The Sky Is Falling. Again.

[douglas9401]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67772390

That's enough now, thanks.

[bookbinder]

We're all doomed, I tell you! To the shelters!

[wolf63]

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[rowanwitch]

Immunecompromised so wary of new variants but only to the point of trying to avoid crowds, but had it twice before and the new one is  not too bad according to friends who have already had it.  

[New Judge]

"The risk to the public is currently low and current vaccines continue to offer protection, the WHO says."

So why mention it, then? It will only renew calls for more restrictions.

"But it warns Covid and other infections could rise this winter."

Who would have guessed it? I wonder how long it took them to draw this startling conclusion. Mind you, I'm surprised that "other infections" got so much s a mention.

"Respiratory viruses such as flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and childhood pneumonia are also on the rise in the northern hemisphere."

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs. In December? Surely they are having a laught.

[Untitled]

repeated infections of covid make the chance of developing long covid much more likely... a higher prevalence of long covid could mean an explosion in long-term disability and health conditions which in the long run would be crippling to society 

masking and social distancing are effective at reducing transmission... testing regimes and contact tracing are also very useful. a bit of effort now is likely to prevent disaster in the future. 
 

but we won't do it because we're lazy and too many pampered people cannot tolerate inconvenience 

[ToraToraTora]

It's no worse than the commion cold, stop reporting this she ite and giving ammo to those desparate to kill off our economy. I've got symptoms right now, may even be COVID, don't care it's irrelevant now.

[ToraToraTora]

Untitled: "a higher prevalence of long covid could mean an explosion in long-term disability and health conditions which in the long run would be crippling to society " - you mean like, locking down the country and printing £400 Billion so we can all sit on our Aprils? Right oh!

[Togo]

@17:26. If you read it and imagine a nasal whine, complete with adenoidal glottal stop delivery, you will be getting an accurate mental image of the poster.  

[jno]

It's no worse than the commion cold

ho ho ho. My friend's brother got Covid before Boris got round to locking down. He's still got it. Lost his job, obviously, and has been living off his wife for years now. Try that with a common cold.

[New Judge]

“…but we won't do it because we're lazy and too many pampered people cannot tolerate inconvenience”

It’s none of those things. The practices you propose are not "incoveniences". They are invasions into normal human dignities.

The SARS-Cov-2 virus is now endemic worldwide. Everybody will be exposed to it multiple times and most already have been. There is simply no way to avoid this and fannying about with masks and so-called social distancing will not alter that. The measures you are suggesting are taken (or, I imagine, you would prefer to see enforced) did little to arrest the spread during the pandemic and they will do even less now. Most people now have a good level of immunity either through infection, vaccination or a measure of both. It is simply unnecessary to indulge in the measures you suggest should be undertaken. As well as that, it is highly undesirable because as the virus evolves, human immunity needs to develop alongside that evolution.

Suggesting people are lazy or over-indulged does not help. Most people realise the facts I have outlined and are taking a pragmatic view. They know that exposure to viruses of all types is an inevitable feature of human existence and it must be dealt with, not fought.

Of course there is nothing stopping you practising the measures you extol; but there’s absolutely no reason why you should expect everybody else to help you perpetuate such a farce and denigrate those who disagree. Perhaps you should ask yourself this: if people heed your call and once again adopt the measures you suggest, for how long do you propose they should keep practising them?

[ToraToraTora]

jno deliberately misunderstanding as usual. Are you capable of a non spun discussion? The strain we are talking about is much weaker than the one that infected your friend's brother and also anyone with any sense has had at least 4 vaccinations. So the body is much better armed to repel what is already a vastly weaker threat. hence my "no worse than the common cold" statement relevant now not the one from 3 years ago.

[ToraToraTora]

21:15 bang on as usual judge, I can't believe the twaddle that comes out when this is discussed.

[jourdain2]

I'm at a loss to know as to how we (and mankind generally) have survived for the last 3/4 of a century really.  My dad should have died in the 1919 flu pandemic.  Perhaps we are  being protected by a superhuman power?  Amazing!

I 'called it' at the time  and I  still  do.