Xmas post delays and a rush to get tested for Xmas is some of that total apparently but fuck me it’s still a big number.
The Omicron Covid variant seems to spread a lot quicker,
Literally have to decide by tonight whether I should take the train cross-country to see my grandmother. Fuck me this is the most difficult decision I’ve had to make in a while
Journos have just been waiting to be able to get this headline out. I suspect many are frustrated that they couldn’t deploy it last week.
It’s not really a surprise, Wednesday figures are always relatively high and Tuesdays low. But what it isn’t is compatible with cases doubling every 2 days. Omicron is starting to find its natural ceiling and as long as that peak level is below about 150k then there should be no major hospital crisis, even if it’s the same severity as Delta.
It’s now a week since the huge case number jump and nothing in hospitalisations yet – the delay for Delta is around 8 days so we should see in the next couple if there is a problem or not.
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daily *recorded* cases. there weren’t a lot of tests early on
It’s a good thing the science tells us that covid won’t really do anything until after Christmas, very considerate for a virus.
Yeah!!!
Lets try and make it 150,000 by the New Year!!! Go UK!!
I’m so sorry SAGE and other scientists for laughing when you guys predicted the UK could hit 100,000 cases
Good. Sooner or later we will all get it and benefit from the immunity it provides.
Three vaccines in and the most vulnerable will have had a booster and the temporary benefit it provides all within the last few weeks.
This is all a fairly decent ticket to the exit door we have seen. That is provided our government want an exit strategy.
Any reason our numbers are ridiculously high?
We’re literally the highest numbers in the world daily by a massive margin
It’s apparently from Tue/Wed last week.
Barely any flow test results done at home aren’t being uploaded to the NHS to say positive or negative.
News out of Scotland today is showing that the vaccine will definitely be effective.
Deaths are pretty much hovering at 100-150 a day.
…
I’m kind of done worrying now. But as always the news blasts fear-mongering headlines at us.
But our 7 day average deaths is like 115
If people are catching it, and it isn’t overloading our healthcare system then it’s not as concerning.
The first lockdowns were to buy time for the NHS while we rolled out the first vaccines. That’s no longer the case now though
To be clear I’m not claiming COVID is the flu. It isn’t, to the unvaccinated it is much more severe. But, if it kills people in similar amounts to colds/flus which we coped with for our entire lives. Based on the current rate? 115 for a week average X 365 for the whole year is 40k. Considering flu kills 30,000 .. We have to be reasonable.
There is of course concern, and we need to keep vaccinating, keep boosting and stay topped up and protected from new variants. BUT. While we are doing that, we also have to consider the harm a lockdown will do to our businesses.
Edit~ I had my maths wrong but I have updated it now
Nobody cares. Where’s the massive spike in deaths promised by the attention seeking media? Get vaccinated or boosted, carry on.
Anyone else with the NHS Covid-19 app installed, received a notification about exposure today? All I did today was picked up some groceries from the collection point at 7am. Then drove back home. A member of staff must have received a positive Covid test result today, I’m guessing.
We sent tests on Monday and still haven’t had results, so I’d imagine the real number is higher.
Tested positive today. Happy to do my bit towards hitting these numbers
Sounds about time for another eat out to help out scheme?
In all seriousness, I still can’t believe that was a thing.
we are testing 1.4 million a day currently….
deaths are still exactly where they were last month (actually slightly down currently)
For the first time in my family someone got covid last week. Then another, then another within one week. 3 separate households are now insolating for Xmas, and all 3 cases are not connected. There is no doubt this variant is spreading like a wild fire.
I think its mainly due to the fact its more like a cold when it starts, most people won’t stop going to work, or wasting expensive social event tickets because they have a runny nose. My GF only had a runny nose and took a Lateral flow because she was bored during work (from home), shocked it came back Positive. People just don’t know they have it because its mild to start with. In all 3 cases, the more serious stuff (flu like symptoms rather than cold) came days later. So by then most will have already spread it about.
All 3 the symptoms are no worse than a bad cold, they’re all double Vacc.
Really it should be forcing the idiots to get vaccinated, and we get on with our lives. Rather than locking down.
Shit would be funny if it weren’t for all the families losing loved ones.
It’s weird how covid cases are going up but deaths are down from last week. Are we getting better at treating it or is the new strain weak?
YouGov survey found that only 1 in 5 in the uk want a lockdown but based on.this sub you’d think its 4 in 5.
Case numbers are getting more and more irrelevant; what matters now is hospitalisation rates.
Only concerned with hospitalizations and deaths. Not cases.
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Xmas post delays and a rush to get tested for Xmas is some of that total apparently but fuck me it’s still a big number.
The Omicron Covid variant seems to spread a lot quicker,
Literally have to decide by tonight whether I should take the train cross-country to see my grandmother. Fuck me this is the most difficult decision I’ve had to make in a while
Journos have just been waiting to be able to get this headline out. I suspect many are frustrated that they couldn’t deploy it last week.
It’s not really a surprise, Wednesday figures are always relatively high and Tuesdays low. But what it isn’t is compatible with cases doubling every 2 days. Omicron is starting to find its natural ceiling and as long as that peak level is below about 150k then there should be no major hospital crisis, even if it’s the same severity as Delta.
It’s now a week since the huge case number jump and nothing in hospitalisations yet – the delay for Delta is around 8 days so we should see in the next couple if there is a problem or not.
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daily *recorded* cases. there weren’t a lot of tests early on
It’s a good thing the science tells us that covid won’t really do anything until after Christmas, very considerate for a virus.
Yeah!!!
Lets try and make it 150,000 by the New Year!!! Go UK!!
I’m so sorry SAGE and other scientists for laughing when you guys predicted the UK could hit 100,000 cases
Good. Sooner or later we will all get it and benefit from the immunity it provides.
Three vaccines in and the most vulnerable will have had a booster and the temporary benefit it provides all within the last few weeks.
This is all a fairly decent ticket to the exit door we have seen. That is provided our government want an exit strategy.
Any reason our numbers are ridiculously high?
We’re literally the highest numbers in the world daily by a massive margin
It’s apparently from Tue/Wed last week.
Barely any flow test results done at home aren’t being uploaded to the NHS to say positive or negative.
News out of Scotland today is showing that the vaccine will definitely be effective.
Deaths are pretty much hovering at 100-150 a day.
…
I’m kind of done worrying now. But as always the news blasts fear-mongering headlines at us.
But our 7 day average deaths is like 115
If people are catching it, and it isn’t overloading our healthcare system then it’s not as concerning.
The first lockdowns were to buy time for the NHS while we rolled out the first vaccines. That’s no longer the case now though
To be clear I’m not claiming COVID is the flu. It isn’t, to the unvaccinated it is much more severe. But, if it kills people in similar amounts to colds/flus which we coped with for our entire lives. Based on the current rate? 115 for a week average X 365 for the whole year is 40k. Considering flu kills 30,000 .. We have to be reasonable.
There is of course concern, and we need to keep vaccinating, keep boosting and stay topped up and protected from new variants. BUT. While we are doing that, we also have to consider the harm a lockdown will do to our businesses.
Edit~ I had my maths wrong but I have updated it now
Nobody cares. Where’s the massive spike in deaths promised by the attention seeking media? Get vaccinated or boosted, carry on.
Anyone else with the NHS Covid-19 app installed, received a notification about exposure today? All I did today was picked up some groceries from the collection point at 7am. Then drove back home. A member of staff must have received a positive Covid test result today, I’m guessing.
We sent tests on Monday and still haven’t had results, so I’d imagine the real number is higher.
Tested positive today. Happy to do my bit towards hitting these numbers
Sounds about time for another eat out to help out scheme?
In all seriousness, I still can’t believe that was a thing.
we are testing 1.4 million a day currently….
deaths are still exactly where they were last month (actually slightly down currently)
For the first time in my family someone got covid last week. Then another, then another within one week. 3 separate households are now insolating for Xmas, and all 3 cases are not connected. There is no doubt this variant is spreading like a wild fire.
I think its mainly due to the fact its more like a cold when it starts, most people won’t stop going to work, or wasting expensive social event tickets because they have a runny nose. My GF only had a runny nose and took a Lateral flow because she was bored during work (from home), shocked it came back Positive. People just don’t know they have it because its mild to start with. In all 3 cases, the more serious stuff (flu like symptoms rather than cold) came days later. So by then most will have already spread it about.
All 3 the symptoms are no worse than a bad cold, they’re all double Vacc.
Really it should be forcing the idiots to get vaccinated, and we get on with our lives. Rather than locking down.
Shit would be funny if it weren’t for all the families losing loved ones.
It’s weird how covid cases are going up but deaths are down from last week. Are we getting better at treating it or is the new strain weak?
YouGov survey found that only 1 in 5 in the uk want a lockdown but based on.this sub you’d think its 4 in 5.
Case numbers are getting more and more irrelevant; what matters now is hospitalisation rates.
Only concerned with hospitalizations and deaths. Not cases.