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

Look up the Rutherford and fry podcast. They are really interesting and entertaining, with brilliant explanation of the science.

How about 'famous' people that have died of covid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_due_to_COVID-19

"This is a list of notable people reported as having died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Includes the father of someone I went to school with.

Reminds me to look into Royal Institution membership for my (11yo) daughter as she's now old enough to go to the Faraday Christmas Lectures if she was lucky enough in the ballot.

My daughter was 11 last Christmas. Lectures were via Zoom, she made the telly edit, full screen laughing at a joke. A different joke to the one she was laughing at.

wait, is seb payne a communist now?

#ChaosWithEd

Was it Peter Sutcliffe?

The red lines would propagate next to each other because covid is caught from a person, not randomly distributed across the population

But it's not the population of the country that makes up your "line".

It's the circle of friends of said covid denier, that makes up your line.

That circle of friends is drawn from random bits of the (possibly clumpy) total population, so the clumpiness disappears.

Hannah Fry

I'm so in love with her.

Was it Peter Sutcliffe?

It was not. Did he have any children for me to go to school with?

New cases up 11% on yesterday. Maybe the start of a semi final spike?

Edit: Biggest one day increase since January apparently.

I can't imagine we'd see a flattening until schools are out. Which, tbf, they may be. I've no Idea.

Who knows. It was a weak attempt at a joke & in poor taste.

I'm afraid that after all mixing up for the football cup we will see more and more spikes. I hope to be wrong though.

In a week Friday in England (most independent schools are this Friday).#

Not sure about Wales / Scotland.

Scotland broke up two weeks ago

I don't think you'll be able to have any kind of a discussion with them and therefore I probably wouldn't bother.
u/Greenbank

This is good advice. If, like me, you love debating and discussing ideas, I’d suggest allocating a specific amount of time each week for it. Otherwise it can get a bit obsessive and a lot frustrating, and the frank reality is that most people you’ll speak with on the issue won’t change their mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/15/france-achieves-record-covid-jabs-with-macrons-big-stick-approach?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Seems the French government is done asking, if you want to go to a pub you gotta get vaccinated.

Hopefully it won't be necessary here.

Try not to interact with these kind of people on random pages.

As I said, am angry and upset at this level of stupidity and fact avoidance. Do we live in a world where we choose our own facts?

Also means you get me rant and raving on here as we all agree that Covid is real, it is not the 'flu and loved ones have died in large numbers, there is no conspiracy that masks are mind control devices, there is no tracking chip and 5g is nothing to do with covid.

The only conspiracy I that I will discuss is that the covid lockdown was a cover up to change the batteries in birds.

Year head at GF school, went to the Euro final sunday and tested positive (PCR) for covid with symptoms. Not double jabbed but claims he will be back at work on Tuesday next week.

There are quite a few teachers off, and pupils with covid while some year groups not going to school as the teachers are off with covid.

They thought electric wires could kill when power lines to houses became mainstream.

This sort of Em, Wut?? is universal.

I do think misinformation may spread more easily though with social media.

Strikes me as a good idea.

Want to go to the pub? Show you're vaccinated, show that for medical reasons you cannot, or write an original three page essay that coherently and cogently explains why the public health interest in you being vaccinated is outweighed by your desire to be a sociopath.

coherently and cogently

In my experience most pub landlords have a fairly low threshold for coherence let alone cogency. Not sure your plan is going to work.

Anyone else pretty much the only person out of their friendship groups not either isolating due to having the virus or through being a close contact?Even my girl friend is, my quarantine from a foreign work trip has saved me for now but if my double jabbed girl friend tests positive I’ll be joining them.

I rather have people get vaccinated out of their free will, and there is always a risk of "feature creep" with such measures and it can lead to more vaccine resistance perhaps in some groups.

However, if the carrot approach does not work the stick it is.

A 3 page essay would be enough of a deterrent as well I like that 😆

I rather have people get vaccinated out of their free will, and there is always a risk of "feature creep"

Had a discussion with a swiss french/german that had the issue of forcing people to have vaccine, but the counter is that people should want to as covid is real and the reality of not being ill or not having severe symptoms requiring hospitalisation or longer issues.

Are the vaccine side effects that bad compared to covid short and long term effects?

Want to go to the pub

What if you don't want to go to the pub?

The sociopath in me wants people to stay 2m away from me. Face coverings mean I can nick stuff and not be id....