Waiting for the figures to go up before taking action is the same as waiting for you car brakes to fail while you're driving before putting your seat belt on .... total idiocy.
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There have been so many people saying that though when talking Omicron - '...where are the hospitalisations and deaths?...' - it's as if they were sleep walking through the past year plus and didn't take on board what was happening with Covid and how it progresses. To wait a month to get to a point where deaths from Omicron are likely, given Covid's modus operandi, then you'd have 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000, 32000, 64000, 128000, 256000 cases - who would be insane enough to wait that long to get data that may say the Omicron is bad? That would be barking.
I agree with you Dove, I was trying to make a similar comparison to someone the other day who said he wasn’t going to wear a mask, stay in or social distance because he was told in the summer, after his jabs, everything's ok .
If you bought a car, having been told it was the best on the market and would last you for years trouble free then they called them back saying the brakes were faulty, would you then say.....’but you told me it was the best car and would be trouble free so I’m not bringing it back’. would you take it and get the brakes fixed or ‘wait and see’
Just wear the bloody mask, keep away and listen to the new rules as they come up. Information renews every day, as they learn something new, they tell us. Of course it’s going to change as with the fault on the brakes showing itself 6 months later.
People are reading too much on the net, then adding their own take on it, They are the people who have no scientific knowledge and then passing that on to social media.
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Data gathering is about trying to get some distance from the stories of what our friends say or think or newspapers or religions. That's the point of science.
I heard a conversation on R4 this morning with regard to the covid app and how it should still be used. That's fine (and I've had mine on since it was launched), but does anyone know whether its parameters have been tweaked? I'd assume that as the variants became more transmissible, the time factor in the app would have had to change (I think originally it was based on 5 minute periods within 2 metres - alarm at 15 minutes) - if Omicron is, say, 10 times more infectious, has the time been reduced to 1.5 minutes or some such - or does the vaccine mean the parameter changes would balance out? IE Omicron more transmissible vs vaccination protection roughly balances?
Until last night the government has been trying to avoid doing this … the scientists have been advising Boris et al to do it for at least a fortnight … Boris is a populist and doesn’t want to be seen as a Christmas Grinch but even he has had to go with the scientific advice … let’s hope he’s not too late.
Other than OH going to work (he wears a mask all day) we’ve hardly changed our behaviour since lockdown. We keep ourselves to ourselves and only meet socially with folk who’ve taken a test within 24 hours.
My son manages a mobile Covid testing centre … they are really busy … that tells me all I need to know.
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I have been stressing about a hospital appointment this week in the ENT Dept, it involves a doctor getting up close and personal with my nose. My appointment is on Wednesday and I don't have my booster jab until Thursday - 6 months after my second, I should add I am in my Seventies and therefore very vulnerable at the moment. I have therefore decided to cancel the appointment and wait for another one, family members say I am doing the sensible thing. I would rather have a nose bleed than Covid!
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If you bought a car, having been told it was the best on the market and would last you for years trouble free then they called them back saying the brakes were faulty, would you then say.....’but you told me it was the best car and would be trouble free so I’m not bringing it back’. would you take it and get the brakes fixed or ‘wait and see’
Just wear the bloody mask, keep away and listen to the new rules as they come up. Information renews every day, as they learn something new, they tell us. Of course it’s going to change as with the fault on the brakes showing itself 6 months later.
People are reading too much on the net, then adding their own take on it, They are the people who have no scientific knowledge and then passing that on to social media.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.