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Post by 😎 on Jan 19, 2022 15:04:34 GMT
We’re seeing rapid fall in some cities here too, rolling weekly cases have practically halved in NY.
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Post by Youthist on Jan 19, 2022 15:10:15 GMT
They'll go up and then quite quickly come down again like everywhere else. Even the mighty Japan has fallen. Where's the everywhere else that has cases come down quickly? Everywhere it has been- apart from that, nowhere
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Post by Dougs on Jan 19, 2022 15:17:06 GMT
Half a million cases in France yesterday. Ooof.
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Post by スコットランド on Jan 19, 2022 15:45:02 GMT
Where's the everywhere else that has cases come down quickly? Everywhere it has been- apart from that, nowhere Well the number of countries where it hasn't peaked yet far exceeds the 2 where it has so "everywhere else" is a strange expression to use. Anyway.
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Post by cubby on Jan 19, 2022 18:34:10 GMT
Half a million cases in France yesterday. Ooof. France's numbers have definitely surprised me the most, almost like their lockdown measures have unwittingly ensured more people get it.
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Post by elstoof on Jan 19, 2022 18:44:45 GMT
Pretty groovy that our covid policy is built on “how do I get my backbenchers to like me again”
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Post by Frog on Jan 19, 2022 19:24:09 GMT
Could have just cut benefits for that though rather than risking his voting demographic.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2022 21:02:08 GMT
My eldest has lost their sense of taste which sucks. The rest of us are still all negative.
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Post by Frog on Jan 19, 2022 21:07:18 GMT
Is he wearing sandals with socks?
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Post by cubby on Jan 19, 2022 21:20:03 GMT
That's a tasteless joke.
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Post by Frog on Jan 19, 2022 21:21:30 GMT
I thought it had sole.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 19, 2022 21:21:48 GMT
Beautiful
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Post by dfunked on Jan 19, 2022 21:23:46 GMT
Honestly hope he makes a speedy and full recovery, but God damn that was POTW material!
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Post by Dougs on Jan 20, 2022 6:49:03 GMT
I didn't realise that the legal requirement to self-isolate was also being binned off. That seems very premature.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 6:55:47 GMT
Another 2 months until that happens though isn't it? If things keep going the way they are I don't think it will be.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 20, 2022 7:04:02 GMT
Ah, I assumed it was part of the measures going next week. Shitty reporting, as it conflated the two. Either way, if there's no legal requirement, there does at least need to be guidance that tells people to stay the fuck at home if ill with it.
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 20, 2022 7:16:49 GMT
Getting rid of all measures like masks and WFH but keeping isolation does feel like there’s going to be a massive number of people isolating through February.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jan 20, 2022 7:29:08 GMT
I'm just perpetually perplexed that "learning to live with Covid" has come to mean "do our best to ignore it and bin any measures to fight it".
I do think measures can be relaxed, but scrapping them all feels like a daft move. Stuff like masks are barely an inconvenience for most people, unless they are massive snowflakes.
I hope to be proved wrong but I reckon we'll see another wave in summer.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 20, 2022 7:54:43 GMT
Yeah, just feels like a fucking weird political move to save his own skin rather than necessity. Masks are a minor inconvenience at worst, and I really don't get the rush to get rid of them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 7:57:53 GMT
I'd be surprised if we get another huge wave to be honest. People are being exposed to it repeatedly on a daily basis now, the shit is everywhere.
Just to put into context, hospitalisations are now estimated to be 45% incidental. Half the people going in are there for something else and don't even know they have covid.
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Post by 111 on Jan 20, 2022 10:41:13 GMT
I'm just perpetually perplexed that "learning to live with Covid" has come to mean "do our best to ignore it and bin any measures to fight it". Yes irrelevant of what the right move right now is, this attitude is always baffling.
"Why are you putting on your seatbelt and stopping at red lights - we need to learn to live with road danger!" "We have learned - that's what the seatbelts and lights are about..."
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Post by 111 on Jan 20, 2022 10:49:36 GMT
Just to put into context, hospitalisations are now estimated to be 45% incidental. Half the people going in are there for something else don't even know they have covid. The number on mechanical ventilation has continued to steadily drop over the last few months, seemingly unaffected by the Omicron wave. Which is presumably the olds getting boosted early doing its job.
Similarly, although there's a big lag in getting the numbers for deaths with covid mentioned on the death certificate, it's starting to look like that may have somewhat decoupled from deaths within 28 days of positive test for this wave. In all the previous waves they've tracked each other pretty closely, making the death "with" vs "of" covid argument the preserve of the nutters, but it's looking much more relevant now.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jan 20, 2022 10:50:51 GMT
On a train for the first time since the end of days. Don’t feel great about it tbh. Fairly sure I’m going to die.
Thanks Mum and your stupid birthday.
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 20, 2022 11:06:08 GMT
Nursery has sent out an email saying they’re struggling to stay open because of how many members of the setting have covid. It’s not clear if that’s the kids or workers.
Think I’d have been happier if the basic restrictions/guidance had stayed until numbers are a lot lower, or when things warm up a bit so people can be outside more to slow any spread.
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Post by jeepers on Jan 20, 2022 11:58:07 GMT
Nursery has sent out an email saying they’re struggling to stay open because of how many members of the setting have covid. It’s not clear if that’s the kids or workers. Think I’d have been happier if the basic restrictions/guidance had stayed until numbers are a lot lower, or when things warm up a bit so people can be outside more to slow any spread. It’s continuing to burn thro’ my son’s nursery with c. three or four cases per day (out of roughly 50 kids total). Their solution to having half their staff out is to bring in new staff from other nurseries so that’s cross-nursery spread sorted for the next couple of weeks. Still, at least they get to keep their margins up.
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Post by richardiox on Jan 20, 2022 12:08:47 GMT
I'd be surprised if we get another huge wave to be honest. People are being exposed to it repeatedly on a daily basis now, the shit is everywhere. Just to put into context, hospitalisations are now estimated to be 45% incidental. Half the people going in are there for something else and don't even know they have covid. Don't think incidentals are people who don't know they have Covid. They may test positive whilst in hospital for something else but don't know where the assumption comes from that they're asymptomatic? Plenty of people here have felt pretty rotten with Omicron, wouldn't want that on top of the reasons I'm already in hospital.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jan 20, 2022 12:50:25 GMT
On a train for the first time since the end of days. Don’t feel great about it tbh. Fairly sure I’m going to die. Thanks Mum and your stupid birthday. Had to get a train at Christmas in peak Omicron. Decided to pay over the odds for a first class seat and didn't regret it, virtually empty vs rammed in the great unwashed section.
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Post by simple on Jan 20, 2022 13:14:37 GMT
Nursery has sent out an email saying they’re struggling to stay open because of how many members of the setting have covid. It’s not clear if that’s the kids or workers. Think I’d have been happier if the basic restrictions/guidance had stayed until numbers are a lot lower, or when things warm up a bit so people can be outside more to slow any spread. Our nursery had to shut after going down to two healthy caring staff and having a dozen kids test positive. Today was my wife’s sixth day of isolation so she LFT’d this morning but is still positive. Me and the kid didn’t test positive until a couple of days after but all of our symptoms have been across the same days. Looks like Monday at the earliest to get outside again. But then we’re in the north east and our Omicron wave is behind the south’s so we’re probably getting what a lot of people had over Christmas. Not that the national news reflects that very well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 13:18:47 GMT
We're still all negative but my eldest is still positive (day 6 also). Youngest has just let us know that 3 in their class have got COVID today, to its only a matter of time. Thankfully its apparently all over though, so that's a blessing.
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Post by Dave_McCoy on Jan 20, 2022 13:54:29 GMT
Yeah, just feels like a fucking weird political move to save his own skin rather than necessity. Masks are a minor inconvenience at worst, and I really don't get the rush to get rid of them. Why do you hate your freedoms User dfunked?
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