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19-01-2021, 09:16 AM | #51 | |||
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no, since even if you are vaccinated, you can still spread the virus onto others
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19-01-2021, 09:19 AM | #52 | |||
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I'll get tested if I have to. No worries.
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19-01-2021, 09:19 AM | #53 | |||
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And I'm glad that Italy is doing better because they were the first victims outside of China to handle Covid head on.
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19-01-2021, 09:22 AM | #54 | |||
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Are you sure that's not some weird anti-Vaccer nonsense Nicky?
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19-01-2021, 09:24 AM | #55 | |||
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vaccinating makes yourself immune, but you can still carry the virus and spread it onto others which is why it is important everyone gets the vaccine (otherwise covid-19 will never really go away)
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19-01-2021, 09:25 AM | #56 | |||
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the point of vaccination is that you don't develop the disease in a serious way or enough to be hospitalised
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19-01-2021, 09:28 AM | #57 | |||
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Thank god I'm not a Scientist.
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19-01-2021, 09:28 AM | #58 | ||
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I agree that the UK's overall deaths per capita are an obvious indication that we have been hammered hard, especially if you adjust for scale. I think anyone being totally honest knows there are multiple reasons for that - London's status as an international travel hub and the overall density of population in the UK are two big and uncontrollable factors - but I'm not going to say that it's been handled well or that the numbers wouldn't very possibly be lower if it had been. The government struggled to "pick a lane" so they flipped and flopped between telling people to stay home, and encouraging people to get back out... Things like "eat out to help out" and the heavy push to get consumers back onto the high street was in hindsight disastrous. My argument is ONLY that taking a short span of time and graphing "who was worst in that small snapshot" is not a particularly useful metric. |
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19-01-2021, 09:30 AM | #59 | |||
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i heard this from my country's ICU chief Diederik Gommers, whom is educating the youth on corona, why lockdowns are important, why vaccinating is important here, using social media
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19-01-2021, 09:31 AM | #60 | ||
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I totally agree with you Mock. Also as to your other post of this being an even nastier, cruel( that's my addition to your words), Con party under Johnson. I actually, liked Michael Howard as Con Leader. I think the rot started to set in again more forcefully as to deceit under Cameron. It was actually Theresa May who stated he party was being seen as the nasty party. Cameron caved in to the anti EU extremist side of the party, which John Major had fought to sideline particularly on the EU. Theresa May had little control and things just got worse and nastier under her farcical leadership. However Johnson has taken deceit, heartlessness and blatant cruelty to a new low in the Con party. Particularly on the handling of both brexit and covid. . His refusal to even meet with bereaved families is and should be a national scandal as should be our death rates. There was kind of lauding of the government when Italy stepped ahead of us on official deaths from covid. Now we are heading to near 15,000 more deaths again than Italy. It is shocking, and largely caused by the failure to prepare and protect properly and for longer by this government. Their procrastination in vital decision making also adding to the problem of unnecessary deaths of loved ones. I can't wait for the proper inquiry into this which I hope all other Parties insist on.. Despite Johnson trying to hold back on that. When all those bereaved families, and other groups who know all that's been done wrong can present all to the said inquiry, when it eventually comes. Which it will and I can't wait. Last edited by joeysteele; 19-01-2021 at 09:54 AM. |
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19-01-2021, 09:43 AM | #61 | |||
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To me if it was just a dodgy graphic or whatever I would be way less critical of the Tories handling of the disease, but sadly a lot of other graphics always show us high up on the death rates too.
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19-01-2021, 09:44 AM | #62 | |||
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19-01-2021, 09:46 AM | #63 | |||
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And I'm interested in the inquiry too Joey.
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In short, you don't bolster existing robust statistics by including weaker contrived statistics... You actually knock the legs out from under them by introducing the element of doubt. Last edited by Toy Soldier; 19-01-2021 at 09:48 AM. |
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19-01-2021, 11:43 AM | #65 | |||
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While it sounds horrendous, 2m people over the whole world dying in a year..I cannot see being deemed serious enough for a smallpox type reaction from leaders.
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19-01-2021, 11:53 AM | #66 | ||
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However, either way, it's worth remembering that vaccinated or not, people can still transmit the virus to others on their hands/clothes/posessions etc. if there's a short enough time between contamination and contact. |
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19-01-2021, 12:01 PM | #67 | ||
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19-01-2021, 12:04 PM | #68 | |||
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I can't say I know the answer specifically for chicken pox . It does seem to be surprisingly still quite unknown for MANY regular vaccines, and I cas see lots of studies that suggest large reductions but not "complete" halting e.g. a vaccine giving 95% individual protection in a population but only stopping spread by about 70%... which would suggest that 70% of people gain full immunity, and then a further 25% gain a level of immunity that stops them developing symptoms but the virus is still replicating asymptomatically in them. In theory... it SHOULDN'T be a problem so long as all of the vulnerable categories are vaccinated, and assuming that the vaccine effects are long-term... as it should mean that even if it continues to spread, anything more than mild cases will become very rare. I do agree with you above though; the scale of spread at this point means it's a complete fantasy that we'll ever live in a 100% covid-free world, viruses like this that are "out of the bag" so to speak can't just be eradicated... if they could, we would have eradicated chicken pox, measles, glandular fever etc. years ago but they still go around. Covid will HOPEFULLY be rendered "not really a problem" by vaccination and then life can go back to normal. People get seriously ill and die of viruses all the time and always have, we carry on. The key is in bringing the scale of them problem WAY down so that we can treat it as we do those viruses. And I agree that it will most likely be a "minor ailment of the future", one of a multitude of minor viruses that circulate, but we're likely talking a century or more for that to happen really. Essentially, it's possible or even likely that the existing circulating coronaviruses were pretty nasty in humans when they first appeared... but they've been around for a LONG time. |
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19-01-2021, 12:33 PM | #71 | |||
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the answer to that is simple Arista, people like Morgan ignore the restrictions
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19-01-2021, 12:48 PM | #72 | ||
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Well yeah, vulnerable categories safeguarded against severe infection would definitely help a lot, especially NHS/other health system wise. A few mornings ago I was watching bbc news (something I have avoided for months actually..) and they were saying they were expecting to have everyone over 18 vaccinated by june. Which seems a bit..wasteful to me. Can't see that happening, maybe they are saying that to calm the younger people who are panicking and it will all be a bit 'ok, we have done it' once the vulnerable are sorted..I do think it will be a requirement for foreign travel though for most places..which is not that different to needing malaria jabs and stuff.
I would think that the 'actual plan' IS just to do the vunerable, as really, you cannot avoid a small amount of death completely, nor should we try to eradicate death IMO which some seem to be expecting. The issue is the NHS. If we can get it all to a level where the health system can function, that will be 'good enough'. What we have currently is loads dying of stuff that wouldn't usually kill them, because all resources are taken by covid patients. So now things that were not deadly before, can be. The june thing..sounded fantasy for the whole country though, and just an hour later this was changed to 'all over 18s by september' There was also a bit of attitude towards Israel and the implication they are not doing well with their vaccine rollout, yet..they have 25/100 people done apparently, while we are on much lower ..obviously we have a higher population, but it did come across very..sneering which seemed daft. I seemingly cannot convince my mother in law that she should get the vaccine. She has declined so far, partly because of hearsay around her street. One of the women had it a week or so back, and said she was told 'if you feel a bit spaced out for a few days, dont worry, thats normal'. I am 100% positive she misheard/misremembered this, but it seems to have worried the people round there, which are mainly elderly/ill as its basically a form of sheltered housing the place she lives. Things like that certainly do not help matters, though I doubt she did it on purpose. Result of her spreading that about, seems to be half the street dropping out :S That said though, my mother in law was not too keen on the idea to start with (though she gets the flu jab every year..) as she had covid ages back now and didn't even know she had it, despite being one of those that..to look at you would think would at least be hospitalised. She remains convinced, regardless of how many scientists say a vaccine is still needed, that natural imunity will be good enough. Her neighbour telling her to expect weird side effects cemented it in her. I have said that while it does appear getting it again is extremely rare, its clearly possible. Also it looks like usually a second infection..is not as bad as the first, but the potential is there for her to get it badly a second time, even if unlikely. I now feel I am just lecturing a nearly 70 year old woman..so just leaving her to it. But I do wnder how many 'vulnerable' are actually taking it up. The same bbc news thing, they had some health guy on and he was asked how good the takeup rate was. He gave a politicians answer, and it was something like 'shielding people who have not seen their families since march are very grateful for the advances' or something..which made me worry takeup is NOT very good, as if it was, he would have just said that surely?! I guess time will tell. It will be 'interesting' to read all the studies and such in 30 years time, thats for sure!
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19-01-2021, 12:52 PM | #73 | |||
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I am so annoyed that he got away with swanning off at Christmas even if 'technically' it was within the rules, it certainly wasn't in the spirit of lockdown, he is shameless
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19-01-2021, 12:52 PM | #74 | ||
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Good god, that was an essay and a half. And a lot of irrelevant waffle too really
I thik am storing it all up for when I come on forums, as I dare not post any statuses to do with it, as its divided the country even more than brexit did, and anyone who posts anything, be it that they are a lockdown fan, or think things are to strict, gets jumped on immediately. Am awaiting a pile on actually, as saying that I did post what I think is my first covid related status this morning. After reading about people kicking off that some shops are still selling clothes. As clothes are not a necessity apparently. like, try having yung children who grow at a ridiculous rate, or speaking to the likes of NHS staff who are working so long/hard that their uniforms are hanging on by threads. Yeah, theres the amazn option, however..my experience of clothes buying on amazon, or online in general really..has been you order a size 14, and it comes 3 weeks later and says 14 but is either a 6 or a 20 I cannot begin to even try working out how its been deemed clothes are not essential, yet takeaway coffee and mcdonalds and such is..
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My impression is that the take up has been pretty good so far. I think as they go through the categories to those less vulnerable, the take up will reduce dramatically. The idea that we will get herd immunity through vaccination is fatally flawed I think, for all sorts of reasons, so I wish they would stop projecting it as the big solution.
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