When will this shit end?

[efcfanwirral]

5 minutes ago, zahidf said:

I haven't seen any commebt on that 10% figure other than on here. I doubt people would have really twigged that

Finally an advantage to the average  news viewer not thinking critically.

[thewayiam]

39 minutes ago, Benj said:

Can you please link this 10% of tests were positive number as I’ve not seen it reported anywhere

I only read the link on here but others have reported it. I can't say too much as I just cans chucked at me worse than Manchester on yesterday if I give a view on it.

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Benj said:

It’s a HUGE number if true and considering the nationwide number is .2% is frankly pretty unbelievable!

i posted it yesterday and I cant vouch for its accuracy but someone on twitter thats doing the testing told me they had had one poisitive  test in 5000 ...

[efcfanwirral]

Is the news on iplayer? Quote will be on there - about 10.25 last night, was the last feature. Was all pretty interesting anyway so worth a watch for anyone who's interested! Was reported with a positive spin which is good to see 

[Benj]

11 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

i posted it yesterday and I cant vouch for its accuracy but someone on twitter thats doing the testing told me they had had one poisitive  test in 5000 ...

That would seem a little low but far more believable than 500

If the positive rate is .2% you would expect around 10 (assuming I’ve done the maths right. 
 

Perhaps Benn meant 10 cases as opposed to 10%!

[august1]

On the dashboard it shows 8 positive tests in Liverpool over the last 3 days, that's for the whole city plus all the event testing. Might be a bit of lag in reporting but won't jump much.

[august1]

Melvin has stumped up 500 festival tickets for any of the 5,000 yesterday who complete their PCR test later this week. Not bad odds! He must be desperate for the data.

[JoeyT]

 

[zahidf]

2 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

 

Wow! 1 death

[efcfanwirral]

2 minutes ago, august1 said:

Melvin has stumped up 500 festival tickets for any of the 5,000 yesterday who complete their PCR test later this week. Not bad odds! He must be desperate for the data.

Amazing stuff that 

[Crazyfool01]

6 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Wow! 1 death

Damn I predicted 0 …. That’s pretty fantastic news though 🙂 

[steviewevie]

18 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Damn I predicted 0 …. That’s pretty fantastic news though 🙂 

we'll get there...but at same time you have to look at average over a week, right?

[efcfanwirral]

1 minute ago, Barry Fish said:

Less so for the family affected I suppose

I wonder if they actually died of covid or with covid.

And when too

[zahidf]

 

[efcfanwirral]

3 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

Allowing this while still having restrictions at home...only for a few weeks yes but considering variants from abroad are the thing we're supposed to be most scared of and the reason we can't even fully let up after the NHS is no longer in danger that doesn't sit right with me. But as a sign towards things moving towards normality it's got to be a good signal 

[Crazyfool01]

7 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

Less so for the family affected I suppose

I wonder if they actually died of covid or with covid.

of course .... its not good but shows a much improving situation .... as for the rest,  it could be either there will still be some who the vaccines don t work for .... or have not had it for various reasons 

[Paul ™]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

i posted it yesterday and I cant vouch for its accuracy but someone on twitter thats doing the testing told me they had had one poisitive  test in 5000 ...

It's bull, my mate was running the security operation there, and he mentioned 1 positive case, the first night.

*edit*

This was the Circus events, not the Blossoms gig.

Edited May 3, 2021 by Paul ™

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Paul ™ said:

It's bull, my mate was running the security operation there, and he mentioned 1 positive case, the first night.

fits with what I was told then 🙂  .... didnt think there would be any reason for the random DM being wrong 🙂 

[efcfanwirral]

3 minutes ago, Paul ™ said:

It's bull, my mate was running the security operation there, and he mentioned 1 positive case, the first night.

*edit*

This was the Circus events, not the Blossoms gig.

 

1 minute ago, crazyfool1 said:

fits with what I was told then 🙂  .... didnt think there would be any reason for the random DM being wrong 🙂 

The blunder on the BBC seems to have slipped by in the wider media so he seems to have got away with saying it! 

[BobWillis2]

1 hour ago, Benj said:

That would seem a little low but far more believable than 500

If the positive rate is .2% you would expect around 10 (assuming I’ve done the maths right. 
 

Perhaps Benn meant 10 cases as opposed to 10%!

ONS has prevalence at 1 in 1010. So you would expect 5 roughly to be positive, maybe a bit higher being mostly younger attendees. But the limited accuracy of the lateral flow and the very low prevalence means the accuracy of the results were not even worth looking at. 

[steviewevie]

 

[Ozanne]

2 hours ago, Mr.Tease said:

Have we had any info yet on what the policy will be regarding whether kids (who haven't been vaccinated) will need testing for going abroad if countries go ahead with vaccine passports? 

I couldn't see that this was answered, sorry if it has. No there hasn't been anything yet, they have pushed back their announcement on international travel from May 1st too 'early May'.

[steviewevie]

Apprently covid is airborne.

 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

Apprently covid is airborne.

 

I hope that means people stop wearing gloves and just wash their hands 😞

[zero000]

49 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

Interesting thread thanks for sharing. It will be interesting to see if these predictions come to reality.
 

I’m not sure on the term “covid anxiety syndrome” however. It’s needlessly pathologising of people’s anxiety, which is understandable.