Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Loz]

The pandemic is the most complex topic the masses have had to engage in since the 2nd World War. Snappy one-liners or linking the odd graph aren't gonna tell us much without thoughtful analysis and considerations of alternative data.

Your bolded bit can easily be refuted by the science. i.e. official data from the government, which tells us 70% of Covid deaths are already-vaccinated.

So your "all available data shows..." is clearly not backed up by the facts. What do you have to say about this?


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You miss the point completely here.
The government data may be right in that 70% of persons dying of covid (or testing positive prior to death) are vaccinated.
That fact is utterly irrelevant…the relevant point is that far less people are dying from covid.
If there were no anti vaxxers and 100% of the population were fully vaccinated, and just one single person died from covid, would you leap on a headline that says “All covid deaths were already fully vaccinated”?
That wouldn’t exactly be telling the whole story would it.
As more of the population are vaccinated it is logical that more deaths will occur in the vaccinated people, simply as they are far greater in number. The significant number however is the number of deaths, and how it has fallen.

 

[Neiler]

Out of interest, where do you live? I'm in Germany, but lived in England half my life.

Ireland pal, but lived and worked in the U.K. for a good few years.

 

[tsubaki]

I'm accusing you of ignoring a journalist's reporting because he's a Tory and/or he once said stuff you didn't agree with.

When have I done that?

Literally right there, where you try to define what I think about Toby Young in terms that seek to preemptively dismiss criticism of him as politically biased or mere disagreement.

Young is, and has been for years, one of the worst examples of the commentariat that blight modern British life.

 

[Neiler]

I edited to link the video:

Yikes, where to start with that.

I see what you mean though the media have poorly reported what he actually said.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Good god how does he not bore himself stupid with those long winded posts?

 

[Neiler]

Good news on the T-Cell front @Neiler

Like I was saying earlier mate, huge focus on Antibody efficey and very little on T-Cell response.

Quite amazing really when Antibodies have reduced to 70%, while TCell response is showing cross reactivity consistently from Beta all the way to Omicron. Good news story really. Thanks for highlighting.

 

[dholliday]

Quite amazing really when Antibodies have reduced to 70%, while TCell response is showing cross reactivity consistently from Beta all the way to Omicron. Good news story really. Thanks for highlighting.

@BlueToff with the interesting video links these past few pages.

 

[dholliday]

As more of the population are vaccinated it is logical that more deaths will occur in the vaccinated people, simply as they are far greater in number.

I'll just leave that there while we ponder on the vaccine's ultimate effectiveness.

 

[dholliday]

Some choice comments, these types of highly-upvoted comments are now very common regardless of platform...this GOT thread appears more of an outlier:

 

[dholliday]

Literally right there, where you try to define what I think about Toby Young

mate...

that arsehole Toby Young.

scum like Toby Young,

noted scumbag Toby Young

noted cretin Toby Young.

Toby Young is a prize cretin

Cretinry’s Toby Young

a world in which Toby Young determined what was attractive in the female form would be a world deserving of some giant asteroid impact

 

[maccavennie]

Some choice comments, these types of highly-upvoted comments are now very common regardless of platform...this GOT thread appears more of an outlier:

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So basically, your saying most platforms have similar comments to what you've posted above.....except for GOT which doesn't have similar comments so is more of an outlier?

 

[verreauxi]

Are you involved with science?

I'd love to hear the answer to this, but it's clearly a no. He's a charlatan with a monthly internet bill.

 

[Walken]

It really has been harvest time for clueless numpties on Twitter over the last 2 years. There's a burgeoning market out there for people retweeting studies they haven't read and interpreting them with analytical skills they don't possess.

Indeed, all it took was some minor requests from extremely well qualified scientists and we have seem peoples tolerance for doing anything that might benefit someone other than themselves wear so thin so that have lurched to align themselves with young, pearson, fox, rubin, crowder and a host other truly deplorable lazy take grifters. Piers corbyn is another but I think he might actually be genuinely mad

 

[dholliday]

meanwhile:

 

[dholliday]

Netherlands Announces Plan To Give People Up to Six Doses of COVID Vaccine

The Netherlands may be moving towards administering three more booster COVID-19 vaccines, two of which would be in 2022.

www.newsweek.com