UK records 42,302 new Covid cases
A further 42,302 new Covid cases have been reported across the UK, alongside another 49 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
100,000 by august easily
UK records 42,302 new Covid cases
A further 42,302 new Covid cases have been reported across the UK, alongside another 49 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
100,000 by august easily
Hursty everyone knew this was going to happen though? It’s not climbing anywhere near the likes of the Guardian were scare-mongering. It’s hospitalisations and deaths that matter.
Along_the_Wire I’m hearing now that the reason countries like Aus and NZ are trying the zero tolerance approach is that they want more time to analyse the long term effects of covid.
Seems a little futile to go with zero tolerance as you will never open up again, you can’t suppress a virus forever
Hard to argue against the Aus and NZ approach, my sister lives on the Sunshine Coast and its been business as usual there for months, looks like paradise to me.
I think people have forgotten that there are so many other causes of people dying everyday, not just covid. Yet we are not saying eg ban alcohol because it killed x number of people last week. Or let’s close all fast food places and ban unhealthy foods so we can free up the NHS because of the number of people admitted with illnesses related to being fat bastards.
We need to start looking at the bigger picture rather than constantly focusing on no of new covid cases all the time.
Don’t want to panic anybody but hospitalisations are running at 500 a day on average over the past week, which is double what the spectator model was envisaging… does that mean we can expect an August death peak well in excess of the 200 a day it was envisaging? Not looking good… though personally I think this is prob the right time to expose the population to the virus so we are prepared better for winter - better the peak happen during the summer than in the winter.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-bad-will-the-third-wave-be-
Millsy What do you think we should do Millsy? Can’t let it rip later in the year and another lock down would be really fucking awful
Do you know how I survived the lockdowns?
Minerals.
Jules72 at the last peak there were 38,363 in hospital and daily deaths peaked at 1,823 . As of last week there are 3,786 people in hospital and the current peak is 63 deaths - this is like early July last year.
My brother went on holiday to Cornwall with the family last week. First day they got a text to say that a kid in his daughter’s class had tested positive. Then 4 more. They got a test for his daughter and isolated in the house they were staying in. Her test came back positive so they decided to drive straight home to isolate. His wife is now showing symptoms, double jabbed and has also had corona previously.
Hoping to fuck Millsy’s grim outlook doesn’t materialise otherwise we are in big trouble.
Along_the_Wire maybe keep the preventative measures in place and enforce them, such as masks and wfh recommendations and limited numbers in enclosed spaces rather than absolute freedom? I’m equally not convinced that we won’t see even worse numbers in the winter anyway. Herd immunity is an untested theory altogether with something so prolific and prone to mutation.
Along_the_Wire yeah but hospitalisations lag cases…can see that number at 20k easily over next couple of months.. anyway I’m with you - we can’t lockdown forever and now is a good time to catch it and boost your immunity. Not sure I want to step into an indoor club mind - indoor club events are going to be superspreader events.. anyone who goes to one and who hasn’t come down with covid is highly likely to catch it.. how many people have we heard of who went to Wembley and caught covid?! Just imagine what will happen with indoor clubs..
Think one important thing to bear in mind is that it’s better to get a moderate dose of this and boost your immunity that way.. if you get a heavy dose e chances of nasty complications goes up a lot… wearing masks indoors still makes a lot of sense imo - even if they don’t prevent you getting it, theyll lower the viral loads you’re exposed to
Millsy I agree, but there’s fuck all we can do about it. Hopefully businesses will be responsible. Of course.
There is no good way out of this, but it would be nice if people retained some general consideration for others from this (as I believe I do, despite apparently being a total cunt in other ways).
There is now a sizeable group of people who think we’re already on the 19th July and are charging around the supermarket in big groups with no masks on (doing stuff like stocking up on booze for the footy). These are not vaccinated older people either. There are also cunts who don’t even give the slightest recognition to 1-2 metre distancing.
I’m not especially worried about the immediate effects of catching it as I am chock-a-block with minerals, but the whole long covid thing is the unknown factor which no one can predict and medical research has only just started to investigate.
Along_the_Wire yeah the good ones will. My company has placed absolutely no rules in place about returning to offices. Contrast that with, say, JP Morgan, which has a CEO from the dark ages who is insisting everyone returns to an office and you basically have a smorgasbord of cunts.