Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[RAFUH]

I haven’t ever said that people had natural immunity before they caught it.

Being pedantic, consider using "infection-acquired immunity".

Natural immunity could encompass someone who is immune without being infected - something in their genetic make up that makes them immune to the virus.

 

[Rita_Poon]

This is nuts, and I'm not even allergic!

 

[Amw79]

At one point that wasn’t a choice, as we didn’t have vaccines. So if people caught it at that time then they just had to hope their symptoms were mild. Those people all had natural immunity and imo not all of them needed a vaccine as well (exceptions of course for the clinically vulnerable which I’ve always been a strong advocate of vaccines for)

Of course people would hope their symptoms were mild, but the wild type and the delta variant were pretty nasty. It’s easy to now think of it as being mild, post-omicron / vaccine rollout / infection acquired immunity, but at the time it was killing and hospitalising a lot of people.

I’m sure not all of them needed a vaccine, but it’s the risk/reward trade off then isn’t it. Reduce people going into hospital, give the health service a chance to cope etc etc. those people might not have died, but they still would have put services under pressure.

I was never an advocate of forced vaccination (although interestingly I think there’s an argument for it - I.e. a virus with 90% mortality), but if we had a virus like that now, we’d all be dead in a year cos no-one would follow any instructions whatsoever.

 

[Jebus_lives]

This should be interesting in regard to future pandemic preparedness.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

I think everyone can agree that the UK government handled it absolutely horrifically and has blood on their hands.

 

[BlueToff]

Globally, I'll agree, but for my particular situation, I'll disagree given what I know about the situations.

Sorry, get what you mean.

 

[BlueToff]

I think everyone can agree that the UK government handled it absolutely horrifically and has blood on their hands.

They absolutely did.

Not one government handled any of it well, though.

Thank God it's over.

Though on a personal level (not financial) those lockdown months were in a weird way enjoyable. But I was lucky in that sense.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

They absolutely did.

Not one government handled any of it well, though.

Thank God it's over.

Though on a personal level (not financial) those lockdown months were in a weird way enjoyable. But I was lucky in that sense.

Untrue.

 

[efcfanwirral]

I think everyone can agree that the UK government handled it absolutely horrifically and has blood on their hands.

Only way to have less blood on their hands would've been harsher lockdowns, starting earlier and lasting longer, but that also involves discounting anything but covid. Not a world any of us want to live in, I hope

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Only way to have less blood on their hands would've been harsher lockdowns, starting earlier and lasting longer, but that also involves discounting anything but covid. Not a world any of us want to live in, I hope

The delay in appropriate action resulted in a world many now don't live in.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I'll always be thankful for covid giving us Aldo's diaries @Yarrgh

 

[COYBL25]

I'll always be thankful for covid giving us Aldo's diaries @Yarrgh

A true masterpiece and and unlikely to ever be bettered.

You can only hope, that one day gets to read them and gives them his seal of approval.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

The delay in appropriate action resulted in a world many now don't live in.

The completely lackadaisical initial reaction no doubt condemned many to an early death. Unbelievable how slowly it was taken seriously despite clear evidence of the absolute catastrophe hitting Italy and China.

 

[tsubaki]

Only way to have less blood on their hands would've been harsher lockdowns, starting earlier and lasting longer, but that also involves discounting anything but covid. Not a world any of us want to live in, I hope

No, it needn't have required any of that. Lockdowns were the consequence of not having any proper public health system with which to detect and contain outbreaks.

 

[Moomin]

The completely lackadaisical initial reaction no doubt condemned many to an early death. Unbelievable how slowly it was taken seriously despite clear evidence of the absolute catastrophe hitting Italy and China.

We thought Brexit would have stopped it at the border.

Foreign bloody viruses, we want traditional Great British Rickets.