Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (228 Viewers)

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Yet people still think Right said Fred know more about this than virologists!

Antibiotics for now can still deal with most bacterial diseases but we aren’t far from the point where people not finishing their treatment and GPs over prescribing them makes them powerless against future infections. That concerns me more than future viral variants

 

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[Nick]

The mask in schools I really don't get, especially if they are testing too.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The mask in schools I really don't get, especially if they are testing too.

They hate it, I hate it and I really hate enforcing it. Still making them drench desks in the surface wipes too

 

[Nick]

They hate it, I hate it and I really hate enforcing it. Still making them drench desks in the surface wipes too

My daughter has just had it, she needs a negative test to be able to go back for the new term anyway.

I just don't see the point in making them all sit with masks (teachers too) during lessons.

It's as if it's just something to say "Look we are trying in schools" and tick a box.

 

[Grendel]

Well turns out i dont need the booster now doesnt it .

Fair points on the rest

Its an odd argument as many still do and the virus still needs protecting against.

You could drive 100 mile on a motorbike without a helmet and be fine - one day

 

[Skybluefaz]

My daughter has just had it, she needs a negative test to be able to go back for the new term anyway.

I just don't see the point in making them all sit with masks (teachers too) during lessons.

It's as if it's just something to say "Look we are trying in schools" and tick a box.

Easiest group to enforce something on is kids. Feels like it's a bit of a token gesture to say they did something.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

My daughter has just had it, she needs a negative test to be able to go back for the new term anyway.

I just don't see the point in making them all sit with masks (teachers too) during lessons.

It's as if it's just something to say "Look we are trying in schools" and tick a box.

That’s exactly what it is. Schools have been disease spreading centres every year before now and nobody cared

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Who claimed it could prevent all infection?

That's a very specific set of words, but then you know that.

It is very underwhelming at stopping infection clearly.

 

[SBT]

That's a very specific set of words, but then you know that.

It is very underwhelming at stopping infection clearly.

Really? What vaccines from history and what efficacy rates would impress you? Or is it 100% or nothing for you?

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

It says in the article you linked that it came in when a new team arrived.

Why do you expect the science on a brand new disease to be “consistent”? Everyone involved has been very clear on the unknowns. The vaccine is the end, that’s why we aren’t locked down right now. The restrictions that do exist are because we aren’t out of the woods yet. There’s still unknowns with omicron though the initial signs look good, and there’s still a good chunk of the population that need boosting for the vaccine to be effective against it.

Look at the direction of travel, we’ve got antivirals coming online, we’ve got effective vaccines, we’ve got new dominant strains being weaker. I really don’t get how you can be down about this.

How can people be encouraged to get the vaccine when there has been an outbreak in Antarctica. It's laughable and makes a mockery of the vaccine.

When people say 'thank god cases are only mild', I doubt these guys are in their 80s and overweight. They are scientists based in one of the most gruelling and remote locations on the planet.

As for the vaccine being the end, look at Europe. Restrictions everywhere. It is never going to end. The go to response is 'not enough people have had the jab'. Then, when you point out examples of circumstances where the uptake is high, the narrative changes again and we begin the circle from the beginning.

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Really? What vaccines from history and what efficacy rates would impress you? Or is it 100% or nothing for you?

What impresses me is the ability of people to keep defending its use when clearly there are some question marks. For young people, and for its purpose of getting life back to normal. Only to then u-turn on it when it's pointed out that it isn't the case.

 

[Skybluefaz]

What impresses me is the ability of people to keep defending its use when clearly there are some question marks. For young people, and for its purpose of getting life back to normal. Only to then u-turn on it when it's pointed out that it isn't the case.

Are you regretting taking the vaccine?

 

[Grendel]

What impresses me is the ability of people to keep defending its use when clearly there are some question marks. For young people, and for its purpose of getting life back to normal. Only to then u-turn on it when it's pointed out that it isn't the case.

Defending it? What an odd thing to say given the lives it has saved.

 

[shmmeee]

What impresses me is the ability of people to keep defending its use when clearly there are some question marks. For young people, and for its purpose of getting life back to normal. Only to then u-turn on it when it's pointed out that it isn't the case.

OK you’re in full on Piers Corbyn mode now. No point talking to you. Hope you’re OK man.

 

[Sick Boy]

Defending it? What an odd thing to say given the lives it has saved.

Yeah it’s incredible that life has more or less returned to normal thanks to the vaccine but there are still those trying to rubbish it.
The no-vaxx brigade also enjoy the freedoms that the vaccine has allowed, yet are too scared to get it themselves the greater good - usually hidden behind fake bravado.

 

[Skybluefaz]

Joe Rogan has a lot to answer for.

 

[Grendel]

OK you’re in full on Piers Corbyn mode now. No point talking to you. Hope you’re OK man.

Funnily enough I was going to say why has Piers Corbyn hacked the idiots account. Why isn’t Corbyn in prison now. He influences morons like this

 

[shmmeee]

Funnily enough I was going to say why has Piers Corbyn hacked the idiots account. Why isn’t Corbyn in prison now. He influences morons like this

Did he get arrested for telling people to burn down MPs offices or whatever? If not he should’ve been. White middle class Abu Hamza that guy.

 

[clint van damme]

Did he get arrested for telling people to burn down MPs offices or whatever? If not he should’ve been. White middle class Abu Hamza that guy.

I saw the video, I don't think there could be a clearer example of inciting violence.

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

OK you’re in full on Piers Corbyn mode now. No point talking to you. Hope you’re OK man.

Yeah it’s incredible that life has more or less returned to normal thanks to the vaccine but there are still those trying to rubbish it.
The no-vaxx brigade also enjoy the freedoms that the vaccine has allowed, yet are too scared to get it themselves the greater good - usually hidden behind fake bravado.

Life has not returned to normal whatsoever, and pointing that out does not make someone Piers Corbyn. It is just a lazy way to get out of responding to genuine and reasonable questions regarding the efficiency of this vaccine to end the pandemic.

 

[Sick Boy]

Did he get arrested for telling people to burn down MPs offices or whatever? If not he should’ve been. White middle class Abu Hamza that guy.

He was but then I think was walking maskless down a tube train singing a song about a mask being like trying to keep a fart in a pair of trousers.

 

[Sick Boy]

Life has not returned to normal whatsoever, and pointing that out does not make someone Piers Corbyn. It is just a lazy way to get out of responding to genuine and reasonable questions regarding the efficiency of this vaccine to end the pandemic.

Compared to the early lockdowns of 2020, yes it has done. It’s a global pandemic and is going to take time to get back to where we were pre-2020.
If it wasn’t for the vaccine we’d been in harsher lockdowns now across the whole of Europe with thousands more dead.

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Defending it? What an odd thing to say given the lives it has saved.

Funnily enough I was going to say why has Piers Corbyn hacked the idiots account. Why isn’t Corbyn in prison now. He influences morons like this

Very lazy posting Grendel. Comparing someone who is rallying for violence to a poster on SBT questioning the vaccine as a solution to end the pandemic is the real whack take.

 

[Nick]

I saw the video, I don't think there could be a clearer example of inciting violence.

Is that the old fella trying to rap looking like he was having a stroke?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

What impresses me is the ability of people to keep defending its use when clearly there are some question marks. For young people, and for its purpose of getting life back to normal. Only to then u-turn on it when it's pointed out that it isn't the case.

Think omicron has changed the dynamics of the conversation too. Always been conflicted about children having vaccines for covid when it has no effect on them

 

[clint van damme]

Is that the old fella trying to rap looking like he was having a stroke?

That's him, though the rap video isn't 5he one Im referring to. That's probably not a criminal offence, but it should be.

 

[stupot07]

UK Covid test distributor shut for Christmas after receiving 2.5m kits

Alliance Healthcare took delivery on 24 December and then closed for four days, amid nationwide shortage

www.theguardian.com

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[Grendel]

Did he get arrested for telling people to burn down MPs offices or whatever? If not he should’ve been. White middle class Abu Hamza that guy.

The concentration camp leaflet comparing people having jabs like Jews going to gas chambers was bad enough but he’s also fairly obviously part of that shocking incident the other week

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Compared to the early lockdowns of 2020, yes it has done. It’s a global pandemic and is going to take time to get back to where we were pre-2020.
If it wasn’t for the vaccine we’d been in harsher lockdowns now across the whole of Europe with thousands more dead.

You pretty much could not get any harder in terms of lockdown than you can here right now.

 

[Nick]

That's him, though the rap video isn't 5he one Im referring to. That's probably not a criminal offence, but it should be.

Yeah was going to say that rapping should be criminal on it's own.

Deffo get him in a home.

 

[Nick]

Think omicron has changed the dynamics of the conversation too. Always been conflicted about children having vaccines for covid when it has no effect on them

Yeah I think Omicron has changed a lot with it being really mild.

 

[clint van damme]

The concentration camp leaflet comparing people having jabs like Jews going to gas chambers was bad enough but he’s also fairly obviously part of that shocking incident the other week

Which contradicts anti vaxxers who were wearing yellow stars. They need to get their stories straight. Or better still stop ludicrous and offensive comparisons to the victims of concentration camps.

 

[Sick Boy]

You pretty much could not get any harder in terms of lockdown than you can here right now.

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You’re ‘talking’ to someone who couldn’t even leave their home for exercise in the first lockdown.
It’s a temporary situation that will soon pass, just hang in there.

 

[Grendel]

Very lazy posting Grendel. Comparing someone who is rallying for violence to a poster on SBT questioning the vaccine as a solution to end the pandemic is the real whack take.

I think quoting straight from the piers Corbyn handbook of tin foil bollocks is pretty lazy and as for “whack take” oddly that tends to be people in a very minority position on such things. Have a look in the mirror,

 

[Grendel]

You’re ‘talking’ to someone who couldn’t even leave their home for exercise in the first lockdown.
It’s a temporary situation that will soon pass, just hang in there.

Who on the planet wouldn’t “defend” the vaccine