Coronavirus

BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing light cold-like symptoms, Buckingham Palace has announced.

https://news.sky.com/story/queen-tes...-says-12538848

The lengths Charlie will go to to try to get his bum on that throne …

[nffc]

25,696 new infections today.


Whilst that's still a not inconsiderable amount, it's come down an awful lot in the last week or two.


Certainly at the height around Christmas, it's possible that 10 times that amount was getting the virus every day, but either didn't test/report or just dismissed it as a cold and carried on.


Some comments on here about omicron from a couple of months back have clearly not aged well.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by nffc

25,696 new infections today.


Whilst that's still a not inconsiderable amount, it's come down an awful lot in the last week or two.


Certainly at the height around Christmas, it's possible that 10 times that amount was getting the virus every day, but either didn't test/report or just dismissed it as a cold and carried on.


Some comments on here about omicron from a couple of months back have clearly not aged well.

OB was right, though.

Originally Posted by nffc

25,696 new infections today.


Whilst that's still a not inconsiderable amount, it's come down an awful lot in the last week or two.


Certainly at the height around Christmas, it's possible that 10 times that amount was getting the virus every day, but either didn't test/report or just dismissed it as a cold and carried on.


Some comments on here about omicron from a couple of months back have clearly not aged well.

This is a personal favourite of mine:

Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

Suggest you go back and listen to your Tory chums when they spoke at the start of the pandemic regarding the lag to people dying

The only reason its losing credibility is because it doesn’t fit your narrative.

Comparing South Africas wave to ours is like comparing apples to oranges Due to demographics, of course you already knew that.

Let’s see where deaths are in 3-4 weeks, if they haven’t significantly increased I’ll apologise

Needless to say when 3-4 weeks came around he was nowhere to be seen, and while he’s posted in this thread a couple of times since he clearly doesn’t want to engage with or acknowledge his own rashness.

[Jaymoss]

wonder how high the figures will go once the isolation of the infected is ended

Originally Posted by Jaymoss

wonder how high the figures will go once the isolation of the infected is ended

I imagine the infection rate will go up significantly, however we have all the data we need now to be confident that as long as we’re dealing with omicron we’re not going to see the health services overwhelmed by it. For that to change we would have to see the emergence of a variant that is both significantly more infectious than omicron, so it could out-compete it much as omicron out-competed delta, and then also significantly more virulent.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Jaymoss

wonder how high the figures will go once the isolation of the infected is ended

Will we know the full facts in future? Only hospital inmates count and excess deaths will provide any form of indication.

[nffc]

Originally Posted by Jaymoss

wonder how high the figures will go once the isolation of the infected is ended

Legal restrictions compelling those testing positive to self-isolate for X days or on a negative test, you mean?


Well, first off, it will probably be replaced with a strong suggestion that those with symptoms continue to test - until such time as they have wound down the 2bn a month taxpayers are currently spending on the mass testing, that is - and also, that those who then test positive, do at least isolate, that employers support those who are isolating, and that people do try and stay home if they're feeling ill. Other viruses and illnesses which are contagious don't have a legal compulsion to self-isolate after all.


It's not as if we're going to be changing from living like hermits to everyone coughing all over the place overnight.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Will we know the full facts in future? Only hospital inmates count and excess deaths will provide any form of indication.

Inmates, wtf, we gone back to the early eighties where catching another different virus meant you were locked up till you died

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Originally Posted by nffc

Legal restrictions compelling those testing positive to self-isolate for X days or on a negative test, you mean?


Well, first off, it will probably be replaced with a strong suggestion that those with symptoms continue to test - until such time as they have wound down the 2bn a month taxpayers are currently spending on the mass testing, that is - and also, that those who then test positive, do at least isolate, that employers support those who are isolating, and that people do try and stay home if they're feeling ill. Other viruses and illnesses which are contagious don't have a legal compulsion to self-isolate after all.


It's not as if we're going to be changing from living like hermits to everyone coughing all over the place overnight.

If I catch it I'm staying at home and I expect anyone I work with to do the same

[nffc]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

If I catch it I'm staying at home and I expect anyone I work with to do the same

I agree, and would suspect most would.


The only change is that people would then be expected to use their common sense and do it, as opposed to being legally compelled to.

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Inmates, wtf, we gone back to the early eighties where catching another different virus meant you were locked up till you died

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If I catch it I'm staying at home and I expect anyone I work with to do the same

This pandemic including this thread has shown time and time again there are plenty of people no prepared to do the reasonable thing. Maybe they have not isolated all along or maybe with the relaxation the coughing all over might well be the case

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Originally Posted by nffc

I agree, and would suspect most would.


The only change is that people would then be expected to use their common sense and do it, as opposed to being legally compelled to.

common sense hahaha that is a laugh

I suspect now that more companies are set up for working from home those can that do so will do so when coming down with any virus. Helps stop it from spreading and is just nicer while you recover.

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

If I catch it I'm staying at home and I expect anyone I work with to do the same

People who are ill generally do, and always have.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Paul

People who are ill generally do, and always have.

What if you're not ill but infected?