Raffles Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Are the samples taken at the grandstand sent for analysis to see whether we have omicron variant here yet? I am surprised there is no press conference planned here, considering the announcements from the UK. Are we just going to wait until the new variant arrives before taking action to stop it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 1 minute ago, Max Power said: Roger, the point I was making is, it was the fact that it is being reported that the symptoms are less severe, and are more 'cold like' rather than 'flu like' that I was concerned about. If it is more transmissible, more are infected but with lesser symptoms, how many will just carry on as normal, spreading the virus either unknowingly or in the belief that it will do no harm? Because diseases have a continuum of symptoms - no one knows without testing whether they have a a heavy cold or mild flu - it's all about the overall balance that there in a population. But even if the average response is milder there will still be a (smaller) percentage of serious cases. After all Covid is fairly mild on average, but some people still end up in hospital or dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opusManx Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) . Edited January 13, 2022 by opusManx bad grammar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Sooner or later someone's going to invent a mask which carries an indicator mechanism that shows the wearer whether they've been exposed to the virus... Oh wait! What's this? https://www.rt.com/news/542665-japan-glowing-mask-covid/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opusManx Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) . Edited January 13, 2022 by opusManx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nom de plume Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Raffles said: Are the samples taken at the grandstand sent for analysis to see whether we have omicron variant here yet? I am surprised there is no press conference planned here, considering the announcements from the UK. Are we just going to wait until the new variant arrives before taking action to stop it? How would you intend stopping it reaching our shores? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itsmeee Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 If it’s not here already I’ll eat Gladys’s (Gladys’?) lilac knickers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nom de plume Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, Itsmeee said: If it’s not here already I’ll eat Gladys’s (Gladys’?) lilac knickers. Of course it’s here already … … and like Delta, it won’t be the mass killer they said it would. But let’s ramp up the rhetoric anyway. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesypeas Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 2 hours ago, P.K. said: In the presser yesterday that nice Professor Chris Whitty stated that he had contacted his South African colleagues that afternoon and they told him that because of how infectious Omicron is hospitalisations for covid had gone up by 300% in the last seven days. That's 300% in just seven days. I was so surprised I replayed it and yes, that's what he stated. If hospitalisations are going up at that rate that would suggest there's more to it than just a common cold. The data now needed is how badly it effects the none jabbed, the single jabbed, the double jabbed and those who have been boosted. Incidentally Chris Whitty is not the lying, shifty looking shyster in the middle which means he can be trusted to tell the truth. Without the vaccination rates we have in the UK, wouldn’t we see exactly the same admissions anyway? SA vaccination rate is pretty poor isn’t it? Seems no one down there trusts the drugs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 A xmask song... Yanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 1 hour ago, cheesypeas said: Without the vaccination rates we have in the UK, wouldn’t we see exactly the same admissions anyway? SA vaccination rate is pretty poor isn’t it? Seems no one down there trusts the drugs. That's the bit we don't know yet. Hence the "If hospitalisations are going up at that rate that would suggest there's more to it than just a common cold. The data now needed is how badly it effects the none jabbed, the single jabbed, the double jabbed and those who have been boosted." Unfortunately it seems the only way to find out the effect Omnicron will have on our society is to wait and see how things evolve. From lab tests Pfizer are saying that three jabs of their product will protect you from the variant. But lab tests are just that - tests in a lab. Which is why real world trials are run. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) This really needs putting to bed once and for all, I've been at work amongst the great unwashed every day since all this kicked off not hiding behind the sofa! Also I could be considered vunerable but never once considered hiding away let's just get on with things! I'm also sick to death of hearing about it 24/7/365! Edited December 9, 2021 by finlo 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 If only we had the Internet 40 years ago. That was a little pandemic that passed us by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffles Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Nom de plume said: How would you intend stopping it reaching our shores? I meant stopping the spread within. Now the UK is taking additional measures, it would make sense to consider the same measures here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoTailT Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, Raffles said: I meant stopping the spread within. Now the UK is taking additional measures, it would make sense to consider the same measures here. We have no omicron and the spread is being managed pretty well from what I can see. Politely: piss off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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