Along_the_Wire think you said it yourself - highly contagious and mild strains end epidemics… that’s how Spanish flu ended

    Mad_Cyril If they made a film about your life it would be called ‘Edward Shitterbantz’.

    LOL

      Got the moderna booster yesterday, feeling tip top, apart from a sore arm but that’s just from wanking too much over deep fake priti patel videos.

      Balls if that’s the case we are fucked.

      Who the fuck to believe anymore with this shit, nothing but mixed messages. There is quiet a few articles out there confirming what Jules said.

      zackster That Topol guy has been a fear monger from the jump.

      Eric Topol? Epic TOOL more like. Amirite?

          Bollocks… that study is based on U.K. data so far… and there’s v little evidence from this country… the negativity bias at work again. To ignore the South African data is just not credible

            Your best bet is to read what the Guardian has to say about and multiple their numbers by 0.1 for something that is a more likely scenario.

            Are we not going to base our opinions on how this has panned out in SA, given they are quite a bit ahead of us, in addition to the fact that we have a much, much higher % of people double jabbed/boosted? I will look at this optimistically until it’s proven otherwise. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and quite rightly so but i think we are making a mountain out of a mole hill with Omicron.

              By the way the Imperial study bases it’s results on 1) the proportion of those testing positive who report symptoms and 2) the proportion of positives who end up seeking hospital care….. the first is meaningless because it’s severe infections that matter and the second - in South Africa hospitalisations themselves have been moderate (but not small) but a lot of those were in hospital for a much shorter time (vs the previous delta wave)… you might also have an overly paranoid Joe public right now that has a lower threshold to seek help after the implementation of project fear.

              Watch ICU numbers… that’s what really matters imo

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                According to my journalist sources, the cabinet are agonising over closing pubs etc before or after Christmas. How about neither, you cunts?

                  Shit, that’s tough mate. Hope you are all well. Time to break out the Xmas vino I think.