Oh for sure. There are anecdotes here and there popping up on Chinese social media about people dying from covid, but the official numbers didn't move at all.
They have listed 3 deaths or so only in the last 24 hours. But this is the kind of Ron DeSantis-like stuff pushed to an exponential level.
That has to be the biggest indictment of gross negligence if that is true. I know that clinical trials matter and so on, but there sould be no excuse to not get this ready when 1) China already has the recipe for the best vaccine there is and 2) having a top contingency tool is always better than having none. The next part is the translation of a comment on Chinese state media as reported by Ferguson, and it speaks volumes about a delusional sense of exceptionalism that the CCP is trying to project.
Bruh, you have the recipe to have the best weapon there is against the virus. You just blew it.
Exactly. I was discussing this with @jojojo yesterday because I couldn’t work out why they would cynically cook the books to make covid look even less lethal, when that completely undermines their extreme countermeasures. She pointed out that this isn’t the government tweaking figures it’s the discrepancy between local and national figures. Local government might have to meet metrics about pandemic management so it benefits them to pretend they’re losing less lives than they really are. Even though that’s not what the government needs to hear.
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Times like these I bet they wish they had a functioning health service like the HSE!
There was an article yesterday which seems crazy. An NHS boss had a stroke, but knew that a category 2 call (which a stroke falls under) would take 2 hours currently, so her husband drove her in potentially saving her life. For an NHS boss to use her knowledge to not actually use the NHS is very worrying.
The HSE is far smarter than them. There’s an easy way to avoid scary data like that. Don’t collect it. Problem solved!
On a serious note, does anyone know the actual chances of getting omicron again?
Could definitely be a reinfection. You might be best to follow the HSE’s lead here.On a serious note, does anyone know the actual chances of getting omicron again?
I'm getting married next Friday and have a tingle in my throat today, and when I got it three months ago, it started with a sore throat
uh, is there one?
Multiple layers of problem I think. Ambulance service has lost staff (+ high absences due to Omicron). A&E are picking up the slack because the GP system has been overwhelmed by the COVID backlog. And basically, things are pretty much business as usual elsewhere, so it's all the usual demands (traffic accidents etc) + COVID related calls, A&E visits.
don't test, hide til symptoms gone
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I think pretty much everyone at the wedding has had it by now anyway so feck 'em.
Correct answer.
Also correct answer.
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I've read some of the WHO stats. Overall the figures seem plausible but when you look at individual countries it's harder to call. The estimates are based on "excess deaths" but to get those you have to choose an "expected deaths" baseline.
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I had it at the end of March and was sick enough in bed for three days with a fever and lost sense of smell, along with brain fog. The first few weeks back in work were tough and everything took me longer to do and figure out. I've had to take notes and screenshots in order to follow my train of thought through solving a problem when I never would have before for something similar. It's improving all the time but I'm still not as sharp as I was mentally and am now wondering if I ever will be.
That sounds rough mate. Thankfully you're improving as time goes on and hopefully you'll continue that way and make a full recovery.
Hopefully so, it's quite strange. Thanks mate.
Thankfully. Otherwise we’d have to have a discussion about… whisper it… Sweden
Thankfully. Otherwise we’d have to have a discussion about… whisper it… Sweden
Mourinho.gifThankfully. Otherwise we’d have to have a discussion about… whisper it… Sweden
Thankfully. Otherwise we’d have to have a discussion about… whisper it… Sweden
No discussion required innit
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When enough countries will have done a proper job vaccinating enough people. A number of countries are still doing a really poor job at 1) getting people vaccinated and 2) choosing the best vaccines (mRNA are still the best).
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