Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Im going the Lakes next month.
If anybody wants to have a pop I'm available next week for scraps if I ever get a new car!
Champagne Socialist lol
The first class seats and lounge before hand hasn’t been impacted thank god.
I'll wait till next month and come chin you in my backyard.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Russia approves Sputnik V Covid vaccine despite testing safety concerns
Drug, given to one of Putin’s daughters, to skip large-scale safety trials before rollout
Russia approves Sputnik V Covid vaccine despite testing safety concerns
Drug, given to one of Putin’s daughters, to skip large-scale safety trials before rolloutwww.theguardian.com
In Russia, drug tests YOU
Russia approves Sputnik V Covid vaccine despite testing safety concerns
Drug, given to one of Putin’s daughters, to skip large-scale safety trials before rollout
Is that the one that they stole from western labs?
MURDERING SCUM.
Maybe its just me but its kind of funny a man who hates drug dealers is accepting an untested drug from another country.
Catfish Blues
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The ability of people to be able to ignore stuff which is plain as day never ceases to amaze me.
Tens of thousands of excess deaths have fook all to do with COVID ?
If you truly believe that then Darwin must be scratching his head in his grave.
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Technically you are correct in what you say mate. But your argument also has flaws. Firstly, given the nature of this virus, it is hard to disassociate covid from the cause of death. We now know it attacks many of our vital organs, causes blood clots, and forces our immune system into overdrive. So many people may not actually be dying of covid itself, but it would be extremely hard to prove that covid was not a significant contributing factor. It is therefore justifiable to include them in our death figures.
Your argument is only really applicable with accidental deaths, most of which occur on our roads and in the workplace, both of which have been much reduced during the lockdown. But even based on the average accidental deaths of 7000 in the UK each year, given that we estimate only 5% of the population have had covid, then no more than 350 of those would have had covid. Realistically, that figure will actually be less than a 100. Hardly worth a mention in the whole scheme of things.
You also have to factor in that over 90% of the excess deaths this year came during 4 week period when the virus was at it's peak. You can't put that down to coincidence.
Sorry mate that's not fair really. This government have done many things wrong during this pandemic, but covering up the number of deaths is not one of them.
The official covid death figure is around 52/53k (the latest ONS figures up to 31 July plus those who have died since). Excess deaths is roughly £10k more, and that needs explaining. Given most of these occurred during the peak of the virus it's fair to assume that a lot of them can be put down to covid. I'm sure this can be partly explained by older people dying of dementia in homes and the community without showing symptoms and not being tested. But a lot of these deaths can also be put down to other causes as sick people stayed away from hospitals and health centres, either because they were scared or didn't want to bother our already overworked medical staff.
Bottom line though is that the UK are not trying to mislead the population over the number of covid deaths. I'm sure many other countries are though.
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