The General Covid19 Thread

Hursty

Smallman1 Yeah but is it sustainable? Can you isolate a country forever? How will it impact their economy in the mid to long term?

Jules72

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

Jules72 yep herd immunity is the plan, wrapped in a more palatable ‘freedom day’ wrapper for nob jockeys like Alistair to get frothy and ‘told you so’ about while the virus silently eats away at his lung capacity over the nect 5 years.

Along_the_Wire

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.

Along_the_Wire

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

alistair

Millsy Puerile outburst given I am double-jabbed. It’s pretty funny the extent to which covid seems to have infected your brain or what’s left of it. Have your pathetic pile on if you must. I won’t be paying any attention.

Millsy

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.

Smallman1

Do you know how I survived the lockdowns?

Minerals.

Jules72

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

Old-Dutch

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

Millsy I agree, but there’s fuck all we can do about it. Hopefully businesses will be responsible. Of course.

Millsy

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.

bosstrabs

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.

Jules72

bosstrabs remember the various ministers, who 3 weeks ago, were proudly telling everyone they won’t be wearing masks once the requirement was dropped.. so Fckng irresponsible.. Sunak was one of them - his book is marked henceforth

Millsy

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.

bosstrabs

Millsy That’s because investment bankers gain a sort of hypercharged ability when with a gaggle of other braying morons.

I have witnessed this first hand across a number of shameful incidents spanning many years.

About the worst being when I met a mate who works for Merrill Lynch for a few pints after his work and witnessed a bunch of new hires ‘hilariously’ making a homeless outside the boozer shine their shoes for their spare change.

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bosstrabs About the worst being when I met a mate who works for Merrill Lynch for a few pints after his work and witnessed a bunch of new hires ‘hilariously’ making a homeless outside the boozer shine their shoes for their spare change.

Thats fucking grim, dave. If you got caught taking the piss like that outside a belfast bar, the bones in your nose would be pushed inside your skull by some lad’s forehead.

Mad_Cyril

bosstrabs
Years of institutionalised buggery do wonders for one’s empathy

Millsy

alistair nice one Al. Oddball.

Jules72

Just read there’s a big hospital in Birmingham that is cancelling elective surgery due to their covid wards filling up and staff being forced to isolate due to track and trace…unreal they are opening nightclubs - straight out of the Bolsonaro covid response strategy book

hugopal

Also, here’s a quote from Jules only 11 days ago.

As I said, he changed his tune quickly, lol.

Jules72 Just read there’s a big hospital in Birmingham that is cancelling elective surgery due to their covid wards filling up and staff being forced to isolate due to track and trace…unreal they are opening nightclubs - straight out of the Bolsonaro covid response strategy book

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