Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Landsurfer]

570 deaths of/ with/maybe covid19 yesterday .. out of 55,000,000 ... over 1100 deaths from other causes ... Why are we not getting "Other Causes" vaccines ... After all, Boris and Handsoncock are working towards making death an offence aren't they ? Tier 28 i expect .....
If i was cynical of course !

 

[srw]

570 deaths from one cause, which is highly infectious and dangerous even if you don't die. 1100 deaths from all other causes combined. It's pretty clear which is the more urgent problem.

 

[Julia9054]

570 deaths of/ with/maybe covid19 yesterday .. out of 55,000,000 ... over 1100 deaths from other causes ... Why are we not getting "Other Causes" vaccines ... After all, Boris and Handsoncock are working towards making death an offence aren't they ? Tier 28 i expect .....
If i was cynical of course !

2 of the biggest killers are cancer and heart disease. Cancer research say cancer deaths account for 450 per day. BHF say heart disease deaths are around 460 per day. We currently have one infectious disease accounting for more deaths than either of those big killers. And to you this still isn’t concerning?

 

[winjim]

We do have other vaccines. What are we after, some kind of vaccine of the gaps?

 

[marinyork]

570 deaths of/ with/maybe covid19 yesterday .. out of 55,000,000 ... over 1100 deaths from other causes ... Why are we not getting "Other Causes" vaccines ... After all, Boris and Handsoncock are working towards making death an offence aren't they ? Tier 28 i expect .....
If i was cynical of course !

We live in neighbouring local areas where the virus is kept steady in tier 3. By the standards of Dec 2020, there ain't that much virus around here (there is, it's a matter of comparison for we are not in Essex, East London or Kent).

Tier 4 is to control the new B117 strain. It's been reported of course everywhere in the UK because we don't play this silly pretend game that Macron does about the virus not being present in France, which sadly the French population may end up paying for, that's politicians for you. As soon as the B117 strain gets hold in the other two thirds of England, the deaths could be 1000, 1500 a day and drop slowly for months to March/April/May.

The way out is another national set of restrictions aka tier 4, to get the vaccination program going with huge momentum in Jan/Feb, vaccinate a sizeable proportion of the population, ease restrictions slightly and keep social distancing/masks/ventilation and hope by the summer that we have better treatments like antibody injections to stop the cytokine storm and people ending up in hospital.

Then by the time the third wave comes, life can be more like tier 2 again.

 

[classic33]

570 deaths of/ with/maybe covid19 yesterday .. out of 55,000,000 ... over 1100 deaths from other causes ... Why are we not getting "Other Causes" vaccines ... After all, Boris and Handsoncock are working towards making death an offence aren't they ? Tier 28 i expect .....
If i was cynical of course !

Can we vaccinate against getting struck by a moving vehicle?

 

[Andy in Germany]

These help:

 

[marinyork]

We don't really have many blue skies .

 

[fossyant]

Can we vaccinate against getting struck by a moving vehicle?

Ride MTB. But we'd need two vaccines for moving rocks and trees ! Oh and maybe a little something for mud.

 

[Bazzer]

Yesterday, spent 2 1/2 hours in minus 1, opening presents with our eldest daughter, SIL and granddaughter, in their garden, in an effort to protect my wife and child 2, child 1's family and my sister's family for whom I am their support. Arrived back home chilled, to find 5 cars parked on a next door neighbour's drive and outside their house, which stayed there most of the day.
This, in a region of a handful of square miles which, by all published figures, is and has consistently been, by some distance, the highest in the area and comfortably exceeded the infection rate of the adjoining T3, despite at the time being considered as an area in T2. 😡😡😡

 

[C R]

Yesterday, spent 2 1/2 hours in minus 1, opening presents with our eldest daughter, SIL and granddaughter, in their garden, in an effort to protect my wife and child 2, child 1's family and my sister's family for whom I am their support. Arrived back home chilled, to find 5 cars parked on a next door neighbour's drive and outside their house, which stayed there most of the day.
This, in a region of a handful of square miles which, by all published figures, is and has consistently been, by some distance, the highest in the area and comfortably exceeded the infection rate of the adjoining T3, despite at the time being considered as an area in T2. 😡😡😡

And then people are surprised that things keep getting worse.

 

[DCLane]

@Bazzer - which explains why this is still going on. Stupid people, being selfish and killing others.

 

[Bazzer]

And then people are surprised that things keep getting worse.

@Bazzer - which explains why this is still going on. Stupid people, being selfish and killing others.

I know. It infuriates me. Mrs B winces when I say I just wish Darwin would apply to these people, without the fallout to others in the community.
What I find utterly baffling is he is of an age which is more, but not the most, vulnerable; his wife is obese; and one of the cars belonged his disabled daughter. Go figure!

 

[Saluki]

I am now in Tier 4. We were Tier 2 but, as of a minute past midnight today we were 4.
I walked my dogs in the city centre today and saw about a dozen people in total. I have never seen Westlegate empty before. It was quite spooky really.

When the news broke that we were to be in Tier 4, Wednesday I think, I kind of wanted to eat my feelings, but pulled myself together and settled for a bit of a weep.
Lockdown 1 was ok, lockdown 2 was hard. This time, as tier 4 is pretty much lockdown for us singletons, it just depressed me.
I have masked, avoided people like the plague, been sensible yet here we are again.
How long we will be on T4, I know not, pretty sure we’ll all get through, but the loneliness is getting me down.

 

[marinyork]

Tier 3 during Christmas and looming Tier 4 does have the feel of never seeing anyone outside your household ever again.