Originally Posted by Zizu (Post 11123474)

Surely if it’s so virulent the whole world would be shutting down to all other countries rather than just the uk

Just wondered why we seem to be doing worse than everyone else ?


Is it simply due to us being a tiny island with a dense ( both meanings ) population ??

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies (Post 11123475)

"Still, it is worth pointing out that, at every stage, the models used by public health
agencies exaggerated the numbers of infections and of deaths. Indeed, it may well be
that, once again, the lockdown will come into effect only after the peak in new infections
has passed. Why do our leaders keep falling for it?

Because, I’m afraid, all the incentives are stacked one way. No politician ever gets into
trouble for erring on the side of caution. Nor does any public health adviser. No one has
ever been hounded from office for spending too much on test and trace, or for imposing
restrictions that had little effect, or for making predictions that were excessively
alarmist. Make the slightest slip the other way, though, and you’re finished."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...boris-dont-do/

Originally Posted by Cherry Christmas (Post 11123482)

Precisely


Wales had a circuit breaker last year that made no difference at all ...

Originally Posted by Alf (Post 11123309)

The medical profession are tossing it off doing tiktok dances and spending their time in test centres testing healthy people whilst sick people are going without care.

Originally Posted by Livia (Post 11123490)

I'm sorry Alfie, that is just not true. If people don't want to get jabbed, that's up to them, but then to expect to receive medical treatment when it all goes the shape of the pear.... No.

You must be the only person in the country who think that the medical profession are "tossing it off doing tiktok dances...." and as much as I adore you, that's a really awful and misguided thing to say.

Originally Posted by Cousin Eddie (Post 11123556)

Another fall in cases, Omicron is over

Originally Posted by Cousin Eddie (Post 11123556)

Another fall in cases, Omicron is over

Originally Posted by arista (Post 11123573)

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/12...9937243348.jpg

[Number of cases has risen by 32,473 (64.4%) in
seven days but is lower than yesterday's figure of 90,418]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ll-111-45.html

Originally Posted by Toy Santa (Post 11123591)

I’ll just reiterate what I said before. A few days worth of data is nowhere near enough to be drawing conclusions from, and the attempts to do so are at best wishful thinking, and at worst dangerously dumb.

It might be fine. It might be a disaster. We simply don’t know yet, there hasn’t been enough data to make any sort of projection. Why do people keep trying? Why are people still declaring it a “false alarm” or “over” based on less than a week’s data that includes the notoriously unreliable weekend numbers?

Originally Posted by arista (Post 11123605)

Ch4HDnews reports
12 deaths from Omicron Covid-19 now