Mase wrote:Dimples wrote:Omnicron spreads very easily.
The numbers of infected people are huge and rising even though the majority have been vaccinated.
The problem is that the projected number of people who will require hospital care will be very large (due to huge number of infections) and the NHS will not be able to cope. Intensive care beds (and hospital beds) may not be available so people will die.
That is why restrictions are required.
For me we have a duty to protect the elderly so I have no issue with restrictions.
This depends on who you believe and when. This mornings report -
Early data from South Africa and studies in England and Scotland published on Wednesday suggest Omicron infections may be milder and lead to fewer hospital admissions.
Analysis by researchers at Imperial College London found around a 40% reduction in the risk of being admitted to hospital for a night or more compared with Delta, while an Edinburgh University study suggested there was a 65% lower risk of being hospitalised with OmicronIt was interesting to see that Morrisons was rammed this morning, full of elderly people. I’d say 25% of them were wearing a mask and the rest weren’t bothered.
ALL scientific evidence is leaning towards it being much milder than delta. Yes it will take some elderly and some with under lying health problems. But perhaps these people may or will die anyway.
But, we cannot keep shutting down. Mental health is at an all time high. Other vulnerable members of our communities will again miss vital cancer screenings or failure to tackle other health conditions early on. Our children, even those ickle enough not to understand what's going on will suffer for future generations because of this. Our learning disabled friends have managed, but now a lot of them are at breaking point. I could go on.
We built, sorry converted! with all this money the covid hospitals with all the kit and icu beds then closed most of them down cause we wouldn't staff them.
Folks have done the three jabs, am now ramming long sticks down my throat 4, yes 4 times a week, every week. Yet we aren't protected really, are we?
Me Mam got covid, on a hot ward and due to her dementia she's frail as can be anyway with a long list of things covid should take. Heavy smoker, heart problems, 6 stone, frail, and in her final times . Yet she beats it while my lads double jabbed, 'no under lying health conditions' drum teacher gets it and dead within 9 days. Makes no sense. To be honest cause of the torment of her dementia I'd have rather it taken her than a 52 year old bloke.
Anyways that's where we're at. We CANNOT and should NOT keep locking down.
Folks cannot take much more.
And the Tory's double standards makes me sick to the stomach.
Merry Christmas mother fuckers!!!
Man love x
I haven't a fecking clue what I'm doing! Gillie come back man I want my sig back. As the Photobucket thingy gone?