So we can all say we heard it first here from you …
Done. Finito. Ask Azz nicely and he might award you a badge when you’re proven right.
I thought Brexit was bad enough. Will folk try to cut each other a little slack … it doesn’t take a genius to see LindyLoo is worried about her son… doesn’t that make all this bickering a little unwarranted and tactless.
Everyone is worried abut covid and after nearly 2 years of it we’re all sick and tired of it too.
Everyone is stressed right now and it’s understandable, but we don’t really know the facts yet ref the new variant. It’s frustrating but no point in falling out. I love a good debate about this sort of thing, but I don’t feel I know enough and there aren’t enough facts out there to really check anything anyone is saying here. No offence, but it seems like we are in the land of shifting sands.
People are worried about rules.
The pandemic is over, just look at the data.
A point of order if I may. When I first joined OFF and posted data I had gleaned from an internet source I was told, politely, that the done thing on OFF was to provide a link to the source. I had assumed that this “done thing” had carried over from OFF to OFC.
I think it’s too early to say …
Have you seen todays figures?
Just released …106K new cases.
more people die of cancer, diabetes and suicide each day than Omicron.
Those 14 deaths - give me the age and comorbidities of each patient - I bet Omicron was not the cause of death. I’ll put money on it.
129 hospitalisations … jeez!
New cases are nothing to worry about - deaths and serious illness are going down.
Your inventing a pandemic now.
At that rate, there will be over 3,000,000 cases of COVID and its variants a month … 
Thats what Neil Ferguson said too. Look how wrong he is every time.
So far we should be at 800,000 cases of Omicron according to SAGE and 1.6 million tomorrow, we are at about 98,000 as of yesterday.
Ya think!
What odds you offering? 
BBC News channel this morning, interviewing 2 so-called statistical experts about Omicron. 1 said it’s a national disaster, the other said no it’s not. 
who to believe? Personally, I believe the second because the extrapolations used are too far away from the source data. It’s like trying to predict the weather over a 2 week period. The first 2 days forecast (prediction) is usually very accurate. Days 3-5 are an educated guess at best. Days 6 - 8 and the errors in the algorithms used get large enough for anything better than a guess. Days 9 - onwards and the errors get too large even for a piss poor guess.
If you feel that strongly about this then lock yourself down at your own expense and stay inside over Christmas not seeing anyone.
Right ?
The BBC are culpable for the hysteria, as are SKY News and ITV, they’ve been harvesting fear for 2 years now.
They are part of the problem.
Watch GB News instead, you’ll sleep a lot better.
@Bread … You’re not far off the mark there as it happens.
I take a certain amount of responsibility for my own health ( and other peoples) so I got vaccinated, wear a mask, limit unnecessary excursions and am staying at home for Christmas … but then I don’t do Christmas anyway.
And sadly, I’ve done it again … got yabbering back and forth with you which is highly unproductive.
I’ll leave you to it again.
I do normally but this morning they were yakking on about something I had no interest in so I turned over to BBC News for a few minutes.
Have a great Christmas, Morti.
Likewise to you Bread.
The variant, which is believed to evade vaccines to some degree, has surged through the capital with unprecedented speed, compared to previous mutations.
Omicron is detected during testing, if it finds S-gene drop out, and it is now estimated to account for 89.7 per cent of cases in the city.
