Coronavirus - UK
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so infection rates are rising again, but death rates are still low, so I assume that means people who have been vaccinated, are still getting it, but are not getting as ill?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
so infection rates are rising again, but death rates are still low, so I assume that means people who have been vaccinated, are still getting it, but are not getting as ill?
From the BBC:
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UK to offer Covid booster jab AND flu jab to all over-50's in September.
Flu and other respiratory viruses seen as a real issue as they have been supressed by lockdown/travel restrictions and could cause a lot of hospitalisation and deaths in the winter.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
so infection rates are rising again, but death rates are still low, so I assume that means people who have been vaccinated, are still getting it, but are not getting as ill?
From what we can see, whilst infections are climbing, deaths and hospitalisations are not. It would be handy to see the demographics of the positives, my gut feeling is that with the opening up of schools combined with the Delta variant which is supposed to be more infectious and then the more rigorous testing at schools (supposedly), it would be likely that the demographic for the infected would be much lower than previously.
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@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
so infection rates are rising again, but death rates are still low, so I assume that means people who have been vaccinated, are still getting it, but are not getting as ill?
From what we can see, whilst infections are climbing, deaths and hospitalisations are not. It would be handy to see the demographics of the positives, my gut feeling is that with the opening up of schools combined with the Delta variant which is supposed to be more infectious and then the more rigorous testing at schools (supposedly), it would be likely that the demographic for the infected would be much lower than previously.
Think infections mainly the under 30s. Much less likely to get severe symptoms.
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
so infection rates are rising again, but death rates are still low, so I assume that means people who have been vaccinated, are still getting it, but are not getting as ill?
From what we can see, whilst infections are climbing, deaths and hospitalisations are not. It would be handy to see the demographics of the positives, my gut feeling is that with the opening up of schools combined with the Delta variant which is supposed to be more infectious and then the more rigorous testing at schools (supposedly), it would be likely that the demographic for the infected would be much lower than previously.
Think infections mainly the under 30s. Much less likely to get severe symptoms.
Yeah, that was my thought, a more infectious variant and more rigorous testing in the young’uns. QED.
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@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
so infection rates are rising again, but death rates are still low, so I assume that means people who have been vaccinated, are still getting it, but are not getting as ill?
From what we can see, whilst infections are climbing, deaths and hospitalisations are not. It would be handy to see the demographics of the positives, my gut feeling is that with the opening up of schools combined with the Delta variant which is supposed to be more infectious and then the more rigorous testing at schools (supposedly), it would be likely that the demographic for the infected would be much lower than previously.
Think infections mainly the under 30s. Much less likely to get severe symptoms.
Yeah, that was my thought, a more infectious variant and more rigorous testing in the young’uns. QED.
Got to keep the narrative going somehow
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@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
UK to offer Covid booster jab AND flu jab to all over-50's in September.
Flu and other respiratory viruses seen as a real issue as they have been supressed by lockdown/travel restrictions and could cause a lot of hospitalisation and deaths in the winter.
“More than 30 million of the most vulnerable should receive a third dose, vaccine experts are advising.”
Fuck me that’s nearly half the population
Flu making a comeback
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@mikethesnow Feels like the next narrative is "we are delaying full reopening as we just need a few more weeks to complete the booster roll out"
New normal, constant quasi lockdowns, no death/illness allowed, government pays for everything forever. Fairy land.
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And my daughter is sent home from school. Case in her year. Not her class, her year.
Thats the end of her pre-prep, no graduation, no sports day, no class trip, nothing. All complete fucked because of a stupid fucking government fucking ruling which makes no fucking sense in the context of fucking anything.
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
And my daughter is sent home from school. Case in her year. Not her class, her year.
Thats the end of her pre-prep, no graduation, no sports day, no class trip, nothing. All complete fucked because of a stupid fucking government fucking ruling which makes no fucking sense in the context of fucking anything.
I thought this sort of over the top bollocks was being binned?
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@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
And my daughter is sent home from school. Case in her year. Not her class, her year.
Thats the end of her pre-prep, no graduation, no sports day, no class trip, nothing. All complete fucked because of a stupid fucking government fucking ruling which makes no fucking sense in the context of fucking anything.
I thought this sort of over the top bollocks was being binned?
Have you ever known a government any time or any place roll back a power once they had it?
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - UK:
@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
And my daughter is sent home from school. Case in her year. Not her class, her year.
Thats the end of her pre-prep, no graduation, no sports day, no class trip, nothing. All complete fucked because of a stupid fucking government fucking ruling which makes no fucking sense in the context of fucking anything.
I thought this sort of over the top bollocks was being binned?
Have you ever known a government any time or any place roll back a power once they had it?
Rarely, but this is not a power as such, it's just a measure (effective or not) to curb a virus. The thing is, from what I can gather there is a roll out of the relaxation of the shambolic rules put in place in schools but it looks as though this hasn't filtered in to the Rage school.
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Follow the Science they said
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Here we fucking go
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Was listening to Economist podcast this morning. From an article written before news I mentioned above.
Apparently the death rate in UK now, despite quite high infections again in this wave is now only 0.1%. Literally the normal influenza death rate. This is great news for efficacy of the vaccines etc. Although UK had added 'advantage' compared to NZ and others of some levels of immunity from previous infections.
It would be fascinating to see a UK line graph including call of cases, deaths, vaccinations, hospitalisation.