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

I’m sure they focus-grouped the hell out of it, but I just don’t like the word ‘jab’.

I’ve got £10 on them absolutely shitting themselves this time next week and cancelling Xmas.

Agreed. could easily be 200k, 300k positive daily by the weekend. are they really just going to stand back and do nothing?

there's plenty of reasons to dump on LBC but they're doing a bang up job of attempting to hammer sense into the sort of swivel eyed antivax window lickers that routinely tune in to LBC.

Which radio station is Julie Hartley-brewer on? She’s bound to have some butter listeners.

If omicron doesn’t result in fewer deaths and hospitalisations as a percentage of cases, then presumably the NHS will be overwhelmed in the first or second week in January at latest? Even a hard lockdown now won’t do much to halt the impact on hospitals over the next month will it?

It’s doubling every 2 days so a hard lock down now would have a huge impact in January.

I think locking down is the right thing to do now. My point was that the course is pretty much already set for the next three weeks to a month, as infections now result in hospitalisations and deaths 2-4 weeks down the line. And given the biggest driver is spread within the household, all the current infections will go on to spread it within their family group meaning the total pandemic continues to grow for a period even after a lockdown is implemented.

Which radio station is Julie Hartley-brewer on? She’s bound to have some butter listeners.

Talk Radio, she's get naff all listeners compared to LBC

Tldr, if omicron is as virulent as delta, then we have already waited too late to lockdown to stop the NHS reaching breaking point in January.

No chance of us locking down until it’s too late unfortunately.

It’s deja vu all over again

Probably without the clapping of the nhs this time

Gallows aside, lets hope it is a lot milder.

Omicron admissions rate is about 0.7% of cases in Denmark right now. And it's very early days there.

0.7% or 70%?

0.7. Sorry, I wasn't clear. 0.7% of the people diagnosed with Omicron in Denmark have been admitted to hospital so far.

This percentage is based on very small numbers and its still really early, but thought it'd be useful to say how things are going in Denmark so far. They are about a week ahead of us.

It's not a simple binary thing though.

Assuming the NHS does become overwhelmed by a certain date, would you want there to be 10,000 cases that it can't treat or 1,000,000 cases it can't treat?

A late lockdown is still better than no lockdown.

are they really just going to stand back and do nothing?

Pretty sure that will be the case, claim death is still low compare to the first waves.

Yes, if you read post #24735 you will see I agree

We are officially on “work from home if possible”

I’ve seen three!!! people in the office in the last month… I am certain more and more management have not one fucking clue about who does what and most importantly what they’re doing as a business about it.

Do you remember the early days of the thread?
I long for my naive optimism...

( I really haven't looked into Omicron. I'm trying to avoid thinking about having to re-can the masters I canned for Covid round 1).

Post #7 didn't age well...

Nothing to worry about

Not sure how i'm going to deal with this winter, is a lockdown imminent??

I think probably not (or not a full one) . Johnson really won't want to do it and at the rate things are going the horse will have bolted in a few days. It seems many people are taking it upon themselves to cut down socialising in order to 'save' Christmas.
But who knows... Numbers will be bad.

It’s hard to know now whether I should visit my mum who lives alone who previously had to shield. Somerset is currently low in cases. London isn’t 😞