Happier diner Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Albert Tatlock said: Disagree...there's a billion of them...far more chance of a variant springing up there than here where most are vaccinated. Maffs. Not really. Any new variant would always get here anyway. All you would do is slow it down. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 23 minutes ago, thommo2010 said: The media have got bored of Ukraine so I'd expect a scare campaign involving covid to pop up. In years to come people will look back and be amazed at the lengths we went to in 2020 More than likely wonder why we were so feckin stupid to listen to their shite... 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) On 12/29/2022 at 8:03 PM, Gladys said: Well quite, but do we care? We have to look at the whole picture, not just Covid prevention, it is the financial, social and unintended consequence health cost of Covid prevention that will be longer lasting than Covid itself. Uk government backtracks and introduces rules for people travelling from China. Travellers are expected to have a covid test and result prior to departure. A surveillance measure is also to be introduced where officials will test sample blocks of people landing at UK airports from China. Maybe they don't trust testing standards in China? Either way, it sounds expensive, and no doubt open to abuse. What's the betting on Walter asking a question in the house on local measures... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64130655 Edited December 30, 2022 by quilp Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Its so stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steady Eddie Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 10 minutes ago, TheTeapot said: Its so stupid. It will just piss them all off though and make things really awkward. That is the only point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 That would be the stupidest reason of them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steady Eddie Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 5 minutes ago, TheTeapot said: That would be the stupidest reason of them all. Oh I don’t know. I think we probably owe China a big payback for both having unleashed covid on the world then selling zero covid strategies and other liberty restricting totalitarian initiatives as being the only effective solution to the problem they created. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Oh I don't' know about that there have been a couple of people I know been made multi millionares due to covid so the fortune cookie has looked down favourably on them , weather or not this might come to a sticky end ? who knows , but I guess the lawyers will do well out of it , be positive every cloud has a silver lining ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steady Eddie Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 6 minutes ago, Omobono said: Oh I don't' know about that there have been a couple of people I know been made multi millionares due to covid True, if only everyone was a heartless and ruthless bastard who thought - millions of people might die of this so it would be rude not to totally cash in on this for personal benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 1 hour ago, TheTeapot said: Happy New Year 15 mins to midnight. 🙄 Plenty of panic rising by the comments, Dudder's wants everyone tested, increased contact tracing, isolation, etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 8 hours ago, quilp said: 15 mins to midnight. 🙄 Plenty of panic rising by the comments, Dudder's wants everyone tested, increased contact tracing, isolation, etc. Its THE tweet from 2 years ago that sent us into LD2! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 1 hour ago, TheTeapot said: Its THE tweet from 2 years ago that sent us into LD2! Lol, I missed that bit! 😆 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisnt Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Dr John Ioannidis, Stanford University professor of medicine and epidemiology, has recently published the below statistics re. covid 19 fatality. These were the basis on which the entire World was ‘locked down’, we all forced to wear masks, and a global vaccine program rolled out: The stats are higher for the more elderly but 94% of the global population is below 70 years - average survivability across all ages has been 99.965%. With these numbers in mind some might say our response to covid the first time around was overblown. Let us not make the same mistake again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisnt Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Ages 0-19: 0.0003% Ages 20-29: 0.003% Ages 30-39: 0.011% Ages 40-49: 0.035% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 1 hour ago, Thereisnt said: Ages 0-19: 0.0003% Ages 20-29: 0.003% Ages 30-39: 0.011% Ages 40-49: 0.035% These are out by a factor of 10x, so probably accurate in a vaccinated group. In my view that’s an argument for vaccination rather than against. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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