Coronavirus

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I can only guess, but judging by trends in best vaccinated countries, it should be. Number of globally administered vaccine doses is already over one billion and it will speed up. I expect at least 4 billion more will be administered by late December. It won't be eradicated but it may be reduced to a seasonal epidemic with much lower incidence and considerably lower death rate. Unless there is some super-variant which will obliterate everything that has been achieved.

Nope you implied it will be gone. That means gone, kaput, over. But I really hope you are right. 

[SasaS]

11 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Nope you implied it will be gone. That means gone, kaput, over. But I really hope you are right. 

It will not be "gone" gone, it will still be closely monitored, and it may be gone as in various European countries last summer when no cases have been registered for days. However, if it is still alive somewhere in the world, it may crop up somewhere else from time to time. But I think it should be gone in terms of everyday life practicalities in a thousand mile circle around you.

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, SasaS said:

It will not be "gone" gone, it will still be closely monitored, and it may be gone as in various European countries last summer when no cases have been registered for days. However, if it is still alive somewhere in the world, it may crop up somewhere else from time to time. But I think it should be gone in terms of everyday life practicalities in a thousand mile circle around you.

Ok. I agree. I hope. 

[Scooby Dudek]

22 hours ago, Kepler-186 said:

Not watching but saw dear old Laura K was trending. 
 

Nasty, leftie BBC reporter. 

 

 

 

 

Hypocrisy, well I never;

 

 

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Must be the first time in a year this thread has made it to page 2.

 

Booked in for my jab tomorrow.

 

I really fancied a drink tomorrow night. Anyone go on the booze after getting the jab?

[Sugar Ape]

4 minutes ago, Rick Sanchez C-137 said:

Must be the first time in a year this thread has made it to page 2.

 

Booked in for my jab tomorrow.

 

I really fancied a drink tomorrow night. Anyone go on the booze after getting the jab?

One of my mates got his on a Saturday morning and got absolutely leathered Saturday night and woke up without so much as a hangover. 

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Just now, Sugar Ape said:

One of my mates got his on a Saturday morning and got absolutely leathered Saturday night and woke up without so much as a hangover. 

 

That's exactly what I wanted to hear, thanks!

[Sugar Ape]

2 minutes ago, Rick Sanchez C-137 said:

 

That's exactly what I wanted to hear, thanks!

He was calling me a fanny when I was sick after my one and I was desperately hoping he’d be stuck in bed sick as a dog for days. Never been so disappointed. 

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Just now, Sugar Ape said:

He was calling me a fanny when I was sick after my one and I was desperately hoping he’d be stuck in bed sick as a dog for days. Never been so disappointed. 

 

Might have been worth having a backup plan. Just have some poison on standby for jab number 2.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

1 hour ago, Rick Sanchez C-137 said:

Must be the first time in a year this thread has made it to page 2.

 

Booked in for my jab tomorrow.

 

I really fancied a drink tomorrow night. Anyone go on the booze after getting the jab?

There are concerns (caveat: more studies needed) that heavy alcohol consumption after the vaccine may effect the immune response. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/well/eat/alcohol-covid-vaccine.html

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

14 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

There are concerns (caveat: more studies needed) that heavy alcohol consumption after the vaccine may effect the immune response. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/well/eat/alcohol-covid-vaccine.html

 

Then I shall drink copious amounts and keep notes. For Science!

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

1 hour ago, Rick Sanchez C-137 said:

 

Then I shall drink copious amounts and keep notes. For Science!

You've got to do your bit! 

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, Rick Sanchez C-137 said:

 

Then I shall drink copious amounts and keep notes. For Science!

Getting lashed for the benefit of others. I applaud you sir.

[Megadrive Man]

Anybody going to this at the Bramley-Moore Dock warehouse?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-56943652

 

 

[Scooby Dudek]

7 hours ago, Rick Sanchez C-137 said:

Must be the first time in a year this thread has made it to page 2.

 

Booked in for my jab tomorrow.

 

I really fancied a drink tomorrow night. Anyone go on the booze after getting the jab?

I had my jab at 6pm, home by 630pm and had my tea and four cans of beer. Felt fine the next day, just what I would call the hangover lethargy. Not felt bad just couldn't be arsed until I got some stodge down me, then fine.

[littletedwest]

Got my jab invitation but it's miles away. My mrs got one five minutes walk away. Play a waiting game I guess, hopefully still got antibodies from getting it in December

[Vincent Vega]

 

[Strontium]

I love how they choose to refer to cases, because deaths paints a different story, with all-cause mortality at or below average for the past three months, and Sweden dropping rapidly down the covid mortality table.

[SasaS]

Yes, "lockdowns are not necessary" Sweden is 24th on the deaths per capita list in Europe, or 20th when you exclude tiny states. It always crops up when it had a bad week or two on any of the parameters as a proof of total failure, but is never mentioned when it is doing fine.

[Captain Howdy]

It’s always been a balancing act, I don’t think lockdown can be justified any longer.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I bumped into an anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-lockdown, anti-Semitic cunt parade in Town today. Never seen so many hateful gobshites in one place. Shitty propaganda stickers everywhere  (although it was reassuring to see quite a few people ripping that shit up).

[Colonel Bumcunt]

2 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

I love how they choose to refer to cases, because deaths paints a different story, with all-cause mortality at or below average for the past three months, and Sweden dropping rapidly down the covid mortality table.

So, Swedish people die less per 1,000 cases than other nations?  That's across all ethnicities, their immunity is strong within their nationality? You've got a strong Covid game, what's your style? 

[Mudface]

1 hour ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

So, Swedish people die less per 1,000 cases than other nations?  That's across all ethnicities, their immunity is strong within their nationality? You've got a strong Covid game, what's your style? 

He's referring to 'all-cause mortality', and on a very narrow measure of the last few months. It's a get out clause for Covidiots still looking to play things down. In this case maybe because they said people would be 'embarrassed' by the reactions to Covid in the initial stages, and subsequently declared it over and that there wouldn't be a second wave right before the er, second wave.

 

Cases are still important due to the uncertainty about long Covid and its effects, and also the possibility of variants arising as we've seen both here and elsewhere.

 

Anyway, Swedish deaths were significantly higher last year than in previous years-

 

 

I don't have monthly breakdown figures for this year versus previous years but on a crude calculation, 28068 deaths from the start of 2021 to the 16th of April would equate to around 97.5K for the year if the rate stays the same. I'm sure it won't as mortality increases over Winter, but still it hardly puts Sweden in a good light, especially compared to its near neighbours, all of whom have fared a lot better both health wise and economically I believe.

 

As for Covid deaths themselves, it's reduced from a high over the winter months, but is still rattling along. Sweden also reports deaths in clumps it seems, so the last week or so usually has relatively low figures until they get reassigned to the correct dates.

 

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

 

[Vincent Vega]

If we’d followed Sweden’s example, I reckon we’d be looking at close to half a million deaths in this country. The fact is they seemed happy to kill off some of their elderly, whether people think that’s right or wrong is up to them. Personally I think it marks you out as a bit of a wrongun. 

[Strontium]

With baseless doom-mongering like that, you should be a member of SAGE.

 

Just the small matter of explaining why Sweden's deaths per capita is much lower than most of Europe.