Coronavirus

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, belarus said:

So you ordered the test knowing the cost, then didn’t like that she had a nice car or her personality, didn’t get the results you wanted/expected, and so decided you weren’t going to pay her?

Sounds like a normal weeknight in Thailand honestly.

[Curly]

1 minute ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

No, she was a scam artist, we clocked her pretty soon.

 

 

Ah, apologies. Misread what you wrote then

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

No, she was a scam artist, we clocked her pretty soon.

 

 

What like a shamen? 

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

What like a shamen? 

 

Th(e's)e weren't good.

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Th(e's)e weren't good.

Hahaha

[Rico1304]

I think my point may have been too sarky.  There are no kids beds in ICU.  

 

Also the line about old people wasn’t true either.  Those old people who died were likely to have another 10 yrs left. 

[Sugar Ape]

Always well out lately the Zoe app. Another update to their methodology. 
 

 

[Mudface]

1 minute ago, Sugar Ape said:

Always well out lately the Zoe app. Another update to their methodology. 
 

 

I look forward to it saying 10% of our county currently have it, again.

[Curly]

40 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

No paediatric ICU beds anywhere in

the U.K. today. But that’s ok, because they’ve had a good life and were going to die anyway.  

 

13 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

I think my point may have been too sarky.  There are no kids beds in ICU.  

 

Also the line about old people wasn’t true either.  Those old people who died were likely to have another 10 yrs left. 

We were in hospital with our lad all day as he was getting checked out due to having a nasty viral infection. Sent over by the docs. There were other toddlers in with the same things too, and there didn’t appear to be any shortage of beds there. They admitted a couple of younguns while we were there. Where did you get that info mate?

[Strontium]

2 minutes ago, belarus said:

We were in hospital with our lad all day as he was getting checked out due to having a nasty viral infection. Sent over by the docs. There were other toddlers in with the same things too, and there didn’t appear to be any shortage of beds there. They admitted a couple whole we were there. Where did you get that info mate?

 

It's an unsourced claim on Twitter from certain quarters.

 

 

[Sugar Ape]

5 minutes ago, belarus said:

 

We were in hospital with our lad all day as he was getting checked out due to having a nasty viral infection. Sent over by the docs. There were other toddlers in with the same things too, and there didn’t appear to be any shortage of beds there. They admitted a couple whole we were there. Where did you get that info mate?

Probably from this tweet. It’s ICU beds though not standard hospital beds. 
 

 

[Strontium]

 

[Bjornebye]

Who to believe who to believe ....... 

[Rico1304]

9 minutes ago, belarus said:

 

We were in hospital with our lad all day as he was getting checked out due to having a nasty viral infection. Sent over by the docs. There were other toddlers in with the same things too, and there didn’t appear to be any shortage of beds there. They admitted a couple of younguns while we were there. Where did you get that info mate?

This is intensive care beds, not general beds. I’m guessing he was t checked over in ICU. Hope he’s ok. 

[Strontium]

Well, she's withdrawn her original claim, albeit not before the damage has done.

 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Strontium Dog™ said:

Well, she's withdrawn her original claim, albeit not before the damage has done.

 

 

 

She was big enough to withdraw it. A few people could learn a thing or two from that. 

[Elite]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Well, she's withdrawn her original claim, albeit not before the damage has done.

 

 

 

Is she the girl that shits on seats at Sheffield United?

[Rico1304]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Well, she's withdrawn her original claim, albeit not before the damage has done.

 

 

 

Just seen that.  
 

No need to panic. It’s only 3 separate regions at least.  Nothing to see. Unless you live in one of those 3 regions. 

[Curly]

3 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

This is intensive care beds, not general beds. I’m guessing he was t checked over in ICU. Hope he’s ok. 

Thanks mate - there’s loads of similar stuff flying about it seems. Fucking horrible day. Just glad to have got him home and hoping the docs are right that he will recover soon. Poor little lad. This fucking heat isn’t helping either? It could do with fucking off really

[lifetime fan]

Both the missus and I had our phones ping this evening from track and trace, just looked at each other thinking fucks sake. 
 

The eldest only finished 10 days self isolating yesterday. 

 

We’ve both been doing LFT’s daily and as we’ve both been negative throughout have been able to continue working. 
 

But this would be 10 days self isolating and cheerio to the family holiday next week. 
 

You can imagine our total fucking shock when we both had the exact same message! 
 

 

[lifetime fan]

So we both were meant to be self isolating for the last 10 days but had heard fuck all from track and trace. 
 

She’s been working in a health club with people of all ages and I’ve been supporting two guys who are at high risk due to medical conditions. 
 

What a complete fucking shit show of a system they’ve spent billions on lining the pockets of mates. 
 

Fucking incompetent cunts. 

[littletedwest]

Put this previously. Granddaughter finished isolation last Monday, daughter in law made up, while sat here got a message saying grandson had isolate.

His finished today, at 9.06 this morning after 6 minutes of no home schooling granddaughters school say she needs picking up.

 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, littletedwest said:

Put this previously. Granddaughter finished isolation last Monday, daughter in law made up, while sat here got a message saying grandson had isolate.

His finished today, at 9.06 this morning after 6 minutes of no home schooling granddaughters school say she needs picking up.

 

Fucking hell. 

[Strontium]

27 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Just seen that.  
 

No need to panic. It’s only 3 separate regions at least.  Nothing to see. Unless you live in one of those 3 regions. 

 

Assuming that much is true.

 

But it isn't covid which is responsible, it's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). There's a surge in winter viruses like RSV at the moment, which is a direct result of the restrictions we've been under.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-why-is-there-a-surge-in-winter-viruses-at-the-moment-12354845

 

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As COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted in recent weeks, there's been a surge in respiratory illnesses that usually peak during the winter months.

Infections other than COVID fell over the past year due to limits on socialising, improved hygiene and mask wearing. This reduced the build-up of antibodies that protect people against illness, creating what experts are calling an "immunity debt".

The UK is already beginning to see an uptick in respiratory illnesses such as RSV, a common respiratory virus that causes bronchiolitis.

More than three in five children usually catch RSV by their first birthday, but public health officials believe that lockdowns and school closures meant many have escaped infection.

That means fewer children are immune to RSV, which in turn has led to a rise in cases as restrictions are lifted. In the week to 4 July, RSV positivity in England increased to 3.4% from just 0.1% two months earlier, according to Public Health England (PHE) data.

As early as May, PHE issued a warning about a potential surge in cases in the coming autumn and winter. Its modelling suggests that between 20% and 50% more cases will need hospitalisation, requiring a doubling of paediatric intensive care beds later in the year, according to reporting by the Health Service Journal.

RSV is more deadly for young children than COVID. It accounts for more than 5% of global deaths in under-fives, according to the 2015 Global Burden of Disease Study.

A similar surge is expected in flu cases, which have been in the low single figures in England over the past year, according to the Datamart flu surveillance system. In most years, there are between 10,000 and 30,000 deaths from flu in the UK.

Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, told the BBC Today programme: "All the measures we adopted against COVID around the world drove flu to very low levels and basically nobody got infected with flu last year.

"I think we do need to be prepared for a potentially quite significant flu epidemic later this year."

Countries that have eased COVID restrictions are already seeing a surge in respiratory illnesses. In the US, ten times as many antigen tests for RSV are now coming back positive than at the end of February.

 

 

[Rico1304]

4 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Assuming that much is true.

 

But it isn't covid which is responsible, it's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). There's a surge in winter viruses like RSV at the moment, which is a direct result of the restrictions we've been under.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-why-is-there-a-surge-in-winter-viruses-at-the-moment-12354845

 

 

So where does it say the beds in ICU are taken up with these winter viruses?  Have I missed it?

 

And when kids do go to hospital with Covid, the fact that the beds aren’t full of other Covid kids means nothing.  They are full.