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It is a pandemic. Simple as that. Not economics, not world plans, just a **** of a virus, same as those that came in the decades/centuries before this one and same as ones that will come to test future generations.

Posted a note in the economics thread about this topic. I think it’s just more comforting to think that a bunch of evil fuckers are planning and control all this. Because if that’s the case they could decide to stop it and in a way maybe that would mean that end is close. Whereas if it’s nature just doing what it does it’s just chaos. There is no control, there is no end and there may never be an end. That’s kind of scary. The virus could theoretically just lumber along sideways for years. Not getting much stronger or weaker. And we’re stuck dealing with this every winter. That’s bleak.

I chose to believe that this is in fact nature but that it will get better. The virus will weaken and we will develop better technologies and ways of adapting to this. This could be the half way point, this could be 25% into the pandemic or we could be 15% from the end of it.

We have to remain hopeful that one or both of those things is true. We need better treatment and more buy-in than what we currently have or the virus has to mutate and weaken. We’re just in stasis if neither of those things happen.
 
Excellent post @CDX_EIRE Makes sense that people are turning to the conspiracy theories instead of admitting we are in the unknown which, as you say, is probably more scary for them.
 
A big headline that they have run out of home test kits, but they had run out last weekend when I went for my test that's why I went to an on-site testing station rather than use a home kit.
 
So after last night announcement the rate of boosters has to go from doing 450,000 a day to a million a day !!!!

Good luck with that , but it's not like Johnson to make wild undeliverable promises is it ?

I’m so cynical about these things, I’m trying to work out what he was trying to cover up yesterday or today but I needed a break from political scandals after this week, I didn’t watch or read anything political yesterday.

I did however send my local MP a brutal email telling him I expect Bozo to resign in no uncertain terms.
 
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I’m so cynical about these things, I’m trying to work out what he was trying to cover up yesterday or today but I needed a break from political scandals after this week, I didn’t watch or read anything political yesterday.

I did however send my local MP a brutal email telling him I expect Bozo to resign in no uncertain terms.
I watch newspaper review at 10.30 every night. One of the reviewers said he was probably trying to detract from all the stuff with the Xmas parties. Lets face it he could have made that statement to day .
 
I watch newspaper review at 10.30 every night. One of the reviewers said he was probably trying to detract from all the stuff with the Xmas parties. Lets face it he could have made that statement to day .

If only he could see that if he spent as much time being a credible leader, thinking these things through in terms of the options and consequences before they happen and also having a higher regard for the public which plays through into the culture of the current “leadership”, as he did planning his diversion tactics after the event, he’d be half credible leader.

Shows the regard he has for the public off the back of his populism, but that is fast waning.
 
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He's just like Trump and doesn't deal in reality. This government lacks a fucking clue and this in a nutshell is why we have not dealt with COVID well at all. The investment and infrastructure just isn't there with respect to our healthcare system. You get what you pay for. This government has turned everything it has touched into an absolute shitshow.
 
More details emerge on 10 Omicron cases in English hospitals
As we heard earlier, 10 people have been hospitalised with the Omicron variant in England.
Now, the UK Health Security Agency has provided some more detail on those cases.
They are aged 18 to 85 and are in hospitals around the country where they were diagnosed with Omicron on or before admission, it says.
The majority had received two doses of Covid vaccination, the UKHSA says, and - as we've been reporting - one person has died.
Quote Message: Hospitalisations always lag a few weeks behind infections, therefore it isn't surprising that we have started to see people being admitted to hospital with the Omicron variant. Our data shows that getting the booster vaccine is more effective against this variant than two doses alone. Everyone over 18 is now able to walk into a vaccination centre so do not hesitate to get yours. from Dr Susan Hopkins Chief medical adviser UKHSA
Hospitalisations always lag a few weeks behind infections, therefore it isn't surprising that we have started to see people being admitted to hospital with the Omicron variant. Our data shows that getting the booster vaccine is more effective against this variant than two doses alone. Everyone over 18 is now able to walk into a vaccination centre so do not hesitate to get yours.
Dr Susan HopkinsChief medical adviser UKHSA​