How Do You Socialise "Carefully"?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59677070
...anyone any advice for careful socialising?

[pixie374]

If that's to me, cashier, it's because I know all my family are doing the same (most in the same line of work). But, I don't know what strangers are up to.
The risk is in coming into contact with other people, not masks or vaccines, but just humans. Keeping that to a realistic minimum for us.

[Peter Pedant]

that you have a 99.997% chance of surviving!!

erm no - 0.003% die nope - that is 3 in 100 000
150 000 deaths in england at 0.003% - that would mean the population of england is over.... 10 billion
may have lost a zero - but even a billion is more than I am used to seeing

but hey never mind this is AB !

[pixie374]

Also, cashier, we are testing (for whatever it's worth) at least twice a week. Negative is preferable to vaccinated (which we all are), as no risk.

[bobbinwales]

//Dont want to catch this killer virus that you have a 99.997//
That means a 3 in a 100000 chance of dying if you get it. Thats 30 in a million
Okay, for a population of 60 million we have maybe 20 million whose had covid so far. So by your figure we would get 600 deaths. But we've had around 150000.... so your figures are way out. We can juggle the figures and discount over70s or obese people any others you might think dont count but your figures are just wrong, miles out. And these include vaccinated.

For someone over 55, perhaps with weakened immune systems, and unvaccinated, the survival chances are probably nearer 90% than 99.997%

But we know nothing will persuade you but it would be good if you thought abit before quoting something like this.. Take care (or not if you dont want to).

[bobbinwales]

Thanks PP i'm to slow at typing.

[pixie374]

67 million is the population.

[Canary42]

I see that the dumbs, deniers, doubters and dinosaurs (4Ds) are still trying to convince the rest of us with their cloak of complacency. Covid will be pleased, more opportunity to mutate.

[highbury57]

Population is 67 million and 57.5 million are eligible for jabbing. 0-11 excluded from statistics.

[nailit]

//I see that the dumbs, deniers, doubters and dinosaurs (4Ds) are still trying to convince the rest of us with their cloak of complacency//

Personally,
Just dont want to risk my life, myocarditis, clots, neurological damage etc.

[bobbinwales]

I know pixie. Does it matter. I did a quick calculation to show nailits figure is miles out. I could of used a 100 million and it would still show it was miles out. The risks of dying are at least 100 times greater than he says, never mind the risks of hospitization and long covid, and for unvaxxed over 55s its maybe a 1000 times greater. Forget the details, 99.997% survival if you get it is just a nonsense figure

[nailit]

No Known long term effects.
Ill try it when the Guinea Pig trial has finished in 2003!

[Mamyalynne]

Phew! No Pandemic is there?

Yippee.

[nailit]

In the meantime Ill carry on as normal as I have during the past two years while everyone else was hiding behind their curtain and reporting everyone that was going about doing their business and not hiding in fear.

[pixie374]

No bobbin, make up whatever figures you like to "correct" someone else. It doesn't give great faith, that's all.
And neither does the one-sidedness, of those that seem to want to persuade others to be vaccinated... but I've seen very few (nobody, I think actually), also give the, even slight potential risks.
With so much dishonesty flying around, how do you expect anyone to take it seriously and not just as an agenda?

[cashier]

It wasn't to you Pixie, just a general question.

[Mamyalynne]

Surprisingly, we all know people who have worked throughout Naiilt - there's a lot of it about.

[pixie374]

Fair enough, cashier, at least that's one explanation then.

[nailit]

//Phew! No Pandemic is there?//

During a real pandemic Mamy,
I dont think that you would need reminding every ten mins on the radio or constant coverage on tv and news.

It would be self evident....

[MONEILL45]

Do what BORIS aka COCO THE CLOWN does.
In any quiz that is the answer.Dont the sunny uplands of BREXIT look good now sarcasm intended.You littL.e ENGLANDER clowns

[Mamyalynne]

Right...

Like deaths and stuff?