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

[d000hg]

You can still record your predictory prowess: https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...-official.html

[mattster]

Don't forget long covid and all sort of tulip that will follow with fecked up blood veins - ie more strokes in the future, this thing will still be killing people long after its perceived threat disappears.

Let's hope reduced severit also translates to reduced long term symptoms. While we're at it, let's also hope that the medical experiment this government has carried out on the nation's children with the previous strains doesn't come back to bite us on the arse.

[AtW]

Just imagine if this was properly lethal, half the country would be wiped out in a month.

Don't forget long covid and all sort of tulip that will follow with fecked up blood veins - ie more strokes in the future, this thing will still be killing people long after its perceived threat disappears.

Pfizer antiviral seems to work well on Omicron also, but production going to a problem even though it seems they are open to license it elsewhere, unlike mRNA that contains more secret stuff they don't want to reveal.

[mattster]

80k. That's it. Another lockdown on the horizon, probably in the next couple of days. That's what I think is going to happen. Everything closed apart from vital shops and mandatory vaccination like in other European countries.

Hope you all have done your Christmas shopping already.

Too late to bother IMO. 80k is the number of people infected say 5 days ago, itself an undercount by at least 50% so we are probably nearing 500k new cases today alone, if not more, who will show up in the test results after the weekend.

It is quite something to watch a virus spread as quickly as this. Just imagine if this was properly lethal, half the country would be wiped out in a month.

[PCTNN]

80k. That's it. Another lockdown on the horizon, probably in the next couple of days. That's what I think is going to happen. Everything closed apart from vital shops and mandatory vaccination like in other European countries.

Hope you all have done your Christmas shopping already.

[d000hg]

We need to wait until the new year to see the number of hospitalisations

Oh and if you are in London (or been in London) and have cold symptoms - GET TESTED FOR COVID AS IT IS UNLIKELY TO BE A COLD

Probably everywhere by now. Just assume you have it! Stay home, eat mince pies, save lives... I think this is Boris' new motto for today's briefing.

[AtW]

Testing capacity will create an artificial cap on infections - they'll probably start only testing symptomatic again, will have to wait will ONS report to get clearer picture.

Lockdown in January for sure now...

[SueEllen]

We need to wait until the new year to see the number of hospitalisations

Oh and if you are in London (or been in London) and have cold symptoms - GET TESTED FOR COVID AS IT IS UNLIKELY TO BE A COLD

[AtW]

Oh Dear!! 78,610 UK cases today.

[SueEllen]

Oh Dear!!

78,610 UK cases today.