October lockdown

I don't think anyone on here is clamouring for them. This mess goes back to before we got locked down originally. If we had shut our borders down before March 2020 when we knew the world was in danger and did a few weeks maybe a month of the original lockdown restrictions possibly with things we didn't need to do then like wear a mask, then by April 2020 we should have (while keeping the borders still shut apart from essential like food n medicine being brought here) been able to live like New Zealand did for most of last year until we got our vaccines here and was able to then open our borders again with testing.

 

Figures for comparison.- just for interest

Jan 13th Cases 38,000 People in Hospital 37,000

Sept 7th Cases 37,000 People in Hospital 8,000


First is winter, no vacine and at the start of the winter lockdown.

Second is summer, significant vacination and lifting of most regulations on July 19th.

Hospital beds in UK for general and acute patients are approx 100k.

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-covid-surged-150-places-24926119

Also for Barnsley 34 people in hospital and on freedom day 51, so with restrictions off hospital admissions have seen a sizeable drop.

 

Currently 71% of the UK population is vaccinated (64% double dosed). That is a lot, but is nowhere near "almost all". For comparison, Spain is 79% (73% both doses), Portugal 86% (78%) and Italy 72% (65%). Unless we can get the remaining nearly 30% vaccinated it will just continue to be a problem.

Some potential good news I read the other day was of an alternative vaccine - more based on a "traditional" model of deactivated virus particles rather than mRNA spike protein - might be approaching trial, which might (or might not) help to improve the situation.

 

Sorry to hear about that its definitely time g.ps got back to face to face appointments. Would definitely prevent more stories like this.
https://www.northantslive.news/news/northamptonshire-news/jeremy-vine-caller-year-live-5861221.amp

 

I think another problem since the isolation rules changed has been people supressing symptoms and saying, "It's just a cough. I've had both jabs".

 

Heartbreaking. Very similar story to my Mum. Wonder how many thousands of these there are. They are not getting published every day on the news, that is for certain.

 

I am mate,av ad pneumonia twice darent go to a match yet,well a say twice last yr i think it wa covid pneumonia cos i ad all symtoms of covid and wa coffin blood up for 10days and everything cleared up on itself,when i deffo had pneumonia i wa coffin blood up and had a shadow on mi lung wen i had an xray,remember doctor coming to see me and saying,your results for your xray are positive,i nodded with a smile and said,thats good then,thought he wa tellin mi everything wa ok.