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I work in the NHS as a community nurse, so probably will be amongst the people who get the chance to try a vaccine relatively early when there is one. I will be taking it, first chance I f***ing get. No point risking an early death just for the pleasure of looking after folk, entertaining though that is.
For me there have been a few interesting learning points from this crisis:
1) Public health medicine knows what it's doing. It's been protecting you from infectious diseases for decades and you didn't notice because they're so damn good at it. They will protect you again, especially if the more insecure sort of political leaders get out of their way.
2) The dislike of experts amongst some sorts of politicians is probably a bigger risk to the publics health than Covid is. As they say, "if you don't like education, wait till you've tried stupidity"
3) Anti-vaxxers are a death cult, and this is the first time they've had a realistic chance to kill a lot of us. Don't fall for it, they won't take responsibility for the outcome and you may not be here hold them to it.
Have a good night.
But you question everyone else without any expertise other than being a keyboard warrior.... it’s easy to call people out, and ask them why they feel they are qualified to have an opinion, yet you offer no such qualifications genius.
But that's simply not true zambezi, your modus operandi throughout the threads on Covid 19 hasn't been to ask questions, what you have been doing is trying to deny science at every available opportunity.
No one is acknowledging human over population only yourself?
He questioned one poster, the same poster is trying to present himself as an expert on a subject he clearly knows sweet fanny adams about and has been called out by a lot of other posters.
Well if they can manage to raise the dead they can surely keep the living alive.Look on the bright side.
If there are to be any side effects from a vaccine......remember it was Pfizer who created Viagra!
I am perplexed here so please forgive me if you find this offensive but your equally vehement posts about your faith lead me to question why, in the absence of any real evidence to support the depth of belief you have espoused, you are then so critically questioning of the 'real world' science ? I would have thought that as a scientist you might have begun to question a faith so based on myth and unproveable fact ? Or have I got the wrong person here ?
Thanks for this HT, I left out the mention of time lag in the interests of brevity, but I do indeed understand and accept it, as indeed I accept the supplementary points you make, and thank you for making them, which I find help contribute/ unearth some very useful factors to be considered.I'm staying well out of the rest of your post...
This is interesting though. As far as I know, these are the facts (and correct me if I am wrong):
- Many/most cases, especially in young people are asymptomatic/mild
- There is significantly more testing occurring now than in 'wave 1'
- At the moment, the infection rates are rising in most age groups, but more so in the young than the old.
- There is a time lag from rising infection rates to rising deaths.
- Medical treatment of severe Covid cases has massively improved since 'wave 1'.
If you agree with those, then surely the following would also be true?
- We are detecting many more cases than before, and most of these are being detected in the young. Because we are detecting more cases, we will by definition be detecting more mild cases that may have gone unnoticed before. Obviously, when only the more severely affected patients were being tested, more of those (as a proportion) would go on to need ICU treatment, and more (proportionally) would die.
-By increasing the number of positive results, but by decreasing the number of fatalities due to improved medical care, we are massively reducing the proportion of those that test positive that end up dead.
Now, I don't think anyone is saying that 'wave 2' is as bad as 'wave 1' was, but if you look at the graphs below you can see that there is an increase in daily deaths at the moment, it is about 3 weeks behind the rise in positive test results, and that proportionally there are less deaths per positive test for the reasons I have outlined above.
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On this occasion, I just think you are interpreting the data incorrectly.
Best,
HT
He also likened my OP to that of trump? So forgive me not taking that one on the chin. What qualifies him to have any more right to question than myself or anyone else for that matter.
I just read your OP there again and he was right.
If people can’t take tongue in cheek then they perhaps need to look inwardly rather than cast aspersions about other people’s views.... it’s amazing what a silly post can achieve and the monsters that creep out from behind the keyboards...I just read your OP there again and he was right.
