Boris has discovered the secret of stopping the tests from being done.
That’s a power move. 4% positive rate with 850k tests compared to 2% positive rate with 1 million in July
Are they? According to our world in data the British rate is not falling since 8 November and even slightly increasing in recent days.
Things are looking pretty good here in the UK if we compare to the January wave. But rates are hardly falling “rapidly”, in fact our current decline might already be coming to an end.
It is unlikely the UK’s case rate has reached a global maximum yet, but hopefully our hospitalization curve is approaching it’s maximum regardless of what cases are doing. By the end of this year, the UK will have given a 3rd dose of vaccine to almost all of the priority groups (some 30 million people), it’s hard to see how the UK will ever get >1000 covid admissions in one 24 hour period ever again (for reference, in January the UK saw >4000 admissions in one day). And hopefully our somewhat questionable (and maybe preventable) death rate will fall substantially after that as well.
Shit just ebbs and flows, and what politicians do (beyond the most stringent of stringent lockdowns) has little impact on anything.
Either have everyone locked indoors, or have everyone completely free. Nothing else makes an ounce of difference.
For record, I support the latter now we have vaccines readily available for all that want them.
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Rates have been bouncing between 400-700 since July. Currently, 500 ish cases per million people 7-day rolling average.
No reason to call an end to that trend already.
A bit fatalistic, but it looks like nothing we do really makes a difference to Covid rates.
Aslong as the tories continue to expire the world will be a better place
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Boris has discovered the secret of stopping the tests from being done.
That’s a power move. 4% positive rate with 850k tests compared to 2% positive rate with 1 million in July
Are they? According to our world in data the British rate is not falling since 8 November and even slightly increasing in recent days.
Things are looking pretty good here in the UK if we compare to the January wave. But rates are hardly falling “rapidly”, in fact our current decline might already be coming to an end.
It is unlikely the UK’s case rate has reached a global maximum yet, but hopefully our hospitalization curve is approaching it’s maximum regardless of what cases are doing. By the end of this year, the UK will have given a 3rd dose of vaccine to almost all of the priority groups (some 30 million people), it’s hard to see how the UK will ever get >1000 covid admissions in one 24 hour period ever again (for reference, in January the UK saw >4000 admissions in one day). And hopefully our somewhat questionable (and maybe preventable) death rate will fall substantially after that as well.
Shit just ebbs and flows, and what politicians do (beyond the most stringent of stringent lockdowns) has little impact on anything.
Either have everyone locked indoors, or have everyone completely free. Nothing else makes an ounce of difference.
For record, I support the latter now we have vaccines readily available for all that want them.
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Rates have been bouncing between 400-700 since July. Currently, 500 ish cases per million people 7-day rolling average.
No reason to call an end to that trend already.
A bit fatalistic, but it looks like nothing we do really makes a difference to Covid rates.
Aslong as the tories continue to expire the world will be a better place