Covid New Cases 50,000 Per Day

[smurfchops]

We haven’t been told, as far as I can see, in what areas Covid is rising, and what age group. Is it mainly younger people who haven’t been vaccinated?

[Gromit]

I posted on this yesterday.
A quarter of a million be cases in a week.
Just the right conditions for new variants.
And no one, especially the Government, are remotely bothered.

[ToraToraTora]

no most of them will be vaccinated.

[ToraToraTora]

you can't lock down forever, the vax is making most cases non fatal. patients that do go to hospital are coming out much quicker. What should the government do gromit? The vaccine is the way out of this, if you are suggesting we ignore that they it's game over, indefinite lock down.

[burlyshirley]

A lot of youngsters don't want to be vaccinated.

[Sqad]

TTT.....I hope that you are wrong..^^^^^

[Peter Pedant]

// no most of them will be vaccinated.//
nope - oh you mean most of the cabinet - yeah I think so by now hur hur hur

oh those getting covid - -nope. sozza to nope so much TTT - Naomi gets hydrphobia when I do that - very very low. No one has died if they had had the vaccine - from covid that is!

Failsworth - I am sure someone was asking about high areas - most of Manchester and to the North - Darwen and Blackburn

33% 19-25s have NOT had the vaccine - - naughty silly boys and girls unlike the reesh areas of Manchester - rich and old that is! - where 99% have and those that havent ( the 1% for those that cannot subtract from 100) are sort of dead on the day of calling sort of

I think I have answered everything innit?

[Peter Pedant]

Figure is running at 33% - sqad
BUT - - they were turned away up to a few days ago
AND as we have had before
"No I would not be vaccinated - because I think dog flu and climate change is more serious!
is different to "No I did not turn up as a decision when I was called"

The usual dichotomy ( I am allowed to use "dichotomy" because I am writing to Sqad who has more than O levels the standard hand-out amongst ABers) between what I do and what I say I do. Think Margt Thatcher voter - if everyone who said they hadnt voted for her, hadnt voted for her she would never have won diddly sqat)


and the marxist beebstas at the Beeb are always looking for two sides and a conflict - not because there is conflict out there but because people are more likely to watch

[Gromit]

TTT,
Two jabs does not make you immune. You’ve been listening to PMQs too much when Boris just mumbles Vaccine Vaccine Vaccine to every sensible question.
Losing one Health Minister to Covid infection is unfortunate.
Losing TWO is just incompetence.

Unfortunately the next big lockdown is just 6 weeks down the road. Enjoy it now while you can.

[Peter Pedant]

// A lot of youngsters don't want to be vaccinated.//
no see above can I proof correct that to:

A lot of youngsters say ( aver, insist, opine, whine, whinge) they don't want to be vaccinated. - - - because they havent yet been to what to fink by mummay or the girl friend

[Peter Pedant]

oh god Mr Glum!

yeah a minister did let on they wanted a spike now and not winter

[Buenchico]

Data for Smurfchops:
https://www.centreforcities.org/data/coronavirus-cases-uk-cities-large-towns/

Chris Whitty's analysis of the data:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15606007/chris-whitty-lockdown-covid-five-weeks/

TTT, above, is (not for the first time) concentrating on the possible number of deaths rather than the far more important figure of the number of people in hospital. From the point of view of the hospital administrators who have to allocate patients to beds in wards, it doesn't make one iota of difference as to whether a Covid patient is in hospital for a fortnight and then leave in a coffin or whether they're in hospital for a fortnight and go home to complete their recovery. In either case it's a bed taken up for a fortnight that might otherwise be used by someone requiring treatment for cancer or another urgent medical condition. If the number of people requiring hospital treatment for Covid is allowed to keep rising exponentially (irrespective of the outcomes of such treatments), virtually all other NHS treatments will come to a standstill.

[ichkeria]

I think those figures are available if you can be bothered to look

[Peter Pedant]

but luckily the rest of us dont have squit all to do on this hot and sunny evg

[ToraToraTora]

gromit: "Two jabs does not make you immune." - where have I said it does? I have said dozens of times the vaccine makes it survivable that's all. It spends less time in the body as the immune system fights it off quicker. The number of cases is not largely irrelevant. In fact they should stop testing in most cases, all it does is highlight an irrelevance.

[Peter Pedant]

45 000 cases and 28 deaths
it really does makes vaccination look like a wonder drug ( yeah yeah not a drug but this is AB for chrissakes)

[ToraToraTora]

chico: "it doesn't make one iota of difference as to whether a Covid patient is in hospital for a fortnight and then leave in a coffin or whether they're in hospital for a fortnight and go home to complete their recovery." - no but it matters if they are out in 3 days rather than 2 weeks and do not need intubation/ICU.

[gulliver1]

Meanwhile Back at Chequers Court , Boris and Wife are living a safe life of luxury and couldnt give a fig about joe public .

[jno]

the more people infected, the more opportunities for the virus to mutate (as Sqad has pointed out before), mening a greater risk the vaccines we have now may be less effective against new strains. (I believe this is already the case against the India strain; but it seems to be the South Africa strain that's kicking on at the moment.)

[Gromit]

Whitty is supporting Boris/Government rather than informing them.

Come the Autumn when it has all gone pear shaped, sadly Whitty will have to resign.

But he will get a worthless gong in the New Years Honours list.

[gulliver1]

Uk hits the highest rate of daily recorded covid cases in the (World) as Boris lifts restrictions and locks himself and wife up in safety at Chequers.