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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/15/why-britons-are-tolerating-sky-high-covid-rates-and-why-this-may-not-last
De-sensitisation to Mortality.
The new nomal - How long will it last ?
Its truly appalling the level of death and morbidity the UK plc seem to be happy with.
I think reporting the stats daily on the news reduces the impact,
Over 250000 new cases and nearly a 1000 deaths a week sounds much worse than 40k new infections and 140 deaths each day.
We truly are on our own in our society, the philosophy of look out for number 1 is clearly the overriding sentiment
Absolutely poidster, 45k reported today up 50% from the 3rd, literal exponential growth. In the next 7 days hospitalizations and deaths will rise further after the lag. Not a word from the government, this smells very similar to October last year. The vaccines being the only thing standing between us and 1k deaths a day. Any further mutation with a degree more of vaccine escape or Co infection with influenza could cause havoc with cases as high as they've been since July.
Think it is appalling Poidster and public will accept until NHS gets into major issues. Every ambulance service on black alert already, waiting in carparks for up to 10 hours in some cases.
Trying to figure why the increase in those hospitalised in the over sixties. Booster given after six months , when in the UK did folks receive 2nd jab for over fifties , sixties , seventies ? I can't remember. In other words , vax waning and booster not yet given because of six month lag ? Anyone know if that is strictly adhered to?
Over 50s 2nd jab was may/June for general population. Latest real world study shows AZ protection from transmission 3 months after 2nd jab the same as being unvaxxed. However, still good protection from serious illness and death after 3 months. Pfizer and Moderna transmission protection roughly same as AZ after 3 months.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/17/england-to-open-walk-in-covid-clinics-for-children-aged-12-15-within-weeks
The increase in Covid cases amongst secondary school children is becoming increasingly concerning in particular.
Interesting graph showing coronavirus case rates by age group.
Personally haven't been called for a booster yet and visited an antique fair today where only a handful of people wore masks and ventilation was inadequate - needless to say, didn't stay long.
I personally don't think the average person is particularly empathetic, we tend to empathise more with events and incidences that directly affect us. It's true of terrorist attacks in places like Afghanistan vs Paris, the latter we can imagine ourselves or our friends harmlessly enjoying their holidays and it quickly turning into a nightmare whereas the former just doesn't resonate in the same way.
Similarly with covid we all have had now had it or know many people who have had it and shaken it off with varying degrees of success. At this stage the majority who have been vaccinated aren't scared to catch it and just assume that those that are dying are in the same cohort of people who sadly pass away with flu and colds.
I don't know where the line should be drawn, there is going to be deaths from covid in perpetuity but the numbers are stubbornly high and there needs to be a strategy beyond simply 'learning to live with covid'
There's no such thing as the average person - we are all individuals.
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.
It's the medicine that the world needs right now.
We're not safe till we're all safe.
@woody, couldn't disagree more, you really think anything said on here really influences the SP in anyway.
Perhaps, it you consider this to be scaremongering, you may want to do some digging into how many ppl are now in ITU with covid.
We are also now seeing Influenza A infections appearing, which normally only raise their head in December time, we have been seeing RSV since July. This is normally unheard of.
If you think showing empathy and genuine concern for the coming winter is scaremongering you perhaps should take your fingers out of your ears and the blinkers off your eyes.
Pretending everything is OK doesn't make this go away. Lots of posters on here deal with the day to day reality of this Pandemic and its effects on the NHS. To suggest that this is scaremongering in a vain attempt to try to raise the SP is at best naive and utterly embarrassing.
I would be ashamed of that post
Woody9,Sawdust for brain matter.do one p"""l.
And that goes to the p"""s that ticked him.
No-one heals themselves by wounding another.
My wife said I lack empathy.
I don't understand how she could feel that way - Lol
Keep safe ans GLA.
Scaremongering?
Even at these relatively low levels of deaths, covid deaths this winter in the UK will eclipse the worst flu years in living memory even with high levels of vaccination.
The US has been losing more of it's citizens daily to covid than it lost in the first wave when there was no vaccine.
Russia is topping a thousand deaths a day with no sign of a let up.
The common denominator? Little to no mitigation other than vaccination against a variant that's having little problem moving between individuals, vaccinated or not.
Desensitized? Very much so. The Spanish flu pandemic lasted 3 years, we're 18 months into this one with a far more mobile global population.