COVID-19

[David L]

and won't be long before there is another killer strain

Really, what makes you say that?

Darwin

Hmmm, not sure but I think that would be bucking the trend for a virus - unless they are still banging it out from the Wuhan lab, of course 😀

[Matt2112]

Case numbers are pretty eye-popping - numbers of serious outcomes not so much. Chiefly because of vaccines on the latter score.

Still, the likes of Incandescent Sage on the former score will be sounding their loud false alarms to their obediently hypochondriac acolytes on Twatter; the same mob who excoriate "Facebook virologists" while worshipping the...erm, mathematician Christina Pagel.

[David L]

I feel sorry for those now scared out of their wits, couldn't live life like that.

[captainkurtz]

2 weeks after getting a negative test, I'm left with a nagging chest infection that just won't go away, after 5 days of amoxicillin.

Wife has an eye infection after having caught covid from me (not related, obviously)

Daughter taken to hospital today as she was exhibiting the same behaviour as when she had a fit back in 2019 - she has hydrocephalus, so we have to be careful.

[Nickslikk2112]

Hope your daughter's OK Hassan.

I got an eye infection after I had COVID.

[Slim]

Hope everyone recovers quickly Hassan, trying times.

[Matt2112]

Hope things get better for you all, Hass.

It just goes to show that Covid hasn't gone away by any means - in fact, it's at record numbers. Vigilance and awareness are still required.

[David L]

Daughter taken to hospital today as she was exhibiting the same behaviour as when she had a fit back in 2019 - she has hydrocephalus, so we have to be careful.

Sorry to hear that, hope she makes a quick recovery

[pxr5]

This is an interesting BBC documentary.

"Hannah Fry meets seven unvaccinated people to investigate why around four million adults remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, and to find out if any of them will change their mind."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0019g27/unvaccinated

[David L]

This is an interesting BBC documentary.

"Hannah Fry meets seven unvaccinated people to investigate why around four million adults remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, and to find out if any of them will change their mind."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0019g27/unvaccinated

Yes, I saw that. Interesting but lots of salient points not discussed:

Average age of 'covid' death (apparently now risen from 82 to 85yrs)
Average age of those still being admitted to ICU
Co-morbidities
Waning lethality of virus
Vitamin D
Low death rate in countries with low vaccine uptake
Undiagnosed serious side-effects (Myocarditis, in particular)
Viral load
Infection in hospitals
Waning effects of vaccine
Merits of vaccinating cohorts that are largely unaffected by the effects of the virus (certainly in the light of Adam Finn suggesting the vaccines are ineffective in preventing transmission, on the programme)

I know time would have been a factor but for omitting some of these discussions it came across as propaganda IMHO.

I think they also chose the participants, ahem......carefully   

[David L]

Shame the 'experts' didn't see this coming:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/child-hepatitis-surge-blamed-on-covid-lockdown-d0cc3h888

[Slim]

I do recall Chris Smith saying that the lockdowns would result in lower immunity to flu and other infectious diseases, though he wasn't against them. Whether he had hepatitis in mind I don't know, but there's always a balance of risk.

[Matt2112]

The latest Omicron variant wave looks to have peaked and cases are dropping off almost as rapidly as they rose - again.

The Pagels of this world will have to wait for their next fifteen minutes.

[David L]

It's been revealed today that 13,000 children were excluded from school for breaching Covid-19 restrictions, including social distancing rules. Shameful, authoritarian nonsense.

[Slim]

I think that's the right approach. Those rules were important and in this case the exclusion wasn't merely a disciplinary measure of course, but a way to prevent those kids spreading an infectious disease that had already killed thousands.