Oh God, am I reading we are going to cure the flu and reduce the damage caused by colds? Are none of the disease known as humanity going to die anymore? Is the exponential increase of this unpleasant species to rise unabated? And for those alive will the average age continue to climb until there is no hope of retirement under the age of 90? A geriatric population, preserved in formaldehyde, leaching the wealth of the nation. Hurray! Death is natural. We need it. We cull deer. We cull badgers. For their own good. I think humanity has gone insane.
I mean, reducing colds and flus is less about death and more about improving quality of life. Beyond that, it's good that, in the spirit of Christmas, someone is taking up the mantle of "they had better [die], and reduce the surplus population."
It is the news if it’s being reported on news channels. I don’t know where you got comfortably 15-20% worse. So we’re looking at 82.5% less severe which I pretty much stated above. The bullet point below is from a website arguing that Covid is a bad disease, so not picked up from some whack job site. In a bad flu year on average around 30,000 people in the UK die from flu and pneumonia, with a loss of around 250,000 life years. This is a sixth of the life years lost to COVID-19
You're conflating pneumonia with flu, though. Flu can cause pneumonia, but pneumonia can occur as the result of myriad different conditions. Flu's a fairly small subsection thereof.
Covid can cause pneumonia so what’s your point? A lot of these covid deaths will be of pneumonia caused by covid like flu causes it
Interesting to see that over half of covid hospital admissions per day aren't actually being treated for covid but just happen to test positive when presenting for other reasons. I'd also be interested to see how many of those currently in hospital are nosocomial infections. Curious that if the higher rate of infection might have caught hospitals out and the previous infection prevention controls were no longer sufficient?
Dickens was talking about the poor. The surplus population being the unemployed masses who were using the poor houses and forced to labour to survive. I am talking about all humanity. It needs a cut off. There is the idealistic view that we should all live forever. That is not the case at all. These vaccines that stop the old from dying go first to the wealthy. The rich live longer and longer. Culling the elderly is god's plan. It is nature's plan. We invest so much in the maintenance of the old and we fail to properly invest in a world the young can live in. I don't want to live to be old and frail. I would rather go out in my 70s suddenly, while making love to my fourteenth wife.
That's me boosterd, Moderna after 2 x Phizer no ill effects after an hour. Having a medicinal brandy will help steady the pre match nerves.
Having a medicinal brandy at 11:51 (the time on your post) gives you plenty of scope for several more medicinal brandies before kick off, by which time, "You're my mate, you are, where's the bottle, lets have another one, there's plenty of time,yet"
If you have Twitter, please read the whole thread, which goes into detail about the escalating numbers of hospital admissions in recent days. We are nowhere near the peak of last January yet, and of course the numbers of deaths are proportionately far lower, but the strain on the NHS resources is beginning to mount again:
Any advice on getting a professionally administered antigen test in the city centre? Flying over for the Newcastle game all going well. Seems a few options but does anyone know a cheap convenient option?
I was wondering what the general perception of the Covid prevention measures at St Mary was yesterday. No one properly verfied my pass and I got in to the ground far easier that during the normal procedures. Once inside, no one seemed to be adhering to the rules regarding masks in the concourse. In fact, no one enforced the rule regarding the wearing of masks either. I was really disappointed as it was a marked contrast to the rigmarole during the Man City game last season. It took me a while to take my test , re;ort the results and then download my pass - let alone trying to get internet access in the ground. I thought that the club were very lax and was quite disappointed at how poorly it was managed. Did anyone else feel the same ?
