Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Prevenger17]

Getting my first shot on Wednesday. Hook it to my veins ffs

 

[MikeH72]

I feel sick.

You are free to keep yourself locked in the house by the way.

 

[Tubey]

If you're looking at that graph and thinking we should be locked down, then... honestly don't know what to tell you.

We're testing more than ever too, so even the higher amount of daily cases can be explained away.

It's akin to the second wave with an almost completely severed link between cases and hospitalisation and deaths. Even people going into hospital are doing so mostly through an abundance of caution and are almost universally coming through OK. The people dying tend to be the very elderly who would have succumbed to the likes of flu/pneumonia in the same way.

If you are under 80 and fully vaccinated, you're overwhelmingly likely to be fine. If you are young and have one shot/awaiting the second, you're overwhelmingly likely to be fine.

COVID isn't "done" because it'll never be "done", but what we're seeing now is the reality moving forward. We really need to learn to live with it - that's not a slogan, it's fact.

 

[jinkyali]

Can someone explain why its either open up now or next year?
Winter was seemingly ruled out to open up.
But winter is still going to be here so why is opening up now miles more beneficial?

 

[Nymzee]

I'd have no issue if they'd have kept masks for some places. Don't bother me in the slightest wearing them in shops etc.

 

[roydo]

Can someone explain why its either open up now or next year?
Winter was seemingly ruled out to open up.
But winter is still going to be here so why is opening up now miles more beneficial?

I get your confusion, when Johnson explained it I was a bit perplexed as well.

Dont get it either, but Whitty does, so will go with that. All about the NHS at the end of the day I guess.

 

[COYBL25]

Can someone explain why its either open up now or next year?
Winter was seemingly ruled out to open up.
But winter is still going to be here so why is opening up now miles more beneficial?

I’m only guessing, but maybe it’s a calculated gamble, to let as many people as possible catch the delta virus in the summer, rather than when the flu season kicks in.

 

[Groucho]

Between ten and twenty thousand people die of that every year though; before the boosters it was rather more than that.

We can’t eradicate these diseases, but we probably can do something constructive about them that prevents such a scale of deaths (and a larger number of hospitalisations, and the loss of tens / hundreds of thousands of working days as the flu moves through the country). That doesn’t mean lockdown, but it does mean being smarter and having the country be bette protected.

I know that. I nearly died of it myself. Had chest problems for the following seven years.

 

[Ducans elbow]

No mask required from tomorrow here,

 

[Number_25]

You are free to keep yourself locked in the house by the way.

Cheers mate, nice to know that - as an immunosupressed person with a history of serious illness - you all have the vulnerable's backs during this time.

 

[MikeH72]

Cheers mate, nice to know that - as an immunosupressed person with a history of serious illness - you all have the vulnerable's backs during this time.

I have followed every restriction in place to protect the vulnerable for the past 15 months as most of us have actually, so yes that is true.

 

[coollino]

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If you're looking at that graph and thinking we should be locked down, then... honestly don't know what to tell you.

We're testing more than ever too, so even the higher amount of daily cases can be explained away.

It's akin to the second wave with an almost completely severed link between cases and hospitalisation and deaths. Even people going into hospital are doing so mostly through an abundance of caution and are almost universally coming through OK. The people dying tend to be the very elderly who would have succumbed to the likes of flu/pneumonia in the same way.

If you are under 80 and fully vaccinated, you're overwhelmingly likely to be fine. If you are young and have one shot/awaiting the second, you're overwhelmingly likely to be fine.

COVID isn't "done" because it'll never be "done", but what we're seeing now is the reality moving forward. We really need to learn to live with it - that's not a slogan, it's fact.

The effects of those in the first graph will probably take 3 - 4 weeks to filter into the hospitalisation.

I'm not saying places shouldn't open up, but it will take a few more weeks until that spike is felt in hospitals.

 

[coollino]

Reckon I'll think about going back to work in September after my second vaccine. I get the train so rather be a bit more protected.

Dreading the small talk. Might just wear a bee keepers outfit.

 

[Goat]

Cheers mate, nice to know that - as an immunosupressed person with a history of serious illness - you all have the vulnerable's backs during this time.

I honestly have no idea what other choice we have?

As above, we have all done our bit for the last 15months, most people have been jabbed, lockdown really cant last forever.

 

[Tubey]

The effects of those in the first graph will probably take 3 - 4 weeks to filter into the hospitalisation.

I'm not saying places shouldn't open up, but it will take a few more weeks until that spike is felt in hospitals.

No that's a direct comparison between both waves, as in at this stage deaths were going up and people were going into hospital at a considerable different rate.