Covid - news and views

One of the restrictions is to put the anti vaxers at the back of the queue for hospital treatment if they need care because they have CIVID. Give priority to the millions of those waiting for appointments and suffering because of lack of beds and staff to administer care.

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What to do with the vaccine ‘shy’ is a difficult conundrum. We as a family are all vaccinated up but there exists a difference of opinion amongst us as to the degree of caution to be adopted. I’m still reticent to enter any crowded setting and certainly would be unhappy getting into a plane. Others are happy with this.
Yes, it looks like the latest variant is far more mild in its efforts to make us feel unwell but we are being told that it’s not this that is the issue, it’s the number of folks catching it. Apparently it is very much more transmitable and there in lies a problem- the chances of more variants popping up! Surely we should be doing our best not to allow this to happen until the numbers infected are reduced significantly. Possibly, Worldwide many would argue.

I can't really agree with that at all and more to the point neither would any doctor or nurse? Could you really see any medical professional turning down care for someone who needs it there and then? Could you personally do that?

100% of care workers vax’d?-excellent👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻. ‘Care worker’, it’s in the name-they care. I’ve been saying that-‘Omicron is less deadly’ for around 2 weeks now, some folk questioned my data, I think the fact South Africa told us this over 2 weeks ago yet the UK Govt wouldn’t accept it says volumes on playing fast & loose with facts🤷🏻‍♂️

Me too, I've been following the SA data and the Dr that first brought it to the world's attention.

Yes its highly transmitable but serious illness should be less (unless you are not vaccinated)

There was a news announcement this morning that NSW in Australia are considering charging (for medical care) those unvaccinated folk if they require hospital treatment. Not confirmed yet but I bet it focuses some folks minds.

We've been say for a long time now that at some point we are just going to have get on and live with it. I think we are very close to that now in the UK. 

I think they are still analysing the data. SA has a lot of other endemic illnesses, HIV and TB and a younger population, life expectancy is much lower. Much depends on the prevailing circumstances here and in SA, they're different.

Covid has spread rapidly in our family this week, adults and children. Luckily not our nearest ones.

It doesn’t matter much that Omicron is less deadly. If it can infect twice as many people as delta, then the end result is going to be about the same. In fact it poses more of a threat because increased infections take more key workers out of circulation, the type of people who keep the UK going every day. 

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Being a realist with experience, rather than a cynic, I suppose that is why the isolation time has been cut from 10 to 7 days-its all very well having rules but, once they become a pain, well......................just change them. 

As TG mentioned, at some point lock-downs, lockd-own light, circuit beakers, HMG saying carry on-just be so careful that you cant actually carry on etc etc, will have to give way to accepting that we have, with the help of vaccinations etc, going to have to get on with it.

I am not saying everything will, or should be abandoned rather that the more strident calls for restrictions will be met with less and less willingness to be either implemented or followed. 

The job of a virus is to spread, but I have no idea why and for what reason.  It can't do that if it kills it's host.  In the past to that end they have adjusted in two ways, becoming more transmissible but less virulent.  My finger are crossed in the hope of this being a change that will be like that.  

Unfortunately the more unvaccinated people that catch, incubate, and allow the virus the opportunity to mutate the greater the risk that a more lethal variant will emerge again accidentally.  We need to vaccinate the world.