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In the discussion, it was pointed out that Sweden with no lock down and Spain (et al) with stringent lockdown was better off in statistics terms than Spain.
The discussion held out the prospect of Covid Marshals peering through windows to check on how many people they could see! Only half-ridiculous in the wider picture.
Yet he's in direct contradiction of the current Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government who view it as a serious risk without mitigation.
The proof will be in the pudding I suppose, not long til we find out. Cases rising and it's not simply due to testing rising according to Whitty. Maybe it's just a blip. Hopefully.
Other countries are in a second wave and Israel is into a second lockdown. Why will it be different for us?
Oxford Uni Professor of Evidence Based Medicine @carlheneghan recommends watching this video.
Started watching, got bored. Let me guess open everything back up and we will be fine because someone manipulated a couple of graphs and selectively compared sets of data that aren't directly comparable with each other?
Masks to be a legal requirement to enter shops and indoor public areas in Wales as of tomorrow. The Labour-led Welsh assembly has been dragging its feet over this for several weeks.
And, as expected, local forums are filled to the brim with anti-maskers spouting the crazy conspiracy theories they have accepted as fact from "internet sources".
Forum moderators are stripping their posts and banning those that repost after warnings, but they just push another of their ilk to post the same idiocy.
In the discussion, it was pointed out that Sweden with no lock down and Spain (et al) with stringent lockdown was better off in statistics terms than Spain.
The discussion held out the prospect of Covid Marshals peering through windows to check on how many people they could see! Only half-ridiculous in the wider picture.
that’s hyperbolics, up there with "subjugation" and "enslavement" (not things you’ve said, but others have).
I lived in West Berlin for 3 years at the height of the Cold War, and saw what a "Stasi state" was - use of terms like this in the article just use emotive hyperbolic statements to inflame passion and cause anger, thus making rational debate about real issues difficult.
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that’s hyperbolics, up there with "subjugation" and "enslavement" (not things you’ve said, but others have).
I lived in West Berlin for 3 years at the height of the Cold War, and saw what a "Stasi state" was - use of terms like this in the article just use emotive hyperbolic statements to inflame passion and cause anger, thus making rational debate about real issues difficult.
Yes I agree it’s hyperbole. But it frames a scene succinctly. With the brains on this forum, I don’t see that framing as inflaming passion, etc.
All the restrictions should be considered the same as if there was a severe storm going on. People cover themselves up in cold or bad weather, so what is the real problem? People find themselves locked in by bad weather, eg "Beast from the East" of 2018, so again what is the real difference? It may be lasting long, but that is all. The longer people flaunt the restrictions, the longer the whole thing will go on for.
Face masks may be inadvertently giving people Covid-19 immunity and making them get less sick from the virus, academics have suggested in one of the most respected medical journals in the world.
The commentary, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, advances the unproven but promising theory that universal face mask wearing might be helping to reduce the severity of the virus and ensuring that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.
TL;DR - Wearing a mask and having others around you wear masks seems to be granting people immunity to the virus by minimising exposure to it.
Completely unproven at this point, of course, but yet another good reason to wear a mask.
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