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Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 08, 2022, 10:16:42 amSo another of my staff has tested +be and will be off all next week. And because he was in contact with him, my antivaxxer staff member now has to isolate for two weeks.I reckon that's now 13 man weeks we've lost to COVID since the week before Xmas. All on full pay. Not a penny of Govt support.Welcome to "Living with it."Genuine question Billy is there nothing they can do to work from home - we adopted a hybrid working system during lockdown one so that once staff were allowed back it was a choice. Appreciate this is not possible across all sectors
So another of my staff has tested +be and will be off all next week. And because he was in contact with him, my antivaxxer staff member now has to isolate for two weeks.I reckon that's now 13 man weeks we've lost to COVID since the week before Xmas. All on full pay. Not a penny of Govt support.Welcome to "Living with it."
I reckon BST would make them wear a mask on zoom calls because I'm sure some of his staff are traumatised by maskless faces.
Quote from: Nudga on January 08, 2022, 12:50:32 pmI reckon BST would make them wear a mask on zoom calls because I'm sure some of his staff are traumatised by maskless faces. I'd make you wear one if you worked for me, made out of a big f**king pillow, just to shut you up.
Excellent Twitter thread on how we deal with COVID in the very long term https://mobile.twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/1444088804961304581If there is one tiny positive in this disaster, it's been the efforts of brilliant, dedicated professionals like this one to educate the rest of us. If we spent more time listening to them and less listening to the charismatic no-nothing gobshites across social media, the world would be a much better place.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 09, 2022, 01:45:14 pmExcellent Twitter thread on how we deal with COVID in the very long term https://mobile.twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/1444088804961304581If there is one tiny positive in this disaster, it's been the efforts of brilliant, dedicated professionals like this one to educate the rest of us. If we spent more time listening to them and less listening to the charismatic no-nothing gobshites across social media, the world would be a much better place.Excellent read the key point being "We don’t have the political or social will to eliminate or eradicate covid." So far Covid has thankfully proven to be a disease we can easily, cheaply and quickly develop very effective and very safe vaccines against.We're not going to effectively eradicate the disease though because: -a) too large a % of the population aren't getting vaccinated partly due to selfishness in believing there is more danger to them from the vaccine than the virus and f**k anyone they may pass it on to. Partly due to people believing shite posted by said gobshites on social media about the vaccinesb) Governments across the world are not taking strong enough action against the non-vaccinated to strongly encourage/force them to be jabbed
Jesus Henry Christ. You can still pass it on even when vacci.......... Oh f**k it.
Nudga I posted a link to an epidemiologist talking about epidemiology.You posted a link to an anaesthetist taking about virology. And from what I've read, getting it wrong.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 09, 2022, 06:58:15 pmNudga I posted a link to an epidemiologist talking about epidemiology.You posted a link to an anaesthetist taking about virology. And from what I've read, getting it wrong. Aye, just some pudding that's been working at the coal face for two years.
Quote from: Ldr on January 07, 2022, 08:23:52 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 07, 2022, 08:17:30 pmQuote from: Ldr on January 07, 2022, 08:07:13 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 07, 2022, 06:17:00 pmQuite clear now that there's an increase in daily deaths, corresponding to the increase in cases that started about 3 weeks ago, and the increase in cases in hospitals that started 10 days or so after that. The 7 day average of deaths by date of death was down to 108 by the week before Xmas and it had been falling steadily since late September. By New Year's Eve, it was up to 130. Fortunately the speed that the deaths are increasing is not as high as the rate that new cases and new cases in hospitals has gone up, but it's not zero either. Looks like the trend in daily deaths is going to rise up towards 200 again over this month.I fear we are now spreading in an acute setting Genuine question Ldr. What does that mean?Spreading within hospitalsFrom an optomistic and realistic poster such as yourself - that's worrying.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 07, 2022, 08:17:30 pmQuote from: Ldr on January 07, 2022, 08:07:13 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 07, 2022, 06:17:00 pmQuite clear now that there's an increase in daily deaths, corresponding to the increase in cases that started about 3 weeks ago, and the increase in cases in hospitals that started 10 days or so after that. The 7 day average of deaths by date of death was down to 108 by the week before Xmas and it had been falling steadily since late September. By New Year's Eve, it was up to 130. Fortunately the speed that the deaths are increasing is not as high as the rate that new cases and new cases in hospitals has gone up, but it's not zero either. Looks like the trend in daily deaths is going to rise up towards 200 again over this month.I fear we are now spreading in an acute setting Genuine question Ldr. What does that mean?Spreading within hospitals
Quote from: Ldr on January 07, 2022, 08:07:13 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 07, 2022, 06:17:00 pmQuite clear now that there's an increase in daily deaths, corresponding to the increase in cases that started about 3 weeks ago, and the increase in cases in hospitals that started 10 days or so after that. The 7 day average of deaths by date of death was down to 108 by the week before Xmas and it had been falling steadily since late September. By New Year's Eve, it was up to 130. Fortunately the speed that the deaths are increasing is not as high as the rate that new cases and new cases in hospitals has gone up, but it's not zero either. Looks like the trend in daily deaths is going to rise up towards 200 again over this month.I fear we are now spreading in an acute setting Genuine question Ldr. What does that mean?
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 07, 2022, 06:17:00 pmQuite clear now that there's an increase in daily deaths, corresponding to the increase in cases that started about 3 weeks ago, and the increase in cases in hospitals that started 10 days or so after that. The 7 day average of deaths by date of death was down to 108 by the week before Xmas and it had been falling steadily since late September. By New Year's Eve, it was up to 130. Fortunately the speed that the deaths are increasing is not as high as the rate that new cases and new cases in hospitals has gone up, but it's not zero either. Looks like the trend in daily deaths is going to rise up towards 200 again over this month.I fear we are now spreading in an acute setting
Quite clear now that there's an increase in daily deaths, corresponding to the increase in cases that started about 3 weeks ago, and the increase in cases in hospitals that started 10 days or so after that. The 7 day average of deaths by date of death was down to 108 by the week before Xmas and it had been falling steadily since late September. By New Year's Eve, it was up to 130. Fortunately the speed that the deaths are increasing is not as high as the rate that new cases and new cases in hospitals has gone up, but it's not zero either. Looks like the trend in daily deaths is going to rise up towards 200 again over this month.
One day we'll look back on this era.I suspect a few historians will be shaking their heads in a "how f**ked up did they let their society get?" kind of way and using this quote as an example."Quite a lot of people witnessed people in their community dying from Covid, that makes them think life can be short, and you’d better live now than postpone it to a later date. That also has helped [Rolls-Royce sales] quite massively."https://www.ft.com/content/4fe2cec5-8a34-4125-9fff-46c01d5fc60eWhat sort of person thinks "Shit. Loads of people dying around me. Better buy a Roller."???
NR, your observations of years gone by are correct, the figures given on the radio stated that the numbers in ICU units last week numbered less than the numbers in the previous four years week for week (last Weeks corresponding dates) before 2019 and Covid, about 3400 of which only six per cent were Covid patients