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Post by agent69 on Dec 16, 2021 17:50:46 GMT
The first person in Britain to die after catching Omicron was an anti-vaxxer pensioner who refused the life-saving jab after becoming convinced it was part of a Government conspiracy to control the population having been brainwashed online, his stepson claimed today.
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Post by adrianc on Dec 16, 2021 18:04:17 GMT
Damn near 90k new +ve cases today...
Yesterday's damn near 80k was +10k over the previous highest. There's only been a couple of days (Jan this year) over 60k, and a handful over 50k...
Highest 3day rolling average so far (64k), and only just short of the highest 7-day (57k, vs 59k in Jan). That's a cert for tomorrow, then, given we were in the low-50k last week...
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Post by benaj on Dec 16, 2021 18:22:05 GMT
Bear in mind, if 20% of the population are unwilling to get tested this winter and reinfection is not reflected on the daily dashboard, the real number of “infection” will probably be much higher.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Dec 16, 2021 18:25:00 GMT
The only thing I look at is the deaths, which are currently pretty stable. I will start to worry when they go up.
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Post by adrianc on Dec 16, 2021 18:27:32 GMT
The only thing I look at is the deaths, which are currently pretty stable. I will start to worry when they go up. Unfortunately, it's nowhere near as binary as "asymptomatic or death". The bit in-between covers a vast range of sub-optimal scenarios; from just a few days of feeling awful, through serious hospital time, up to pretty damn horrible long-term consequences.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Dec 16, 2021 18:30:26 GMT
The only thing I look at is the deaths, which are currently pretty stable. I will start to worry when they go up. Unfortunately, it's nowhere near as binary as "asymptomatic or death". The bit in-between covers a vast range of sub-optimal scenarios; from just a few days of feeling awful, through serious hospital time, up to pretty damn horrible long-term consequences. But I think deaths probably reflect the scale of the other bad outcomes as well.
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Post by benaj on Dec 16, 2021 18:35:34 GMT
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Post by bracknellboy on Dec 16, 2021 20:55:03 GMT
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Post by agent69 on Dec 16, 2021 21:27:46 GMT
During the last week of November and the first week of December the infection rate in Sourh Africa rocketed. However the figures for today are only 2k more than 7 days ago. I wonder what is going on?
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Post by Badly Drawn Stickman on Dec 16, 2021 22:49:29 GMT
That would explain the greater spread but potentially less health impact (or is total gibberish that means nothing)
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Post by bracknellboy on Dec 17, 2021 4:00:30 GMT
That would explain the greater spread but potentially less health impact (or is total gibberish that means nothing) Yep, twas my thoughts exactly. In all aspects.
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Post by keitha on Dec 17, 2021 10:32:51 GMT
It's smoking what does it !
of my friends and acquaintances who smoke none have had long term effects, but 3 of the non smoking cohort.
My theory is smoking toughens lungs or the hot smoke kills the bug
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Post by Mike on Dec 17, 2021 10:42:55 GMT
My theory is smoking toughens lungs or the hot smoke kills the bug A man after my own heart - my theory is that a glass of wine after dinner removes the need to brush teeth, if you want to be on the safe side a whiskey should be even more effective
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Post by benaj on Dec 17, 2021 10:43:37 GMT
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Post by adrianc on Dec 17, 2021 10:51:11 GMT
Yup, up to 82 from a pop'n of 10m. The UK is at 886 on ventilation today, from a pop'n of 67m.
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