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Booster jabs turning this new wave into a complete non event

So one country then? Not "much of Europe" Germany has banned cloth masks (makes sense, they're not effective) but still allows the blue surgical ones

Where in Europe are FFP2 masks mandated?

The government flat out told people to do things like that. That’s why we’ve never had a mask mandate in the UK.

Btw, I’m not sure that it’s hypocritical to say “I don’t think restrictions should have been lifted, but since they are, I’m going to take advantage of that anyway” I’m no big fan of the monarchy but I’m still going to enjoy the 4 day weekend next June for the jubilee (if she makes it that far given her recent health struggles)

I think there’s a tendency to think that masks and distancing are a “one or the other” type measure, where masks should be worn when you can’t keep 2m apart. In fact, you and I both understand that masks and distancing are measures that both work better in conjunction with one another.

Let the nail meet the head I don't oppose a face covering mandate because I don't like wearing them. In fact I don't mind wearing them at all. My face nappy of choice is the little blue surgical masks that fit nicely around my nose and mouth and will help keep me warm going into winter. No, the reason I'm against face nappy mandates is because I don't like looking at other people wearing them. They are completely dehumanising. I don't want to get the bus to Sainsburys and feel like I'm on a bus load of workers attending the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

I hate all members of fake SAGE regardless of their genitalia. Gabriel Scally is one of the worst nutjobs.

Half term started yesterday. There is no way that it's coming through into the rates yet.

Not only an £18bn cost but no discernible impact on case rates. Fake SAGE in the bin.

Not me. Which shouldn’t really be a surprise to anyone tbh. The current death toll is just under 140,000 or roughly 1-in-500 people. It’s incredibly feasible that most of us won’t know anyone who’s died.

Oh come on 😂 the boomers would be lining up to fuck over the youngsters as they do every few years at the ballot box. The generation that has had the largest percentage of covid deaths are among the worst ever for ignoring the interests of those younger than them. A truly awful group of people.

It’s all over for fake SAGE 😂😂😂 Deepti 😂 Pagel 😂😂 Clarke 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The reason people die from covid is because3 - They went out and caught it in the first place - They don’t have a good enough immune system to fight off a relatively minor virus. This is natural selection, not slaughter.

Eh? Old people getting sick and dying is not “slaughter”

Big day for case numbers today. We can genuinely establish whether booster jags are slaughtering the (5th?) wave into non-existence before it gets going, or if yesterday’s lower numbers were a mirage.

I probably count as obese. It would be wide of the mark to suggest all obese people are at high risk. I believe it’s considered BMI > 40 is the point where you are clinically extremely vulnerable/ Either way, I think the pro/anti lockdown dividing line falls depending on whether you consider covid to be an emergency of the calibre of an active shooter or nuclear attack. In my view, only events of that magnitude warrant a stay at home order.

None. It’s very easy to tell who will die if they catch covid. Let’s make a crude assumption that everyone who was hospitalised would die if left untreated due to overwhelming (and I don’t believe that to be true, but humour me), we can very easily predict who will end up in hospital. The vast majority are of pension age, of those who are not, the vast majority are obese and of the working age/non-obese population, you’re mainly looking at those with SEVERE underlying health conditions. Therefore, anyone falling into one of those buckets should have been aggressively shielding throughout the pandemic until the vaccine became available. Whether or not the rest of us are locked down or not has no bearing on the ability of the vulnerable to shield.

With hindsight it was an utterly rotten idea. It may have saved a couple of hundred thousand lives in the short term but it has completely normalised stay at home orders as a response to a non-emergency situation. That to me is much more dangerous than a short term threat.

Honestly mate. I lament the day the first lockdown was implemented, because it normalised an emergency response to a non-emergency situation. Let’s be honest, the only time lockdowns are acceptable are in response to extreme situations, such as an active shooter, a nuclear attack, a bioweapon etc Certainly not proportionate to the threat of a bog standard virus which is near harmless to under 70s

He’s had a couple of top 40 singles. He’s a serious artist. And Beni hasn’t shied away from hip hop in the past. Not saying it’s definitely him but could definitely see it.

Just putting two and two together but Laura Whitmore is the host of love island so I’m wondering if the act she’s announcing is love island contestant cum hip-hop artist Wes Nelson?

Give it another few weeks I reckon. I’ll say mid November. But face nappies and vaccine will predictably make next to no difference.

You can’t expect me not to take umbrage with someone who is openly lobbying for legal bans on people spending time with their loved ones It makes matters worse when said person has the actual skills needed to save lives but actively chooses not to use them

Or she could get on with doing palliative care and stop trying to get us locked down, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation.