Pretty impossible to implement something like that. If you start punishing people for it why not do it for people going to work with the common cold? Statistically with the cervical cancer thing you'd never prove conclusively that individual cancer was caused because of the lack of the HPV vax.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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No need for kids to be vaccinated anymore. Probably no need for healthy adults to be, i certainly haven't heard anything about future boosters here. Last winter the Covid booster jab was being rolled into the flu jab campaign as one vaccination.
That chat aside, I would use somebody's opinion on the vaccine as a future job interview question.
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Crazy, we made it! Well done everyone.
This was something I noticed last year when watching bands from the US playing in England. All of those I like fall into the left side of the spectrum and they were taking mask wearing incredibly seriously up until the point where they were on stage sweating and singing/screaming for 90 minutes in front of an almost entirely unmasked audience. Then the masks were back on, despite the fact by then it was a futile effort to reduce transmission, by the time they were packing up their gear.
Wonder who will take responsibility for destroying economies and millions of people lives (I know the answer). The first lockdown when it all started made sense because we didn't have enough data about it but after that all the decisions made by the governments were insane.
Yeah, it’s so odd. Masks have become the left’s version of a MAGA cap.
So who won the pandemic?
Unsurprisingly I tested Covid positive today, just a few days after masks ceased to be compulsory here. Didn't have as much as a common cold in the past three years.
I'm not forced to go home and can work Covid-positive. Back to using a mask and disinfecting all the time, to try and not pass it on. Covid area in the ER will be shut down next week so everyone will be lumped together anyway.
Got a feeling I might have Covid again (would be the third time). Obviously no way of knowing with no testing here in the UK now.
You can buy lateral flows in the supermarket, or get them delivered by Amazon, if you want to be sure.
I know but not sure how conclusive they are anyway. Plus I assume that the Government / medical world has decided that it’d no longer worth testing so I’m not going to spend my own money.
Caught my first bout of covid last week but it was very light. Was very worried as last Sunday my legs started tingling and I thought my reactive arthritis was coming back. Luckily(?) It turned out to be covid.
Had my last booster 2 years ago so either the vaccinaciones are lasting longer than I thought or the strain is being diluted to a point where the symptoms are less than the common cold.
Had my last booster 2 years ago so either the vaccinaciones are lasting longer than I thought or the strain is being diluted to a point where the symptoms are less than the common cold.
Once vaccinated, even if you don't have the boosters, the protection level against illness remains high, even though we're not really protected from catching it. Combine that with the latest strains being relatively mild and a lot of people won't feel bad at all.
It is still putting people in hospital and some are dying. But we're now in the same territory as we are with diseases like flu that can hit some people hard and colds that can be dangerous to the old, the infirm and the unlucky.
It's a very different place to where we were three years ago. Get well soon!
I got a cold on my way home from Manchester last week and its still there. This is something i noticed to, the leg tingling, is it a normal covid/flu sympthom?
Thanks jox3 but I really have nothing in the way of any bad symptoms. Took my first positive test last Wednesday, then another today which is still positive. Very slight runny nose which for me is almost habitual.
I'm still taking all the precautions like mask on at work or public transport but I've noticed many others who could be showing signs of symptoms aren't doing the same which is only going to prolong the situation.
No idea mate but maybe better to get a test done in case you're unwittingly infecting other people.
They recomend us not to get tested here. I have stayed home as i always do anyway when im sick and getting much better now. Was just curious about the tingling thing as i never experienced that before.
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So...the conspiracy theorists were right?
Always thought that it escaped from a lab, coincidentally there just happens to be such a lab in Wuhan.
Yeah looks that way although this has been a fairly credible theory for quite some time now I think, pretty sure the Biden admin has been open to it lately. But I do remember initially there was a real reluctance to accept the possibility, despite the obvious circumstantial implications of the location of that lab.
That article is paywalled. We’ve known for ages that the lab was in Wuhan and what experiments they were doing there. Does the Times investigation turn up any new information?
If you open the thread it gives the main points of the article.
Actually, just realised it’s from the Sunday Times. That’s on my kitchen table downstairs. Been avoiding it until now because of all the Champions League coverage! Will have a read later…
Yea, my comment was slightly tongue in cheek. I do remember the prevailing narrative when it first came about was that it's due to the wet markets in China and there's been some pathogen that jumped from bat to human or whatever.
I don't really get that article, it seems to imply that the virus was natural but found in caves and not disclosed. They then worked on the virus and engineered a version of it with a very high kill-rate. Then the virus escaped, but it was the original one rather than the "super virus", but able to transmit between humans.
It still seems far more likely to me that the virus mutated to transmit between humans based on the scenario he puts forward. It's not like viruses don't do that all the time anyway.
It still seems far more likely to me that the virus mutated to transmit between humans based on the scenario he puts forward. It's not like viruses don't do that all the time anyway.
Had to wear a mask for the first time in years on Saturday as my Mum is just beginning chemo and masks are still mandatory on chemo/cancer wards. Not a big problem and entirely understandable - one of my mates from work's Mum had leukaemia and actually died from Covid rather than the cancer as her body's defences were so low.
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https://m.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/article-748002
Does this counts as tin foil? How reliable are Jerusalem post?
Does this counts as tin foil? How reliable are Jerusalem post?
It's a toilet of a newspaper.
The US want that to be true but all independent analysis that I've read points to it not being bioengineered and patient zero being at the wet market with a jump to humans from an intermediate host that caught it from a bat (or possibly another intermediate host).
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00584-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348750/
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Government TV ads in Australia are now urging all adults who haven't had a jab in 6 months to get a booster.
All adults? Everyone >18? That’s nuts. Or incredible marketing by Pfizer et al. Kudos.
Yes.
They are treating it like they do the flu. Trying to keep hospitalisations down especially in winter and minimise the economic/productivity impacts. I'll be getting 2 a year indefinably. The only difference is that the flu shot is only free for kids, the retired and those on social payments and covid is free for everyone. That said the flu shot it is only $15/20 and a huge number of businesses pay for it as it has a big productivity benefit.
And loons aside anti-covid measures are very popular. WA had the biggest election landslide for labor at the last election based on their almost total pandemic lockdown. They acted fast enough to keep it more or less out until vaccinations arrived which made the restriction for those in the state before the borders closed minimal. Even in Victoria where the lock-downs were the worst due to the huge outbreak needing to be controlled it turned out to be electorally popular despite everyone hating the actual lock-down.
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Some utter weapons have been making false reports of kids dying from covid vaccines
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/10/tga-covid-vaccine-child-death-hoax
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/10/tga-covid-vaccine-child-death-hoax
Flu vaccine hasn't got back anywhere near where is was in % terms since the pandemic. Now we are seeing rising deaths including 2 chidden this week alone 
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ear-old Queensland,to hospital with the virus.
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ear-old Queensland,to hospital with the virus.
I have tested positive, no clue as to how but feeling pretty shit.
The only conspiracy theory I have regarding the lableak is that it relates to optogenetics which is indeed about as conspiratorial as it gets but I don't see why else you'd be messing around with adenoviruses (or SARSs, which is not an adenovirus but in optogenetic terms, isn't a million miles away (kind of stuff they test on rats to then see if blue light/green light signals work)). It's all very cloak and dagger but I'd like to see a report on the state of Chinese optogenetics as of 2019. Could be complete nonsense but using an inhalation device rather than direct injection to the bloodstream (in rats) has been done, is being done, etc., and if you're talking about serious credibility of lableaks, then it's not out of range to consider what the feck biological warfare type labratories are doing the first place. Other than that, I've always, too, optogenetics aside, (niche enough), considered this was a human made virus that spilled into the public domain.
What's the wave situation like now? I was infected a year or so ago for the last time. A nasty bastard of an infection despite innoculation.
I had it 2 weeks ago for the 1st time. Just tested clear today and only felt bit slightly Ill for a couple of days.