Yes, whilst the medical profession has suggested that sensible precautions such as washing your hands, and wearing masks, would probably still help prevent transmission of infection.
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Yes, whilst the medical profession has suggested that sensible precautions such as washing your hands, and wearing masks, would probably still help prevent transmission of infection.
markemark
Über Member
Big drop where my wife works in cases of gastroenteritis which they attribute to increased hand washing.
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Alex321
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
It is.
A tiny proportion of those who get flu become dangerously ill with it, but in the 5 years before COVID hit, that still averaged 20,000-25,000 deaths per year in the UK.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
For some reason I understood that to be a big increase in gastroenteritis due to hand washing.
I was wondering if this was a new conspiracy theory: Hand washing causes gastroenteritis. We are being manipulated by Big Soap. Dirty hands, as nature intended, are best.
Sadly, such is the state of the world, I wasn't at all surprised by the existence of this theory. Then I read it properly.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
"while the pandemic is not over, we have now passed the peak of the Omicron wave, with cases falling, hospitalisations in England now fewer than 10,000 and still falling [...] we now have sufficient levels of immunity to complete the transition from protecting people with government interventions to relying on vaccines and treatments" comes pretty close to saying the threat has gone away IMO.
The claim that Omicron had reached its peak has also aged badly, as it now looks like it was a ripple in front of the wave:
I don't think that is what they're saying but even that would be ridiculous because the less-deadly omicron is still worse than flu and how many suffer from "long flu"?
I could speculate on why they are saying these misleading things, but that would be political so better on NACA if you want.
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
vickster
Legendary Member
Ummm?? 🤷♀️
matticus
Guru
I think he means IRONy; but that only works if anyone HAD said it has gone away. And helpfully mjr has reminded us what was ACTUALLY said:
"while the pandemic is not over, we have now passed the peak of the Omicron wave, with cases falling, hospitalisations in England now fewer than 10,000 and still falling [...] we now have sufficient levels of immunity to complete the transition from protecting people with government interventions to relying on vaccines and treatments"
[my bold]
vickster
Legendary Member
None the wiser sorry, long week. I'm off to the gym!
To be honest if we weren’t testing ourselves , I doubt we would have noticed much wrong !? Eldest has had probably what would be described as cold for 48hrs and that was it. The fatigue was leading up to it. My wife not quite the same , just fatigue but nothing else. The testing was just by chance as described further back. Strange really, not a bad thing to be honest , no serious illness .
Rest of us are still negative so far…….
Update I’m still negative , however her in doors has lost her taste
Rest of us are still negative so far…….
Update I’m still negative , however her in doors has lost her taste
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Yeah, go watch a clip of that statement: your bold emphasis is totally absent and "while the pandemic is not over" precedes a long section suggesting that the dangerous bit is basically over. I feel it's a textbook example of including something simply so his supporters can use it to reject an accurate summarising of the rest of the reckless statement.
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
Been accepted and have my first appointment at the trial centre on Thursday next.
Milzy
Guru
Did you all know that the vaccines were approved but approved for emergency use only?
Did you know I had mine then got Covid yet some of the population decided not to have any jabs & didn’t catch any Covid that they knew about?
The vaccines work as much as what sanctions do to stop wars.
Did you know I had mine then got Covid yet some of the population decided not to have any jabs & didn’t catch any Covid that they knew about?
The vaccines work as much as what sanctions do to stop wars.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Two self-evident statements and a ridiculous analogy - what's the point you're trying to make ?
