COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Eds]

If people don't believe that this new strain is so virulent then why are case numbers shooting up all of a sudden or are we not to believe the figures as well?

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

This ‘new mutant strain’ has clearly been around ages and the govt just decided it would be an opportune time to wheel it out to facilitate project fear and justify another U-turn and cancelling christmas. Purely a propoganda lever but look at the damage it is causing. Scandalous

exactly .

modelled by professor Ferguson

when your health Secretary declares we have a mutant virus much more contagious which is out of control.

what do we expect

people will panic
they will panic buy
other countries will panic and close their borders.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

This ‘new mutant strain’ has clearly been around ages and the govt just decided it would be an opportune time to wheel it out to facilitate project fear and justify another U-turn and cancelling christmas. Purely a propoganda lever but look at the damage it is causing. Scandalous

No surprise Kevin likes this.

 

[grunge]

According to NERVTAG (govt scientific Committee)

Within the UK, the variant is concentrated in the London, South East and East of England but has been detected in various parts of the UK.

In other words, it's already here.

Exponential growth means you can expect to go from not noticed above the background covid to skyrocketing in just a few days.

The doubling time seen in London is about 6 days. That means 30 fold in a month, 1000 fold in two months. Likely right now it's starting to overtake the back ground levels of other variants here, and as soon as a week or two we could be where London is.

All assuming the early data is truly representative.

the main issue with saying stuff like that is its accurate when no mitigation or suppression is taken into consideration. so when we do suppress and mitigate it people jump up saying everyone was over reacting. Just gotta look at the Whitty / Valance stuff pre Nov lockdown. everyone calling them Scaremongereres. when that was exactly what they intended to do to get people to take it seriously again.

 

[everythingchangesbutblue]

This ‘new mutant strain’ has clearly been around ages and the govt just decided it would be an opportune time to wheel it out to facilitate project fear and justify another U-turn and cancelling christmas. Purely a propoganda lever but look at the damage it is causing. Scandalous

Is everything a conspiracy these days?

 

[kaz7]

Got to feel for the hundreds of lorry drivers stuck in their cabs parked on the motorway now. What are they going to do?

it is not unusual for them to be stacked on the M20 , everytime the french go on strike they get to sit there for days , many ti.es i used to drive past the poor fuckers

 

[mosssideblue]

it is not unusual for them to be stacked on the M20 , everytime the french go on strike they get to sit there for days , many ti.es i used to drive past the poor fuckers

Are you mobile again?

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

No surprise Kevin likes this.

I get comments on my likes now ? Shall we go on a date ?

 

[worsleyweb]

This ‘new mutant strain’ has clearly been around ages and the govt just decided it would be an opportune time to wheel it out to facilitate project fear and justify another U-turn and cancelling christmas. Purely a propoganda lever but look at the damage it is causing. Scandalous

what a load of bollox

 

[artfuldodger]

Common sense to lock the borders and was obviously what we should have done in the first place. The government might now be regretting dramatising something they’ve known about for months rather than just admit they shouldn’t have promised everyone Christmas with their families a month ago.

Exactly. They’ve now sent the rest of the world into a panic.