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Coronavirus

Final update for today from me:

Study in Hong Kong that has NOT been peer reviewed as yet:

  1. Omicron spreads around 70 times faster than Delta - and can be indetified almost 24 hours after exposure --> this is pretty huge because exposure levels go from 2/3 days to 1 day then no wonder it's shooting round so quick. For context, Sat night i saw friends, Sunday someone turned out to be positive, and by Sunday night/monday morning several had COVID, so based on real life experience i've seen, could be true (i've had 2 PCRs and both negative but also had a booster last month so may have protected me)
  2. 10 times LOWER spread in the lung areas - i.e. this may be why it's being seen as a milder version as it's not hitting the lungs as much --> Great new
This could potentially be good news, because the lag in reporting between infenction --> disease --> hospitilisation is effectively sped up if spread occuring much quicker to previous variants. If we have yet to see mass increases in SA hospitals, which is currently true, then that could be true for the Omicron hit worldwide.
 
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Diamond Lights said:
Yes but in real world scenarios, it'll be more right? We don't have restrictions in the UK. So, in a Pub, Bar, Restaurant, House Party the weekend just gone. The growth of Omicron will be insane, because one infected person is going to spread it wider than just four people, especially as a large proportion of UK public has yet to receive a booster.

If you had a small house party today, 20 people, one person arrives with Omicron, you'll probably have more than just 4 leaving with Corona. And that R0 of 4 is based on fully vaccinated, the R0 of Omicron pre-Covid is considered to be like +9 as a minimum.
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But that person is balanced by Weird Tony from IT, who got it from the postman delivering his import Japanese schoolgirl toss mags, but who hasn't left his house for 2 years to be able to pass it on to anyone else.
 
Case rises are solely coming from London. Perhaps ahead of the curve, but also the place with by far the lowest vaccination rates


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Gutter Boy said:
Case rises are solely coming from London. Perhaps ahead of the curve, but also the place with by far the lowest vaccination rates


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fudging London.
Full of tacos.
I'm going to London next week to get my booster - I'll probably get bloody covid on the way. Bloody bloody blood bloo. Wot wot.
 
Do you think they overstate how bad things are at the briefings to try brick everyone up to get them to get booster and behave?
 
markysimmo said:
Disgraceful from start to finish along with people like that Peston and most of the Sky News crew
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Suppose the pandemic has been great for them . People watching the news channels every day/night that before hand would not have.

Still the questioning is a joke
 
markysimmo said:
Disgraceful from start to finish along with people like that Peston and most of the Sky News crew
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I have huge issues with the media, i make no qualms about that, said it many a tie, but you're verging into Nazi Germany territory with the whole 'MSM begging for a lockdown'. You'll find Sky and BBC are statistically far more reasonable and fair compared to our written publications, who are either very left or right (more right than left based on numbers and readership).
 
Diamond Lights said:
I have huge issues with the media, i make no qualms about that, said it many a tie, but you're verging into Nazi Germany territory with the whole 'MSM begging for a lockdown'. You'll find Sky and BBC are statistically far more reasonable and fair compared to our written publications, who are either very left or right (more right than left based on numbers and readership).
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All of them have their failings. The lines of questioning is immediately talk of restrictions and lockdowns. It’s desperate and always same people. Maybe not all mainstream media but certainly some of the bigger more household names have been shocking.
 
Diamond Lights said:
I have huge issues with the media, i make no qualms about that, said it many a tie, but you're verging into Nazi Germany territory with the whole 'MSM begging for a lockdown'. You'll find Sky and BBC are statistically far more reasonable and fair compared to our written publications, who are either very left or right (more right than left based on numbers and readership).
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Its just a result of the media in general, much more news in gloom thats why the good stories are right at the end, the "in other news" section.
 
Grays_1890 said:
Its just a result of the media in general, much more news in gloom thats why the good stories are right at the end, the "in other news" section.
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totally, but the media tells it's slant, to support it's political narrative and in written media, let''s take The Sun and Guardian, they'll spin on the wings they support.

But BBC and Sky are actually fairly impartial, not perfect, hence why we rank 30th in Media Freedom Index, but not all publications are terrible. I don't think anyone WANTS a lockdown. We saw similar posts previously saying "scientists are begging for a lockdown to keep themselves in the limelight" - sorry, think that's horse a manure of a view. I fail to believe the Chief Medical Officer wants to be the guy that oversees 150,000 dead people on his watch.
 
monkeybarry said:
Yeah, it's a tough one.
You would. You'd probably even enjoy it. But you'd never be able to look in the mirror again.
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I've spent today really conflicted by the girl in the grey top in the lockdown party photo. I live in a city where 'don't kiss a Tory' is literally a commandment (see: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DikLACAW0AYcsbP?format=jpg&name=medium), but there's something about her.

The others are all reassuringly the usual buck teeth horse faces that you'd expect
 
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