Dan Ed is on a roll.

Looking at his neck it’s more likely a baguette.

  • Dan replied to this.

      hugopal don’t ever manage people Hugo…”there there, it’s only flu… now sit there and STFU”.. even if you are double jabbed, as a few will testify on here, it can be a miserable thing to catch (you also fail to mention that the chances of coming down with long covid are around 10 times the chances the dying) - if I’m going to catch this thing, it will be doing something I enjoy (eg going out with friends), rather than sitting next to some anti-vaxxer lunatic at work or on the train…

          Hearing reports of staff in other teams who won’t take the vaccine, but are refusing to come back to work as they don’t feel safe. Some people need a good hard kick in the hole.

          Jules72 you also fail to mention that the chances of coming down with long covid are around 10 times the chances the dying

          Errr, what’s your source for this?
          Also, again vaccines make the risk from long covid too small to bother worrying about:

          "Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist, also at Washington University, is studying the effects of Covid-19 vaccination on the risk of long Covid-19. His research, which is not yet finished, looks at information on more than 5 million veterans within a Department of Veterans Affairs database, including 200,000 who were diagnosed with Covid-19.

          “Of the people who get vaccinated and end up with a breakthrough infection, their risk of coming back to the clinic with some long Covid manifestation is very, very small,” Al-Aly said."

          https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1273970

          Dr Claire Steves, an epidemiologist and senior author on the Convalescence study at King’s College London, said the next six weeks or so would be particularly risky as England opens up, with so many young adults not yet fully vaccinated. But she says the vaccines offered hope for protecting people against long Covid as well as acute Covid. In work to be published later this week, Steves and her colleagues show that vaccination substantially reduces the risk of long Covid.

          “We are seeing a very clear reduction in the risk of long Covid in all age groups if you have had two shots of vaccine,” she said. “We know the vaccines really work to reduce your risk of getting infected in the first place, and then if you are unlucky enough to get Covid we are showing your risk of long Covid is much reduced.”

          https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/13/delta-surge-could-leave-hundreds-of-thousands-with-long-covid

          Jules72 if I’m going to catch this thing, it will be doing something I enjoy (eg going out with friends), rather than sitting next to some anti-vaxxer lunatic at work

          I’m sure your employer would be delighted to hear you don’t enjoy your job.

          I’m sure they’d also be delighted to hear that you can’t be bothered to go to work to do the thing they’ll be paying you to do because of some tiny risk, a risk that is so small that you’re not so bothered if you get it while going out instead.

          You’ll for sure be seen as a very committed employee who attaches plenty of importance to their job, and will surely be rewarded in kind by those managing you.

                hugopal I’m afraid that doesn’t make any sense. If you take coke and pills you are far more likely to die of that than the jab. Either is fairly unlikely in any case, but you don’t take the jab because of it? On the fucking fire with you, you selfish cunt.

                  Along_the_Wire you thought what?

                  It’s difficult to make direct comparisons about the point I was making, but here are some rough numbers for context:

                  Since the start of the whole pandemic, so over about 16 months, 455 people in England aged between 15 and 34 died “within 28 days of a positive covid test”, and not all of those will have been actually caused by covid, and a lot of those will have likely been people with serious underlying health conditions.

                  https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=nation&areaName=England

                  Meanwhile, in 2019 there were 708 registered deaths in England and Wales involving cocaine (though as with the Covid death figures above some of those could have also been partly impacted by other things; some of them will have also been older adults) .

                  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54540863.amp

                  Now consider that at least 15% of the population are estimated to have caught covid at some point (as of Jan, so will now be a fair bit higher), but only around 3% of people in the UK aged 15 - 59 take cocaine in a year, and it seems likely that cocaine is more deadly than covid for young people.

                  https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-15-3-of-englands-population-estimated-to-have-had-coronavirus-by-mid-january-12207328

                  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/30/the-white-stuff-why-britain-cant-get-enough-cocaine

                  In fact, considering how many more people have caught covid than take cocaine, and looking at the age distribution of covid deaths, I reckon it probably even holds for people up to the age of 54 as well (above which they’re unlikely to be doing coke anyway).

                      LOL at 3% of people take cocaine. I get there are loads of people that don’t, but fucking hell, have been out in a town or city in the last decade?

                        Excuse me, I’m doing a survey - two simple questions. Do you take cocaine and how big is your erect penis?

                        Uh, I don’t take drugs and 9 inches. Will that do?

                        Along_the_Wire out of curiosity, what percentage of people in the UK say aged 16-40 would you have guessed have done coke in a year (let’s take a normal year, 2019, same as the official estimate)?

                            hugopal I’d suggest vastly different to the official estimate. Do you think people answer a survey like that honestly?

                                hugopal do you have any friends in the real world and, if so, could you please ask them to register here so we can do an ama?

                                    Can we draw a comparison between young people who don’t want to take the vaccine because COVID doesn’t affect them and old cunts happy to pollute the earth because they will be dead before it affects them?

                                    hugopal double 3% at least. But I think way more.

                                    In a recent survey of men aged 18-60, zero percent are rapists. In another survey of the same group, it was discovered that zero percent are paedophiles.