last week due to having Covid or isolating.

Morecambe area that last week declared critical status has stepped that down today too,

Suggests the falling numbers are real and not just fewer test related. Though that has not been very evident in the daily test numbers anyway.

got my operation yesterday in this Trust, they had kept one hospital as a covid free hospital, all patients to other ones. The staff were saying that staff absences were number one cause of consternation, with covid patients also causing pressure on ward availability. The shared view was that things are starting ever so slightly to look up.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I'll get this post banished to the politics thread for saying so, but she's a deluded half-wit whose only strategy is to just do the opposite of what Westminster does, regardless of whether it's the right decision or not.

You could always cut out the middleman and go direct to the politics thread.

Much of the bile about Sturgeon seems to me to be related to sad, poorly endowed men who can't cope with the idea of a woman being in charge.

 

[jaseirai]

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces that limits on the number of people who can attend outdoor events will be scrapped from Monday.

Ms Sturgeon says there are signs that the number of people being hospitalised with COVID is slowing down.

Fandabbydosie.

 

[BlueHammer85]

France will announce a record of more than 350,000 new COVID cases in the latest 24-hour period, Health Minister Olivier Veran has said.

 

[Manc in London]

I think the best description i've heard is. "Ask them if they would have gotton out of bed to get a suitcase full of money that was at the end of the path". if they say sod it, I wanna stay in bed, its Flu.

My mum has always said pretty much the exact same thing.

Without wanting to turn this into the Jaws scene about scars.....Flu? Try chronic bronchitis. Bloody hell. That was grim.

 

[Manc in London]

This is the type of the data we should be using to get people to get themselves vaccinated. Not threats or coercion, not “you‘ll lose your job or you’ll kill your granny”, but real information like this.

That will work for some but some vaccine refuseniks are well past point of being able to be nudged.

 

[wolfie1988]

You could always cut out the middleman and go direct to the politics thread.

Much of the bile about Sturgeon seems to me to be related to sad, poorly endowed men who can't cope with the idea of a woman being in charge.

But Drakeford is a twat too so what's the explanation there?

 

[Healdplace]

Posted the full data and graph on the data page but one interesting stat worth reporting here from Northerm Ireland.

I compared the % of people on 11 Jan 2021 and 11 Jan 2022 in Northern Ireland by age range who tested positive in the past week.

The over 80s then were 6% of all the cases - hence the high hospital, icu and death rates. Today it is 1.3%

And the over 60s then were 22% of all the cases - and today are 9.3%

This shows very quickly how the vaccines have worked.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

That will work for some but some vaccine refuseniks are well past point of being able to be nudged.

Shouldn’t stop trying though. We have done almost 200,000 first doses in 2022!