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What is the insane regulations? I've run out of free articles.
Refresh the page and very quickly cancel the refresh, et voila!

Patience required as you won't always catch the right moment first time.

An extremely handy tip that I picked up on this website, possibly even this very thread.
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I just think the reality is that surely as this goes on past a full calendar year, in tandem with the vaccine rollout, it just won't be a tenable position not to progressively lift all restrictions by the end of summer.

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8 minutes ago, Elixir said:

I just think the reality is that surely as this goes on past a full calendar year, in tandem with the vaccine rollout, it just won't be a tenable position not to progressively lift all restrictions by the end of summer.

60% of the British public just want to lie in a heap on the couch, barely conscious watching Strictly Celebrity on Ice. There won't be a revolt or anything like it if we can't have crowds at football or have a glass of wine with a steak dinner this year.

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1 minute ago, Marshmallo said:

60% of the British public just want to lie in a heap on the couch, barely conscious watching Strictly Celebrity on Ice. There won't be a revolt or anything like it if we can't have crowds at football or have a glass of wine with a steak dinner this year.

Perhaps, but that is also the current state of play at the height of the worst point of the pandemic, when fear is at its zenith, and as the vaccine continues to roll out. If that isn't a minority view in six months time then it truly will be worrying.

Still, surely Government, particularly the Tory party in London, will need to get the shiftless deadbeats moving again and off state life support as soon as possible.

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1 hour ago, Erih Shtrep said:

This was explained to you yesterday.   Scotland's prioritised the care homes - where about 90% have been vaccinated.   The English figure is less than 40%.  

Boris Johnston has gone for the Daily Express/ thicko headline tactic.   Little surprise you've swallowed it hook line and sinker.  

And Nicola has gone for the National/Weegie thicko headline tactic. Little surprise that you’ve swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

Anyway, at least you’ve got another Independence think tank. That’ll be really handy in the middle of a crisis.

The Nats are just like Old Firm fans....it’s always someone else’s fault.

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How was she? Taking my mum on Tuesday, she's never had a bad reaction to the flu jag. Was it an instant thing or did she get home before it hit?
Sore arm on Friday and felt pretty shitty yesterday. List of effects include..

Soreness around the jag site
Tiredness
Chills
Fever
Aches and pains
Swollen glands

Nothing that paracetamol and ibuprofen couldn't handle, she's fine today apart from the sore arm and swollen glands, but she has almost always had swollen glands from the flu jab too.
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1 hour ago, Elixir said:

 

Once immunity continues to build in the population and the vaccination program is completed, deaths will return to normal levels and the healthcare system will no longer be in danger of being swamped. That means every single one of the civil liberties taken from us should then be returned. No tiers or 'precautionary principle' for something that won't actually exist, but full normality. Anything else would be overreach and mission creep.

Nicola Sturgeon is an inherently conservative politician, unlike Johnson who is a raging populist. 

I suspect that she'll be utterly terrified to lift severe restrictions too soon, but will be forced into a corner because Johnson will start easing lockdown as soon as possible. On top of that, the May elections will soon be at the front of her mind. 

I have no facts to back it up, but I still believe that we'll be in tier systems for a long time.

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12 minutes ago, doulikefish said:

Context needed, i.e. how does this compare to hospitalisations for other conditions, how many of those patients were old relics at deaths door anyway and/or a Big Mac away from a coronary.

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28 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Context needed, i.e. how does this compare to hospitalisations for other conditions, how many of those patients were old relics at deaths door anyway and/or a Big Mac away from a coronary.

We do need context but a near 30% readmission rate is horrific.

Many of the old relics 'at deaths door' would presumably have succumbed on first admission and won't be part of a group discharged from hospital??

Hospital readmission rates in England following pneumonia according to this paper are 16%.

Readmission.

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3 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Context needed, i.e. how does this compare to hospitalisations for other conditions, how many of those patients were old relics at deaths door anyway and/or a Big Mac away from a coronary.

Doesnt matter what age etc they are they are being readmitted which in turn puts a strain on the nhs 

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4 minutes ago, doulikefish said:

Doesnt matter what age etc they are they are being readmitted which in turn puts a strain on the nhs 

Except it does matter, quite a lot actually. If they’re all over 70 then those statistics will likely plummet shortly after that group have been vaccinated. If it’s across all age groups with large numbers under 50 then it’s more worrying longer term.

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16 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

 

They do point out that Korea and Sweden might have just taken on the isolation advice without making it obligatory.

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 The degree to which risk communications motivate personal behaviors has been used to explain South Korea’s response to NPIs, where large personal behavior changes were observed following less restrictive NPIs.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484

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