dpedin wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 1:24 pm
Sandstorm wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 12:50 pm
BnM wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 7:52 am
Average age of those infected is 29. Which on one level is great, shows the impact on vaccines. On the other hand it calls into question the lifting of restrictions next month. There's a big Palestine march in Bradford planned for this weekend....
But it also shows that Bimbot is a dickhead when he claimed that the virus only kills old people. Lots of new admissions in the 30-39 age group in serious condition.
I suspect they were careful for a year to keep Mum and Grandad safe. Soon as the elderly got jabbed, their grown up kids forgot all about restrictions and started socialising all over. Plus back to school for their own children....
Now that we have a more virulent version of the virus dominant and spreading fast it would be sensible to not lift lockdown in June and try and get ahead with the vaccination programme. Whilst younger folk are a lot less likely to die of covid19, if we lift lockdown now we will just see lots and lots of cases and after that it's a numbers game - a % will need hospitalisation and a % of them will die. There is also the no small matter of long covid and possibly consigning young folk to many weeks or months of potentially serious ongoing health problems. With schools/colleges back and no plans to vaccinated u16s then we have an ideal environment in schools and colleges for the virus to spread asymptomatically across the wider community. It would make more sense to retain current lock down arrangements until schools finish up?
I see, as predicted, that EU countries and others are now thinking twice about allowing UK citizens to travel because of the Indian variant now being dominant. I just hope the Blonde Bumblecunt is satisfied with yet another major covid blunder! How much better position would we be in if he had closed the border to Indian travel and put in the proper isolation requirements at the right time, at the very least we would have bought a few extra weeks/months to get further ahead with the vaccination programme. He really is a useless Cnut of the first order!
Looks like the scientists won the battle! No easing of lock down for another 4 weeks. Thank feck for that.
As I warned back on 21st May the modelling was done and showed the (now called) Delta variant was a major risk heading into July/August. This was well known back in mid May and this decision could have been taken weeks ago but of course the G7 meeting was coming up and the Blonde Bumbelcunt didnt want to make any announcement before this meeting. So lets pretend we are waiting for the 'new data' when in reality this decision was made weeks ago. Also interesting the scientists are now talking about links with schools and colleges which have been acting like a covid clearing house for the new Delta variant. Still feel pretty uneasy about the assumption that kids are not affected by covid and it would appear we are trying to achieve herd immunity in u16s by stealth! On herd immunity the new variant's increased transmissibility would suggest we need to vaccinate in excess of 85% of pop.
I suspect the spread of the Delta variant is going to put us in the naughty corner for a lot of international travel for many weeks now. I would remain cautious about booking a summer holiday abroad.
Hope a journalist asks him at the briefing if not putting India into the Red early enough was worth it for the new trade deal he was hoping to get with Modi! He really is a useless and dangerous Cnut! We were so close to easing lock down and the useless Cnut, by not putting India into the red zone because of his own political post Brexit agenda, has completely fecked this up.
) to get them to update their fucking records & stop harassing me because apparently a £36 billion system can't cross reference.
