mansr
Objectionist
Call it whatever you want, we can't keep having them forever.We've never really had a lockdown in the UK (cf China).
Call it whatever you want, we can't keep having them forever.We've never really had a lockdown in the UK (cf China).
Sooner or later, we'll have to accept the presence of the virus, even if it ends up killing a few people every year.
As I explained above in #1594 I am not aware of any lockdown enthusiasts.This virus is never going away entirely. Having a lockdown every time someone sneezes isn't a viable way to live long-term. Sooner or later, we'll have to accept the presence of the virus, even if it ends up killing a few people every year. With the help of vaccines, that time may well be now. If not now, then when? That's the question I'd like to see answered by the lockdown enthusiasts.
Nobody, but nobody, is saying we have to.Call it whatever you want, we can't keep having them forever.
Just for perspective, that's roughly the number of people who die from smoking in the same time frame.More like a couple hundred a day and approaching 150k dead so far.
Ever been in the same room as a smoker?If deaths from smoking had an R of anything you’d have a point.
Not in ages, but if you think the risk from secondhand smoke equates to the risk of infection from a respiratory virus you’re wrong.
I’m sure Roy Castle’s family might say something different.
By my reckoning, everybody has been wrong."Given same scientist predicted year ago that life would return to normal by spring 2021, i will not put too much faith in the predictions today either."
https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1475821366674960387
I think Bell's been wrong at every turn of the pandemic so far
Also, don't believe anything written on a red bus.But one inescapable lesson must be that starving the health service of resources was the worst possible preparation for when Covid struck, and that we must never allow ourselves to be put in that place again by some spurious need to 'balance the books' or 'pay down the debt'.
Note that he’s “100% for getting people to drop isolation early” - he just wants to LFT first. Seems reasonable. US seems not to have embraced LFTs though.Follow the money!
CDC’s new guidance to drop isolation of positives to 5 days without a negative test is reckless Some ppl stay infectious 3 days,Some 12 I absolutely don’t want to sit next to someone who turned Pos 5 days ago and hasnt tested Neg. Test Neg to leave isolation early is just smart
https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1475598522338656266?ref_src=twsrc^tfw