Been on the rise for a while now. Only real surprise is how it took this long to go exponential. As far as this fecking pandemic goes, where the Uk leads we follow.
We’ll U.K. are something like 45k per day which is nuts so let’s hope you’re wrong
I was checking the UK stats and saw Northern Ireland had 1,083 cases today. Seems crazy high given they have about 1/3 the population of Ireland.
It was the same way with previous surges. Followed by inevitable overflow into all the border counties. Kind of makes a mockery of our efforts to keep numbers down when they’re off the charts the far side of a basically nonexistent border.
So, 48k new infections, with deaths and hospitalisations rising.
It’s worrying how many people have symptoms and just do one lateral flow test, then carry on like normal once it comes back negative. I wonder if they do more harm than good in the long run.
They’ve been massively controversial in Ireland. Our advisory body have consistently pushed back against them for exactly the reason you mention. Which a whole load of very smart people don’t seem to want to accept is a risk at all.
Just been as a visitor. The underground is crowded and not nice, but then again an awful lot of London is in walking distance. The museums are very quiet, especially at opening time, but that's always the best time anyway. Visit early, do the parks and riverside afterwards. The amazing thing is the people, so friendly, without all the tourists they've turned into normal human beings. All in all a good time to visit.
Cheers for the info. I will take the risk then and avoid the tube as much as possible.
Yep tested negative then had PCR day after and was positive.
I am not sure of the importance of this. Probably something I am not understanding. Isn't the only difference that instead of becoming infectious after 6 days previously, now it is 4 days (in addition to higher r0). So if you make a policy change, like she says, it affects on average 2 days quicker. But when doubling times in most places are around 2 weeks, 2 days seems inconsequential, and there is ample time to react anyways. Unless you do a De Ligt and 8x cases in a week. But as I said probably something I am missing, and just glanced at the actual paper in question.
See he calculates it as 98% or herd immunity through vaccinations not even possible now...good luck to the government explaining that to the general public.
. Has to be throwing the kitchen sink from his b and c options and crossing many fingers the outcome isn't too bad.It's a risk. Small risk. But bigger than staying at home.
Deaths lag behind infections but given the high level of at least partial vaccination you would expect hospitaliations and ICU admissions (and then deaths) to lag more than before and peak at a much lower percentage of infections than before, despite it now being primarily the Delta variant. Nearly 50k infections a day is however worrying.
There is a lot of talk about using the vaccine passport to implement the restrictions, so they would only apply to the unvaccinated and for everybody else life can go on as normal. That makes a lot of sense and there are a lot of people here who haven't had the vaccine, including over 2 million over 60s.
more fool them
You’d do well keeping all flights out for now. Everywhere else going nuts
Interesting. Very cool technology. So early in its development I reckon it’s more likely to be of use in the next pandemic than this one.
Good news. What variants have you been dealing with in Chile?
My fiancée is an obs and gynae Dr.
You’ll be fine. The sun will be out so avoid the tube altogether. Sign up for the Cycle hire and just ride everywhere. London is a great City to cycle in and it’s cycle hire system is among the best in the world.
That is exactly what's happening here yeah.
I think it's safe for pregnant women to get the vaccine now though.
Nobody really knows, the problem with the UK approach is that it defies all logic. Opening everything up and advocating for getting rid of the use of masks and the 2 meter rule while cases increase exponentially simply makes no sense. There's living with Covid and there's letting it run riot!
