Coronavirus

[Dr Gloom 21950]

13 minutes ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

 

Even if we do live like fannies, it could still mutate in another country and get into the country. There has to be an end game and we are there, the health service is coping. As long as the vaccines continue to update to more recent variants then we should be able to avoid a doomsday variant that is so different that it escapes a vaccine. But we need to cross the doomsday bridge if we come to it. 

it isn't hard to square up to the virus while it's tearing through the population. i'm all for getting back to normal life - had enough of this bullshit - but some pragmatism is required 

i think we should continue to unlock with mandatory mask-wearing in indoor public spaces. if we don't we will end up doing so anyway - see israel. 

get it into the thick british public's skulls that a minor inconvenience protects all of us - and the economy

Edited July 6, 2021 by Dr Gloom

[Isegrim 9798]

11 minutes ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

 

Even if we do live like fannies, it could still mutate in another country and get into the country. There has to be an end game and we are there, the health service is coping. As long as the vaccines continue to update to more recent variants then we should be able to avoid a doomsday variant that is so different that it escapes a vaccine. But we need to cross the doomsday bridge if we come to it. 

The risk of it mutating somewhere else is much higher with you lot carrying it into undervaccinated countries.

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

28 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

 

The government had a chance to stop the worst excesses of the delta varient by closing the air border with India at the point when they put Pakistan and Bangladesh on the red list. They didn't do it till 3 weeks later during which time 20k people came in from India. This is because Johnson wants a decent trade deal with India to make up for the shit show caused by Brexit. Now the same man is suggesting we drop all restrictions just as the cases of the varient he let into the country en masse are rocketing. 

 

I don't trust him, he's made a cunt of this at every single point during the last 16 months. Now you're just going along with it when there are perfectly sound scientific and medical grounds for keeping certain  restrictions in place. It's got disaster written all over it again, anyone with an ounce of common sense can see it....

 

Irrespective of that it's hospitilising 1 in 1000. And that 1 is most likely an anti-vaxer. Any restrictions are disproportionate 

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

29 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

it isn't hard to square up to the virus while it's tearing through the population. i'm all for getting back to normal life - had enough of this bullshit - but some pragmatism is required 

i think we should continue to unlock with mandatory mask-wearing in indoor public spaces. if we don't we will end up doing so anyway - see israel. 

get it into the thick british public's skulls that a minor inconvenience protects all of us - and the economy

People that are concerned can continue to manage their own risk.

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

29 minutes ago, Isegrim said:

The risk of it mutating somewhere else is much higher with you lot carrying it into undervaccinated countries.

 

Undervacinated countries are free to manage their borders as they see fit

[ewerk 30637]

Just a reminder that you’re also free to fuck off.

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

I hope you're the 1 in 1000

[Gemmill 44942]

My left hook has a 100% hospitalisation record. 

[Dr Gloom 21950]

6 minutes ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

People that are concerned can continue to manage their own risk.

wearing a mask is about protecting other people

 

Edited July 6, 2021 by Dr Gloom

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

3 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

wearing a mask is about protecting other people

 

 

From what? People are vaccinated, not being hospitalised and aren't dying.

 

It's virtue signalling at this point 

Edited July 6, 2021 by TheGingerQuiff

[Dr Gloom 21950]

1 minute ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

 

From what? People are vaccinated, not being hospitalised and aren't dying 

from catching the virus - try to keep up

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

🤣 a virus we're protected against.

 

It's a shame we don't do this every year to stop flu mutating and ending 20k lives.

 

Let's live like this forever. 

Even a pandemic response has become polarised. Tedious.

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

If Starmer had suggested this unlocking you lot would be 100% behind it.

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

12 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

My left hook has a 100% hospitalisation record. 

Starmer would pagger you

 

Edited July 6, 2021 by TheGingerQuiff

[Sonatine 11393]

Delta's old skool, we're onto Lambda now 

 

 

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

Let me guess it's a vaccine resistant SUPERSTRAIN up to A THOUSAND times more transmissible than Delta

[Dr Gloom 21950]

3 minutes ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

If Starmer had suggested this unlocking you lot would be 100% behind it.

nonsense. i already i said a few posts up that i think we should continue to unlock but that it's reckless to abandon mask wearing at this stage. it's also pointless - as we saw from israel's experience. remember they are a month or two ahead of us

Coronavirus: Israel reimposes masks amid new virus fears

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-57594155

[Gemmill 44942]

9 minutes ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

Starmer would pagger you

 

 

I would stand him in front of you and domino rally the pair of you. 

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

8 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

nonsense. i already i said a few posts up that i think we should continue to unlock but that it's reckless to abandon mask wearing at this stage. it's also pointless - as we saw from israel's experience. remember they are a month or two ahead of us

Coronavirus: Israel reimposes masks amid new virus fears

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-57594155

 

So what do we do? Wear masks forever? Every time a new scariant (copyright) emerges?

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

Typical Gloom, always bringing the Jews up

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

Just searched and scariant is already circulating

[Gemmill 44942]

3 minutes ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

Typical Gloom, always bringing the Jews up

 

This has given me an idea. I'm gonna patent the yarmaske. Don't leave home without one! 

[Alex 35095]

29 minutes ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

🤣 a virus we're protected against.

 

It's a shame we don't do this every year to stop flu mutating and ending 20k lives.

 

Let's live like this forever. 

Even a pandemic response has become polarised. Tedious.

It hasn’t really become polarised. Unless you think showing some pragmatism and keeping some restrictions for now whilst opening up is the exact opposite of doing absolutely nothing and pretending cases aren’t rocketing for ideological reasons whilst ignoring scientific advice. It’s a bit like interviewing a virologist then getting Right Said Fred’s views for ‘balance’. 

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

14 minutes ago, Alex said:

It hasn’t really become polarised. Unless you think showing some pragmatism and keeping some restrictions for now whilst opening up is the exact opposite of doing absolutely nothing and pretending cases aren’t rocketing for ideological reasons whilst ignoring scientific advice. It’s a bit like interviewing a virologist then getting Right Said Fred’s views for ‘balance’. 

No I think it's polarised because anything the nasty tories suggest will be attacked and will be wrong. If they'd suggested keeping masks then something else would be picked up on

[Gemmill 44942]

This is why Teesside is turning blue.