DOOM: "Omicron Covid cases ‘doubling every two to three days’ in UK"

[BR14]

and a happy new year from the chuckle twins, painful swellin' and ivan ackeroff.

[SueEllen]

11,918 in hospital (+3659) - that would be people who were diagnosed couple of weeks ago when we "only" had 60-70k

They'll have to call lockdown at 20k in hospital car parks, so that's 2 weeks from now max.

FTFY
As you have missed the temp wards being built in the car parks.

Italy will look organized in comparison

[AtW]

FTFY

As you have missed the temp wards being built in the car parks.

Italy will look organized in comparison

I'll start getting mildly worried when they prep temp morgue on site of Bham Airport

HTH

[mattster]

I just read a cautiously optimistic piece in The Times. The most recommend comment rants and raves about how MSM is scaremongering and all restrictions should be relaxed, since Omicron is "no worse than flu".

Crazy.

I never quite understood why the flu, a nasty and dangerous respiratory virus that kills thousands a year and infects us on average once every 10 years, is used as the yardstick for how bad or not covid is. If we had a pandemic flu now (i.e. a flu to which there is no existing immunity in the community) and it was projected to infect 60% of the population within a month, then we would (or should) be in full on panic mode.

[AtW]

It is scandalous that flu was killing tens of thousands every year and it was business as usual.

[SueEllen]

It is scandalous that flu was killing tens of thousands every year and it was business as usual.

It's to with the age group that it mainly kills off.

If children were dying or being injured in large numbers from Covid or flu then people's attitudes would be different. (See polio or actual flu pandemics as a reference)

[AtW]

It's to with the age group that it mainly kills off.

That age group votes really well, one would have thought they'd care about what kills them every year.

[SueEllen]

That age group votes really well, one would have thought they'd care about what kills them every year.

Normal Tories do. Mr Johnson isn't a normal Tory.

[AtW]

15% reinfections -

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...scientist-says

[SueEllen]

15% reinfections -

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...scientist-says

Silly - you haven't been reading the posts by people on here who state you can't get reinfected with Covid.