Coronavirus

[Bruce Spanner]

14 minutes ago, General Dryness said:

We nearly lost him there.

 

Very good!

[General Dryness]

Just now, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Very good!

I do me best.

[KMD7]

Got my flu jab today. 

[Duff Man]

Has it been confirmed anywhere that the symptoms differ for Omicron? Seems quite an important point if so.

[Bruce Spanner]

4 minutes ago, Duff Man said:

Has it been confirmed anywhere that the symptoms differ for Omicron? Seems quite an important point if so.

 

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n3103

[Gnasher]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

Yep. 

 

Obviously there are probably a magnitude more cases than those recorded but even so, it doesn't seem to be doubling every two days. 

Not sure that data suits the hyperbole on here though.

[Gnasher]

5 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

Alternative views on the Holocaust?  Well. I think there’s a word for that.  
 

Yes, there were. And you know what I did? Asked Dave if he’d prefer it if I left.  If he had I’d have just left, no drama, no flounce, just left. 

 

 

 

[A Red]

40 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

Nope. I wasn't expecting something like this so I'll reply once more.

 

I'm trying to point out how fucking stupid I think mandates and passes are, how stupid the propaganda is and the censorship, how wrong I think it is to believe that the world's medical professionals aren't capable of treating this virus early to even a small extent with drugs that we already have so we can reduce hospitalisations and deaths, and also how stupid I think it is to blame the unvaccinated for our current problems.

 

To get the vaccine or not should be a choice for each one of us, without coercion.

 

I was fine not dealing with this subject for a while and didn't post much but once I read about mandates things changed from that point onwards. Mandates aren't a free choice without coercion and I feel strongly against that.

 

And believe that I'm telling the truth or not, all I can do is be as honest as I can. My general angle here has been nothing other than being sick of corrupt governments, corporations and the issues I listed above, wanting to give a voice from the side of the unvaccinated as things got worse in recent months, and hoping that we can all get through this, vaccinated and unvaccinated, without ending up in an authoritarian nightmare.

Simple question. Right now, with a new variant hitting us, do you agree that vaccinating is the best way to save lives? Forget what you would have liked to happen but didn't, I mean now.

[Duff Man]

9 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n3103

Yeah I read that on the Graun a few days ago but haven't seen anything more on it.

[Anubis]

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

We are to the point where people have to be told by the Gubmint to take their vitamins and wash their hands.

 

Wonder what they say about brushing your teeth.

If this keeps up I’ll have to start wiping my arse after a shit, next. All because Boris says so.

[Harry's Lad]

I've just had an email from the NHS telling me that there are new treatments available for those classed as extremely clinically vulnerable to help prevent serious illness, but they have to be taken as soon as possible after a positive PCR.

 

They say I should have a test kit available to use as soon as I have symptoms and are sending one in the post to have ready.

 

They're taking no chances. 

 

 

[Mudface]

5 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

I've just had an email from the NHS telling me that there are new treatments available for those classed as extremely clinically vulnerable to help prevent serious illness, but they have to be taken as soon as possible after a positive PCR.

 

They say I should have a test kit available to use as soon as I have symptoms and are sending one in the post to have ready.

 

They're taking no chances. 

My sister had the same, I assume it's the Pfizer pill- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/14/pfizer-covid-pill-effective-protecting-against-severe-disease-omicron

[Captain Turdseye]

9 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

I've just had an email from the NHS telling me that there are new treatments available for those classed as extremely clinically vulnerable to help prevent serious illness, but they have to be taken as soon as possible after a positive PCR.

 

They say I should have a test kit available to use as soon as I have symptoms and are sending one in the post to have ready.

 

They're taking no chances. 

 

 

Got the same email. Wondering how much the test will fetch on the black market. 
 

I tell you what they ought to be doing. Inventing genuine hangover cures. 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

51 minutes ago, General Dryness said:

We nearly lost him there.

 

Guided by the Creeping coastline of lights. 
 

I’m not surprised he pulled through. He’s got some serious people watching over him. His heroin memoirs are fucking grim.

[Harry's Lad]

1 minute ago, Mudface said:

My sister had the same, I assume it's the Pfizer pill- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/14/pfizer-covid-pill-effective-protecting-against-severe-disease-omicron

I was thinking the same thing. It's good to know that these treatments are becoming available, but I think they should be offered to everyone who has need of them.

 

 

[Harry's Lad]

6 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Got the same email. Wondering how much the test will fetch on the black market. 
 

I tell you what they ought to be doing. Inventing genuine hangover cures. 

Hair of the dog mate. Never fails.

[TheHowieLama]

RP - what is going on here:

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene, an extremist Republican congresswoman who routinely traffics in misinformation about the Covid 19 pandemic and those who warn of its seriousness, is being criticised for owning stock in companies that produce vaccines.

As reported by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Ms Greene this summer officially declared income from shares in Astrazeneca, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson – the latter two of which manufacture two of the three main vaccines rolled out across the US.

[Pete]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

RP - what is going on here:

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene, an extremist Republican congresswoman who routinely traffics in misinformation about the Covid 19 pandemic and those who warn of its seriousness, is being criticised for owning stock in companies that produce vaccines.

As reported by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Ms Greene this summer officially declared income from shares in Astrazeneca, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson – the latter two of which manufacture two of the three main vaccines rolled out across the US.

Hypocritical bitch being Hypocritical? 

[TD_LFC]

12 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

RP - what is going on here:

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene, an extremist Republican congresswoman who routinely traffics in misinformation about the Covid 19 pandemic and those who warn of its seriousness, is being criticised for owning stock in companies that produce vaccines.

As reported by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Ms Greene this summer officially declared income from shares in Astrazeneca, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson – the latter two of which manufacture two of the three main vaccines rolled out across the US.

The first part of that promised so much....thought it was going to say she was getting her arse kicked by COVID.

 

Pelosi has given them the ok to continue getting away with this kind of shit using insider info to buy and sell stock.

 

 

[Guest]

5 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Two members of my team are off with covid, and another is off sick after getting the booster.

 

No prizes for guessing which of the three is sickest.

Define 'sickest'. Two people have a slight headache and the third as an achey arse?

[Sugar Ape]

1 hour ago, Mudface said:

My sister had the same, I assume it's the Pfizer pill- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/14/pfizer-covid-pill-effective-protecting-against-severe-disease-omicron

It’s molnupiravir or Ronapreve. More here: 

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uks-most-vulnerable-people-to-receive-life-saving-covid-19-treatments-in-the-community

 

[TheHowieLama]

51 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

, the media continually associate unvaccinated as Trump supporters, QAnon, etc, and I think that makes it a lot easier for many that wanted Trump out to just not give a fuck about unvaccinated in general. 

There is good reason for that:

 

On his last day as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins spoke on how former President Trump pressured him to endorse unproven medical treatments for COVID-19, such as "hydroxychloroquine and blood plasma."

"I have done everything I can to stay out of any kind of political, partisan debates, because it really is not a place where medical research belongs."

However, Collins said he often had to face off against Trump for his refusal to recommend medical treatments for COVID-19 that had not been shown to improve illnesses.

 

Braver asked Collins if he would have resigned instead of submitting to the White House's demands.

"Yeah, I was not going to compromise scientific principles to just hold onto the job," said Collins, adding that he also refused demands from right-wing lawmakers that Anthony Fauci, now President Biden's chief medical adviser, be fired.

 

"Can you imagine a circumstance where the director of the NIH, somebody who believes in science, would submit to political pressures and fire the greatest expert in infectious disease that the world has known, just to satisfy political concerns?" said Collins.

 

When asked about any regrets on how the COVID-19 pandemic was handled, Collins said he wished that the "problem of hesitancy" had been studied more and that he did not foresee so many people refusing the vaccine once they were made available.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Lads. You've been doing it all wrong, apparently. You need to start rubbing the horse paste into your feet. And stock up on your onions too! 

[sir roger]

I didn't even know your soul was on your foot.

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

Lads. You've been doing it all wrong, apparently. You need to start rubbing the horse paste into your feet. And stock up on your onions too! 

Don’t think much of their trabs.