Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[LeningradCowboy]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59220668

Frontline NHS staff in some Welsh hospitals were not regularly tested for Covid-19 until near the end of the second wave, BBC research has found.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Does it say if they’ve had a vaccine or not? A few weeks ago it was 75% who hadn’t ending up in hospital or dying, I wonder if that’s still the case….

For some reason those figures aren't readily published, which is strange when you consider what an incentive it would be for those who haven't had the vaccine. I quote the Govt :
The age adjusted risk of death involving COVID-19 was 32 times greater in unvaccinated compared with fully vaccinated people (between 2 January and 24 September 2021)

[blue matt]

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Austrians are days away from a first lockdown for anyone not fully vaccinated,

Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said a national lockdown for the unvaccinated was "probably inevitable".
Two-thirds of people should not suffer because others were hesitant, he said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59245018

[goats]

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Austrians are days away from a first lockdown for anyone not fully vaccinated,

Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said a national lockdown for the unvaccinated was "probably inevitable".
Two-thirds of people should not suffer because others were hesitant, he said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59245018

I wonder how they would police that? Keeping them indoors is going to be difficult is it not? Maybe it would be simpler just to deny them healthcare via the nhs (if we did it here) if they contract it, most clearly think they are safe from getting it and surely they don’t want to be a burden on our beleaguered nhs?

[TWGL1]

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Test and Trace due to be scrapped in Operation Rampdown

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198985/Operation-Rampdown-Codename-revealed-Government-papers-dismantle-key-Covid-measures-year.html

[TWGL1]

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I don’t agree with denying people healthcare for a single disease especially as you can still catch it and pass it on …. why don’t we deny healthcare for obese people, drug addicts, speeding drivers etc etc on that basis then?

[the other bob wilson]

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Test and Trace due to be scrapped in Operation Rampdown

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ures-year.html

Well that's Ł37 billion well spent then.

[TWGL1]

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Well that's Ł37 billion well spent then.

How many hospitals could they have built with even half that amount …..I wonder if there will be a public enquiry into its failure ?

[the other bob wilson]

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/21/icu-is-full-of-the-unvaccinated-my-patience-with-them-is-wearing-thin

[Croesy Blue]

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I don’t agree with denying people healthcare for a single disease especially as you can still catch it and pass it on …. why don’t we deny healthcare for obese people, drug addicts, speeding drivers etc etc on that basis then?

I agree we shouldn’t be denying health care but being vaccinated lowers your chance of catching it and lowers your chance of passing it on. It isn’t a comparable situation and we would be in a better situation if everyone got jabbed.

[blue matt]

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last post was 3 days ago

a New Mutation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59418127

[Monster munch]

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last post was 3 days ago

a New Mutation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59418127

Bloody hell here we go again. The governments and scientists must be shitting for them to put the whole of Southern Africa in quarantine effectively.
Blues and scarlets rugby teams flew out over there the other day aswell so they’ll be on a mad panic to get back I would have thought.

[Gofer Blue]

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From: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59424269

"BBC Africa correspondent Andrew Harding said scientists in South Africa were trying to understand the mutations of the new variant but the one thing they did know was that it was far more transmissible.

He said there was unhappiness at the new red listing by other countries, with scientists saying the country needed more support and more reward for spotting the new variant.

At the moment around 500 and 700 people are travelling to the UK from South Africa each day, but this figure was likely to have increased as the festive period began".

Pretty scary stuff. Immediate travel ban required this time please.

[life on mars]

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The more variants that appear now the better so we can find improved vaccine, better that than seeing vaccination improvements scaled back .

[lardy]

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The more variants that appear now the better so we can find improved vaccine, better that than seeing vaccination improvements scaled back .

This makes no sense to me whatsoever.