COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Healdplace]

Think thats it for tonight.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Not really, given the guidance has changed at least 3 times since July 30th.

But don't let that get in the way of a good teacher bash.

So you hide behind tweaked guidance lol.

 

[somapop]

it's just a massive shame we will have so many morons spreading false information about bill gates and microchips etc
gettin the world to take a vaccine is going to be a huge hurdle

can’t remember the name of the poster on here last week but I was a bit surprised at the overall safety of vacccines in general. I’m not the only one who has mistakenly referenced thalidomide as a vaccine for example. The cutter incident being perhaps the rare cases of vaccines ‘going wrong’.
They have an undeserved bad rep.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Putting a time limit on it is ridiculous when it is clear about the longer term damage,take out the hit by the bus type ones obviously

Including people who had died in road accidents had diminished public confidence in the figures. Standardizing with other countries made sense IMHO.

 

[Len Rum]

No it isn’t, the time limit is to ensure deaths are actually down to the Coronavirus, nothing to do with long term after effects.

The way we’ve counted deaths previously has been ridiculous, it’s why they wiped nearly 6000 off the total figure last week when they realised they didn’t actually die from COVID.

The families deserve an accurate reason for death.

The latest ONS figures for Covid deaths from death certificates is 56.8k
The excess death figurex are circa 66k ( these we were told would be those used for international comparisons).
Those figures do not change and wil remain unchanged no matter how much you agree with the Government's meddling with the figures.

 

[Ban-jani]

The latest ONS figures for Covid deaths from death certificates is 56.8k
The excess death figurex are circa 66k ( these we were told would be those used for international comparisons).
Those figures do not change and wil remain unchanged no matter how much you agree with the Government's meddling with the figures.

We already know that for every 3 people that died from Covid-19, 2 died because of the actual lockdown itself, indirectly from the disease, so the 66m excess deaths then changes radically and your point is wrong here.

You phrase it as if I haven’t been totally critical of the government for the way they were reporting the figures for months, this isn’t me backing the government for trying to meddle, this is my being relieved they’ve FINALLY got nearer the truth with their figures.

 

[wayne71]

it's just a massive shame we will have so many morons spreading false information about bill gates and microchips etc
gettin the world to take a vaccine is going to be a huge hurdle

Most people I know In the medical and microbiology world wouldn't touch any vaccine for at least 5 years. Not sure why you would expect the general public to.

 

[Bill Walker]

And Australian dollars which are a lot less than the US dollar. About £160 each (assuming it's 2 tickets) is probably not far off what some would be here.

Yes 2 tickets.
Normally we'd pay about $180 each for this venue but for some reason Rod is 300 each.
Must be to pay for his alimony :)
You can go further back for 120.

 

[kaz7]

Including people who had died in road accidents had diminished public confidence in the figures. Standardizing with other countries made sense IMHO.

we don't know who made up the numbers gettin dropped,until we get the data they have for changing it I will doubt their motives,they could tell us how many of those died in accidents for instance,at the bare minimum
I am surprised anyone would just accept them doing it when we know how they spun test numbers etc

 

[SebastianBlue]

An exceptionally good review of where we are
now by likely the best public health reporting source on the internet.

If you are looking for a way to make Twitter *actually* useful, you could do worse than following Stat News.