The General Covid19 Thread

Homegrove

Regarding Omnicron or whatever fuck. I read a few articles about it, and have decided to stay positive and focus on one single sentence I remember. “While seemingly even more contagious than Delta, the hospitalisations have not increased at all in regions where new contagions have gone through the roof.”

Or something to that effect. So MAYBE this variant just follows the normal curve of a pandemic, where it gets less deadly with time. From what I’ve read most, if not all, of the vaccinated people with have been asymptomatic.

Jules72

Along_the_Wire doctor friends of mine say it’s likely we will be positive… anyway I have no idea but yeah good idea to look at this now rather than leave it till second half of December

Along_the_Wire

Jules72 See if the British Consulate there will help too

vinnyt77

Has already fucked our travel plans to South Africa in January. Due to head to Lapland on Friday, so staying hopeful we may be ok to squeeze that in before everywhere shuts down…

benson

vinnyt77 Antigua for Xmas is feeling iffy. Heading out in 3 weeks. Was dealing with covid patients last night. I’d forgotten just how terrifying this disease is.

Homegrove

vinnyt77 welcome to Finland. Off to see Santa?

Along_the_Wire

benson Why iffy? They aren’t gonna shut down - they really need the tourism

Wasily

benson Was due to do San Fran Xmas. Will prob wait and see what the data shows, looks more infectious with potential immune escape, but not more virulent…

benson

Along_the_Wire more worried about catching it at work. Or the U.K. saying we can’t leave

jonattonyeah

Wasily

If it helps any, we’re good here in San Francisco.

"In every single Bay Area county, cases rose through November 2020, while in 2021 the opposite is true. As a result, cases rates for the week of Nov. 22, 2021 are only a fraction of what they were the week of Nov. 22, 2020.

The same is true of hospitalization numbers."

Smallman1

I’m going anywhere till Ibiza next May.

London on Sea it is for me.

jonattonyeah

Jules72

Awful, Jules. Onward and upward. All we can do.

Wasily

jonattonyeah I know mate! Its the flight and the duration of it thats my main concern.

jonattonyeah

Wasily

Yeah I get it. The ’rents went back to the Lakes a few weeks ago and said the flight was close to empty so there is that. But shoot me a PM if you do make it over. I can give you some ideas of things to do. Weather has been stunning. 21 C, not a cloud in the sky.

Smallman1

Rio is an absolutely fantastic city.

Which will be of no consolation to you Jules I know.

Godspeed brother.

Along_the_Wire

Smallman1 Rio is an absolutely fantastic city.

Absolute cunt of a football pundit mind

Smallman1

One of the worst.

Complete thicket.

Old-Dutch

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59442149

Fuck!

alistair

Old-Dutch you’d think they would have to show a negative result before boarding the plane. Ridiculous

Smallman1

Wouldn’t fancy being on that flight I must say.

benson

61 out of 600. And yet SA only had 2.5k cases per day. This is being blown out of proportion in my view. I really hope I’m right.

Along_the_Wire

benson This is being blown out of proportion in my view. I really hope I’m right.

Why do you think that?

Ten percent of the plane testing positive? Doesn’t strike me that they’re doing the appropriate tests and checks

jonattonyeah

benson This is being blown out of proportion

Same thing was said in an SFDPH email sent out this morning.

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