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Coronavirus - the new strain XVII

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This is quite incredible - it's about cancer patients rather than covid, but... The horse chooses for himself which patients he wants to visit by raising his leg, dressage style. There's more in the link.

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https://www.theguardian.com/society...forting-cancer-patients-in-calais-in-pictures
 
ICU cases only just getting back to where they were the week before Xmas.

Hospitals are still beyond the capacity of a normal winter. They had to create addition space in January from operating theatres, recovery rooms and the like.
 
As well as cancelling many routine procedures.
And more urgent ones. The excess death figures, when finally calculated, will no doubt reflect people who didn’t die of Covid, but whose cancer went from operable to inoperable while they waited for the theatre facilities and staff to become available, and people who had strokes and heart attacks, but didn’t get the timely intervention that could have saved them, and so many others.
 
Looks like Italy are going back into lockdown? They started to open up with deaths still at circa 500 per day, lessons not being learned really is a deadly thing at the moment.
 
I've been expecting an increase in rate to match that in the case data, and as you say there might be bit of a suggestion of that, but today's point is back on the curve which we shouldn't really expect to see if the decline is accelerating. Hospital numbers are all that matter in the end, the case numbers are just a sample.

The Indie Sage report today amplified the comments that we have made regarding the large number of LFD tests now making comparison back in time much more difficult.

The case number data does need to be logged, but then interpreted by people with access to more information regarding the data (ONS, REACT, number of LFD vs PCR test etc). Thereby, as you have stated, leaving the hospital admin and Covid death data as the important numbers to monitor.
 
The Indie Sage report today amplified the comments that we have made regarding the large number of LFD tests now making comparison back in time much more difficult.

The case number data does need to be logged, but then interpreted by people with access to more information regarding the data (ONS, REACT, number of LFD vs PCR test etc). Thereby, as you have stated, leaving the hospital admin and Covid death data as the important numbers to monitor.

I completely agree. There was a promise not to conflate the different tests at one point, it's a deliberate obfuscation I think.
 
6609 cases today (again, 10% higher than a week ago), 175 deaths and 483 admissions (9th) against 541 of my current 'model'.
 
The ONS is painting a mixed picture this week. The data are too old to be capturing the schools return yet...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...08698df19dff46#block-604b702c8f08698df19dff46

This might cheer you up:
https://twitter.com/bristoliver/status/1370367069762490378?s=21

:)

On another matter, vaccine “hesitancy” is turning out to be not a thing in the UK:

https://twitter.com/thatryanchap/status/1370307195443810305?s=21

As with attitudes to lockdown, this tends to confirm my suspicion that populism in the UK has nothing to do with being “anti-science” or even anti-expert, anti-knowledge etc. The list of things that readers of the British press are prepared to have their brains melted over is pretty much restricted to things they don’t expect to really affect them personally. In other words, when they lose their **** over Brussels, cancel culture, Meghan Markle or whatever, they know exactly what they’re doing.
 
The Covid One Year Ago Twitter account has been doing a good job dragging things from the memory hole, and challenging tendencies to see, WHO, PHE and SAGE as heroes, standing against the villainy of the government. But we’re now reaching that point where it was clear to most of us the government preferred mass death to taking action:

https://twitter.com/yearcovid/status/1370675250271162374?s=21

Was “herd immunity” ever a strategy as such, or is Vallance just a really, really bad communicator?
 
Colonial mindset plus learned helplessness WRT the state. It’s killed a lot of people, as everyone knew it would.

https://twitter.com/yearcovid/status/1370687078078377984?s=21

The next few days of this account are going to bring us lots of journalists berating the public for questioning any of this. Might have to mute it.

One year on: is there any part of the British establishment that doesn’t need to replaced wholesale, even if it’s just to let the public get our breath back? 11 years of mass murder, and it wasn’t any picnic before that, while journalists celebrate the Very Difficult Decisions our masters have had to take. Absolutely rotten state.
 
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