Coronavirus

[BillyStubbsTears]

Well if rumours of todays announcement are correct this thread can be locked.
It's all over according to Johnson

When did he say that?

I'm not playing your game BB, leave that up to BST

Don't bring me into it! I'm trying to ignore him when he gets in these moods. Which means I'm tryin to ignore him.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Pause this video on 19 seconds and tell me what you see, then come back and apologise to me if you were one of those who took the piss.


https://twitter.com/CaldronPool/status/1495738643180568577?t=Kl08hvtU7ixA3INfOEFY0Q&s=19

Your point being?

[Bentley Bullet]

Well if rumours of todays announcement are correct this thread can be locked.
It's all over according to Johnson

When did he say that?

I'm not playing your game BB, leave that up to BST

Don't bring me into it! I'm trying to ignore him when he gets in these moods. Which means I'm tryin to ignore him.

Eeh! Where's Sophie Raworth when you need her!

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Boris' speech to the House today: -

- We can lift these restrictions because total deaths are low for this time of year. This is irrelevant. We need to be considering how many Covid deaths there are. Still 1,000 per week so double the annual rate for the worst years of flu.

- No longer legally required to self-isolate but advised to from 24th Feb, then from 1st April exercise personal responsibility on deciding whether to stay at home. Why? Is Omicron getting safer to meet these deadlines? Regardless of overall infection rates any one individual with Covid is still just as likely to infect the same amount of people with a dangerous, nasty illness.

- Self-isolation support payments for those on low incomes to end. So the rich can exercise personal responsibility on whether to go to work and potentially infect their (mainly richer) colleagues. The poor have no option but to go to work and potentially infect their (mainly poorer) colleagues - unless they have a generous employer.

Omicron is safer, clearly much safer than prior covid variants be that the virus or vaccines it is much less dangerous for the vast majority (not all).

On your point on respiratory illness, actually the stats say different the rate is no higher than any year (lower than some).

Realistically what are most people doing that makes much difference to the spread now? Very little if anything at all.

[Nudga]

Pause this video on 19 seconds and tell me what you see, then come back and apologise to me if you were one of those who took the piss.


https://twitter.com/CaldronPool/status/1495738643180568577?t=Kl08hvtU7ixA3INfOEFY0Q&s=19

Your point being?

If you see it, say it.

[BillyStubbsTears]

No, I genuinely don't get your point. An Australian media cameraman has pointed a camera at an Invermectin box, while a doctor was talking about COVID drugs. But Invermectin isn't and never had been qualified for use in Australia. So I honestly don't get what point you are making.

[rich1471]

A Current Affair has apologised after broadcasting images of stromectol during a segment about the Queen's Covid diagnosis. Photograph: Channel Nine
Josh Butler
Tue 22 Feb 2022 08.29 GMT

The Nine Network has apologised after mistakenly suggesting the Queen was using the drug ivermectin after contracting Covid.

The error had already been boosted by anti-vax and anti-lockdown groups that support the use of ivermectin to treat Covid despite it being labelled “ineffective” by Australia’s chief medical officer.

[BillyStubbsTears]

It doesn't make any difference.

It doesn't matter how many times you Whack-A-Mole these batshit conspiracies, the next one springs up like a zombie.

[Nudga]

I was told explicitly on here that ivermectin was a horse dewormer and not fit for human consumption.
I'm not f**kin bothered if the queen did or didn't use it, my point was that it is used for human medication.
That point was obviously lost on Professor Goodvirus on here.

[aidanstu]

The incompetence of this government gets increasingly obvious

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/taxpayers-uk-lose-15-bn-covid-fraud-government-schemes-furlough-000136271.html

[drfchound]

I’m surprised that the 8.7% figure is so low.
I know two people who have bragged about claiming furlough payments but have worked the system so that they continued to operate but claim the payments.
It is up to the system now to weed out those types and punish them.

[rich1471]

I’m surprised that the 8.7% figure is so low.
I know two people who have bragged about claiming furlough payments but have worked the system so that they continued to operate but claim the payments.
It is up to the system now to weed out those types and punish them.

what do you mean by working the system ,claiming benefits or still working for the same company 

[Nudga]

Juicy. Problem, reaction, solution. Maybe??

Hopefully my personal vsc troll will debunk this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542309/Fresh-lab-leak-fears-study-finds-genetic-code-Covids-spike-protein-linked-Moderna-patent.html

[Nudga]

https://images.app.goo.gl/5WviQCcZCoe37iDq6

[wilts rover]

Juicy. Problem, reaction, solution. Maybe??

Hopefully my personal vsc troll will debunk this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542309/Fresh-lab-leak-fears-study-finds-genetic-code-Covids-spike-protein-linked-Moderna-patent.html

Err, what is there to debunk? That artice doesnt prove or disprove anything?

[SydneyRover]

''Hancock also said his decision to step down more than 24 hours after the pictures were published was made after people he knew and respected got in touch to remind him they had been unable to see dying relatives'' because of Covid regulations''

he was obviously unaware of this beforehand

[Branton Red]

Just a comment on the news and how things fall quickly down the agenda.

Barely a peep on Covid in the media recently despite it being the main news item for 2 years.

See here www.bbc.co.uk/news/coronavirus no new article since 21st February.

Reflected on here too. Only 3 posts since 23rd February, none since the 28th on a thread running to 546 pages.

Yes of course the unfolding tragedy in Ukraine is the major event occurring in the world right now and warrants the media attention it is receiving.

But over 700 people died in the UK with Covid last week - a rate c. 50% higher than the very worst years for influenza.

[bpoolrover]

Just a comment on the news and how things fall quickly down the agenda.

Barely a peep on Covid in the media recently despite it being the main news item for 2 years.

See here www.bbc.co.uk/news/coronavirus no new article since 21st February.

Reflected on here too. Only 3 posts since 23rd February, none since the 28th on a thread running to 546 pages.

Yes of course the unfolding tragedy in Ukraine is the major event occurring in the world right now and warrants the media attention it is receiving.

But over 700 people died in the UK with Covid last week - a rate c. 50% higher than the very worst years for influenza.

that's what it is thou with covid, my local hospital has 74 inpatients with covid none in intensive care, out of them 74 over 50 are not in there because of covid but have been found to have it when gone in with other conditions

[Nudga]

Anybody seen the zoom exchange with Dr Tess Lawrie and Dr Andrew Hill regarding horse dewormer?

[SydneyRover]

I just want to get in first so it can't be claimed noone on the left called it out

''‘Happy days if you were a crook’: former minister slams UK Covid loan scheme
Lord Agnew said Treasury measures to tackle fraudulent Covid business loans were a ‘Dad’s army operation’''

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/09/uk-covid-loans-happy-days-crooks-former-minister

[wilts rover]

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic the mortality risk from civid is now lower than that from flu.

It's now 'no worse than flu'.

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1501886435145699328

[rich1471]

It might not be ,But Al Murray cancelled tonight at the cast due him catching it ,was looking forward to going as well

[bpoolrover]

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic the mortality risk from civid is now lower than that from flu.

It's now 'no worse than flu'.

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1501886435145699328

very good news

[Nudga]

First horse dewormer and now PCR testing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10606107/Did-flawed-tests-convince-Covid-worse-really-was.html

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic the mortality risk from civid is now lower than that from flu.

It's now 'no worse than flu'.

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1501886435145699328

Good news and finally the obsession on case numbers is reducing especially in Germany with over 300k cases per day now but mostly normal life.

We are seeing cases jump here again now, I wonder if it's a virus we'll keep getting frequently?

[Ldr]

We are seeing beds been filled again but nothing hitting itu/hdu and few on ventilation which suggests it’s weaker

[idler]

My wife started about eight days ago but thought she was just under the weather until a positive test.
I started towards the end of last week but kept testing negative.
Me the wife's mum and step-dad all had PCR tests in Bradford yesterday after positive lateral flow tests.
So far the worst anybody suffered is the sore throat and a bit of fatigue. The in laws are 88 and 90 and are coping ok with grandkids doing their shopping. It must be a lot milder than the earlier form of the virus or our three jabs have minimised the effect.

[ravenrover]

Word of a new variant in China, highly contagious BA2
Shenzhen and Shanghai in lockdown
Assumption is China isn't telling the whole story new surge hospitals have been opened

[Colin C No.3]

Does anyone believe covid was ‘released’ either accidentally or purposely from a lab & if purposely the Chinese government underestimated its spread & effects?

[Axholme Lion]

Does anyone believe covid was ‘released’ either accidentally or purposely from a lab & if purposely the Chinese government underestimated its spread & effects?

Of course it was. I said this two years ago and BST said i was full of shit.