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

[SueEllen]

Record breakers...record breakers....

218,724

Shame we are led by a spinless cretin

[SueEllen]

Our supreme leader is doing a public waffle just after 5pm.

Aren't we all lucky -

[DoctorStrangelove]

Normal Tories do. Bunter, the Fat Owl of the Remove isn't a normal Tory.

FTFY.

He's not WSC either.

[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.

[AtW]

15% reinfections -

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

[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]

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]

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

[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.