Big Numbers today

[Brigadier]

Essex hospitals have been overwhelmed by people with sniffles.

Really?

 

[JohnD]

only if you think "sniffles" is a sensible word to use here.

 

[Brigadier]

only if you think "sniffles" is a sensible word to use here.

It is, for the 99%+.

 

[JohnD]

With 50,000 new positive tests a day, not worth worrying about, you think.

We only get around a thousand deaths a day so far.

"Sniffles"

 

[Brigadier]

We only get around a thousand deaths a day so far.

"Sniffles"

I'm not going around this Wrekin again with you.

 

[durhamplumber]

What is it the Yanks say - "live free or die!"

Amongst other sht the Yankees say...Most believe in non existant daities in the sky too!.

 

[JohnD]

I'm looking forward to the DIYnot volunteers stepping forward.

Regan to the front of the queue.

 

[durhamplumber]

Don't want the authorities feeling they have to proscribe my every movement any longer than necessary

Nobody does

 

[durhamplumber]

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!"

Your civil liberty to spout off any nonsense you like about govt..politics etc is undiminished .The more you and people like you fuk about the longer we all sit at home..It is the pratts partying,not wearing masks and being soft fannies about a jab that are helping to prolong things.

 

[IT Minion]

It is, for the 99%+.

Ignoring long covid, which hits around 10%. And assuming that hospital stays are negligible, or that you go straight from sniffles to dead on the continuum of illness.

 

[Brigadier]

Ignoring long covid, which hits around 10%.

Like many other viral infections then.

And assuming that hospital stays are negligible, or that you go straight from sniffles to dead on the continuum of illness.

I don't follow your assumptions.

 

[IT Minion]

Like many other viral infections then.

Some others, but not most.

I don't follow your assumptions.

99% of Covid-19 infections don't lead to death. That doesn't mean 99% of infections are minor. 20% have significant symptoms after 5 weeks from diagnosis and 10% 12 weeks after diagnosis.


I'd say that anyone who has symptoms three months later hasn't had a mild illness, nor would anyone who ends up being hospitalised.

It reported that 0.04% of 10-19 year olds would probably require hospital care—as would 1.0% of people in their 20s, 3.4% of people aged 30-39, 4.3% aged 40-49, 8.2% aged 50-59, 11.8% in their 60s, 16.6% in their 70s, and 18.4% of those over 80.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1327

It isn't just sniffles, not for everyone.

 

[Brigadier]

It isn't just sniffles, not for everyone.

Which is what I said. And another didn't.

 

[IT Minion]

Which is what I said. And another didn't.

You said it is, for the 99%+.

It's not, for at least 20%+.

 

[Brigadier]

Ignoring long covid, which hits around 10%.

It's not, for at least 20%+.

Make it up as you go along, why don't cha?

(BTW "at least 20%+" is drivel. I had you down for better than that.)