Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[tsubaki]

Bloody hell the cost of test and trace... £37 billion for 2years

NHS Test and Trace has not spent as much as war in Afghanistan yet – Full Fact

A Facebook post wrongly claims UK involvement in Afghanistan cost 59% of NHS Test and Trace

fullfact.org

… and it’s been largely wasted, at least in terms of building an effective system.

For that money we could really have had a world leading system that really would have saved tens of thousands of lives, gainfully employed tens of thousands of people *and* prevented billions of pounds of cost for business and government. We’d probably not even be afflicted by the shower of anti-vaxxers to anything like the same level too.

 

[roydo]

5th Test Match called off in Manchester.

 

[tsubaki]

5th Test Match called off in Manchester.

going to be an expensive day for the ECB then

 

[Neiler]

We're going to pass 90% of all adults fully vaccinated here today. We're still vaccinating the 12 -18 age groups.

Incredible really, when you consider 5% cant get vaccinated for medical reasons.

 

[Mrk]

I mean, it could hardly be clearer, could it?

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Wish I was Danish

Denmark lifts all Covid restrictions as vaccinations top 80%

Scandinavian country declares it no longer considers coronavirus a ‘socially critical’ disease

www.theguardian.com

 

[RAFUH]

A friend posted this on social media.

 

[TN Toffee]

A friend posted this on social media.

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Nice. I wish I could find it to link, but a while back I saw a Tweet where a doctor/scientist challenged some anti-vaxxer by posting a long list of chemical compounds, and asking them that since they'd done their research, which of those things specifically they objected to being put in their body. The anti-vaxxer had some dumb reply like, "Ummm, all of them", to which the doctor quickly responded with, "Interesting...because that list I posted was chemical composition of an apple."

 

[verreauxi]

A friend posted this on social media.

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I can hear the future sound of oatmeal-brain googling this and incorporating answers into a multiquote.

 

[grandjoeblue]

I mean, it could hardly be clearer, could it?

My body my choice.

Israel has higher case numbers than non vaccinated Sudan.

Etc etc

The above is the type of nonsense you get from these anti vax lunatics. There is literally no valid argument for not getting the vaccine other than being medically exempt.

 

[Deckard2049]

I mean, it could hardly be clearer, could it?

Why if you’re 80+ would you not get vaccinated? Even if you believed the vaccine was a ticking time bomb, you have what, 5-10 years left if you’re lucky? Maybe more, but cognitive decline would be very likely anyway.

Also instead of demonising younger people when at this point the risk to them is evident, why are we not demonising those who are actually vulnerable to this disease and refusing to be vaccinated? They’re the ones burdening our healthcare. Vaccine passports for Mecca bingo.

 

[Haydn]

I mean, it could hardly be clearer, could it?

It has been a really long week, so perhaps I'm missing something obvious. I did read the underlying stats and couldn't work it out. Why do the total deaths, both vaxxed and unvaxxed only add up to 60.4% rather than 100 ?

 

[Alan Whittle]

It has been a really long week, so perhaps I'm missing something obvious. I did read the underlying stats and couldn't work it out. Why do the total deaths, both vaxxed and unvaxxed only add up to 60.4% rather than 100 ?

Perhaps the difference is those who have only part vaccination?

 

[Bungle]

Why if you’re 80+ would you not get vaccinated? Even if you believed the vaccine was a ticking time bomb, you have what, 5-10 years left if you’re lucky? Maybe more, but cognitive decline would be very likely anyway.

Also instead of demonising younger people when at this point the risk to them is evident, why are we not demonising those who are actually vulnerable to this disease and refusing to be vaccinated? They’re the ones burdening our healthcare. Vaccine passports for Mecca bingo.

After reading the transfer thread I feel like cognitive decline probably starts at about 18-20 years of age in a high number of Evertonians.

 

[Mrk]

It has been a really long week, so perhaps I'm missing something obvious. I did read the underlying stats and couldn't work it out. Why do the total deaths, both vaxxed and unvaxxed only add up to 60.4% rather than 100 ?

Apparently: