Finally Some Common Sense.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59646151
"A top South African doctor says the country is mainly seeing "mild disease" and intensive care units are not overwhelmed" - they also said that a fortnight ago.

[New Judge]

//Did you also hear the bit though where Prof Whitty said that there was absolutely no correlation between SA and what is happening in UK?//

No I didn't. But it seems quite likely based on the figures I cited above.

[ParsleyDumpling]

To Stickybottle at 17:37, he would say that wouldn't he!!

[New Judge]

//Maybe the climate is more like the UK, at the moment?//

Er...not quite.

Jo'burg forecast temperature tomorrow, 22 degrees C, rising to 26C by next Tuesday.

London forecast temperature tomorrow, 11 degrees C, falling to 5C by next Tuesday.

[Stickybottle]

ParsleyDumpling
To Stickybottle at 17:37, he would say that wouldn't he!!

Well yes he would in light of his position
His status and the empirical evidence with which he is furnished !
Or are you going to give us a link or some research of your own to prove Prof Whitty lied ?

[Stickybottle]

burlyshirley
You're wasting your time TTT. The government's not listening, the so called scientists are not listening

Lol
What is it that the scientists are not listening to exactly ?
Or are you disputing todays record figures of infection ?
Cannot wait to hear what it is the scientists have closed their ears to !

[Peter Pedant]

what's climate got to do with it?
population is different
mainly uni ( patients ) inthe transvaal - under vaccinated and unknown influence of HIV

clearly we need our own data - no deaths is better than a thousand BUT I thought they started dying at three weeks ( now ) but it is five weeks ( fortnight )
and it may ( or may not ) be too late to do anything if we dawdle ( or not) - this is a political decision and not medical

big thing is - if you have 200 000 /d with a mortality of 1% - that is still 2000 a day which is lots....
which is apoint being madeby the nobs - with a very large pool, a low mortality ratio can still overwhelm .....

[Peter Pedant]

// the so called scientists are not listening//

the scientists arent paid to listen, are they
they are paid to get lab animals like suckling mice and beat the crap out of them.....

[Peter Pedant]

lovely ickle suckling mice - that is ! - - - sozza

[Stickybottle]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/chris-whitty-omicron-south-africa-delta-downing-street-b1976930.html?amp

The chief medical officer said even if the new variant is milder, its ability to spread faster means there could still be an issue.

He told Wednesday’s Downing Street press conference: “The first caution on this is simply a numerical one – if the rate of hospitalisation were to halve but you’re doubling every two days, in two days you’re back to where you were before you actually had the hospitalisation.

“If the peak of this is twice as great, then halving of the size of the hospitalisation rate, you still end up in the same place. And this peak is going very fast.”

He said it is also important to note that immunity in South Africa is “far higher” in the face of this wave, due to a prior Delta wave and the country’s vaccination programme, adding that that makes their lower hospitalisation rate so far “unsurprising”.

He stated that he remains concerned there will be a problem with Omicron, but the exact nature of it is currently unknown.

He said: “That doesn’t mean that there isn’t some degree of slightly milder disease, that is possible. But I just think there’s a danger people have over-interpreted this to say, ‘this is not a problem and what are we worrying about?’

“I want to be clear, I’m afraid this is going to be a problem. Exact proportions of it, of course, South African scientists and UK scientists and scientists globally are trying to determine at the moment.”