[Alf]

Do you agree? If not, go and change this guys mind.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Alf

Do you agree? If not, go and change this guys mind.

On balance, they were probably too short and too harsh. It would probably have been more effective to have lighter restrictions over a longer time.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Lockdowns were all about fear of blame

not one person who decided a communist lockdown was a good idea lost one days w0rk from them

you do the math

[bots]

the level of restrictions during the first lockdown were absurd. There was nothing remotely scientific to back the majority of them up

[arista]

Monday 4/4/22

210 have Died
143,382 have caught Covid-19


Patients in hospital
Latest available
19,903


Patients in
ventilation beds
Latest available
352

165,780 Total Covid-19 UK Deaths


https://twitter.com/UKCovid19Stats/s...08704145076229

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

Monday 4/4/22

210 have Died
143,382 have caught Covid-19


Patients in hospital
Latest available
19,903


Patients in
ventilation beds
Latest available
352

165,780 Total Covid-19 UK Deaths


https://twitter.com/UKCovid19Stats/s...08704145076229

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Last Monday’s weekend catch up figure was 215,000 so todays are noticeably down


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[arista]

China's Covid is Growing
a Sub Variant BA.1.1
has taken hold of many cities

Report on WION HD Gravitas

https://qz.com/2150110/new-omicron-s...ite-navigation

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

China's Covid is Growing
a New Sub Variant BA.1.1
has taken hold of many cities

Report on WION HD Gravitas

https://qz.com/2150110/new-omicron-s...ite-navigation

Its not new its just a sublineage Omicron, id imagine BA2 will sweep them like wildfire

[arista]

On Gravitas WION HD
Showed Videos from China:
People being beaten.

13,000 Covid cases

Over 20million in the Shanghai Lockdown.


Public fighting for Supplies
Food and water.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Im STILL testing positive

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Im STILL testing positive

I hope soon, it goes

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

I hope soon, it goes

i hope so as i9 had to get into my Mums care home today and distract the staff lady and pretend to swab my nose to get a neg test!

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

i hope so as i9 had to get into my Mums care home today and distract the staff lady and pretend to swab my nose to get a neg test!

how is your Ma settling into the home?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

how is your Ma settling into the home?

she isnt - pulled a carer's pigtails and scratched another and called another a stupid bitch

todays Social work review was a blast

[arista]

Tuesday 5/4/22

368 Have Died
50,202 Have caught Covid-19


Patients in hospital
Latest available
20,398


Patients in
ventilation beds
Latest available
351

166,148 Total UK Covid-19 Deaths.

https://twitter.com/UKCovid19Stats/s...60268978343938

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[arista]

Loads of Holiday flights cancelled
because loads of staff are off sick with Covid.

They have no back up staff
as the got sacked during the First Covid attack

[Lewismacfarlane]

I think we are removing masks in Scotland

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Lewismacfarlane

I think we are removing masks in Scotland

yes the evidence is clear they are useless with BA2

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

yes the evidence is clear they are useless with BA2

Anecdotal or actual? I agree that nation-wide trends make it seem that way but I can't find any evidence (as in scientific, actual research not observational) at all.

It may actually be that masks do still help but that transmission is mainly occurring in unmasked areas i.e. pubs and restaurants, between family members, within schools etc. (they have mask policies but the truth is of course that teenagers are **** at wearing masks or wearing them properly and are still all over each other).

I suppose what I'm saying is, there's actually a difference between the statements "Masks don't work" and "Mask policies aren't reducing spread" even though on the surface they might seem to be the same thing.

[Vanessa]

If you've had the third vaccine and you catch the virus you're less likely to end up in hospital.
I think it definitely helps with the symptoms, in case you catch it.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

If you've had the third vaccine and you catch the virus you're less likely to end up in hospital.
I think it definitely helps with the symptoms, in case you catch it.

Sure that helps.


But covid has not ended at all.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Anecdotal or actual? I agree that nation-wide trends make it seem that way but I can't find any evidence (as in scientific, actual research not observational) at all.

It may actually be that masks do still help but that transmission is mainly occurring in unmasked areas i.e. pubs and restaurants, between family members, within schools etc. (they have mask policies but the truth is of course that teenagers are **** at wearing masks or wearing them properly and are still all over each other).

I suppose what I'm saying is, there's actually a difference between the statements "Masks don't work" and "Mask policies aren't reducing spread" even though on the surface they might seem to be the same thing.

has there ever been anything other than anecdotal evidence that masks halt the spread of infection? Ive heard lots of statements that masks work, but nothing actually scientific to back it up. Properly fitted, high grade surgical masks might help, but the general population either never wore surgical grade masks or had them actually fitted properly so that they would be of any realistic benefit

[user104658]

Touch wood my daughter is now on like day 8, has barely had symptoms and none of the rest of us seem to have caught it. I know it's technically still possible that we're incubating it but at 8 days in it seems unlikely, I doubt she's been contagious since last week, was maybe never very contagious, being almost totally asymptomatic .

Probably jinxed it now and I'll be on tomorrow like "I have sadly died".

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Touch wood my daughter is now on like day 8, has barely had symptoms and none of the rest of us seem to have caught it. I know it's technically still possible that we're incubating it but at 8 days in it seems unlikely, I doubt she's been contagious since last week, was maybe never very contagious, being almost totally asymptomatic .

Probably jinxed it now and I'll be on tomorrow like "I have sadly died".

It took 3 days from me getting into the car with smallest boy LT Thurs to me feeling like i had something - the Monday.

and over 3 weeks later im still testing pos

Mind you I had middle girl LT with me on that Monday and Tuesday and she did not get it from me but i think she may have already had it as she would deffo never test to find out in case she missed work

I was in the car for hours with the boy but not middle girl

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

It took 3 days from me getting into the car with smallest boy LT Thurs to me feeling like i had something - the Monday.

and over 3 weeks later im still testing pos

Mind you I had middle girl LT with me on that Monday and Tuesday and she did not get it from me but i think she may have already had it as she would deffo never test to find out in case she missed work

I was in the car for hours with the boy but not middle girl

That's very strange you're still positive, I've heard of PCRs picking up 'dead virus' but not LFTs