Decline the jab

[brummievet]

I can’t quite believe ‘studies’ are still coming out suggesting we’re going to have untold number of cases and deaths in a few weeks if nothing more is done. Haven’t the mathematicians learnt that they have overestimated on this disease all the way through, leading to government panic? They should stop these modelling studies based on the fact they’ve haven’t modelled anything correctly yet!

[mr brightside]

I can’t quite believe ‘studies’ are still coming out suggesting we’re going to have untold number of cases and deaths in a few weeks if nothing more is done. Haven’t the mathematicians learnt that they have overestimated on this disease all the way through, leading to government panic? They should stop these modelling studies based on the fact they’ve haven’t modelled anything correctly yet!

Ye gods! But then we'd have to confront the implications of our own mortality and fragility. Data, data, data- that's what's going to get us through this. Using the wonders of the clockwork universe we shall predict and compute our way out of this pandemic and, in our hour of glory, we shall marvel at the imperiousness of classical mechanics. Any frivolous ideas like stress in the mind weakening the body's immune responses are snake oil, there is no point in keeping calm and carrying on.

[molehill]

In 10 minutes time Boris is making a statement on Covid. I can leak what this is.

"Having consulted with all experts we have reached the conclusion that nobody has a friggin clue what happens next. Happy Christmas."

Actually, I would happily settle for that on honesty value alone.

[Witton Park]

Its been the case that the link between infection and hospitalisation/death has been significantly eroded for all of this autumn/early winter peak. How do we know that 98% of population have antibodies? I ain't been tested....so it must a guestimate, surely?

Page 4 of the UK HSA Surveillance Report Week 49 (which covers weeks 45-58 ie November)is a figure they come up with from the blood donor service.

[Witton Park]

Meaningless statistics, unless you tell us the proportion of the population that is unvaccinated.



We have an anagram specialist



Well, I can't fault that analysis.

Around 20% of adults are unvaccinated.
I don't claim credit for the anagram which I pinched from elsewhere

[bigfella]

Page 4 of the UK HSA Surveillance Report Week 49 (which covers weeks 45-58 ie November)is a figure they come up with from the blood donor service.

Isn't that itself a skewed sample, only a certain age group are eligible to give blood and presumably certain demographics are more likely to volunteer.

[Wheeze]

Harsh truth is that most of the cases in ITU are unvaccinated, according to those who work there. Its not fair on folks who need ITU care for other reasons.

[Llani Boy]

One of my major gripes is the number of professional sportsmen/women who have not been vaccinated even though the Government have bent over backwards to keep the precious little things playing their games and travelling all over the world.

A "stat" on Sky News last night stated that 75% of EFL players had either been double jabbed, jabbed, or were thinking about being jabbed. A meaningless "stat" other than we can deduce that 25% were not going to get a jab.

A disgraceful state of affairs and the authorities should put their foot down and not allow participation in professional sport unless proof of vaccination is provided.

I think that these cosseted sportsmen/women, heroes to many, are just taking the piss.

[Travs]

On the subject of Llani's post, i think that any professional football team who have unvaccinated players should be prevented from calling off a game... they should be deducted the points.

I've got my 3rd jab tomorrow, hoping it won't have any negative effects carrying over to racing on sunday.

[anthonykay]

I had my third vaccination on Wednesday this week. Whereas my first two (AstraZeneca) had zero side-effects, apart from a little tiredness, this Pfizer booster left with an arm that was painful enough to disturb my sleep the following night (more than 12 hours later). And the actual injection was rather painful, whereas I had hardly felt anything with the first two.