Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

I’ve just gone and read the first 30 odd pages of this thread again.

I do it every so often.

Maybe a few others should ?

I’d forgotten all about Kenshin!

 

[ForeverBlue92]

I’ve just gone and read the first 30 odd pages of this thread again.

I do it every so often.

Maybe a few others should ?

The good old days when a dose of Gonorrhea was the biggest worry of entering a nightclub.

 

[COYBL25]

I’d forgotten all about Kenshin!

Good old Ash, he never lets you down !

 

[RAFUH]

The good old days when a dose of Gonorrhea was the biggest worry of entering a nightclub.

I have some bad news for you

Multi-drug resistant gonorrhoea

 

[Tubey]

I’ve just gone and read the first 30 odd pages of this thread again.

I do it every so often.

Maybe a few others should ?

Nothing will actually come of this will it, it’ll be confined to GOT vaults never to be opened again, by the end of next week.

I got it spectacularly wrong early doors myself like haha

 

[NathDogg]

You have to ask yourself....

If it was all so terryfying, scary and life threatening, that we had to avoid our loved ones and close down and decimate the hospitality industry last Christmas, then how come the Tories, the s*n newspaper business and all these other toffs thought it perfectly safe to have a number of parties with no social distancing and then have the balls to pee themselves laughing about it at a dress rehearsal for questions about said parties?

Something stinks folks.

While pubs and bars were on their knees, number 10 was on the wine and cheese.

 

[RAFUH]

I got it spectacularly wrong early doors myself like haha

I wish I had

Yes, this is why stopping the spread is so important.

I will say....A third of known cases. I still think the actual number of infected is much higher than is known or reported. We might never know since there have been asymptomatic infected patients. Which would mean that the severely ill aren't really a third of all infected.

I'm not trying to diminish the seriousness or the potential impact. Quite the opposite. Unlike SARS, I think there's a real chance it becomes endemic.

 

[RAFUH]

You have to ask yourself....

If it was all so terryfying, scary and life threatening, that we had to avoid our loved ones and close down and decimate the hospitality industry last Christmas, then how come the Tories, the s*n newspaper business and all these other toffs thought it perfectly safe to have a number of parties with no social distancing and then have the balls to pee themselves laughing about it at a dress rehearsal for questions about said parties?

Something stinks folks.

While pubs and bars were on their knees, number 10 was on the wine and cheese.

Politics as usual.
There's different rules for the "rulers" and the the "rulees"

 

[Tubey]

I wish I had

I mean, I was wrong but right at the same time in my first post in this thread (well, first non-South-Park-meme post).

The average age of those that have died from this variant of the cold is 75, with most having pre-existing health conditions. It's also in a generally deprived/very poor healthcare and hygiene standards area of the world.

The flu has a far higher mortality rate in otherwise healthy people and is far more common. Even in Wuhan I'd hazard a very safe guess that the flu has killed as many or close to it since this whole hysteria started.

The fear isn't really about what's happening now; it's about what could happen if it mutated.

It's not that this shouldn't be taken seriously, it's just that it's a prime example of the news and social media loving a 'sexy' story. The hitherto unknown 'coronavirus' gets more attention than the very well known 'influenza'. There's no way the media are underplaying this - if there was a conspiracy to hush it up, we simply wouldn't know about it or it'd be niche on Weibo etc. like we didn't about Spanish Flu.

So yeah, I wasn't worried at first because we were given wrong info - China had covered it up so it looked like SARS 2 Electric Boogaloo to begin with. So I was right to worry about the mutation but horribly wrong about how dangerous it was to begin with.

C'est la vie.

 

[CharliePotato]

You have to ask yourself....

If it was all so terryfying, scary and life threatening, that we had to avoid our loved ones and close down and decimate the hospitality industry last Christmas, then how come the Tories, the s*n newspaper business and all these other toffs thought it perfectly safe to have a number of parties with no social distancing and then have the balls to pee themselves laughing about it at a dress rehearsal for questions about said parties?

Something stinks folks.

While pubs and bars were on their knees, number 10 was on the wine and cheese.

How people are still falling for it I’ll never know.

 

[Cool_Blue]

Stuck out for me when Chris whitty was going through his data yesterday and all his graphs for deaths / hospitalisations were clearly decreasing.

Surprised nobody else made a noise about that, the data they presented was the opposite of justification for restrictions!

Decreasing graphs is not newsworthy. Kuensberg has to stay relevant and loves to scare us all to death every night.

 

[Tubey]

Yeah it's called a seasonal cold outbreak that is marginally more lethal than a 'normal' cold, killing basically only those with pre-existing health conditions, and signficantly less dangerous than the flu.

Overhyped to the extreme.

The media. And by extension the population.

The WHO just operate on an abundance of caution like they should, as they did with SARS and Zika. Its not a reflection on the potency of the epidemic.

This is just a cold that's been hyped up by the media to draw hysteria and thus interest in their channels.

lol lol lol lol lol

 

[LinekersLegs]

Preliminary findings from study after Christmas party in Oslo

As of 8 December, around 70 % of just over 100 participants at a Christmas party held on 26 November at a restaurant in Oslo have been subsequently diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2. Of those who are infected, 17 are confirmed as being infected with the omicron variant.

www.fhi.no

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The preliminary analyses show:​

• Of 111 participants at the Christmas party who were interviewed, 73% (80 people) were subsequently diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2. Of these, 17 are confirmed with the omicron variant by sequencing as of December 8, 2021. Analysis of additional samples is ongoing, but it is assumed that most people who are ill are infected with the omicron variant.
• All except one of those who were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 reported symptoms. Most reported symptom onset three days after the party.
• Over 70% of cases reported cough, lethargy, headache, sore throat and over half of them reported fever. No hospital admissions have been reported.
• Eight cases reported travel outside Norway during the two weeks before the Christmas party (different countries in Africa and Europe).
• In addition, infection has been detected among more than 60 people who visited the restaurant on the same evening as the party.

The figures may be updated at a later date as the study is still ongoing.

 

[Neiler]

 

[Neiler]

The data on Omicron 2 doses of Pfizer Vs Booster.