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2 hours ago, oaksoft said:

What on earth are you going on about?

Are you seriously suggesting post-viral syndrome isn't a physical thing?

If you are, you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

Have I misunderstood you?

How many people cited as suffering from 'long Covid' have consulted a specialist and been diagnosed?

The ONS data that Monbiot and the like treat as Gospel is an entirely unverified, self-reporting survey. You can respond yes to the question of 'long Covid' without having ever tested positive or had symptoms. 

There is unquestionably a significant overlap then between people who are genuinely struggling to recover from viral illness (not to mention the process of intensive care itself) and hypochondriacs who definitely reckon they got Covid in Angus in November 2019 and now think 'feeling a bit shite' in a lockdown winter is a genuine illness. And media coverage absolutely replicates that self-reporting. 

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I have a mate who claims to suffer from long covid because he's tired all the time lately. In this year so far he's laid a large 2 tier decking in his garden, painted the outside of his house, built a shed with a bar in it and refurbished an old pool table on top of working a full time job with its fair share of manual labour.

But it's definitely the covid that's done him in.

 

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13 minutes ago, GiGi said:

I have a mate who claims to suffer from long covid because he's tired all the time lately. In this year so far he's laid a large 2 tier decking in his garden, painted the outside of his house, built a shed with a bar in it and refurbished an old pool table on top of working a full time job with its fair share of manual labour.

But it's definitely the covid that's done him in.

So debilitating. Must be horrible 🙏🏻

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2 hours ago, Ginaro said:

First time actually listening to her, wish I'd kept it on mute.

Devi says the way to avoid lockdowns is to keep your case numbers low enough. Well sure, but in the previous sentence you were just talking about full hospitals and ICUs forcing lockdowns. If you have a vaccine which stops most cases becoming hospitalisations/going into ICU then you can have higher cases numbers without a lockdown...

And of course, when you avoid lockdown, case numbers rise, especially in winter...

How do people like her get in their position?

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On 15/04/2021 at 16:31, Todd_is_God said:

She's not a virologist or epidemiologist

What's your definition of epidemiology? Her research involves study of patterns of disease and influence of interventions in populations, which is pretty much the definition of what an epidemiologist does.

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7 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

You can't just think or motivate post-viral fatigue syndrome away.

You can if your lethargy is caused by being stuck in the house for months, all the while being told a whole range of symptoms are indicators of "long covid" and that 1 in 3 people develop it.

There are not 1 million people in the UK with PVFS.

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24 minutes ago, Cyclizine said:

What's your definition of epidemiology? Her research involves study of patterns of disease and influence of interventions in populations, which is pretty much the definition of what an epidemiologist does.

Devi Sridhar herself would not claim to be an epidemiologist.

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On 15/04/2021 at 14:29, superbigal said:

 

Daily Cases Update:  Sensational day as we have total cases down 5.23% to 1776  &  infections down to 32.5 per 100K 

We have sailed past the Irish again who presumably were out chucking Covid bombs at the Polis. 

Astonishing stuff at the foot of the table. Edinburgh now has only 85 cases. We now have 15 local authorities under 20 cases per 100K.  Indeed 9 of those are below 10.

At the top Clackmannanshire & Glasgow are now as low as 19th & 20th place in the UK.  Only 4 authorities over the Level 2 50 cases threshold.

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Total Cases 7 days from 7th April to 13th April  were 1874 now 1776 down 5.23%. Positivity was 1.6% now 1.6%.   Cases per 100k were 34.3 now 32.5

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  28.6 to 28.7 up 0.35%, England 28.2 to 28.4 up 0.71%,  Wales  18.3 to 17.4 down 4.92%, Northern Ireland 33.1 to 38.1 up 15.11% 

European (Above 2 Million Population) : Sweden 428 to 415, Hungary 350 to 394, Poland 355 to 372,  Croatia 372,  France 352 to 371, Serbia 352 to 314,

Special mention for Turkey as a popular destination at 478, Cyprus at 444 !!

Council progress in last 24 Hours as follows.

Click cases by neighbourhood to see the spread on the geographical map. 
https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

Under 100 Club could do better club

Clackmannanshire 81.5 to 62.1  Surely last day at number 1 down 23.80%

Glasgow City 59.1 to 58.9  Pollok sure to send it top tomorrow

North Lanarkshire  62.1 to 57.7  Nice down over 7%

Renfrewshire  58.6 to 57.5

West Lothian 49.7 to 48.6 

Moray  51.1 to 45.9 

Fife  49.8 to 45.0    Welcome near 10% drop

South Lanarkshire  41.2 to 43.1

East Renfrewshire  41.9 to 42.9 

Falkirk  46.0 to 41.0  Very nice 10%+ drop.

Dundee City   42.2 to 40.9

Stirling    39.3 to 36.1

Under Scottish Average club 32.5

Aberdeen City 31.5 to 29.3

West Dunbartonshire  24.7 to 25.9 

East Ayrshire   29.5 to 22.9  Down 40% in 2 days

Inverclyde 18.0 to 20.6 

East Dunbartonshire  23.9 to 20.3 Another great day 25% in 2 days

Winchester Club Sub 20.0 but still no prospect of level 2 for 5 weeks club

North Ayrshire  20.0 to 18.6

Perth & Kinross  17.8 to 16.5 

City Of Edinburgh  19.2 to 16.2  Incredible day down over 15%

Highlands   12.3 to 15.7 

Aberdeenshire  16.8 to 14.5 Another 13.70% drop

Shetland Islands  13.1 to 13.1 

South Ayrshire   10.7 to 9.8

Midlothian  8.7 to 9.7   

East Lothian  14.0 to 8.4  Astonishing down another 40%

Angus 9.5 to 7.7  Brilliant nearly a second daily drop of 20%

Argyll & Bute  7.0 to 5.8

Dumfries & Galloway  4.0 to 4.0  

Scottish  Borders   2.6 to 3.5

Western Isles   0.0 to 0.0

Orkney Island  0.0 to 0.0  

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14 minutes ago, Le Tout P'ti FC said:

Not sure if I should risk travelling from a 3.5 to a 5.8 tomorrow.

I'm going from a 43.1 to an 18.6.

Sorry lads. I'll full body bleach before leaving the plague lands. I won't be interacting with any banjo playing yokels anyway 

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I'm completely fine now. No regrets really about getting the az vaccine even despite yesterday. 
I had the AZ last month and felt like I had a bad hangover. Cleared up after around 24 hours but I felt I couldn't keep a heat in me at all.
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