The next focusIR Investor Webinar takes places on 14th May with guest speakers from Blue Whale Growth Fund, Taseko Mines, Kavango Resources and CQS Natural Resources fund. Please register here.
London South East prides itself on its community spirit, and in order to keep the chat section problem free, we ask all members to follow these simple rules. In these rules, we refer to ourselves as "we", "us", "our". The user of the website is referred to as "you" and "your".
By posting on our share chat boards you are agreeing to the following:
The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. As a user you agree to any information you have entered being stored in a database. You agree that we have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic or board at any time should we see fit. You agree that we have the right to remove any post without notice. You agree that we have the right to suspend your account without notice.
Please note some users may not behave properly and may post content that is misleading, untrue or offensive.
It is not possible for us to fully monitor all content all of the time but where we have actually received notice of any content that is potentially misleading, untrue, offensive, unlawful, infringes third party rights or is potentially in breach of these terms and conditions, then we will review such content, decide whether to remove it from this website and act accordingly.
Premium Members are members that have a premium subscription with London South East. You can subscribe here.
London South East does not endorse such members, and posts should not be construed as advice and represent the opinions of the authors, not those of London South East Ltd, or its affiliates.
And now there's a "Stealth Omicron"....AKA another verient of concern.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/scientists-find-stealth-version-of-omicron-not-identifiable-with-pcr-test-covid-variant
MMs nabbed lots of shares from weak hands today
Did they take the stop losses out or summat
sell for 122,000 just put through at 18p, then taken away, maybe sticky fingers
Nothing it’s just a glitch .. refreshed google and back to normal lol
Got me scared too
What happened
But Omicron can probably bypass vaccines. SA vaccine take up is lower than ours but I believe they still have 26% fully jabbed which is not insignificant.
Their cases are going through the roof because jabbed, previously infected are all getting as well.
Maybe Boris is saving christmas but maybe he is also putting the final nail into his career coffin?
Christmas will not be saved if daily cases get to 100k+ and a large chuck of as are ill over Xmas.
If after that we see hospitals getting over run and deaths rising he will not be forgiven for doing so little right now. Add to that, if Omicron ends up killing even one child (God forbid) he is well and truly finished in my opinion.
Massive, massive gamble going on in Downing Street right now and it could all go very Pete tong!
Reason SA is suffering is the low uptake of vaccines:As I said earlier:In 2 weeks Boris will come out and say "due to our UK restrictions ""we have saved xmas:
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told his cabinet that the Omicron variant of coronavirus appears to be "more transmissible" than Delta, Downing Street says...
Well ding ******* dong! Nice one Boris! how did you work that one out?
Was it maybe something to do with that case numbers line going vertically strait up in SA? They already had Delta as well and until a couple of weeks ago managed to kept their number down to a couple of hundred a day. Omicron appears and within a couple of weeks cases are over 10,000 a day.....huuum, but we can't be sure it's more transmissible....jeeez, give me strength!
Yes ditto with not wanting to fearmonger...however I do want to share what I have been looking at.
If you Google covid cases you get a good Google line graph where you can track cases and deaths in any county, on any day since covid records began, or you can look at the world picture as a whole.
If you look at the UK you can see how the vaccines have worked. Cases up or the same but deaths down or plateauing. When you look at the world picture something is just not right.
If we take the start of this year as the start of the full on world vaccination program beginning.
In this time over 8 billion vaccines have been put into arms. If you look at the numbers recorded on the 6th December last year (so before vaccinations) case numbers are basically the same, in fact slightly higher now than last year.
Deaths 6/12/20 - 7682
Deaths 6/12/21 - 6782
So cases the same deaths only down 12% after 8 billion vaccine doses? Sorry but looking at that either countries are not reporting their numbers correctly or the vaccines are not as protective as we are told? I'm not anti vaccines but the first one was meant to give us 90+% protection, we now need 3 of them, which "should" give us good protection. We previously thought its a good idea to wait 3 months between them but now don't think that's a problem...all this while globally around 7,000 people are still losing their lives prematurely every single day!
I can understand why goverments are pushing vaccinations hard, they clearly do some good which is better than nothing but I think the rhetoric will need to change back to testing at some point. It's clear, the only way you can be sure Covid doesn't get the better of you is not catching it.
HD2U, I dont want to fearmonger on here so all I will say is I expect cases to significantly rise
Will that lead to more hospitalisations? I believe so, more deaths and ICU admissions - possibly not and that is the hope, however thousands of admissions will still cause pressure on the NHS
I think we are walking into a disaster here, my biggest worry is actually the younger unprotected age groups
I understand people are fed up... and just want to get on with it... the economy is in tatters, however I do believe if we hadn't gone through 18 months of pain and were not 'fed up' we would be taking this much more serious right now
Only time will tell of course, I pray this is significantly less severe and the final wave
There are so many conflicting media articles on this at the moment it's hard to know who to believe.
What I have noticed and is telling is any Financial/ market driven paper, and / or right wing is painting a "its looking like it will be milder than Delta all will be fine" picture. Others are sticking to, we just don't know yet.
I does look to me that this period will be looked back on as the in 'denial phase.'
Numbers tell a clear story yet there still (according so some papers) is a question around transmission ability... errrr hello!
Next is hospitalisations. This, the latest from SA.
"Unfortunately, we’re seeing a more than doubling of hospital admissions each day,” said Ian Sanne, an infectious diseases specialist who serves on South Africa’s COVID-19 presidential advisory committee.
But some are saying this might be due to other infectious disease? We need more data don't worry those in hospital only have mild symptoms....well why are they in hospital then?
As I say, numbers don't lie. It suits goverments and the markets interests to keep everyone going as they are and nice and calm. But, they can't hide what is an obvious truth for ever. This thing is going to get bad....stay safe.