Coronavirus outbreak

[deptfordmarmoset]

My local borough is now at the highest infection rate that it's ever been. Zoe's showing 22,704 cases (previous highest: 22,360 on 8/01/22.) Also showing almost 4.5 million active symptomatic cases. Good job it's gone away....

 

[mjr]

You can never have too much dearth.

I was going to reply that no-one ever talks of more or less dearth, but...!

 

[Dogtrousers]

I was going to reply that no-one ever talks of more or less dearth, but...!

Nothing worse than a dearth of dearth

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Nothing worse than a dearth of dearth

Luckily dearths of dearths are few and far between.

 

[vickster]

My local borough is now at the highest infection rate that it's ever been. Zoe's showing 22,704 cases (previous highest: 22,360 on 8/01/22.) Also showing almost 4.5 million active symptomatic cases. Good job it's gone away....

who said it had gone away?

 

[icowden]

who said it had gone away?

the government. no need for masking, dividers etc

 

[Alex321]

the government. no need for masking, dividers etc

They have never suggested it has "gone away", or anything close to that.

They are saying we are now entering the phase where we will have to live with it as "normal", just like flu etc.

 

[vickster]

the government. no need for masking, dividers etc

See above

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

who said it had gone away?

The government doctrine of ''Living with Covid'' has led to a large majority of people behaving as though it has gone away. While hospital admissions and deaths continue to rise.

 

[rockyroller]

in "the states" we are seeing increasing #s of kids in school testing positive & staying out. despite my own suspicious flu like symptoms & in the Teachers in our Family, Wifey & Daughter, we all continue to test negative. can't wait to go back to my retail job next week where I am face-to-face w/ hundreds of strangers per shift ... *cough* *cough*. I might just keep a mask in my pocket for those close-talkers ...

 

[matticus]

Nothing worse than a dearth of dearth

It's good if you live in Hull, I think?

 

[markemark]

Know lots of people with it of all ages. Don’t know anyone who’s more than a bad cold ill. Doubt I know many who aren’t fully jabbed.

 

[midlife]

Infections here seem to have peaked at about 1000 per 100,000. Hospital admissions doubled from about 30 to 60 ish and from nil deaths at the beginning of the month I think there were 2 last week.

LFT testing from today down to 2 times a week and not every day, if someone in the household has it then come into work if LFT negative. No PCR tests unless on the wards etc.

 

[Julia9054]

Know lots of people with it of all ages. Don’t know anyone who’s more than a bad cold ill. Doubt I know many who aren’t fully jabbed.

”people I know” is too small a sample size.
A dangerously ill tiny proportion of a huge amount of people = a lot of people

 

[markemark]

”people I know” is too small a sample size.
A dangerously ill tiny proportion of a huge amount of people = a lot of people

Ok feel free to swap it for people who are ill with it in the nhs trust my wife works in.