Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

Have you got a graph with fully vaccinated in the population?

Thought not.

Here you go Dave....

 

[Brennan]

Here you go Dave....

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UK doing well.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Vietnam: population 94 million; Covid19 deaths - 35.

Incredible.

Achieved through mass testing and tracing and strict quarantining, which has kept its cases to just 2,617.


No wonder they kicked Uncle Sam's arse. The sheer discipline of these people.

But but but it's every country...

 

[toffee82]

Vietnam: population 94 million; Covid19 deaths - 35.

Incredible.

Achieved through mass testing and tracing and strict quarantining, which has kept its cases to just 2,617.


No wonder they kicked Uncle Sam's arse. The sheer discipline of these people.

Life expectancy about 7 years lower than the UK.
Their obesity rate is about 2% whilst ours is about 28%.

I'm not disagreeing with your point by the way. It's just that there are many factors where covid is concerned and we have an older less healthy (in terms of weight) population.

 

[toffee82]

Yet more fear mongering from the fear mongering news broadcasters.

We're on a one way track to reopening baby, the Daves of this world will be crying in their bedsits whilst we're all down the pub having fun.

The media are willing for more twists and turns and for this to go on.

They have had a field day with Brexit, Trump and covid and don't want it to end.

 

[Goat]

I see Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Philippines and Kenya have been added to the red list countries - adding the first three is going to cause a lot of extra expense for people who probably won't be able to afford it. One would hope they'd have come up with an alternative to the £1500 a person stay at an airside hotel by now.

The solution is don't travel, surely?

If you don't travel, you don't have the expense.

 

[Paris]

The media are willing for more twists and turns and for this to go on.

They have had a field day with Brexit, Trump and covid and don't want it to end.

Completely agree.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Might put a few minds at ease:

AstraZeneca vaccine: is it safe and does it cause blood clots?

The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in the UK has undoubtedly been a huge success. Globally, this vaccine has been rolled out more quickly than any vaccine in history. But among all the good news, several European countries have suspended their rollout after reports of blood clots among people...

patient.info

Could tell some bad news was coming as "Oxford Astrazenica" vaccine was being dropped for the more ambiguous Anglo -Swede vaccine, get that forin narrative going, innit.

 

[Goat]

Could tell some bad news was coming as "Oxford Astrazenica" vaccine was being dropped for the more ambiguous Anglo -Swede vaccine, get that forin narrative going, innit.

I like the bit were the fact that we "found" more clots hasn't even made the news, bar a few places here and there.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Life expectancy about 7 years lower than the UK.
Their obesity rate is about 2% whilst ours is about 28%.

I'm not disagreeing with your point by the way. It's just that there are many factors where covid is concerned and we have an older less healthy (in terms of weight) population.

We also have lowest ICU beds per population compared to many other countries of comparative wealth. In fact many countries less wealthy than the UK have better critical Ill provision.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I like the bit were the fact that we "found" more clots hasn't even made the news, bar a few places here and there.

IT'S THE MEDIA. Arrrrrrrrgh!

 

[Goat]

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It's every country, police in Belgium used water cannons, batons and tear gas to disperse a crowd in a park Belgium yesterday, it wasn't even a protest there was no violence until the police showed up, only 1 group showed up prepared for violence and it wasn't the crowd out enjoying the sun.
The world is gone completely crazy, in ireland there is less than 300 in hospital with covid, yes we are under level 5 lockdown the highest level until at least mid May when it will be reviewed. Governments world wide have lost the run of themselves the WHO said last year that lockdown should not be the primary way to fight Covid yet that's what we've done in Ireland level 5 since October with 3 weeks off over Christmas.
The consequences of lockdown are going to be multiples worse than anything covid would do.. my son is 5 and hes developed a stammer, we've rang a few speech and language therapists but they are all booked up with children mainly stammering since the start of covid restrictions, is this now going to be life long for him? I know a stammer is not the end of the world and there's children out there with far far worse things to deal with but he's my son and I'm worried about him.
There has been 3000 less cancer diagnosis in Ireland compared to a normal year, that's roughly 3000 people who have missed the crucial early diagnosis.

Does not address the point the age group in link who got vaccination first most have both jabs by now, remain under strict enforced lockdown. Vaccine not so game changing after all.
Is it?

 

[peteblue]

U.K. vaccines ... 589 K given yesterday (inc 435 K second doses)....total first doses 31,301,267 ....total second doses
4,948,635....giving an overall total of 36,249,902....those second doses really coming good.....

 

[peteblue]

Dropping like a stone....