Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Yup, should have made that clear.

BBC R4 World at One.
Mark Harper, voice of 'Covid Recovery Group,
wanting society/economy/schools to open pretty much 'Now'.

Just because the new case numbers are dropping they are sttill very high
Just because hospitalisation numbers are dropping they are still very high
Covid deaths are still unacceptably high.
I bet the CRG are the kind of halfwits who only take the first 10-days worth of a 14-day course of antibiotics.

I bet the CRG are the kind of halfwits who only take the first 10-days worth of a 14-day course of antibiotics.

...for their viral infection.

Its only half the equation though, preventing people from dying from covid doesn't map exactly onto preventing people from dying.

Lots of issues caused by lockdown are taking lives. Nobody in their right minds wants to be part of a discussion trying to choose the least bad outcome, but knowing that there are no good choices.

As for the antibiotic analogy, my biggest worry is that if the vaccine looks to be working once 60% or so of people have been jabbed, there may be a drop in take up by the younger cohort.

I’ve had my first Pfizer jab so thought I’d take part in the study but presumably because I’ve already had one can’t take part???

Well played, mum.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/04/mother-of-boy-filmed-verbally-abusing-chris-whitty-confiscates-his-playstation

Yep,
I'll go along with those additional concerns.
That's why I miss our conversations, of a Thursday night, at Wests.

Again, yes, 60% is nowhere near herd immunity.
Who knows what variants will develop in asymptomatic younger people.

How is HK doing with vac roll out? Also was reading the other day about the surprise lockdowns! I cant see that making the law makers more popular 🤔.

I don't think anyone thinks lockdowns are cost-free; AFAIK that idea's mainly a strawman put about by the CRG headbangers and others of that ilk. I know vaccination and herd immunity (though confirmed UK cases are only about 6% of the population...) may make a difference, but in a month we went from a level of 75% of current daily cases to 70K+ cases a day (at which point you're looking at well north of 1,000 daily deaths); I'd rather follow the medical experts' caution on this than Mark Harper.

BBC R4 World at One.

Mark Harper, voice of 'Covid Recovery Group,
wanting society/economy/schools to open pretty much 'Now'.

You would have thought the ERG would be more inventive with their acronyms.

On second thoughts.

Deliveries start in H2 2021, the lockdowns are called ambush lockdowns and seem to run from 7pm to 7am. Weds night they locked down 2300 people and found one case. That was a high, normally zero cases found. We are at less than 20 local cases a day so not far off the zero cases for two weeks to lift the lockdowns. There has been problems with the lockdowns when they include commercial premises and people have had to sleep in the shops they were in when the barriers went up a couple of times. There was footage of a bloke legging it up the street with a load of hair dye on his head as he was in the hairdresser when the barriers started going up and he didn’t fancy sleeping the night in a salon.

I bet the CRG are the kind of halfwits who only take the first 10-days worth of a 14-day course of antibiotics.

Anyone else get really annoyed with people that you know doing that?

Yep, I know someone who takes one week’s worth and keeps the second week in case it flares up again.

And we wonder why antibiotics resistant infections are on the rise.

And we wonder why antibiotics resistant infections are on the rise.

Also a majority of antibiotics are used to fatten livestock, something like 66% in America. Pigs and chickens especially harbour some dangerous diseases for humans.

We should all switch to eating bats, what’s the worst that could happen?

I know a great seafood market where you can get some...

keeps the second week in case it flares up again

I had a friend who took the first couple of days then had a couple of days off as he wanted to go down to the pub and had "heard" that alcohol and antibiotics didn't mix well. The idea of not going to the pub didn't cross his mind.

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Can Piers Corbyn et al get any lower?

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Probably a discussion for another thread.

In Italy, no idea about other countries in the EU, you can buy antibiotics over the counter. Well my people pill pop for everything...or suppository.

Is that low? Your memory may be slipping as a Tory talked about work setting people free.

Maybe stop being such a cunt?

Apparently the numbers they are reporting are a fiction.

You asked if using holocaust imagery was a new low, I'm pointing out that there is a precedent, by a tory (ian duncan smith). Maybe you have forgotten.