IOM Covid removing restrictions

[Ramseyboi]

6 minutes ago, BenFairfax said:

This been gone over several times, and we got stuffed by JCVI anyway, but could held borders until 18th July when schools broke up and vaxed as many kids over holidays as possible. 

With NZ and Oz, the number of cases as least are clear:

 

Ok

Thanks

Goodnight

[Annoymouse]

On the subject of figures, why does the IOM consistently have one of the highest positive test rates per 100k within the UK and yet one of the lowest hospital rates? Is it safe to assume we are just more consistent with testing?

[BenFairfax]

14 minutes ago, Annoymouse said:

On the subject of figures, why does the IOM consistently have one of the highest positive test rates per 100k within the UK and yet one of the lowest hospital rates? Is it safe to assume we are just more consistent with testing?

To July we had zero COVID policy and got all high risk groups vaccinated. And though we now have similar cumulative total infections since start as England for example we have lot lower death rate because bulk infections occured post vaccination. I know asked about H rates and good point but do not have that data to hand. 

Saying that from July 2021, when opened up we have had higher cases as you said and proportionate higher deaths. Broadly speaking I think we adopted right policy, and certainly rather been resident in IoM during this period than UK.

[thommo2010]

Covid isn't going to cripple us, it's the government's guidelines on isolation that will do that 

[littlebushy]

1 hour ago, BenFairfax said:

To July we had zero COVID policy and got all high risk groups vaccinated. And though we now have similar cumulative total infections since start as England for example we have lot lower death rate because bulk infections occured post vaccination. I know asked about H rates and good point but do not have that data to hand. 

Saying that from July 2021, when opened up we have had higher cases as you said and proportionate higher deaths. Broadly speaking I think we adopted right policy, and certainly rather been resident in IoM during this period than UK.

The MHKs will be wetting their pants. We are beating our counter parts in the Channel Islands. Get in!

[craggy_steve]

2 hours ago, gloverlover said:

Yes we've had Bonkers Burrows (both Mr & Mrs) and Dudley Bum Gravy all over Twitter this weekend Tweeting their rather unique form of mass hysteria about Omicron. It takes a rather unique people to try to spread so much fear and bad news at once. If omicron isn't the major doomsday scenario they're all fortelling you do worry that they will be hosting some sort on Jonestown Moonie like mass suicide event over the Christmas period where they all go to Hango Hill and drink a poisoned cup of Horlicks at the stroke of midnight when the Reckoning clearly hasn't happened.

Really?

I'm certainly pissed off by our dodgy PCR testing and a dodgy testing strategy - total waste of resource and not protecting anyone.

I think our border restrictions / controls are pretty pointlesss - this is a situation where you do all or nothing because a half-hearted "control" is no control, and since end of June there has been no point because our current border bureacracy is not protecting anyone.

I was pissed off with Ashford & Quayle under-reporting deaths. And I'm similarly pissed off with Hooper saying we're following JCVI vaccination policy then doing the opposite. 

I'm pissed off that we don't have air filters in all school classrooms, that Allinson and now Edge have made minimal effort to protect children. Maybe some kids get harmed, maybe they don't, but we should try to minimise risk (evidence is that some have been harmed).

I'm pissed off that we've had three very damaging lockdowns when we would not have needed them if CoMin had responded promptly instead of sitting on their hands for a week or two playing wait 'n' see while Covid ran riot among an unvaccinated population.

In short I'm pissed off, very very, pissed off, with our Government response to Covid. Cost us all a fortune for a very poor result. Lives and livelihoods fucked up due to a lack of strategic thinking. Since July our infection rate and death rate per capita have both been worse than UK.

But Omicron? Get real.... I leave that sort of panic to Boris and his experts. Might be a blessing, might be a curse, have to wait a bit longer to know for sure. Be a bit stupid to assume it's all over yet.

What you mean is you object to people actually chatting about Covid or taking an interest in the numbers because you can't cope with reality. Your problem, don't put it on me, you need to fix your own head. The real world isn't going away and me chatting with similarly interested observers isn't going to change it.

And unlike you, this is my first post on Covid in Manx Forums. Jeez, nearly three thousand pages of manic panic wittering in this thread, almost three hundred and fifty in the vaccine thread, a couple of dozen pages in the NHS App thread and you, Blondie et. al. whine about my tweets, under my own name? FFS Get a life. 

[James Blonde]

8 hours ago, BenFairfax said:

It was bang on mate! I had 22 max bed occupancy. The GMP freaked out slightly more than expected so wave dropped off slightly faster than expected. Rest was as expected.

Having a handle on timing and magnitude of the wave, help with planning both at individuals and societal level. 

Oh no you didn't! 

[gloverlover]

17 minutes ago, craggy_steve said:

And unlike you, this is my first post on Covid in Manx Forums. Jeez, nearly three thousand pages of manic panic wittering in this thread, almost three hundred and fifty in the vaccine thread, a couple of dozen pages in the NHS App thread and you, Blondie et. al. whine about my tweets, under my own name? FFS Get a life. 

You need to get a life and stop subjecting the Twitter-sphere to your daily embarrasing wailing and crying. Its pathetic. Advertising to the world at large what a trouser fiilling covid mental case you are. As for claiming its your first post in this thread pull the other one. So much mirror bleating above to the tired crap you constantly disseminate elsewhere. You must think people are as daft as you.

[gloverlover]

7 minutes ago, Roxanne said:

And so damn rude with it. Personal too. So soon, so soon. 

Who cares what you think either? Its about time that wailing embarrasing biff was told what a clown 90% of the IOM think he is after being subjected to the trouser filling drivel he fills Twitter with daily. Even the Chief Minister isn't listening to the doomsters anymore and frankly they're embarrasing themselves on a daily basis Tweeting their constant fear and paranoia. Most people are just laughing.

 

[the stinking enigma]

This is a most unedifying spectacle i must say.

[snowman]

Amazon launches PCR testing for £34.99

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09HN5KC8Q/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_Q875BP3E83Z65EBA2AD8

 

Amazon is not outsourcing this to a third party provider. It will be using a lab in Salford which was set up last year to process tests for Amazon employees.

The price drops the more you buy.

 

 

It is mandatory to use the IOM test facility isn't it ?

Edited December 14, 2021 by snowman

[Raffles]

23 minutes ago, gloverlover said:

Who cares what you think either? Its about time that wailing embarrasing biff was told what a clown 90% of the IOM think he is after being subjected to the trouser filling drivel he fills Twitter with daily. Even the Chief Minister isn't listening to the doomsters anymore and frankly they're embarrasing themselves on a daily basis Tweeting their constant fear and paranoia. Most people are just laughing.

 

You don't speak for 90% of the IOM and it is your rude posts that are pathetic, wailing and embarrassing. 

[2112]

The NPM this morning reporting Hooperman saying the vaccination program is going at full speed copying the UK in getting jabs into arms aiming for New Year to give a fair amount of the population. It will be a real challenge here, the island will need to be operating 24/7, weekends and Christmas Day. Yes the challenge could be met. If Ashford was still Health Minister then I would say that every excuse and obstacle would be used as not to get this target achieved. 

[2112]

10 minutes ago, snowman said:

Amazon launches PCR testing for £34.99

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09HN5KC8Q/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_Q875BP3E83Z65EBA2AD8

 

Amazon is not outsourcing this to a third party provider. It will be using a lab in Salford which was set up last year to process tests for Amazon employees.

The price drops the more you buy.

 

 

Is it mandatory to use the IOM test facility?

 

I don’t think it is, but the IOMG has mandated itself as the arbiters of everyone whether you like it or not. 

[WTF]

12 hours ago, gloverlover said:

Yes we've had Bonkers Burrows (both Mr & Mrs) and Dudley Bum Gravy all over Twitter this weekend Tweeting their rather unique form of mass hysteria about Omicron. It takes a rather unique people to try to spread so much fear and bad news at once. If omicron isn't the major doomsday scenario they're all fortelling you do worry that they will be hosting some sort on Jonestown Moonie like mass suicide event over the Christmas period where they all go to Hango Hill and drink a poisoned cup of Horlicks at the stroke of midnight when the Reckoning clearly hasn't happened.

great idea, sign them up.

Edited December 14, 2021 by WTF