Posted over an hour ago. No comments. 2 years ago this would’ve been rammed with 2k comments and we would be locked in saving the NHS.
What a difference a day makes as they say.
People will say it doesn’t matter anymore cause the deaths are down, that’s never been the sole purpose of restrictions and lockdowns. The issue with Covid is unlike the flu its not seasonal and even worse Covid has a far greater chance of affecting you for more than 6 months even those who are perfectly healthy. If you’re arguing that we shouldn’t care if someone has covid and just get on with life then you’re being ignorant of the facts and at worst being selfish, we cannot have a functioning economy if entire sections of a business are off sick with covid some of whom may be sick for months after or suffer long term damage, that’s a huge pressure on businesses that currently do not have any financial aid for such event.
This isn’t a request for us to lockdown again but I’d certainly advocate for masks to be worn and for social distancing to be followed where possible, currently I can think of a number of local businesses who have had to close in the past few weeks due to staff sick with covid some businesses having their older workers close to retirement have to leave due to permanent health issues from long Covid, this isn’t something you can shrug off as a cough and a sneeze because even if it’s a 10% chance you get long term symptoms at this rate everyone will catch it multiple times and eventually lead to the majority of us suffering some long term heath issues due to it because it just loops around the population, it might not be your first time catching it, or your third but over a few years with these lax restrictions you’re definitely going to end up wishing we had some minor restrictions to impede infection.
How do people know figures are rising,nobody can test anymore
Masks are back in all areas in the NHS now. They never went away on wards but areas that are not patient facing have not been wearing them for a month or so now. The obvious problem is that COVID cases will always increase when measures are relaxed, it will be the same when we try to do it again. New variants will emerge and cases of those will soar as that is how viruses work. That is not to say we should ignore COVID but we do need to plan for a future where COVID is endemic and a recurrent problem. We need an NHS that can cope with yearly outbreaks and companies need to be much more supportive of those dealing with long COVID.
Oh no!
*Anyway…*
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) samples the population with PCR tests and then makes estimates. I took part in a sample a few months back.
What the ONS does is they send letters to a random bunch of people asking if they’d take part in their work. If you opt in, they send a PCR test and you mail it back to them. You also fill in a survey about your age and background.
They see x % of those sampled tested positive on a given week and which variants they have. Then they look at age groups, ethnic and social backgrounds people fall into, which regions people testing positive live in etc. Finally after wringing all the insight from this sample, they extrapolate it to the whole population so they can estimate how many people in the UK had covid at the time of sampling.
Because testing and statistics take so long to complete, the estimates for this week in July are modelled from tests actually taken in late June. The modelling compares the most recent sample against previous weeks for trends. They know their models are accurate, because when the late June tests are analysed, they can compare them against the late June estimates made in mid June and see how right they are (and they are apparently very sure of their accuracy, going by their confidence intervals).
Had it twice in the mask wearing hand washing staying at home days. Two jabs and three infections down as of today, just got to roll with the punches now right?
Had it a week ago, was wiped out for 3 days with it. Triple vaccinated but was lay up in bed, sweating profusely and unable to eat/sleep/drink, must be a new strain as had it before and was fine. Felt awful and still suffering with COVID fatigue, need to sleep to be get through the day right now
My big question about this is:
So what?
Unless you’re elderly, and/or have serious respiratory issues, it’s now been rendered as little more harmful than an ordinary flu. If you catch it (regardless of if it makes you feel unwell or not), take a week off work/school, rest up, recover, come back strong.
Only go to hospital with it if you’re having a serious medical issue that’s threatening your life. Otherwise, stay at home, dose yourself up on over-the-counter flu remedies, rest up, recover. Same as you would any other flu.
Jesus Reddit, let it go, no one cares anymore
Yeah, I think I’ve had it this week. Works been a struggle for sure.
Work in their wisdom decided to have a mandatory face to face conference last week where 600+ people got together in the same place when cases were rising. Now a third of the business has Covid and managers are sending panicked emails about low staffing levels, as if this is in any way surprising.
So what? An official policy of government employees mandatorily eating people’s children would be easier to enforce at this point than a return to any kind of restrictive anti-COVID measures.
Just a cold. A lot of the cases in hospital are only identified once admitted to hospital for other reasons.
While covid may impact a very small minority of people, it’s just a cold. Nothing to piss the bed over.
The psy-op continues, slowly being crossfaded into the new ‘not having children is selfish’ narrative that’s emerging in mainstream currently.
It’s not how many have it that you need to worry about, it’s how many are dying from it
Cases don’t matter, it’s all about mortality. We have millions of cases of Flu each year and it’s never news-worthy. Unless it financially benefits someone to keep Covid „fresh” in memory of people.
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Posted over an hour ago. No comments. 2 years ago this would’ve been rammed with 2k comments and we would be locked in saving the NHS.
What a difference a day makes as they say.
People will say it doesn’t matter anymore cause the deaths are down, that’s never been the sole purpose of restrictions and lockdowns. The issue with Covid is unlike the flu its not seasonal and even worse Covid has a far greater chance of affecting you for more than 6 months even those who are perfectly healthy. If you’re arguing that we shouldn’t care if someone has covid and just get on with life then you’re being ignorant of the facts and at worst being selfish, we cannot have a functioning economy if entire sections of a business are off sick with covid some of whom may be sick for months after or suffer long term damage, that’s a huge pressure on businesses that currently do not have any financial aid for such event.
This isn’t a request for us to lockdown again but I’d certainly advocate for masks to be worn and for social distancing to be followed where possible, currently I can think of a number of local businesses who have had to close in the past few weeks due to staff sick with covid some businesses having their older workers close to retirement have to leave due to permanent health issues from long Covid, this isn’t something you can shrug off as a cough and a sneeze because even if it’s a 10% chance you get long term symptoms at this rate everyone will catch it multiple times and eventually lead to the majority of us suffering some long term heath issues due to it because it just loops around the population, it might not be your first time catching it, or your third but over a few years with these lax restrictions you’re definitely going to end up wishing we had some minor restrictions to impede infection.
How do people know figures are rising,nobody can test anymore
Masks are back in all areas in the NHS now. They never went away on wards but areas that are not patient facing have not been wearing them for a month or so now. The obvious problem is that COVID cases will always increase when measures are relaxed, it will be the same when we try to do it again. New variants will emerge and cases of those will soar as that is how viruses work. That is not to say we should ignore COVID but we do need to plan for a future where COVID is endemic and a recurrent problem. We need an NHS that can cope with yearly outbreaks and companies need to be much more supportive of those dealing with long COVID.
Oh no!
*Anyway…*
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) samples the population with PCR tests and then makes estimates. I took part in a sample a few months back.
What the ONS does is they send letters to a random bunch of people asking if they’d take part in their work. If you opt in, they send a PCR test and you mail it back to them. You also fill in a survey about your age and background.
They see x % of those sampled tested positive on a given week and which variants they have. Then they look at age groups, ethnic and social backgrounds people fall into, which regions people testing positive live in etc. Finally after wringing all the insight from this sample, they extrapolate it to the whole population so they can estimate how many people in the UK had covid at the time of sampling.
Because testing and statistics take so long to complete, the estimates for this week in July are modelled from tests actually taken in late June. The modelling compares the most recent sample against previous weeks for trends. They know their models are accurate, because when the late June tests are analysed, they can compare them against the late June estimates made in mid June and see how right they are (and they are apparently very sure of their accuracy, going by their confidence intervals).
[All this info can be found on the ONS website.](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/8july2022#measuring-the-data) (I hope I’ve done a just explanation, I don’t work for the ONS).
Had it twice in the mask wearing hand washing staying at home days. Two jabs and three infections down as of today, just got to roll with the punches now right?
Had it a week ago, was wiped out for 3 days with it. Triple vaccinated but was lay up in bed, sweating profusely and unable to eat/sleep/drink, must be a new strain as had it before and was fine. Felt awful and still suffering with COVID fatigue, need to sleep to be get through the day right now
My big question about this is:
So what?
Unless you’re elderly, and/or have serious respiratory issues, it’s now been rendered as little more harmful than an ordinary flu. If you catch it (regardless of if it makes you feel unwell or not), take a week off work/school, rest up, recover, come back strong.
Only go to hospital with it if you’re having a serious medical issue that’s threatening your life. Otherwise, stay at home, dose yourself up on over-the-counter flu remedies, rest up, recover. Same as you would any other flu.
Jesus Reddit, let it go, no one cares anymore
Yeah, I think I’ve had it this week. Works been a struggle for sure.
Work in their wisdom decided to have a mandatory face to face conference last week where 600+ people got together in the same place when cases were rising. Now a third of the business has Covid and managers are sending panicked emails about low staffing levels, as if this is in any way surprising.
So what? An official policy of government employees mandatorily eating people’s children would be easier to enforce at this point than a return to any kind of restrictive anti-COVID measures.
Just a cold. A lot of the cases in hospital are only identified once admitted to hospital for other reasons.
While covid may impact a very small minority of people, it’s just a cold. Nothing to piss the bed over.
The psy-op continues, slowly being crossfaded into the new ‘not having children is selfish’ narrative that’s emerging in mainstream currently.
It’s not how many have it that you need to worry about, it’s how many are dying from it
Cases don’t matter, it’s all about mortality. We have millions of cases of Flu each year and it’s never news-worthy. Unless it financially benefits someone to keep Covid „fresh” in memory of people.