Coronavirus (2022) thread

[BlueHammer85]

So do what? What should have happened instead? Stop people from seeing their families again? Allow people one trip outside a day?

no answer on that, what a surprise

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Misery loves company, as they say.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Very good news on cases front, hospitalisation looks close to peak too now. ICU still flat, which is best news of all.

No idea what is driving such high death numbers (reporting, spread into older ages, sheer weight of infections, incidental covid, something else...?).

Thread is getting increasingly abusive and bullying, not a good look. It won't make the disease go away.

 

[The Northern Baptist]

Wife of late Just Add Water founder Stewart Gilray urges people to get vaccinated

Last week, the games industry paid tribute to Just Add Water founder Stewart Gilray, who died of Covid aged just 51.

www.eurogamer.net

I have a lot of sympathy to this guy, crippling needle phobia resulting in being unvaccinated, He died last week, while I didn't know him directly ( I knew him on a different forum online ) I know a lot of people who did know him personally and every single person only has good things to say abut him. was genuinely a great bloke.

Get Vaccinated. If you have a needle phobia, And I know someone who does, there is help available to try to get past it as much as is possible, Talk to your Dr for help.

RIP.

Another toothpick. Next.

 

[wolfie1988]

Very good news on cases front, hospitalisation looks close to peak too now. ICU still flat, which is best news of all.

No idea what is driving such high death numbers (reporting, spread into older ages, sheer weight of infections, incidental covid, something else...?).

Thread is getting increasingly abusive and bullying, not a good look. It won't make the disease go away.

I think incidental is probably a big part of it purely because of the sheer volume of numbers infected.

On your 2nd point, I think bullying is a very strong word. The poster in question left a post on the forum that was always going to be called out for what it was. And when questioned, failed to suggest an alternative plan but implied full lockdown.

 

[BlueAnorak]

What is happening could have been forseen by a chimp , vaccinated or not doesnt matter , they are still deaths to families

Natural selection at work for the vast majority who were unvaccinated.
My thoughts and prayers go to their family members but they made a choice.
Also:
1. Countries with severe restrictions in place are producing as big a set of numbers than we are and they are earlier in the wave.
2. A huge chuck of the UK population will test positive for Covid and 2000+ people a day die in the winter months. Around 600 a day of these will have tested positive for Covid within 28 days by the end of Jan though the UK excess deaths total will only increase very modestly.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Very good news on cases front, hospitalisation looks close to peak too now. ICU still flat, which is best news of all.

No idea what is driving such high death numbers (reporting, spread into older ages, sheer weight of infections, incidental covid, something else...?).

Thread is getting increasingly abusive and bullying, not a good look. It won't make the disease go away.

Deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.
2000+ die every day in the winter months. If 40% of the British public catch Covid then 800 Covid deaths will be added to the total. Even if they only had a sniffle.
Statistical magic.
Deaths under reported as the pandemic arrives without sufficient testing and deaths over reported as it becomes endemic when we can test all with symptoms.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

2. A huge chuck of the UK population will test positive for Covid and 2000+ people a day die in the winter months. Around 600 a day of these will have tested positive for Covid within 28 days by the end of Jan though the UK excess deaths total will only increase very modestly

I don't think your numbers add up?

We're currently reporting an average of what, 100,000ish or so infections daily over the last month? That's about 3 million in total, or just 5% of the population.

So that would translate to 100 of those 2000, not 600?

It's a real phenomenon sure, but I think you're way overstating it.

I've no idea what current xs deaths are, do you?

 

[inchy14]

Do one , it is fact

It’s a fact they all died because of covid is it? Or is it a fact that half the population will have bloody had this latest variant so half the people dying on that day are likely to have had it at some point. Christ they’d say if there was a fire in a hospital that half of the fatalities were down to covid currently and you and a few others would lap it up.

 

[Octavian]

Very good news on cases front, hospitalisation looks close to peak too now. ICU still flat, which is best news of all.

No idea what is driving such high death numbers (reporting, spread into older ages, sheer weight of infections, incidental covid, something else...?).

Thread is getting increasingly abusive and bullying, not a good look. It won't make the disease go away.

My theory is because of how contagious Omicron is and the amount of people in hospital that have it. There’s so many in hospital dying of other things with omicron as a side note, that the Covid test is adding these to the statistics. Of course people are also dying of it but I think it’s the testing that’s driving these stats up, over the severity of omicron.

Once a level of immunity happens in the public and hospitals they’ll start to fall.