What do poeple take from the quote 70% transmissibility , what does this mean in raw numbers of infections.It just sounds so far-fetched that this is a cover-up to improve the government's image. Is this really what people are taking away from all this? Sounds to me like the equivalent of telling the world that you've shat yourself to cover up that you farted earlier.
The whole discrepancy in their results was whether trial members had had half a dose for their first jab or not.
What do poeple take from the quote 70% transmissibility , what does this mean in raw numbers of infections.
I can't square that circle to 1108 against several hundreds of thousands.
FFS that is much worse than the one that was already much worse!!Another new strain, come in from South Africa. More transmissable, further mutated. Triffic.
Yes.So another New South African strain
Does this not emphasise enough that shutdown and international travel should have been the policy until eradication,or single figure transmission?
So another New South African strain
Does this not emphasise enough that shutdown and international travel should have been the policy until eradication,or single figure transmission?
You do have to wonder how many times we have to import an issue from another country until at the very least we put a proper quarantine system in place. Our first major outbreak didn't come from Wuhan, it was a strain from Italy, then after a summer where we got numbers right down a strain from Spain became dominant and now we have one from South Africa.Does this not emphasise enough that shutdown and international travel should have been the policy until eradication,or single figure transmission?
It just sounds so far-fetched that this is a cover-up to improve the government's image. Is this really what people are taking away from all this? Sounds to me like the equivalent of telling the world that you've shat yourself to cover up that you farted earlier.
The figures around this are plucked from the air before the data has been thoroughly scrutinised.
The words and statements being used extremely dramatic.
On December 13th there were 1108 notified case's of this variant from a period spanning three months when several hundreds of thousands were recorded.
The 70% figure has already been revised down to 50% ,I wouldn't be surprised if it were revised again further down the line to something between 20 and 30% .
So what does 70% more transmissibility really mean .
Statistics can pretty much mean anything dependant on how you present them.
Does the initial presentation offer the Gov't cover for their failure?
The flagship policy of insisting children stay in school and are low risk has been exposed and 'Will' have to be shut for a period .
Edit:- dependant on how long you've lived you get a sense of when things are spun .
This feels like one , just like the Iraq dossier
He’s fucking deluded. Kier will be along soon to back him up.Still pretending schools can function.
Still pretending schools can function.
I think you can have a middle ground between its all a huge conspiracy and the government being completely honest with the public.It just sounds so far-fetched that this is a cover-up to improve the government's image. Is this really what people are taking away from all this? Sounds to me like the equivalent of telling the world that you've shat yourself to cover up that you farted earlier.
I've never met a nice South African (strain)Another new strain, come in from South Africa. More transmissable, further mutated. Triffic.
That would be the move of anyone with any semblance of brain function.If the strain is that contagious (and more transmissible in school aged kids than original) they’ve got at least consider moving schools in T4 (and probably T3) to online learning for January surely
I think Bob brought the strain back actually, but it was contracted from not a nice South African.I've never met a nice South African (strain)
I think Bob brought the strain back actually, but it was contracted from not a nice South African.
For me the issue is that the government spout so much shit people have lost confidence that anything they come out with is the truth. Even in the gutter that is politics where covid is concerned it should have been the case that the government were truthful and upfront with the public from day one. We haven't seen anything like that.for some the government are damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
We all know the weird obsession with keeping schools open is more as a daycare service so people can go to work rather than any concern about kids education but surely at this point you admit defeat. How many kids and staff will be off? You can't even pretend that things can continue as normal and the exams will go ahead as usual in the summer. And thats before you even consider the potential for spreading it around.If the strain is that contagious (and more transmissible in school aged kids than original) they’ve got at least consider moving schools in T4 (and probably T3) to online learning for January surely
Ha ha, never seen/heard that before.
These are all the current tier 2 places and the changes that are coming in.Are there many going from 2 to 4?
East of England
East Midlands
- Cambridgeshire (moving to Tier 4 from Saturday 26 December)
- the following local authorities in Essex: Colchester, Tendring and Uttlesford (moving to Tier 4 from Saturday 26 December)
- Norfolk (moving to Tier 4 from Saturday 26 December)
- Suffolk (moving to Tier 4 from Saturday 26 December)
North West
- Northamptonshire (moving to Tier 3 from Saturday 26 December)
- Rutland
South East
- Cumbria
- Liverpool City Region
- Warrington and Cheshire (moving to Tier 3 from Saturday 26 December)
South West
- West Sussex, East Sussex (except Hastings and Rother) and Brighton and Hove (all moving to Tier 4 from Saturday 26 December)
- Oxfordshire (moving to Tier 4 from Saturday 26 December)
- Waverley (moving to Tier 4 from Saturday 26 December)
- Southampton and Hampshire (all local authorities except Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth)
- from Saturday 26 December, all Hampshire local authorities currently in Tier 2 will move to Tier 4, with the exception of the New Forest which will move to Tier 3
- from Saturday 26 December, Southampton will move to Tier 4
West Midlands
- Bristol (moving to Tier 3 from Saturday 26 December)
- North Somerset (moving to Tier 3 from Saturday 26 December)
- Somerset (South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor) (moving to Tier 3 from Saturday 26 December)
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Devon, including Plymouth and Torbay
- Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud and Tewkesbury) (moving to Tier 3 from Saturday 26 December)
- Wiltshire and Swindon (Swindon moving to Tier 3 from Saturday 26 December)
Yorkshire
- Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin
- Worcestershire
- City of York and North Yorkshire
Utter madness isn’t it...There are still flights landing in the UK from a whole string of destinations.
It’s gone from 1 to 3 maybe it’s not a jokeCornwall going into tier 4 from midnight from tier 1
Loads of pirates have returned for Christmas and the aaarrrhhghhhh rate has gone through the roof
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