Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Elixir]

10 hours ago, Detournement said:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/20/unvaccinated-review-the-most-infuriating-tv-show-of-the-year-so-far

The Guardian and the BBC seem to think it's 2021 again.

The vaccine does nothing to prevent infection or transmission of the current variants and millions of unvaccinated people are going about their lives at big events, going on holidays and studying or working as normal yet pish like this is still being published. 

Remember when you were saying that they would be permanently excluded from a 'new normal' society?

[RH33]

Watching the channel 4 documentary on increase in tics and tourettes in girls post lockdown. 

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 minutes ago, RH33 said:

Watching the channel 4 documentary on increase in tics and tourettes in girls post lockdown. 

There's been a big increase in Scarlett Moffat as well.

 

[Bert Raccoon]

7 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

There's been a big increase in Scarlett Moffat as well.

 

Wid. Obvs 

[Sergeant Wilson]

31 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said:

Wid. Obvs 

I didn't  say it was a bad thing. I'm a fan of big Scarlett, not so much the skinny, mad one.

[Detournement]

19 hours ago, Elixir said:

Remember when you were saying that they would be permanently excluded from a 'new normal' society?

They tried but too many people were opposed to the 'new normal'. 

Billy Boy says we are due for another big one before the end of the decade so it'll probably be back on the agenda as soon as our living standards are destroyed by inflation.

[Todd_is_God]

1 minute ago, Detournement said:

They tried but too many people were opposed to the 'new normal'. 

Or you were just talking pish

[Detournement]

3 hours ago, oaksoft said:

I'm still waiting on this big reset WEF thingy he promised us was about to happen. 

Your purchasing power and access to travel and energy are being reset right now. 

[Detournement]

8 hours ago, RH33 said:

Watching the channel 4 documentary on increase in tics and tourettes in girls post lockdown. 

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tourettes-youtube-jan-zimmermann 

It's being caused by social media particularly TikTok. 

 

 

[ICTChris]

I can’t work out a way to get round the thumping great FT paywall for this story. But Britain is the only country where numbers leaving the workforce have increased post lockdowns.

 

[Elixir]

31 minutes ago, Detournement said:

They tried but too many people were opposed to the 'new normal'. 

Billy Boy says we are due for another big one before the end of the decade so it'll probably be back on the agenda as soon as our living standards are destroyed by inflation.

 

28 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Your purchasing power and access to travel and energy are being reset right now. 

 

Just take the L, m8.

[Todd_is_God]

4 hours ago, Elixir said:

Just take the L, m8.

 

[Elixir]

Something something, but Japanese people wear masks, something something.

 

[philpy]

On 22/07/2022 at 06:40, RH33 said:

Watching the channel 4 documentary on increase in tics and tourettes in girls post lockdown. 

 

[SuperSaints1877]

On 22/07/2022 at 06:40, RH33 said:

Watching the channel 4 documentary on increase in tics and tourettes in girls post lockdown. 

f**k off?

[Blue Brazil Forever]

32 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

And one comment is saying "if they didn't wear masks it would have been even worse" followed by a wee clown symbol. Another is blaming the 1% who don't mask up.

These people will never admit they are wrong about masks.

The wearing of masks, particularly in winter is a very longstanding tradition in Japan. When I and my family lived and worked in Japan in the sixties and seventies, it was fully accepted that masks would be worn to avoid spreading or catching coughs and colds. Their use during the pandemic was regarded as entirely appropriate and correct.

[Todd_is_God]

3 hours ago, Blue Brazil Forever said:

Their use during the pandemic was regarded as entirely appropriate and correct.

And yet, useless.

Just because they've done something for decades does not mean that it actually works.

[KingswellsRed]

18 hours ago, Elixir said:

Something something, but Japanese people wear masks, something something.

 

Up to over 200000 now. Remind me again why over 100 years of research on masks was chucked in the bin?

Edited July 24, 2022 by KingswellsRed

[Elixir]

19 hours ago, oaksoft said:

And one comment is saying "if they didn't wear masks it would have been even worse" followed by a wee clown symbol. Another is blaming the 1% who don't mask up.

These people will never admit they are wrong about masks.

There's also those blaming shan cloth and medical masks - respirators need to be used instead!

 

18 hours ago, Blue Brazil Forever said:

The wearing of masks, particularly in winter is a very longstanding tradition in Japan. When I and my family lived and worked in Japan in the sixties and seventies, it was fully accepted that masks would be worn to avoid spreading or catching coughs and colds. Their use during the pandemic was regarded as entirely appropriate and correct.

Did you go through the sixties and seventies without ever getting ill? Of course you didn't.

 

15 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

And yet, useless.

Just because they've done something for decades does not mean that it actually works.

These people must think that East Asian countries are free from all respiratory illness. It would be rather problematic never getting exposed to routine infections throughout your life. Alas, they still do.

 

5 hours ago, oaksoft said:

I've said before that I'm not sure we should be using Japan as a shining example of anything. I absolutely stand by that.

They're not that keen on LGBT folk either, like most East Asian countries the Covid Legends tell us are the peak of human civilisation. Mind you, they barely acknowledge that China have millions of muslims in concentration camps, so we shouldn't be surprised. At least they continue to take covid seriously, though! That's what matters!

[ICTChris]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61269586

An investigation into an increase in child hepatitis cases has concluded that infection spikes of relatively normal childhood viruses caused an increase in rare reactions, leading to a small number of serious illness and liver transplants.  12 children in the UK required a liver transplant.

Researchers claimed that children were not exposed to the routin viruses due to Covid restrictions limiting mixing and the usual spread of viral infections that kids pick up.

Due to my wife being classed as a 'key worker' (remember that) we were able to have our son in nursery as soon as they were allowed to reopen, which was June or July 2020 IIRC, and I'm very glad of it.  I know some kids who had behavioural issues and impacts following it and, while thankfully very rare, the above cases seem to have steemed from it too.