Omah
29 December 2021 13:52
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Boot:
Every time I see people dismiss the Covid Omicron variant as not worth worrying about - “just like a bad cold” for most people without other underlying health conditions, then compare it to all the people with more serious illnesses, such as cancer, I can’t help thinking they are missing something very obvious.
All those other hospital patients with cancer, heart conditions and other serious illnesses also need staff to administer the treatment and care they need - that is another reason why people should be doing their best to reduce the risk of catching and spreading Covid.
As it is the people who already have other health issues who are most vulnerable, it makes sense for the NHS medical staff who are caring for patients not to go into work if they test Covid postive because that would be risking them transmitting the virus to people who are already ill and vulnerable.
At this time of year, when the NHS always struggles with extra demand, it is not just the increase in hospital admissions due to Covid or “with Covid” that is the problem, it is the shortage of staff to care for and treat all patients that is the big worrying issue.
The last NHS staff absences Report showed that 43 per cent of NHS staff absences in London were currently because of Covid, compared to about 16 per cent before the Omicron coronavirus variant first appeared at the end of November.
According to the most recent official data, on December 19 the number of staff absences within NHS acute trusts in England related to Covid-19 stood at 18,829, a rise of roughly 50 per cent in the course of a week.
It seems only common sense to take as many measures as we reasonably can to slow down the spread of this highly transmissible strain to reduce the rates of infection throughout the community, both to reduce numbers of infections and numbers of staff absences during a period when demand for hospital care is usually at its highest peak of the year.
Indeed …
You see it, I see it, but, sadly, others don’t …
or … as it says at the very end …use of their gym and fitness facilities.
I suppose it goes to show just how determined some are to encourage the unvaccinated to get vaccinated.
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AnnieS
29 December 2021 21:57
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“gym and fitness facilities”? ! well that’s one I haven’t heard before
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Its folks themselves, the system has tried to make people who don’t care. care, and that ain’t goin to happen, eyes down look in.
It appears no one is bothered about the numbers anymore. I had to go into a retirement complex last night (with my mask on), I had to pass through the communal area, which for the past 18 months has been like a ghost town, and, about 25 residents were playing bingo, sitting in close proximity, and not a mask in sight.
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It’s not the same everywhere … where I am we had one doing LFT every day last week … and now there’s another two residents daily testing and one of them is 90!
Sorry to party poop, but lft’s aren’t that accurate.
Poop all you like … getting hold of LFT or PCR is like getting hold of gold just now.
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New study showing that omicron has a 91% less chance of death than delta variant of covid.
A new California study says the omicron variant of COVID-19 is an eye-popping 91% less likely to kill those who get infected than the delta strain, federal public health officials announced Wednesday.
The clinical study from the sprawling Kaiser Permanente health system also showed omicron is linked to a 74% reduced chance of the need for intensive care, offering a glimmer of hope as the nation grapples with record caseloads and hospitalizations powered by the super-contagious strain.
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Bread
13 January 2022 11:27
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Meanwhile in locked down, face mask wearing, vaccine passport France, 332,000 new cases. An all time high, with figures increasing all the time.
Good to see stupid ideas don’t work in other countries as well.
Bread
13 January 2022 11:30
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Oh… by the way @Omah
Can you name one country that is ahead of England in removing all covid restrictions and going back to normal, living with covid ? We are on schedule for 26th January … 2 weeks today.
No more variants on the horizon?
Muddy
13 January 2022 13:07
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France is removing restrictions on Brits today .
Bread
13 January 2022 13:43
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Restrictions should never have been put on Brits anyway.
All other restrictions are still in place.
Meanwhile in England, isolation period cut from 7 days to 5
https://order-order.com/2022/01/13/sajid-confirms-self-isolation-period-cut-to-5-days/
