This s worrying “AZ has no protection against Omicron”
So, the population takes all the chances on new technologies, just to find, the crafty virus has mutated, well, make of that what you will.
Isn’t the history of mankind littered with things that have tried to wipe us out? No surprises there.
Of course it is, and every day that passes, the decision process gets more critical.
Just came across this article which tries to explain why the UK is the canary in the cage.
For example:
“Being an island has been a clear advantage for other countries during the pandemic, but the UK has proved an exception. One factor above all helps explain why.”
Covid data for Saturday, 18 December 2021
Global Cases: 273,977,472
Increase: 756,986
Global Deaths: 5,360,774
Increase: 8,095
Australia
Cases 246,789 Change: 4,023
Deaths 2,142 Change: 8
Critical 110
Cases per Million 9,517
UK
Cases 11,190,354 Change: 92,503
Deaths 147,048 Change: 111
Critical 875
Cases per Million 163,587
USA
Cases 51,610,281 Change: 174,629
Deaths 826,719 Change: 2,199
Critical 15,602
Cases per Million 154,599
South Africa
Cases 3,276,529 Change: 20,713
Deaths 90,297 Change: 35
Critical 546
Cases per Million 54,248
France
Cases 8,518,840 Change: 58,128
Deaths 121,333 Change: 162
Critical 2,901
Cases per Million 130,090
Germany
Cases 6,757,593 Change: 48,375
Deaths 108,606 Change: 452
Critical 4,636
Cases per Million 80,280
Data from www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Things are now at their worst in NSW, more new cases than Victoria had at its worst.
Its a risky business, being in the UK.
Excellent article Bruce, I came to the same conclusion over a year ago…It’s not rocket science, and you don’t need to be an Oxbridge scientist to figure it out…
This was the scene over British Skies at 7:30 am this morning. We are flogging a dead horse while ever this is happening…
Moring Foxy.
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Oooh I see you Foxy!..happy dance 
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Perhaps Foxy would like to post that piccie as
this year’s Christmas card in an appropriate thread?
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Tunisia looks nice.
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Aye, not so busy at this time of year. Plenty of social distancing 
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Yep, science can’t beat the basics. 
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Good morning Bob, hope you are feeling reasonably OK now.
Couldn’t agree more with you about all these flights. If my memory serves me correctly, when the pandemic first started there were around 20,000 people in and out of the UK daily and nothing was done to stop this?
I reckon had all this been stopped then and the country locked down properly for a few months,
we wouldn’t be in the appalling state we are now, almost two years on!
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If the entire planet could have gone into a hard line lockdown for a few weeks, at exactly the same time, then I believe that the whole thing would have been over a long time ago. This would have required unpalatable hardship at the time though.
If the UK had gone into the kind of lockdown that I think you’re suggesting, then things might have improved, but only until transportation of goods and people resumed, at which point we’d have ended up in precisely the same quagmire that we’re in now.
IMHO, although the UK does indeed seem to be world leaders in something that it’d rather not be world leaders of, on the plus side we might actually be further down the line to coming through all of it than the majority of other countries.
Thanks Baz, my left arm is severely restricted in it’s movement but I expect it will come good once all the bruising has come out, and I’m still feeling a bit wobbly on my feet, so I’m under orders to take it easy for a while.
I do agree with you about shutting the whole country down Dex, and it would only delay the inevitable, but Australia seems to have done well by limiting everyone coming and going, especially flights.
I don’t think anyone expected it to be eradicated with lockdowns and vaccines alone, but tried to spread out the effects on the NHS and give our hospitals some breathing space.
Bruising can be very painful, as I know only too well after a couple of motorcycle accidents some years ago. Just give it time and you will soon be feeling better, the bruising will disappear and hopefully with it the pain.
If you had seen me after my heart attack too you wouldn’t believe it, bruising from armpit right down to as far as possible and all due to the numerous injections into my waist / stomach area. It was so bad the injections eventually had to be started on the other side!
I have relatives in Australia so hear news from them, I also read comments on OFC from forum members so I can only agree with your comment about lockdowns and restricting flights. My thoughts are that could have been the UK at the start of the pandemic too, that didn’t happen though so now it is what it is.
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I am more than happy for anything do do with Covid to be discussed here as per thread heading. I think that is better than starting a plethora (love that word) of Covid threads.
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Top man Bruce. Hopefully the TL3’s will permit it and not start getting all uppity if things deviate a bit. Perhaps we could start a coding system of our own so we know which sub discussion we are alluding to in here. Instead of the Greek alphabet, maybe we should use the Semitic abjads and thus start with Aleph.
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