Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[Fat Boy Fat]

Very good news for the majority, as Mr Johnson attempts to stifle the call for resignation with the sound of face masks being ripped up.

However, please spare a thought for those not so fortunate.

Here is a small sample, if you could spend a little time to think of them, and the many thousands in their situation...

https://forum.bloodcancer.org.uk/t/feeling-adrift-again/4888

Or

https://forum.bloodcancer.org.uk/t/end-of-plan-b-and-compulsory-mask-wearing-on-transport-and-in-shops-how-safe-do-you-feel/5078/7

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

I actually can't remember what Plan A is.


Perhaps I'll write to Johnson as he seems pretty clued up on the rules.

I presume I can boozily party where and when I want. Lol.

 

[amexer]

Covid

Thought we were coming out of it until I have just seen France in last 2 days have had 900k new cases and 500 deaths

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The percentage of positive cases area by area. Brighton is 23%

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yxP2s-kY8lPKJoyXvV7zcoe8xtpZlvjQdY1u8t_SE9s/preview

 

[junior]

Is there not a covid thread for this sort of stuff somewhere?

 

[zefarelly]

Is there not a covid thread for this sort of stuff somewhere?

There is now

thankfully

 

[Insel affe]

Is there not a covid thread for this sort of stuff somewhere?

have you not heard, the government have washed their hands of covid, it is over, nothing to see here.
Everyone is free to wonder around willy nilly, and that includes the interweb

 

[Washie]

Should this not be in the covid section

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[Yoda]

The UK has seen 17,371 deaths from where there are no other underlying causes involved (to the end of September 2021).

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/tran...eathsfromcovid19withnootherunderlyingcauses?s

That mean the remaining 146,512 deaths during to the end of September where Covid is mentioned on the certificate had some kind of underlying condition.

Just goes to highlight how how much of a bugger this virus has been for these people. Hopefully with the emergence of Omicron and the vaccine's we won't continue to see this number increase too much higher.

 

[dsr-burnley]

The UK has seen 17,371 deaths from where there are no other underlying causes involved (to the end of September 2021).

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/tran...eathsfromcovid19withnootherunderlyingcauses?s

That mean the remaining 146,512 deaths during to the end of September where Covid is mentioned on the certificate had some kind of underlying condition.

Just goes to highlight how how much of a bugger this virus has been for these people. Hopefully with the emergence of Omicron and the vaccine's we won't continue to see this number increase too much higher.

Respiratory viruses are always a beggar for these people. Even in 2021 with lockdowns and people dying of covid, there were still 188,000 people with other respiratory diseases on their death certificates, and 54,000 of them as the underlying cause.

Of the 188k, 105k were flu and pneumonia and 83k other non-covid diseases.
Of the 54k, 16k were flu and pneumonia (only about half the usual number) and 38k other non-covid diseases.

Close to a third of deaths every year have some sort of repiratory disease as the cause. I think sometimes the primary cause of death is that people just stop breathing.

 

[Weststander]

Drakeford sticks his UK two pennies worth in, ignoring all what’s known now about Omicron, in effect rigid thinking that’s it the same as the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-60076381

Omicron (with the fantastic booster programme) simply hasn’t filled hospitals, ICU wards are very quiet compared to Jan 2021.

We got (almost certainly Delta) in Finland in early December. Ill for about 10 days, coughing and very tired, took a while longer to get fitness back.

Some family and friends had a party in the UK just before Christmas, including folk in their 60’s. 11 out of the 15 got Covid, every one just felt like they had a bad cold for 2 days, then all right as rain. Probably Omicron.

Delta and Omicron are very different. The Precautionary Principle isn’t apt just now.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Drakeford sticks his UK two pennies worth in, ignoring all what’s known now about Omicron, in effect rigid thinking that’s it the same as the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-60076381

Omicron (with the fantastic booster programme) simply hasn’t filled hospitals, ICU wards are very quiet compared to Jan 2021.

We got (almost certainly Delta) in Finland in early December. Ill for about 10 days, coughing and very tired, took a while longer to get fitness back.

Some family and friends had a party in the UK just before Christmas, including folk in their 60’s. 11 out of the 15 got Covid, every one just felt like they had a bad cold for 2 days, then all right as rain. Probably Omicron.

Delta and Omicron are very different. The Precautionary Principle isn’t apt just now.

How many days ago was he ripping into England and Johnson? he seems to followed them back now.

 

[Notters]

You can tell Boris has made an announcement. Just been to pick my daughter up from nursery and everyone is suddenly barging in instead of queuing, no masks or anything.

 

[BLOCK F]

How many days ago was he ripping into England and Johnson? he seems to followed them back now.

The UK as a whole may not be well served by Johnson, but Jimmy Krankie and Windbag Drakeford have not covered themselves in glory with their pettifogging either.

 

[Weststander]

Planet of the Apes star, jailed for anti vax campaign.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-60082725

 

[Driver8]

How many days ago was he ripping into England and Johnson? he seems to followed them back now.

We must be doing something right here in Wales. We are keeping the masks in shops rules and rightly so.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

We must be doing something right here in Wales. We are keeping the masks in shops rules and rightly so.

With a worse overall case per population than England?

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases

 

[Driver8]

With a worse overall case per population than England?

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases

Current rates per 100,000 are 482 for Wales and 926 for England.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Current rates per 100,000 are 482 for Wales and 926 for England.

As I said over all, you would think with al the extra stuff it would be much lower?

 

[e77]

As I said over all, you would think with al the extra stuff it would be much lower?

It's about half the rate of infection.