Coronavirus Death Thread

[Magic]

Genuine question, Magic. Are you anti-vaccine in general or just this one? If yes, why is that?

Just this one, because it's not about a vaccine anymore.

[Magic]

Magic, didn't you say that you were going to have to get the vaccine because of your girlfriend?

Yes, but now it doesn't stop you getting it what's the point (also a second consultant saved her from that medication, fuck the NHS etc).

[Magic]

I'm changing my tact from giving fake names/numbers to track and trace I'm going to start handing out any cunt that fucks me off instead. :drool:

[-james-]

The 500 supporter max at football games across Scotland has to be one of the dumbest rules yet. That'll be a packed main stand at Brora Rangers and a load of rammed pubs for the Old Firm next week.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Anything at sporting fixtures is just theatre. Spread doesn't happen outdoors. Sturgeon is an absolute moron and so is her Welsh equivalent.

[randomlegend]

Yes, but now it doesn't stop you getting it what's the point (also a second consultant saved her from that medication, fuck the NHS etc).

Because it stops you ending up in hospital with covid pneumonia.

[Alex]

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A quite bizarre turn of events in Wales.

"Where do you think you're going sunshine? To WORK you say! We'll see about that....."

We're proper through the looking glass at this point aren't we?

[Magic]

Because it stops you ending up in hospital with covid pneumonia.

Ok but I've already had it once and didn't end up in hospital so...

[Jimmy Floyd]

Whoever came up with that has obviously never worked in the private sector.

My brother's missus works for the Welsh government so I'm well aware, from her tales, of the calibre of person running things over there. Makes our civil service look like a MENSA gathering.

[Yevrah]

We are indeed. A combination of weak leadership and SCIENCE nutters with their mental suggestions is giving this thing oxygen it should never have had by this point.

[Kikó]

So the entire world has weak leadership or they might have the advantage of more data compared to yevrah.

Although, I did just lol at the WHO saying governments should cancel all Christmas events.

[randomlegend]

Ok but I've already had it once and didn't end up in hospital so...

lol

[Yevrah]

So the entire world has weak leadership or they might have the advantage of more data compared to yevrah.

Although, I did just lol at the WHO saying governments should cancel all Christmas events.

You would do well to remove the subservient shackles you operate under and actually question things now and again - there is no data (other than manufactured SAGE wank) that suggests Omicron is going to cause a Tsunami of hospitalisations and deaths in properly vaccinated, let alone boosted, countries, it just doesn't exist.

[Spikey M]

ConspiracyKiko grew into a right Flanders. :(

[Kikó]

They have not enough data to say that it won't so it depends on your risk appetite. If the hospitals are overrun, it's pretty hard to turn that around.

What value would the government gain from SAGE modelling a "all is ok" model? That's not their job.

[Yevrah]

They have not enough data to say that it won't so it depends on your risk appetite. If the hospitals are overrun, it's pretty hard to turn that around.

I agree the data is far from complete, but what we do have is all pointing in the direction of things being fine, and thankfully to this point, the government here at least agree with that view - they are ignoring the SCIENCE, thankfully.



What value would the government gain from SAGE modelling a "all is ok" model? That's not their job.

What value does anyone gain from modelling something that has no chance of happening? It's absolutely pointless and you said as much yourself the other day.

[Manc]

Did you get the t-shirts made? Yevrah

[Spikey M]

We model for all kinds of shit (https://www.businessinsider.com/freedom-of-information-request-reveals-british-governments-plans-for-a-zombie-outbreak-2012-12) that isn't going to happen. Or, rather, that is hugely unlikely. Hugely unlikely things do happen and governments prepare for them.

(I am aware we probably don't actually have a zombie plan, you just reminded me of that story)

[Yevrah]

We model for all kinds of shit (https://www.businessinsider.com/freedom-of-information-request-reveals-british-governments-plans-for-a-zombie-outbreak-2012-12) that isn't going to happen. Or, rather, that is hugely unlikely. Hugely unlikely things do happen and governments prepare for them.

Of course, I'd like to think there are plans in place for when an asteroid eventually comes our way again that don't just involve Bruce Willis and a massive drill, but crucially, those plans stay behind the scenes. In the case of this, this is stuff that SAGE are pulling together in response to something that is happening now, it's being deliberately released to the public, is forming scientific policy and is manifestly wrong.

[Yevrah]

Did you get the t-shirts made? Yevrah

Remind me manc? A lot of posts in this thread, although surprisingly having just checked, not the most.

[Lewis]

lol my friend has it. They were having their whole family round for Christmas as well.

[Magic]

lol my friend has it. They were having their whole family round for Christmas as well.

Runny nose?

[Kikó]

Of course, I'd like to think there are plans in place for when an asteroid eventually comes our way again that don't just involve Bruce Willis and a massive drill, but crucially, those plans stay behind the scenes. In the case of this, this is stuff that SAGE are pulling together in response to something that is happening now, it's being deliberately released to the public, is forming scientific policy and is manifestly wrong.

It's not staying behind the scenes, it's just not more interesting than a passing article. These models are about the here and now which is why they are being reported. I think you should be more pissed off with journalists if anything.

[Don]

I'd love for the lols to be as great as they would be if hospitalisations don't really move much in the coming fortnight but given how many other countries are shitting themselves over this, one suspects there's something other than some SAGE soft shites behind this.

[Yevrah]

It's not staying behind the scenes, it's just not more interesting than a passing article. These models are about the here and now which is why they are being reported. I think you should be more pissed off with journalists if anything.

Journalists have been universally awful throughout this, that much is true, but it's reported on because it's 'leaked' (or if you will, deliberately given) to journalists.

[Shindig]

Scotland's 14% positivity rate is a bit daft. Glasgow and Edinburgh must be dragging those right up.

[Yevrah]

Scotland's 14% positivity rate is a bit daft. Glasgow and Edinburgh must be dragging those right up.

Depends largely on how much you're testing. South Africa's was in the 30s a week or so ago.

[Yevrah]

I'd love for the lols to be as great as they would be if hospitalisations don't really move much in the coming fortnight but given how many other countries are shitting themselves over this, one suspects there's something other than some SAGE soft shites behind this.

The longer this sort of shit goes on, the more one has to wonder. We're behaving like we haven't fully vaccinated 80% of people and boosted another 30m+.

[Kikó]

https://m.dw.com/en/omicron-germany-to-limit-private-gatherings-after-christmas/a-60206476

Fuck sake. It was ok to restrict when it was only in the UK but they can fuck off.

[Giggles]

https://m.dw.com/en/omicron-germany-to-limit-private-gatherings-after-christmas/a-60206476

Fuck sake. It was ok to restrict when it was only in the UK but they can fuck off.

When did you start following restrictions?

[7om]

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Is this how we’re moving the goalposts now? That lower “resilience” means lower hospitalisation numbers are actually similar to previous high levels? We’re fucked as a species.

[Yevrah]

https://m.dw.com/en/omicron-germany-to-limit-private-gatherings-after-christmas/a-60206476

Fuck sake. It was ok to restrict when it was only in the UK but they can fuck off.

There's still room on the bus to follow some sense on this Kik's. We're a welcoming bunch.

[Kikó]

When did you start following restrictions?

Ooof.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd love for the lols to be as great as they would be if hospitalisations don't really move much in the coming fortnight but given how many other countries are shitting themselves over this, one suspects there's something other than some SAGE soft shites behind this.

Every country will have the same gloomy modellers advising their over-cautious governments. Restrictions are like a drug to these people, bringing as they do the illusion of control.

[Giggles]

Ooof.

Sorry, the cross was perfect.

[Lewis]

Runny nose?

I said ignore it, but their parents are on the 'vulnerable' side of fat so they won't.

[Kikó]

Sorry, the cross was perfect.

Well deserved tbh.

[Magic]

I said ignore it, but their parents are on the 'vulnerable' side of fat so they won't.

My mum is being a cunt because all our family on her side are fat alchy cunts as well. They don't want me at a birthday meal next year because I'm a risk to them due to my vaccination status. :harold:

I mean my step family that is. Finally bovid working on my favour. :drool:

[Magic]

Sorry, the cross was perfect.

Grotesque from you two.

[Giggles]

Well deserved tbh.

Beats team yevgic at least.

[Magic]

:D

[Shindig]

I need a negative test to see my folks and get into the office so I can't really play fast and loose on that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My (all triple boosted) family has issued an 'ignore it' policy in case of any positive tests. The way to live, I think.

[Shindig]

Oh, hang on. Christmas is Saturday which means the receptionist isn't in. I can walk straight up there.

[Yevrah]

Beats team yevgic at least.

I'm merely only following the actual science, I wish others would.

[Magic]

My (all triple boosted) family has issued an 'ignore it' policy in case of any positive tests. The way to live, I think.

I think not testing is the actual way but whatever.

[Baz]

My (all triple boosted) family has issued an 'ignore it' policy in case of any positive tests. The way to live, I think.*Unless you’re “the vulnerable side of fat.”


The 500 supporter max at football games across Scotland has to be one of the dumbest rules yet. That'll be a packed main stand at Brora Rangers and a load of rammed pubs for the Old Firm next week.
Don't pubs have restrictions?

[niko_cee]

When did you start following restrictions?

:D

He's a German now. It goes with the territory.

[niko_cee]

My (all triple boosted) family has issued an 'ignore it' policy in case of any positive tests. The way to live, I think.

Anyone that has been testing themselves during the past week or so clearly has something wrong with them [other than the potential covid].

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've still never taken a test, in the entire pandemic. Lied about taking one about 4-5 times.

[phonics]

Went partying in Omicron land for a week, got back, tested, clear. I swear it's been 3 years and still not had it.

[Boydy]

Went partying in Omicron land for a week, got back, tested, clear. I swear it's been 3 years and still not had it.

https://c.tenor.com/I8BiyAbhDlsAAAAC/simpsons-germs.gif

[Boydy]

I have dutifully gone back to masks in shops (unlike some TTHers past and present, I always follow the instructions of the British state), but I'm sad to say many of my compatriots appear not to be joining me.


I've still never taken a test, in the entire pandemic. Lied about taking one about 4-5 times.

Hmm.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't think the British state has ever instructed me to test. Just asked nicely.

Actually, I guess I should have taken the PCR when I came off the plane from Spain. Cuff me.

[Yevrah]

Jesus, if the ship has lost Jim it's in more than choppy waters.

[Shindig]

Test 16 just came up negative. I'm going into the office today which has had an outbreak. As you do.

[Kikó]

Paging Giggles. Jimmy admitting to never testing and willing to have a pozzed up party must be somewhere on the shame-o-meter.

Anecdotally, I now know three separate people in work who have covid. Theyve been completely knocked for six despite the vaccine. Sorry, the baccine.

[Andy]

My wife has a PCR test booked for this morning after a very faint positive line in the LFT. Shes feeling a lot better today, she was a bit rough yesterday and started to cough. We need to be careful as she's 28 weeks pregnant. My LFT was all clear. Hopefully its just a false positive, I don't think I'd need to isolate but it wouldn't be much fun over Christmas.

[Kikó]

Congratulations! (On the pregnancy part)

I'm pretty sure the lft is much more likely to give you a false negative than positive unfortunately. Hope she's ok 🤞

[Giggles]

Paging Giggles. Jimmy admitting to never testing and willing to have a pozzed up party must be somewhere on the shame-o-meter.

Anecdotally, I now know three separate people in work who have covid. Theyve been completely knocked for six despite the vaccine. Sorry, the baccine.

Indeed, but it’s more in ‘stiff upper lip’ character though.

[Magic]

I don't have it in me to either lie about testing or vaccine. I don't see why I should even though my life would be so much easier.

[Yevrah]

I know I moan about our response a lot, but fair play to the government and scientific advisors for bringing this in.


People infected with Covid in England can stop self-isolating up to three days early if they test negative twice, it has been announced.

They will now be able to end quarantine after seven days instead of 10 by providing negative lateral flow results on day six and day seven.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said it would minimise disruption caused by the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.

He said the change was based on the latest guidance from health experts.

Maybe, just maybe sense is winning over here. Meanwhile, in Europe...


Germany announced that from 28 December limits would return that restrict private gatherings to 10 people and nightclubs would close. Football matches from that date will also be played behind closed doors.

Meanwhile Portugal ordered bars and nightclubs to shut from 26 December, and made working from home obligatory from that date until 9 January. Outdoor gatherings will be limited to 10 people.

Bars and restaurants in Finland will have to close at 22:00 on 24 December, as the Nordic nation sees infections at a record level. For three weeks from 28 December, restaurants will have to close at 18:00 with limited seating. Travellers coming from the EU's border-free Schengen zone will have to show a negative Covid test.

[Giggles]

“Meanwhile in Europe…”

:D DRINK!

[Yevrah]

Finland's a cracking country, but they've run mad with closing restaurants at 6. Maybe as we did they need to try it to realise it does absolutely nothing.

[Boydy]

Got me booster this morning. In and out of the new vaccine centre they set up for boosters in 20 minutes, good stuff. Got Pfizer this time. Felt like shit with the first two (AZ) so expecting to feel like crap with this one too.

[niko_cee]

How did you manage to get AZ first time round? Didn't it get 'not recommended for under 40s' status quite early in the roll-out?

[Boydy]

Was it not under 30s that was the cut off?

I booked as soon as they opened it to 30+ in NI and that's what they were giving.

[Spikey M]

I think it was (is?) "not to be used on under 40's unless no alternative vaccine is available".

[mo]

Got my booster Monday. Didn't collapse.

Had pfizer for all my jabs and had no other reaction than a sore arm, which is fortuitous. Nice to be able to go to the vaccination centre at the bottom of my road this time as well, instead of the 45 minute drive I had for jab 1.

[Spikey M]

The number of people I know with Covid at the moment is obscene. My wife's work has been hit hard, but she's off now so fingers crossed she's avoided it.

3 people from my work have it that I know of. Slight concern it is now transmissible via email. Watch those attachments lads.

[Boydy]

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[Spikey M]

:D

[Yevrah]

:D

Literally just spoke to one of my team who was in London over the weekend and started to feel rough yesterday, LFT's confirmed it, he's got COVID.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That was probably the worst possible time to be in London. Signs are that it's probably peaked yesterday or the day before.

[Luke Emia]

The Welsh government has run absolutely fucking mental. Dishing out fines for going to work at the office but don't worry if you want to go to the pub that's ok. I thought the mentalism of making the supermarkets only sell essential goods last year and sticking plastic over anything things like CD's and DVD's was crazy but what they have done here is new levels of batshit.

I can even get the fines in general even if I would never agree with them but not if you have other sectors of the economy open relatively normally.

[phonics]

I’m clearly absolutely immune to this virus if so.

[Yevrah]

Indeed. It takes some going to top the YOU WILL NOT SELL HOUSEHOLD ITEMS nonsense of last year (which only served to screw with those who don't know how to use the internet, or old people as they're otherwise known), but they're really trying their best.

[Yevrah]

I’m clearly absolutely immune to this virus if so.

You might well be. Wasn't there a chap in the US early doors who became intriguing to the boffins as he genuinely couldn't catch it?

[Magic]

Remember RL tried to convince us there was some sort of superbovid and there was loads of kids in A&E? :harold:

[7om]

What was it called now? PISS?

[Spikey M]

Pimms o'clock.

[Lewis]

The number of people I know with Covid at the moment is obscene. My wife's work has been hit hard, but she's off now so fingers crossed she's avoided it.

3 people from my work have it that I know of. Slight concern it is now transmissible via email. Watch those attachments lads.

I know one person with it, but almost everyone else (me included) has had a cold this month and avoided testing themselves.

[Spikey M]

No chance I'd take a test unless hit by some serious symptoms. We have plans and I'm not arsing them up by testing for no reason.

[Don]

I tell ya, poor Muzzies haven't had about 4 proper Eids and you got this dirty gammon lot mixing like they just don't care. Sickening.

[Yevrah]

Back to Wales, the nonsense has arrived and Drakeford is talking tough.


"This new form of coronavirus could infect large numbers of people in Wales, disrupting daily lives and businesses and could cause an increase in the number of people who need hospital care in the coming weeks."

Yep, much better to disrupt daily lives and businesses ourselves, before the virus does. Must not let it win.

[phonics]

I saw the restriction was like ‘no more than 6 people in one group at the pub’ I haven’t been to a pub with more than a group of six in a decade and a half.

[Magic]

Fales. :harold:

[Kikó]

Fagic :lol:

[Spikey M]

Fauxvid. :cool:

[Yevrah]

I saw the restriction was like ‘no more than 6 people in one group at the pub’ I haven’t been to a pub with more than a group of six in a decade and a half.

I genuinely don't understand how Drakeford is worried enough about the virus to piss people off with further restrictions, but doesn't actually bring anything in that will make the blindest bit of difference. I mean, look at this shower of shit:


Groups of no more than six people will be allowed to meet in pubs, cinemas and restaurants in Wales from 26 December, the first minister has said.

And two metre social distancing rules are to return in public places, Mark Drakeford said.

Licensed premises will have to offer table service only, face masks will have to be worn and contact tracing details collected.

Outdoor events will be limited to 50, with 30 indoors.

Advice has been given to limit household mixing and use lateral flow tests beforehand, with a specific offence for having gatherings of more than 30 people.

Spectators at community sports matches will also be limited to 50 people.

If it's to be seen to be doing more than England (while using old and shit English measures) then fucking lol.

[Yevrah]

The level of nanny state in this Welsh stuff is staggering:



The Welsh government has urged people to take lateral flow tests before socialising, shopping or visiting people and not to go out if it is positive.

It is advising meeting outdoors where possible and to make sure indoor meetings are well ventilated.

People, it said, should leave at least a day between social events.

"A day between social events" I don't even.

[7om]

The Welsh government are experts in giving guidance that nobody will follow. At the start of the pandemic they made a rule about not driving more than five miles from your home. How do you even begin to police bollocks like that?

[Yevrah]

I'd forgotten about that one. :D

When this is all finally over I can feel a COVID awards ceremony coming on...

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nothing will ever beat what Derbyshire Police were getting up to in lockdown 1, using drone cameras to spot countryside walkers and fine them.

It actually baffles me to this day that I spent 70 days being legally barred from visiting my parents three miles away.

[Magic]

Remember when people tolerated things like being stopped for a coffee with friends? Shortly afterwards Sarah Everard happened. That's solely on them.

[Yevrah]

Nothing will ever beat what Derbyshire Police were getting up to in lockdown 1, using drone cameras to spot countryside walkers and fine them.

It actually baffles me to this day that I spent 70 days being legally barred from visiting my parents three miles away.

While that is all true, we didn't fully know what we were dealing with back then, so I can forgive some of the restrictions, as mad as they were. There is no excuse now - it's manifestly, scientifically provable, nonsense of the highest order.

[randomlegend]

Remember RL tried to convince us there was some sort of superbovid and there was loads of kids in A&E? :harold:

It's called PIMS-TS, it's not "supercovid" and I never said it was, and PICUs are full of kids with it.

[7om]

Nobody said it was supercovid.

It’s superbovid.

[Magic]

It's called PIMS-TS, it's not "supercovid" and I never said it was, and PICUs are full of kids with it.

Amazing you can tell that from YOUR HOME.

[Lewis]

If it's to be seen to be doing more than England (while using old and shit English measures) then fucking lol.

That and they don't have to worry about paying for any of it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Cosy knobhead twitter is spinning that aspect of it as 'the English hold the purse strings'. Plus ça change, eh, old chap.

[Spikey M]

We should start paying them to pick up their prescriptions.

A little sweetener for picking up their Methadone.

[Lewis]

I wonder whether they ever considered overriding devolution and running it all from Whitehall. There must be a MODEL somewhere measuring possible increased effectiveness vs the SNP claiming they could have been like New Zealand up there.

[randomlegend]

Amazing you can tell that from YOUR HOME.

If only there were some way for people to communicate information over large distances.

[7om]

I wonder whether they ever considered overriding devolution and running it all from Whitehall. There must be a MODEL somewhere measuring possible increased effectiveness vs the SNP claiming they could have been like New Zealand up there.

She would love to go the New Zealand route and lock everyone in their homes. Drakeford is just a wet flannel. The country would fall apart if he was given any actual power.

[Yevrah]

And we have SMASHED through the 100k barrier!

[Andrew]

With a dad like Drakeford no wonder his son went round beating women up and having sex with under age girls...

The man is a compete and utter fucking cabbage.

But Wales being the country of inbred potato salads that we are,would rather lie in a bed of sheep shit than vote for any other party than Labour..

[Magic]

With a dad like Drakeford no wonder his son went round beating women up and having sex with under age girls...

The man is a compete and utter fucking cabbage.

But Wales being the country of inbred potato salads that we are,would rather lie in a bed of sheep shit than vote for any other party than Labour..

Hi.

This is the problem with devolution.

[Giggles]

The only good part of the union.

[Spikey M]

https://www.scotsman.com/health/covid-scotland-omicron-risk-of-hospitalisation-may-be-two-thirds-lower-than-delta-study-suggests-3504812

Good stuff. Surely not even SAGE can ignore this.

*not peer reviewed klaxon*

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

SAGE are now doubling their estimates just to fuck with you.

[Magic]

Top story on BBC news. :drool:

[Pepe]

Open the clubs.

[Yevrah]

Who'd have thought it? Not sure what more is needed to kick these tossers to the side and get on with our lives.

If we'd listened to what South Africa were saying we could have done it over a fortnight ago when the bullshit started.

[phonics]

My mums very worried and I told her not to be because a virus that becomes more viral means it’s less potent. However the only daily paper we get is the Telegraph because my Dad loves the crossword. I think I might buy it to make her chill out.

[Andy]

My wife has a PCR test booked for this morning after a very faint positive line in the LFT. Shes feeling a lot better today, she was a bit rough yesterday and started to cough. We need to be careful as she's 28 weeks pregnant. My LFT was all clear. Hopefully its just a false positive, I don't think I'd need to isolate but it wouldn't be much fun over Christmas.

She got the positive from the PCR. She is feeling a lot better again today so hopefully over the worst of it all.

Feel bad for her as she has been working from home since Febuary 2020 and has barely gone out. I've been the complete opposite and managed to avoid it completely again. I dont need to isolate but advised to test every day.

[Magic]

That Neil Ferguson is a complete moron.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Other papers have crosswords. Better ones.

[Yevrah]

That Neil Ferguson is a complete moron.

He's obviously very intelligent, but clearly wants to save absolute everyone (+ the NHS) from COVID and nobody from anything else.

What I do find puzzling is that he was caught red handed violating lockdown and nobody cares now, it's all forgotten - the pass you get for being in science is a strong one.

[Magic]

He's obviously very intelligent, but clearly wants to save absolute everyone (+ the NHS) from COVID and nobody from anything else.

What I do find puzzling is that he was caught red handed violating lockdown and nobody cares now, it's all forgotten - the pass you get for being in science is a strong one.

So a moron then.

[Luke Emia]

Either the devolved governments are going to look like absolute geniuses in three weeks or they are going to look like absolute helmets there really is no middle ground here.

I think the one thing all the figures are missing out on is that there will be a massive amount of people who aren't willing to take a test and ruin their Christmas and haven't done so in the last ten days. I reckon the case load is substantially higher than already than all these models are thinking it is especially seeing as this strain does seem to cause less severe illness.

[Spikey M]

While I was in the car yesterday, the geezer on the radio said that 100,000 of these positives are actually from the 15th (I don't know how or why) and that testing has already taken a bump. They are assuming that people are opting for the LFT's instead, because then they can be snide about it and ignore it if they're feeling better. :D

[Yevrah]

They're all going to look like idiots, for me, that's nailed on now.

And if that wasn't already obvious, Deepti's moved her sights onto long COVID again.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Deepti did a billion-tweet thread yesterday about the Imperial findings of reduced severity, and her conclusion was - you guessed it - we need tight restrictions NOW.

[Manc]

Is a January lockdown now completely off the cards?

[Yevrah]

Deepti did a billion-tweet thread yesterday about the Imperial findings of reduced severity, and her conclusion was - you guessed it - we need tight restrictions NOW.

I only had a look late evening and you could see that she was having an increased crisis of confidence in herself as the day wore on, to the point where she was bringing the spectre of long COVID back into the room by the end of it.

She is a genuine disgrace to her profession and science as a whole.

[Yevrah]

Is a January lockdown now completely off the cards?

My contention would be yes it is off the cards, there just isn't and won't be the data to support one.

[Manc]

Alhamdulillah.

[Magic]

In the DEVOLVED NATIONS it's most certainly on.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think the worst case scenario would be some kind of gathering limit or 'social distancing', the time for lockdowns with this wave has already been and gone.

I have absolutely no idea what the Celts are up to.

[Spikey M]

The media need to fuck off as far as possible with this "No family Christmas for the Queen :(" stuff.

Come get me when she's eating a Pot Noodle and watching QI on Dave. Until then, spare me the tears of a nonces empty plate at the table.

[Waffdon]

There’s barely been a change anyway. Can’t go to the football and you have table service at the pub. The football has been postponed anyway to coincide with the winter break and any non chain restaurant won’t listen to guidelines anyway

[Lewis]

The Andy Burnham story arc shows how mental the devolved whoppers are being. You would have had him nailed on for any and all pro-NHS/anti-government line, but the Manchester gays and property criminals must be in his ear to keep the show on the road.

[Lewis]

Speaking of keeping the show on the road, what could this (https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-12-22/family-find-mystery-present-from-captain-tom-to-open-this-christmas) possibly be? :happycry:

[Spikey M]

:D fuck off.

[7om]

A pic of him with Saville.

[Magic]

Wait till he finds out all the money he raised went on consulting for a new printer ink ordering system that never went live.

[Magic]

50% less dangerous but 50% more transmissible.

Are these lunatics for real? Lock us down now for the sake of the country.

[7om]

119k cases :drool:

[Yevrah]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59769969


People catching Omicron are 50% to 70% less likely to need hospital care compared with previous variants, a major analysis says.

Jacob Rees Mogg and me donning our scientists, again. What a day of shame for all concerned.

[Magic]

What's 70% of 0.0001% lol.

[Yevrah]

Deepti is taking this badly, with some serious goalpost moving going on.

I didn't have the heart to tweet her to tell her that a failed sitcom writer on a message board with only a double C in Science at GCSE better understood what impact this variant would have than her.

[7om]

I hate to say it, but universities are full of people like her. So far up their own arses they can’t see the reality. And when there’s even an inkling they’re wrong they just move the goalposts and double down.

[Spikey M]

I've just discovered I'm blocked by Deepti. I'd love to know which of of my replies did it. Bless her.

[Magic]

Who the fuck is deepti.

[Spikey M]

Search Deepti on Twitter. You'll love her.

She's regularly invited on to the BBC to explain why everything is terrible and why good news should result in a full lockdown.

[Shindig]

Diljeet's mam.

[Yevrah]

I've just discovered I'm blocked by Deepti. I'd love to know which of of my replies did it. Bless her.

:D Her threads do seem to have an incredible ratio of people who agree with her. What were you about to say?

[Spikey M]

:D Her threads do seem to have an incredible ratio of people who agree with her. What were you about to say?

I was just going to see how she was taking the good news.

I'm generally just my usual sarcastic self and end up getting mobbed by Jimmy's patented Frozen Dinner crew.

[Shindig]

The "50% of colds will be Omicron" got me. Good job, lads. In an effort to lay the fear down, you've compared it to a benign seasonal virus.

[Yevrah]

The "50% of colds will be Omicron" got me. Good job, lads. In an effort to lay the fear down, you've compared it to a benign seasonal virus.

The knots these twats are tying themselves in really is a sight to behold. My work here is nearly done.

[Spikey M]

I lolled at that earlier.

[Shindig]

And I get that they're shitting themselves over case numbers trickling down but it is a trickle.

[Kikó]

The challenge with Deepti is she's been affected by covid personally because of the immuno deficiencies she or her family has. I think it clouds some rationality.

[Lewis]

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/8193085/nicola-sturgeon-man-arrested-hogmanay-party-police/

:lol:

[Pepe]

Waffelz better take some pictures for us.

[Yevrah]

The challenge with Deepti is she's been affected by covid personally because of the immuno deficiencies she or her family has. I think it clouds some rationality.

You're apologising for shit science again. It's sad she's been personally hit by this, but if she's so upset by it that it's clouded her judgement to this degree someone should be having a word with her and getting her to take a break, for her own sake if nothing else.

[Kikó]

I'm not defending science. I'm trying to explain her behaviour.

[Don]

The 'intersectional feminist's' problems began before her culture's disgusting diet and disregard for health compromised her family members.

[Magic]

I'm not defending science. I'm trying to explain her behaviour.

Explain your own behaviour.

[Luke Emia]

So if it’s 50% weaker what does that mean in the real world do we think 500k cases a day to break the NHS? In terms of how many hospitalisations that would create.

[randomlegend]

The bigger problem for hospitals at the moment is how many staff they have off because they've tested positive.

[Shindig]

One of our positives turned out to be false. She was back in the office today having a right strop about missing work. Omicron's yet to really penetrate the county.

[Andrew]

I know loads of people who are constantly testing in the hopes of getting a positive result just so they can have 10 days off and a 750 quid payment.

The way my work load is collapsing for the next few weeks I'm beginning to think I should start licking a few door handles and see if I can claim something of the Welsh Assembly..

[Magic]

Who is getting the booster on Christmas day then. :D

[-james-]

Currently stood outside an electronics shop while my dad buys a phone. Wasn't allowed in because I didn't have any ID on me to match the name on my covid passport. Afterwards we're going to the super market, where if I'm allowed in I will be required to wear two masks. It's a good thing I'm an easy going sort of guy.

[Magic]

Where the fuck are you?

[-james-]

Greece.

[Jimmy Floyd]

τα κεφάλια έχουν φύγει

[Spikey M]

They went circa 2008 in this instance.

[Manc]

Tell me about it, stud.

[Yevrah]

On the subject of doubling down.


Official findings that Omicron may be less likely to result in serious illness than Delta offer a "glimmer of Christmas hope", the head of the UK Health Security Agency has said.

But Jenny Harries told the BBC it was too early to retract her statement that the variant was the most serious threat the UK had faced during the pandemic.

I think I speak for all in the UK who haven't yet run mad on this when I say, "Merry Christmas Jen, but fuck off you miserable arse".

[phonics]

I accepted doing a couple of flyers for this bar that immediately after accepting realised I could not be arsed to do. They've just cancelled the job because so many of the staff have COVID they might not even be open for said events. Best thing COVID's done for me in 2 years.

[SvN]

We've got the entire family round for Christmas. Me and my sister have both tested positive this morning. She's visiting from Australia, so I reckon she's caught it on the plane. My mum's panicked and already got my brother to pick her up to go home. Rest of the family are staying.

Typical that I managed to avoid this for the entire pandemic and then get it Christmas.

[Magic]

Getting tested on Christmas day. :harold:

Edit: HAHAHHA that was unrelated to SvN but HAHAHAHA

[Shindig]

Pulled a negative this morning so I'm sorted.

[SvN]

I might have COVID, but at least I got to wake up in the same house as my kid on Christmas morning.

[Lewis]

:lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:rosebud:

[Giggles]

Boom.

[Foe]

Shite news for you SvN.

At least you all get to spend it together without the uncertainty. Night asleep just enjoy yourselves

[Kikó]

I might have COVID, but at least I got to wake up in the same house as my kid on Christmas morning.

And a happy new year!

[-james-]

I might have COVID, but at least I got to wake up in the same house as my kid on Christmas morning.

Woof.

[Disco]

539 pages and that might be the best post.

[Boydy]

I might have COVID, but at least I got to wake up in the same house as my kid on Christmas morning.
:D

Donned.

[randomlegend]

I might have COVID, but at least I got to wake up in the same house as my kid on Christmas morning.

That's an absolute demolition :D

[Magic]

Christmas ruined.

[Magic]

It's true which makes it even worse.

[7om]

:lol:

Murdered

[Giggles]

It's true which makes it even worse.

If you’re even remotely the person in real life that you are here then it’s all your own fault too (inadequate). It’s also well deserved (cunt).

[Pleb]

:D

[randomlegend]

Fuck me Magic has reaped the seeds he's sewn the last year on this page.

:lol:

[Magic]

Pity I don't have the actual seed I've sewn.

[Spoonsky]

If you’re even remotely the person in real life that you are here then it’s all your own fault too (inadequate). It’s also well deserved (cunt).

This got me equally as SvN's for some reason. :D

[Spikey M]

I feel bad for Magic here. Wine, beer and chocolate clearly turn me into a soppy cunt. Keep your chin up and enjoy it when you do have here, you great mong. :wub:

(It was a good come back though)

[randomlegend]

I'd have sympathy for anyone else but he's just been such a relentless bellend the last year that all good will is well and truly gone.

[Giggles]

There’s not a single half decent bone in his body so you must have had a fair whack of each.

[Spikey M]

I'm drunk for perhaps the first time in about 2 years. Just cracked the Scotch too. I'll be sending him soppy PM's within the hour.

[Manc]

The booze has gone to your (tiny) head.

[Waffdon]

Magic is a cute little teddy bear IRL

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-59749967

Lads, just throw the towel in.

[Giggles]

It’s not as if you’ve to take a week off work and undergo surgery to get it or anything so I fail to see the problem (for non tinfoil hat nut jobs).

[Andy]

Four jabs in a year? Mad.

[Don]

Giggles fighting the good fight :D

[Yevrah]

Not convinced four is enough, we should be moving to weekly.

[Luke Emia]

Even my dad who has been incredibly cautious throughout all of this said today he’s not happy to have a fourth jab so soon after his third. Especially when such a large proportion have had no jab and that’s the fight the government has got to sort in the next few weeks. That 10% is a massive problem for a lot of people.

[Shindig]

Yep. Whilst the Isreali's have gone mad on boosters, it feels like barely any time has passed since they tripled up. Their omicron wave hasn't hit but still, they're at 0 deaths a day. Tweak that vaccine for Omicron or whatever variant of the month first.

[Dquincy]

Only because I think you’re better than this my man. That’s literally the only reason. If dquincy said the same things I wouldn’t reach the same way dude.
Your tongue smells of Yev's shit.

[phonics]

Your tongue smells of Yev's shit.

You're quoting a post from literally a month ago. Seems like your nose stinks of my shit.

Sort your life out. I am literally in your head because you tried to have a dig at my life problems and you are so thick you left an easy angle to be called a fucking moron. Go away.

[Lewis]

1475365347305922560

:cab:

[Yevrah]

Imagine if these people were in charge....

[Jimmy Floyd]

Emotional arguments are the absolute worst. Straining at the leash not to make sexist remarks here.

[Pepe]

https://www.openforumevents.co.uk/speakers/dr-julia-patterson/


Propelled by a sense of injustice towards junior doctors and safety concerns about patients during the junior doctor contract dispute, she founded the National Health Singers in 2015 with Georgina Wood. The choir wrote a protest song about the effects of NHS cuts and poor treatment of NHS staff, and a video of the song went viral online. The choir have subsequently been involved in many high profile campaigns protesting NHS cuts, and have sung to around 2 million people live.

:lol:

[Dquincy]

They better not ban crowds at [League 1] football before 22nd January, now I’ve bought a bloody Gillingham shirt.

Why have you bought a Gillingham shirt?? You hail from the North don't you?

[Baz]

Why have you bought a Gillingham shirt?? You hail from the North don't you?


Gillingham away shirt with number 27 (https://retail.gillinghamfootballclub.com/shop-by-player/27_akehurst/) on.

Hopefully going the Wigan game in January to shout AKE-HURST (https://youtu.be/QXmoYOc9ZZw) at a teenager for 90 minutes.:baz:

[Spikey M]

So fucking weird.

.

[Kikó]

Had an incredibly pleasant PCR test a minute ago. Light cheek and tongue rubbing. Would recommend.

[Spikey M]

Had an incredibly pleasant PCR test a minute ago. Light cheek and tongue rubbing. Would recommend.

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:o
RIP

[Giggles]

:lol: the tests are bad now.

[Spikey M]

It's worse than that Giggsy lad

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[Shindig]

Cotton bud cancer crisis.

[Dquincy]

You're quoting a post from literally a month ago. Seems like your nose stinks of my shit.

Sort your life out. I am literally in your head because you tried to have a dig at my life problems and you are so thick you left an easy angle to be called a fucking moron. Go away.

Calm down Scott Gemmill, I hadn't been on here for a month, so was reading through the rona thread.

Your one dimensional 'thick' 'moron' barbs at people is quite boring. At least get creative.

[Yevrah]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59807241


Prof Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, told BBC Breakfast that in time people with Covid should be allowed to "go about their normal lives" as they would with a common cold.

"If the self-isolation rules are what's making the pain associated with Covid, then we need to do that perhaps sooner rather than later," he said.

He suggested this might be able to happen "once we're past Easter", depending on the effects of the disease at that time.

Prof Paul Hunter is a hero. Brings a tear to my eye.

[Spikey M]

On the whole staying home if you're ill (with anything, not just Covid) is in everyone's interests. It just shouldn't be law and it should be up to each of us what risks we want to take. For example, my kids don't go anywhere near a soft play in the winter because it's a fast-track to Norovirus. I'll skip a night out if I feel a bit ropey, etc. We all do this stuff all the time and I imagine most people with Covid would be happier in bed anyway.

[Yevrah]

On the whole staying home if you're ill (with anything, not just Covid) is in everyone's interests. It just shouldn't be law and it should be up to each of us what risks we want to take. For example, my kids don't go anywhere near a soft play in the winter because it's a fast-track to Norovirus. I'll skip a night out if I feel a bit ropey, etc. We all do this stuff all the time and I imagine most people with Covid would be happier in bed anyway.

Very true, but this sort of stuff being discussed on the BBC is a sea change and one that hopefully leads to the end of the threat of other bollocks.

[Boydy]

This is also encouraging:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/omicron-is-not-the-same-disease-as-earlier-covid-waves-says-uk-scientist?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[Dquincy]

My unvaccinated wife has tested positive for covid. Based on her symptoms, she's opted for the old school delta variant rather than the soft shite omicron.

[Pepe]

I didn't know you could choose which variant to get.

[Dquincy]

That's what she told me from behind her oxygen mask.

[Magic]

Popcorn banned from French cinemas. :harold:

[Spikey M]

That's what she told me from behind her oxygen mask.

Did you give it the big "I told you so" (Glory)? Or are you holding it back for the next argument (Strategy)?

[Dquincy]

Did you give it the big "I told you so" (Glory)? Or are you holding it back for the next argument (Strategy)?
:D To be fair, apart from a painful ear thing going on, she's not been too bad (relative to flu/cold)

Maybe Magic was right after all.

[Shindig]

He was going to be right eventually.

[randomlegend]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59807241



Prof Paul Hunter is a hero. Brings a tear to my eye.

He used to lecture me at med school trufax

[Jimmy Floyd]

I see the park run has been banned in Wales. We should rescind their national rugby team until this bollocks stops.

Talk about fighting the last war.

[Spikey M]

1475960631467651076?t=yIGtq_naaevcLhgmU-AWBw&s=19

You're welcome.

[Shindig]

"Would you like some more glitter?"

[Dquincy]

Sky News headline : More than 500 children admitted to hospital with COVID this week

Skip to the article...

"The definition used to identify a hospital admission with COVID is that someone either tested positive for the virus in the 14 days before their admission or during their stay in hospital."

The media are just the worst.

[Shindig]

With the way this is spreading, I'm not using rising hospital numbers as something to be concerned with.

[Yevrah]

There's nothing to be concerned about beyond the level of concern that existed already, this is just the boy who cried wolf on a national scale.

What needs to happen next is anyone who recommended we not open up in July and recommend we go harder with restrictions this time round should be banned from appearing in the media without that being made clear in lights. If they're actually formally working on the COVID response then that should be that too, P45 time.

[Don]

Important we still implement WFH though until more data is out in September.

[John Arne]

This true?

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[phonics]

I see the park run has been banned in Wales. We should rescind their national rugby team until this bollocks stops.

Talk about fighting the last war.

My parents getting to a fight with their college friends/neighbours and not moving to South Wales finally wins. My mum would have jumped off a bridge.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This true?

1475827859407228934

Seems to be. Delta has fallen off a cliff here in the last couple of weeks.

[Kikó]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/today-heart-broke-many-pieces-22587903

This is the real damage of anti vax.

[Queenslander]

The Queensland sun will lol covid out of town again.


Queensland’s contact tracers have drastically scaled back their efforts to identify exposure sites and are now focused primarily on threats to hospitals, aged care facilities and Indigenous communities.

As the state recorded 1158 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, Health Minister Yvette D’Ath announced the axing of the rule for interstate arrivals in Queensland to be tested on their fifth day.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/too-many-exposure-sites-to-publish-as-queensland-scales-back-covid-tracing-20211228-p59kig.html?fbclid=IwAR0WP-zMWc_ePPuBElCc9q5B-S2g2YS3tTSKTNFsp00b-lh8_8MJjM78xv8

[Baz]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/today-heart-broke-many-pieces-22587903

This is the real damage of anti vax.Yep.

As she was pregnant Natalie had chosen not to have any vaccinations for COVID.


It's strongly recommended that you get vaccinated against coronavirus (COVID-19) if you're pregnant or breastfeeding.
Source: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/pregnancy-breastfeeding-fertility-and-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination/

:rolleyes:

[Magic]

Size of them legs though.

[Baz]

Size of them legs though.


the 'vulnerable' side of fat

:rosebud:

[Dquincy]

Size of them legs though.

Feel like I've been catfished based on the first photo.

Edit: Sad story though.