Big Numbers today

[dontbelieveawordofit]

mate works in a care home . got a positive test on 24th . negative test on 27th . no symptoms.
had all the symptoms about 6 weeks ago . tested negative.
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[JP_]

mate works in a care home . got a positive test on 24th . negative test on 27th . no symptoms.
had all the symptoms about 6 weeks ago . tested negative.
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And this is why it is so important to protect people. Some care homes lost a quarter of their residents in the first wave.

 

[big-all]

ok to me 2.300'000 people with covid and a say 67 mill population would be about 1 in 29 off the population now have covid
now most will be fine with perhaps 1 in a medium to low risk off dying
now this is not coincidence its because the ones most likly to be at risk have overdone the protection and are fully out off the madness off carrying on party time and be merry that some have have implimented in there life rather than near or full lockdown
now the message off 5 days at xmass will be fairly restriction free in 3 weeks was enough for some go party mode about the 11th off december hence the surge now

to may mixed and slow messages weeks to late =deaths

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Do these rising numbers mean that the lockdowns, masks, tiers and pub closures haven't worked? Have we crippled the economy, destroyed jobs, closed down shops and pubs, enriched the supermarkets and Amazon and filled the roads with dirty great white vans for nothing?

 

[IT Minion]

Do these rising numbers mean that the lockdowns, masks, tiers and pub closures haven't worked? Have we crippled the economy, destroyed jobs, closed down shops and pubs, enriched the supermarkets and Amazon and filled the roads with dirty great white vans for nothing?

It could be worse. Without those controls it would be.

 

[Brigadier]

No one locked down supermarkets - been open from the start. Wonder what the incidence and death stats are for the workers. Must be quite a risky job, but still don't see all of them wearing masks. Quite a few fatties on the tills in my local Asda. You'd think they would be dropping like flies.

Or like hippos.

 

[Notch7]

Do these rising numbers mean that the lockdowns, masks, tiers and pub closures haven't worked? Have we crippled the economy, destroyed jobs, closed down shops and pubs, enriched the supermarkets and Amazon and filled the roads with dirty great white vans for nothing?

Andy, lockdowns, masks, social distancing aren't a cure for Covid, nobody claimed they were.

Their purpose is to damp down infection rate until we have been vaccinated.

What is it you can't understand about that?

 

[sxturbo]

I don't mind the lockdowns and the restrictions too much..

I think it's improved my health, I've haven't been ill (touch wood) with various colds etc as i would normally have been in a normal year .

I hope once we're all vaccinated we still keep some of the social distancing in shops and continue to wear masks and sanitise our hands.

 

[Brigadier]

Andy, lockdowns, masks, social distancing aren't a cure for Covid, nobody claimed they were.

Their purpose is to damp down infection rate until we have been vaccinated

Hindsight. A vaccine was a hope last March, nowhere near a certainty.

 

[Notch7]

Hindsight. A vaccine was a hope last March, nowhere near a certainty.

using hindsight as a counter argument is just silly

its very simple....there is, and never has been any alternative to suppressing virus spread.

ps the government never used March as a vaccine date on which to build strategy, so your point is mute

 

[Brigadier]

using hindsight as a counter argument is just silly

its very simple....there is, and never has been any alternative to suppressing virus spread.

ps the government never used March as a vaccine date on which to build strategy, so your point is mute

Once again, you miss the point.

You stated that lockdowns et al were instigated "until we were all vaccinated". A statement of fact.
I correctly pointed out that this was not true, as vaccination was far from certain.

It's not a "counter-argument"; it is a correction.

Second missed point.

ps the government never used March as a vaccine date on which to build strategy, so your point is mute

March (2020) was the date of first lockdown.


PS. It is "moot".

 

[ReganAndCarter]

And this is why it is so important to protect people. Some care homes lost a quarter of their residents in the first wave.

Yes, the authorities sending large number of infected into homes populated by old and infirm people. It's almost like the government don't know what they're doing.

Yet majority put blind faith into the authorities near-useless masks, nonsensical rules, u-turns and lockdowns that seem to be most effective at crippling the economy.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I hope once we're all vaccinated we still keep some of the social distancing in shops and continue to wear masks and sanitise our hands.

Think I'd rather regain my civil liberties and start interacting with my fellow man again rather than live scared of getting a dose of flu or the sniffles. Don't want the authorities feeling they have to proscribe my every movement any longer than necessary and having, bossy jobsworth security guards in shops, etc hassling me for 'my own safety' starts to grate quite quickly. What is it the Yanks say - "live free or die!"

 

[JP_]

I'm not convinced that allowing half a million people to die of covid will be great news for the economy.

The economy will recover, it always does.

 

[JohnD]

scared of getting a dose of flu or the sniffles.

nobody is scared of sniffles

Think I'd rather regain my civil liberties and start interacting with my fellow man again rather than live

and there you have it.