The General Covid19 Thread
There’s a busker playing Kurdish hits from the 90s on a ragged guitar in between stops. Thats about the best of it.
Well we’ll address that if it happens. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best, but I’m not going to going to concern myself with hypotheticals that exist outside the bounds of what we know. The virus has caused problems with the same demographics irrespective of variant. The stories of young person X or other person Y make headlines but they’re outliers.
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jonattonyeah The stories of young person X or other person Y make headlines but they’re outliers.
Outliers are where the juice is at JohnTyeahyeah.
I knows it, you knows it.
Even Edward Shitterbantz knows it.
He just doesn’t know he knows it yet.
Mad_Cyril Outliers are where the juice is at JohnTyeahyeah.
Along_the_Wire this was always the problem with no restrictions.. the inconsistency in the government’s strategy vs its reaction function - that eventually they have to capitulate…if you manage/slow the spike, you don’t need to deprive people of stuff like pubs.
jonattonyeah The virus has caused problems with the same demographics irrespective of variant.
Not according TO THE REAL WORLD DATA, my friend
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LT42 in South Africa the greater number of cases in kids was due to kids coming in for other illnesses and being tested anyway… so called incidental cases - they didn’t turn up at hospital due to covid symptoms. So, at least in South Africa, this was nothing but a scare story. There was a story going around about one kid dying, but it turned out he/she had serious comorbidities
Another Twitter contributor looking for drama… winds me up
A surgeon friend tells me his trust has 10-15% of staff off sick at mom (mostly Omicrom)… and that the issue for the NHS right now is not beds but staff numbers. So you could see the government imposing measures just to get us through the next month regardless of how quickly bed fills up
That’s what worries me too, half the country on sick leave at the same time.
Getting boosted on January 25th. Quite a long ways to go to dodge this shit still.
I’m planning on drinking my way through Omicron.
Cheers (literally)