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What I'm doing is exercising a duty of care while there is an enhanced risk that other employees might be infectious. Because, at this age, the employee I'm protecting has a 1 in 50 chance of dying if he contracts COVID.
Just came back on to say sorry to BST for my aggression, anger and vitriol in recent days. Covid has been tough for all of us for varying reasons and i have had a tough time due to the restrictions and endless micro managing of my life and never-ending bullying from the Tories. Been a really tough year mentally. No excuse for me to get abusive though. Was out of order. That's it really and won't be commenting on Covid again. Enjoy your evening all.
Quote from: ColinDouglasHandshake on October 11, 2021, 09:12:54 pmJust came back on to say sorry to BST for my aggression, anger and vitriol in recent days. Covid has been tough for all of us for varying reasons and i have had a tough time due to the restrictions and endless micro managing of my life and never-ending bullying from the Tories. Been a really tough year mentally. No excuse for me to get abusive though. Was out of order. That's it really and won't be commenting on Covid again. Enjoy your evening all. That's as fine a post as there's been on this thread. This has been a very tough time for everybody and it's easy to forget that. Hats off to to you.
RD.You might be right. But there's no sign of the Chinese national Govt covering things up. They have just sacked the head of the Communist party in Hubei province and released updated figures which (and this is the crucial thing) include a much wider definition of who is infected). Doing that first in the province most affected is logical.It looks to me more like they are working out policy as they go, and finding some incompetent handling, than covering this up.
The papers make it pretty obvious where they want the public to look.https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-the-papers-58879001
Quote from: SydneyRover on October 12, 2021, 05:13:41 amThe papers make it pretty obvious where they want the public to look.https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-the-papers-58879001 the report seems pretty fair at the start sage and the government were poor and it's a shame so many had to lose there lives, would anyone else have done any better I'mNot so sure but we will never know, hopefully lessons will be learned by all
Jonathon Ashworth, shadow health minister asked in the Commons on 11 March 2020, said that some scientists suggested we are not following the epidemiology and placing too much emphasis on behavioural science, therefore when should we move into the so-called delay stage and adopt more stringent social distancing rules. He asked the Health Secretary why UK thinking appears to differ from other European nations. So questions about lockdown were being asked.
There were many differing views on this forum and in the media at the start, there were very few calls to lockdown before March 16th in fact I think only river don was the only one, a lot of the others thought the economic cost of it would result in as bad a loss as the virus might, most followed just like the government did at the start what vallance and witty were saying and let's be fair they couldn't do much else
Good news and bad news in this assessment of the current cases by age group.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_7JAa-VQAQZmpU?format=jpg&name=mediumClearly there has been a sharp drop in cases in most age groups since the start of September. As such we should probably expect an equally sharp fall in daily deaths over the next fortnight, hopefully down to below 100 per day which is where they have been now for a month. That all ties in with the sharp drop in daily hospitalisations over the last week or two. That is all very welcome news.Concerning thing is that it looks like cases in schoolkids have rocketed again after the start of term. I heard the other day that 1 in 8 kids are currently off school with COVID. And that graph suggests that, as previously, those cases are now spreading out into a rise in cases among other age groups. So that would imply that hospital cases would likely start rising again around the end of the month, and deaths around mid-October. Question now is how long this increase in cases goes on for. If it carries on through October, and increases with University students going back to college, the hospital cases and deaths are likely to be rising sharply through November, just as we go into the flu season.