Reply to: DOOM: new Covid wave

[Zigenare]

A bit of a climb today - 89,717.

Unfortunately we won't see how many deaths they are.

You do practice, don't you?

Have a look here to satisfy your morbidity!

[SueEllen]

A bit of a climb today - 89,717.

Unfortunately we won't see how many deaths they are.

[NigelJK]

Are the symptoms sweating and feeling sick as you pass a petrol station?

That's car owner virus.

[SueEllen]

That doesn't align with Sue's truth. Evil Boris is At It Again.

I don't think he's evil though he does have an evil cabinet member....

[d000hg]

Yes, but they're not closing down Health Trust statistics and reporting. Covid is just one more notifiable disease.

That doesn't align with Sue's truth. Evil Boris is At It Again.

[AtW]

Problem is if we get one in autumn/winter as we don't have proper statistics to see that cases are rising, symptoms are changing and deaths are rising then we won't be able to act. The government is closing down all Covid surveillance studies.

FFS, so that means we'll have to watch admitted patients then, which they may also stop counting, then we won't have any early warning here - watch what happens in Hong Kong now

Buckle up and fill up that Covid-Russian-AlienInvasion Emergency stashes...

[malvolio]

Problem is if we get one in autumn/winter as we don't have proper statistics to see that cases are rising, symptoms are changing and deaths are rising then we won't be able to act. The government is closing down all Covid surveillance studies.

Yes, but they're not closing down Health Trust statistics and reporting. Covid is just one more notifiable disease.

[d000hg]

Going to be interesting what Scotland decides. At least this comes at a good time of year with spring round the corner.

Nicola bottled it/acted sensibly

They just need to continue monitoring the situation like they do with some other viruses.

They are.

[mattster]

The government should go back to full and total house arrest of every single person in the UK until the cases are zero. This is the only way to be sure. If it takes 50 years, so be it, you cannot be too careful I say.

What the situations in Hong Kong and NZ actually show is that vaccines work brilliantly, albeit some better than others. NZ has a similar wave with very few serious cases, and almost no prior natural infections, all down to high vaxx rate with more effective vaccines.

[SueEllen]

The government should go back to full and total house arrest of every single person in the UK until the cases are zero. This is the only way to be sure. If it takes 50 years, so be it, you cannot be too careful I say.

Don't be silly.

They just need to continue monitoring the situation like they do with some other viruses.

[_V_]

The government should go back to full and total house arrest of every single person in the UK until the cases are zero. This is the only way to be sure. If it takes 50 years, so be it, you cannot be too careful I say.

[mattster]

What's going on now in Hong Kong is horrific and would surely be making the headlines in other circumstances. It looks as if those who suggested most of Omicron's "mildness" might be due to high rates of vaxx and pre-existing infection were correct, as HK scores low in both and has hit daily death rates not seen anywhere else so far in this pandemic, by any other variant.

Link: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/cov...KYVI5TJZKMQNU/

[SueEllen]

Other people study things than the government, even if that were true rather than an embellishment.

The government funds the surveillance studies and they have withdrawn funding from all of them -
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org...-study/131526/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...d-surveillance
https://inews.co.uk/news/zoe-covid-s...logist-1509555

I actually take part in one specifically for Covid and one not, and both have said the Covid surveillance isn't going to continue.

[d000hg]

Other people study things than the government, even if that were true rather than an embellishment.

[SueEllen]

Seems like barring a new nastier variant we just push on.

Problem is if we get one in autumn/winter as we don't have proper statistics to see that cases are rising, symptoms are changing and deaths are rising then we won't be able to act. The government is closing down all Covid surveillance studies.