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I'm uplifted by spotting a covidiot immediately for what he was with my first interaction with him in response to one of my posts. I immediately decided I would no longer engage with him. Its hilarious when they protest that its not fair to use facts, figures and graphs in discussions.

Might as well try explaining it to the cat.
 
M18CTID said:
Tell you what. Let’s open the whole country back up right now. Shops, pubs, restaurants, sports grounds (to capacity). Let’s abandon social distancing, and ban the wearing of masks. Allow the virus to spread through the whole population until all 67 million UK residents have had it.
With an estimated mortality rate of 1%, perhaps you can tell us all how many deaths that equates to. Do the maths dickhead.
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His user name is quite apt.
 
From the bbc

Man charged after patient allegedly beaten to death in Covid ward​

A 37-year-old man who allegedly used an oxygen tank to beat to death a fellow Covid patient in his California hospital bed last week has been charged with murder and hate crime.
Jesse Martinez became upset when the 82-year-old man sharing his hospital room started praying, according to Los Angeles police.
The victim died the following day.
 
M18CTID said:
Tell you what. Let’s open the whole country back up right now. Shops, pubs, restaurants, sports grounds (to capacity). Let’s abandon social distancing, and ban the wearing of masks. Allow the virus to spread through the whole population until all 67 million UK residents have had it.
With an estimated mortality rate of 1%, perhaps you can tell us all how many deaths that equates to. Do the maths dickhead.
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it wouldn't be 1% either if we did that as all hospitals would be overrun. 1% is with very decent health care.
 
ctwrd said:
Around 3-400 apparently.

I think the argument for an alternative strategy will gain traction from April. Until then, the benefit of the doubt will be given to carrying on as we are whilst vaccine rolled out to the vulnerable.

we can’t still be locking the country away when we have vaccinated circa 5m plus of the most vulnerable come April for eg.

plus we know that it doesn’t transfer as well in summer so buys time
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That’s the average amount of cancer deaths a day
 
Gray said:
Where is all the vaccine we were promised? That is what is needed to get us back to some sort of normality.
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It's a huge logistical exercise just to vaccinate the over-50s, let alone the whole adult population. I'll continue to criticise the government's overall handling of the pandemic but up to now they're getting the vaccination process right, once the Oxford vaccine gets full approval - hopefully next week - the rate of vaccinations will speed up significantly.
 
Gray said:
Where is all the vaccine we were promised? That is what is needed to get us back to some sort of normality.
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11% of over 80s have been vaccinated in the first two weeks and the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine should be approved next week. That's a great start considering most European countries haven't even started vaccinations yet.
 
ste1969 said:
From the bbc

Man charged after patient allegedly beaten to death in Covid ward​

A 37-year-old man who allegedly used an oxygen tank to beat to death a fellow Covid patient in his California hospital bed last week has been charged with murder and hate crime.
Jesse Martinez became upset when the 82-year-old man sharing his hospital room started praying, according to Los Angeles police.
The victim died the following day.
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“Only in America”, as they say.
 
M18CTID said:
Yep, was thinking this. It would be even worse - we’d be looking at upwards of three quarters of a million deaths I reckon.
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Would it be worse than three quarters of a million as 1% is 670k of the U.K. population? I'm guessing Covid plus deaths of people not getting appropriate/speedy attention for other medical requirements would equate to more than just 80k excess deaths.
 
itsnevereasy said:
No ridiculous bollocks is watching the country fall to pieces and sitting back accepting it like fucking sheep.
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Instead you're following the growing number of idiots who think acceptable and/or sensible to open everything up, following them like a....[insert farm animal here]

Never understood the insults from covidiots calling everyone else sheep. Its somewhat ironic considering there's a massive herd of them all following each other and all calling everyone else sheep.
 
M18CTID said:
Tell you what. Let’s open the whole country back up right now. Shops, pubs, restaurants, sports grounds (to capacity). Let’s abandon social distancing, and ban the wearing of masks. Allow the virus to spread through the whole population until all 67 million UK residents have had it.
With an estimated mortality rate of 1%, perhaps you can tell us all how many deaths that equates to. Do the maths dickhead.
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There are approx 3.2 million people aged over 80 in the UK.

The Covid-19 mortality rate for those over 80 is around 8%, meaning there would be around 250,000 over 80's die from this disease if we did nothing (and of course if we didn't get a vaccine).

The type of people you're talking about, in effect, do not give a shit if that many 80+ year old people die from this awful disease.
 
Here you go for those who deny

Professor Andrew Hayward, who is part of the government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG), spoke to Sky News about the two new variants of coronavirus in the UK.

The first – which emerged in the South East but is now in all parts of the UK – is "the one we’re really worried about right now".

Two cases of a second mutation of the virus have been detected in two people who travelled from South Africa, but that is a less of a priority for now, Professor Hayward says.

"The picture is still unclear. But it's [the South Africa variant] a similar situation to the one in the UK," he told Sky News.

"But the strain we’re really worried about right now is the one in the south of England.

"The way I see it is we've got a big fire going on in the south of England and a few sparks have landed in the north.

"We need to put out those sparks early on, otherwise it’s going to get much bigger and much harder to put out.

"There’s a case for tightening restrictions all over the country.

"We're entering a dangerous new phase in this pandemic. Unfortunately it's the last thing we wanted over Christmas, but we really do have to take this seriously"
 
From ONS

Cases increase in all age groups apart from 50s and over

The data also shows that infections have risen in all age groups apart from those aged 50 to 69 and 70 and over.

There are very early signs of increases in those groups, but nothing significant yet.

The highest increases are still in school children - of both primary and secondary age.

news.sky.com

COVID news live – latest updates: More than 2,300 hauliers now tested in Dover - with three positive

All the latest COVID updates from the UK and across the world.
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