Coronavirus Death Thread

[Dquincy]

I don't really appreciate the context of the following, but thought I'd post it in case anyone else does.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-con...-diseases-hcid

This is a link to the government website for information on High consequence infectious diseases (HCID).

Extract from 'Status of COVID-19'

As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK.

The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.

The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.

[Kikó]

https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-hcid/

There's a specific definition for that description.

[Don]

Quincy sharing the anti-vaxxer shit he gets on Whatsapp hoping the soft shite brigade will be able to help him draw up line to take

[Dquincy]

Fair.

[Magic]

"my mate thinks".

[Baz]

So who here won’t be getting the vaccine?

[Spikey M]

I will be getting it as soon as possible and joining Doreen in some European Cesspit.

[Don]

Me. This is the closest opportunity I'll get to killing obese people so it's an easy one.

[Shindig]

Just become a personal trainer.

[randomlegend]

Without wanting to fall in with the sceptic fringe lunatics, is that evidence of cardiac damage actually attributable to having had covid, or would it show up in a lot of people if they were routinely scanned (which I assume they aren't)?

It is attributable to covid.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you don't get the vaccine you're not doing your bit to cut transmission. Getting the vaccine is FAR more effective in cutting transmission than any kind of lockdown compliance. I have no idea why the gov / SAGE aren't saying this.

[Lewis]

'Listen you fucking curry-munching...'

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56102610

The BBC almost saying "there's fuck all risk seeing your mates in the garden. Crack on lads".

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sage has said (with "high confidence") that outdoor gatherings have a low impact on transmission.

Why are they fucking banned then?

I think most of this stuff is purely symbolic, as in they think people will take the thin end of the wedge.

[Spikey M]

It is essentially "give them an inch...". Problem is, refuse to give the inch and eventually people will take the mile anyway.

[Baz]

Chances of 30 people being allowed to mix indoors by the end of June?

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's almost as if banning most forms of basic human social behaviour isn't a sustainable public health policy.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Chances of 30 people being allowed to mix indoors by the end of June?

Doubt it

[Magic]

Blame the people.

[randomlegend]

If you don't get the vaccine you're not doing your bit to cut transmission. Getting the vaccine is FAR more effective in cutting transmission than any kind of lockdown compliance. I have no idea why the gov / SAGE aren't saying this.

Because the data isn't really there yet to be confident whether/how much being vaccinated reduces your ability to transmit the virus.

[Spikey M]

Right on cue:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56145392

[Jimmy Floyd]

It basically is. A study from Israel today had Pfizer at 89% reduction in transmissions. All studies for all vaccines have said similar.

And as above, whenever they start saying 'early data' in public it means they are 100% certain. Whitty said he thought it would probably cut transmission a good month ago.

[Shindig]

They've been confident enough to publish early studies that say it is.

[randomlegend]

*wasn't

[Kikó]

https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/s...842207240?s=19

Some good club news for taz.

[Magic]

So can't get a fucking haircut until April? Lol.

[Mellberg]

March 8th - golf.

Sound. That'll do, pig.

[randomlegend]

My hair was last cut on 12th July.

[Don]

I was losing hope of clubs before winter. When's football allowed? Mid-April for sauna, fuck off.

[Baz]

My hair was last cut on 12th July.

Let's have a look.

Mine was September and it's pretty scraggly now. Moreso than normal, even.

[Raoul Duke]

I'm in the "last haircut in July" club too

This headline is negative but the news is pretty decent:

We've done about 4.5% in total and they should be getting to 2.5m p/w in the second quarter of the year. There's only 17m or so here so should be pretty rapid once they get supply

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I last did mine a couple of weeks ago.

I think I did a 0.5 or something all over.

[Shindig]

I gave the back of mine a trim. I hate DIY haircuts.

[Magic]

Ladies will be distraught.

[Queenslander]

Uber Cunt of the year Premier of NSW Gladys whats her face isnt getting the vaccine. I assume for political reasons as her base in NSW is full are mental white nationalists who think this vaccine makes you gay or 5g or whatever it is hard to keep up with what makes them angry.

[Yevrah]

Private gardens from 29th March.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56148160

Sense is seen. Ish.

[Yevrah]

What's perhaps most interesting about the four tests for the road map is that a rise in infection levels is not, in itself, a barrier to easing restrictions further.

Some members of the scientific community, as well as some teaching unions, believe any increase should not be tolerated.

You can believe what you like fuckers, infections in and of themselves are utterly irrelevant. Taste that sweet vaccine and take your particular brand of wank science away.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's better than I was expecting tbh. Which I suppose was the point of all their pre-leaks.

Cases flattening to fuck now, all driven up north, I guess this is a test of what happens to deaths/hospitalisations which are both still falling fast at the moment.

[Don]

It's all later than ideal given we could open it all up now and NHS would cope as we all know but I'll settle for that.

Still, MON vaccine failure for top scenes.

[Yevrah]

It's better than I expected too, but then I have been watching the news a lot over the last two weeks and every single show I've seen has had some rent a gob-shite scientist on it seemingly doing a near 180 about how great vaccines are and suggesting we should be locked down for months more yet, which obviously clouded my expectations.

Thank God they weren't actually listened to.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Vaccine failure isn't going to happen. It's just a matter of how quickly it succeeds.

[Yevrah]

Yep, we're on the home straight of this thing now and I reckon after this 'abundance of caution' period is over we'll be out of it as quickly as we went into it.

Masks and hand sanitisers etc. may remain for a while, but in every other way life will be back to normal.

[Don]

Vaccine failure isn't going to happen. It's just a matter of how quickly it succeeds.

The scientists are clearly still thinking it's a possibility for them to be backing Team Soft Shites in such hefty numbers.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hand sanitiser is the best thing to come out of it. A good sniff of that stuff every morning at the office and I'm ready to go for another day's psychological torment.

[Yevrah]

The scientists are clearly still thinking it's a possibility for them to be backing Team Soft Shites in such hefty numbers.

I thought that for a while and then it actually dawned on me that they're just mental. It can happen to anyone when they're given a bit of power and limelight and they'd rather not lose it.

[Queenslander]

Now we have the nutcases saying scomo had the cap on his needle. His official FB page is a good laugh atm.

I reckon we are world beaters when it comes to anti-vaxxers.

Per capita we have to have the most.

[Luca]

Australia’s effort at beating this thing despite the absolute fucking mentals that inhabit most of the island is quite impressive.

[John Arne]

Ozzies have a free dinkum experience in dealing with these drongo's.

[Queenslander]

Fair dinkum in my little part of the world I reckon it is a 50/50 split with the people I know.

[Queenslander]

Just did their eligibility test and apparentltly I can get it mid March.