This last week it feels like I know 100 people with it, maybe I do.

My friend in London was saying that the cases are through the roof because the rapid testing wasn’t catching the Omicron virus, but when they did the more robust testing mostly for folks seeing their parents for Christmas, it was catching it. Was also saying no deaths and mostly mild symptoms, hospitals clogged with paranoid folk.

Surely this is the beginning of the end?

    rhouses Surely this is the beginning of the end?

    Hope so.

    Would give my right arm to see Lozza G down there again.

    Oi oi!

      rhouses hospitals full of paranoid folk… that’s certainly a reasonable theory for some in hospital - in South Africa people were discharged a lot quicker..

          Jules72 hospitals full of paranoid folk

          I can see that paranoid folk would present at hospital, but surely they’d get turned away PDQ?

            Have I seen Blocko absolutely tear it up at Turnmills?

            The answer to that question is an emphatic YES.

              Smallman1 so have I. Remember him coming on after Seaman for the 4 - 6 slot and took it down a notch by kicking off with Lizard 😂

                rhouses rapid testing wasn’t catching the Omicron virus

                Don’t listen to your mate. Sounds like he uses the same websites at Funky

                Hospitalisations in London were up 92% last week

                    Along_the_Wire from a low level though.. again it’s worth looking at Gauteng and South Africa as a whole … the guy is publishing it daily:

                    There was a reasonable pickup in hospitalisations in Gauteng but a peak well off the delta wave, and only a small pick up in ICU cases - so the more severe you move along the spectrum, the less the numbers pick up… as far as I can see there is nothing in the data yet that tells us SA is different from the U.K.

                        Jules72 hearing that government will resist making restrictions, at least for the time being. Sets us on a different path to the covid headbangers in Wales and Scotland.

                            alistair hearing that government will resist making restrictions

                            …dusts off the kitchen sink…

                              alistair the only thing that should lead to lockdown (I think) is a staff shortage in the NHS.. can understand why they’d implement that for 2 weeks though I have no idea if merited

                                Homegrove

                                Nothing like being hospitalized to own the Libs,

                                I don’t know if I’ll ever recover from the ownage.

                                  zackster

                                  He’s not wrong. Our support from the CDC and HRSA is pitiful. Additional funding is not happening because Republicans. Guns, abortion, tax cuts, and military contractors are the only thing that matters to them. Biden is whatever, hate away, but this issue runs far deeper than that oldie.

                                      jonattonyeah Guns, abortion, tax cuts, and military contractors are the only thing that matters to them

                                      What a time to be alive.

                                          Smallman1

                                          Not everything is laughter, smiles, rainbows, and Trisco, Ed. Tops on, unfortunately.

                                            I’ll be over next year to give the place a bit of the ole Smallman magic Jonatton.

                                            Sunshine on a rainy day incoming!

                                              If you listen hard enough, when Biden heads up the stairs, he says to the pilot “you know the drill, disc 1 at full volume.”

                                              zackster

                                              You could elect your saint Bernie and we’d be in the same spot.

                                              This is a Republican problem and always has been. Nothing will ever change as long as the Electoral College, the Senate, and the House are weighted in places where nobody fucking lives. Get mad at Biden all you want, I, too, enjoy pissing in the wind.

                                                  Mad_Cyril ’Eddie’s looking a bit sunshine today in all his Billionaire Boys Club gear’

                                                    jonattonyeah Nothing will ever change as long as the Electoral College, the Senate, and the House are weighted in places where nobody fucking lives.

                                                    Or the Democrats could actually campaign and win those places?

                                                    Maybe actually convincing the rural working class they could enact policies that are good for them Instead of just appealing to your retarded coastal liberal echo chamber.