Coronavirus

What I don’t get with these conspiracy theorists, and people like Abe, they have an answer for everything that undermines a logical explanation and then offer illogical ****e that I just can’t comprehend.

I can’t imagine living in a constant paranoid state.

 

Being reported this morning that Covid infection rates are rising in over 30 areas of the UK ... WTF

 

of course they are we are no longer in lockdown .

 

New strain again....clever stuff this.......we need everyone vaccinated.

Up the bullshit......ching ching

 

Nope ... the figures are from the week to 9th April .. 34 different areas of the UK.

 

round my way the numbers out and about started climbing about a fortnight ago almost in readiness and i assumed the same everywhere - mind you the weirdest was on Monday the park area i go thru to get to where i walk little fooker had 3 times as many people on it than previously despite in effect nothing changing .

 

we have never really been on lockdown. Can people say that they followed rules fully?

 

course they can say that

 

I was placed in the most strict lockdown group as extremely clinically vulnerable. After the fist 12 weeks last year not going further than the garage, I started to take calculated risks regarding going out etc.
However never been mixing with other households etc.

but when out on own exercising you see loads of idiots.

 

Infection rates are no longer the prime measure though, they were always going to go up as people started to mix again. With the vulnerable vaccinated it’s the hospitalisation rates that are now the key number, as in theory they should remain low, as it’ll be largely the young who are catching the virus now. If they also spike massively then we’ve got a problem, but personally I don’t think they will.


This virus is now endemic here, it’s going nowhere.

 

We've not mixed with other households either but imo as long as you are in the open air and don't stay in the same place close to others chances of passing on covid are vanishingly unlikely .

 

Other than very thorough sanitisation measures, wearing masks in communal areas (not in class), large gatherings happening online, the idea of effective social distancing in school has otherwise been pretty much non-existent tbh. It's just not practical in day to day activities so the possibility of infection is still rife in schools imo. It makes sense for all teachers to be offered the vaccine.

Having said that, if all vulnerable people have been vaccinated then in theory it shouldn't really matter.

On an another note, what I think is the bigger concern is the rates at which this virus is mutating and the number of gene mutations that occur with every variant. The South African and Kent variants were just the beginning. Now reports of further variants, including ones which combine the gene variations of both. The unknown is how many of those are a "variant of concern" and how many affect the spike protein which increases rates of infection. And of course how susceptible they remain to the current vaccines.

 

With schools back it isnt a surprise
Not sure how many waves we are gonna have if this

 

Surely they haven't been back long enough to see figures from it......only 3rd day for my youngest...but guess time's are different in different countries on skull Island

 

Self isolation period for hospitals now is only 3 days. Purely because I'm curious about these things, I wonder why it's change from 2 weeks to 3 days, what's the medical analysis for this and would this be the same eventually for inbound travellers from red zones?

 

being vaccinated just lessens your chance of being seriously ill with Covid , rather than immune as so many now seem to think , so if covid becomes rife significant numbers will again end up in hospital . Think it is more accurate to say there must be a point where the numbers are considered acceptable .

 

Didn't these travelling lot have 2 quarantine......did latest person from africa(so they say) with new variant get a free pass 2 infect the public or did he/she/it not get tested and not quarantined like they say they are

 

No I get that and we've spoken about it before. My point was that if the vaccine is effective in terms of significantly reducing severe symptoms then the fact the vulnerable have had it may mean it's not so important for teachers to be prioritised. But as a precaution I'm all for it tbh.

 

ah sorry i misread your post .