Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Wizard]

I've only just unignored him lol to see his thread about a west brom player we should sign (also lol ). He's stuck out from the first day he posted on here in the Computer Games thread as someone who chats total lies and hyperbole.

I agree. Thing is I don't mind his opinions in the football threads as they are just opinions I don't agree with (to put it mildly) and they don't really hurt anyone. So I'm all for responding to those. I did it a lot in the Maradona thread.

In this thread though there is more serious stuff at play and his rhetoric is dangerous because some people might see it and believe it. Many people have tried to reason and educate him and that doesn't work. So the best plan of action is to just ignore it and carry on with the rest of the thread.

 

[Goat]

Good lord, what on Earth is this? Is this in jest? Someone please tell me this is another poor attempt of sarcasm on the internet.
Every box on my conspiracy-freak checklist is ticked from this one post. Amazing. Also a little disturbing.

How is everyone getting on with unapproved jabs? the actual deaths look to be about 126k - why were ye folk not getting all worked up between 2016 and 2019 when over 100k died of the now extinct flu?

He asked why nobody got worked up about the flu killing 100k people in 3 years when corona has killed 126k in 12months.


At the time of writing this article in March, Public Health England told Full Fact it estimated that on average 17,000 people have died from the flu in England annually between 2014/15 and 2018/19 - with the yearly deaths varying widely from a high of 28,330 in 2014/15 to a low of 1,692 in 2018/19.

The 2018/19 data did not cover the final five weeks of the flu season 2019.

In June, Public Health England published updated figures, which showed a total of 3,966 flu deaths in 2018/19. The new figures, which include changes in other years, put the average at around 15,000 deaths each flu season in this period.




So on average, the flu kills 15k people a year.

Just for clarity.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

Seven British people died from a brain blood clot after AstraZeneca jab out of 18.1MILLION doses - and under-45s are up to 35 TIMES more likely to die of Covid than develop a CSVT​

If you need to go to that eye melting level of font, you've probably already lost the argument.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

If you need to go to that eye melting level of font, you've probably already lost the argument.

Or need to stop masturbating.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

Or need to stop masturbating.

Or both.

 

[nsno-chris]

Seven British people died from a brain blood clot after AstraZeneca jab out of 18.1MILLION doses - and under-45s are up to 35 TIMES more likely to die of Covid than develop a CSVT​

Hi mate, the earth is not flat and Qanon was a massive hoax.

You seem like the kind’a fella that chats massive bubbles in the local boozer because of a Facebook post you once read

 

[MikeH72]

Proof ?

You’re doing your level best to scare people from taking the A/Z vaccine.

Pack it in.

Is Dave being racist towards a vaccine because it was developed in the UK?

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Only a true socialist would look to bash an "at cost" vaccine and the praise that of a multi-national profiteering pharmaceutical juggernaut, which is costing 10x the price and is impossible to distribute in many of the poorest countries in the world.

Many poorer countries want to manufacture their own vaccine, however, the likes of UK have blocked the waiving of intellectual property on trade related aspects of intellectual property rights. Wonder why that is?

WTO | intellectual property (TRIPS) - Trilateral cooperation on intellectual property, trade and public health

www.wto.org

 

[gav1985]

We have to ignore those reports. @gav1985 says we've talked about it "enough".

I'm not saying we have talked about it enough. I'm asking you to consider that you may be frightening people with the constant (incorrect) statement that this vaccine is killing people. You offer no balance to your views. It's just all negative.

If there is a statement that comes out (an official one) that says the vaccine is the direct cause then fine. That said, the numbers are still so tiny. I can only speak for myself but I would much rather chance the vaccine than the virus.

 

[toffee82]

Or need to stop masturbating.

Better than him reproducing.

 

[Barnfred 55]

But it's not just deaths or hospitalisations. While the virus has hosts it will spread and among the infection there will be mutations, some of which could be dangerous.
The spread of the virus must be restricted, even among those who are not likely to be very ill.
The strain of the virus now causing havoc on the European mainland is a result of Johnson's refusal to lock down London earlier this year.

So you are saying Johnson should have put the army in a security ring around London. Physically barricading it and stopping people entering or leaving. Like Chinese did in Wigan. Behave. He'd have been lynched

 

[Barnfred 55]

Brazil. Bad news.

66000 deaths in March. Touching 4000 a day now.

Heading into winter with about 7% having had a jab. This aint going to get better any time soon for them. Not sure what they can do really. Kin tragic.

They can try and get rid of their idiotic President as a starting point and move on from there

 

[Barnfred 55]

Stuck my head in and was reminded why I have been avoiding this thread.

We all miss you too. You and your mate, LL, used to post loads of great medical info on here

I oft wondered why you both seemed to have stopped posting in this thread

 

[Terrarian]

I don't get why people won't have a vaccine. Is it really that big a deal, if you are of a certain age you get an annual flu jab and everyone has jabs to go abroad and everyone was vaccinated as kids.

Stop listening to crazy conspiracies, people have lost the plot, conspiracies are just bat shiz crazy nowadays.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Many poorer countries want to manufacture their own vaccine, however, the likes of UK have blocked the waiving of intellectual property on trade related aspects of intellectual property rights. Wonder why that is?

WTO | intellectual property (TRIPS) - Trilateral cooperation on intellectual property, trade and public health

www.wto.org

But, and it's a BIG BUT, Oxfotd and AZ have made their covid vaccine an exception to this rule. Their have offered production under license worldwide for free, their only stipulation being that they produce the vaccine at cost.

Wonder why there aren't that many takers?