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25 Apr 20
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1. Making sure the NHS can cope
2. A 'sustained and consistent' fall in the daily death rate
3. Rate of infection decreasing to 'manageable levels'
4. Ensuring supply of tests and PPE can meet future demand
5. Being confident any adjustments would not risk a second peak
No actual metrics on them so meaningless.
2. A 'sustained and consistent' fall in the daily death rate
3. Rate of infection decreasing to 'manageable levels'
4. Ensuring supply of tests and PPE can meet future demand
5. Being confident any adjustments would not risk a second peak
No actual metrics on them so meaningless.
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Patel today gave more of a feel than any minister recently that we're not meeting those 5 points, she said it. We can all see that the past few days the deaths are going up.
Point 5 looks to be miles away. |
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Ensuring the public has confidence.
All very well having a bunch of rich capitalists begging us to get back to making them rich but people are going to need reassurance from medical professionals that going to Next isn't going to result in them having two weeks of utter misery. Result being that furloughed staff are back on payroll, landlords are chasing rent but shops just aren't seeing the business. Trying to rush thus is just going to make the economic position worse. |
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PP. Its those businesses and their employees who will pay the tax that enables us to have an NHS in the first place. Everyone is going to have a damn sight more than 2 weeks misery if we collapse our economy.
The problem is the Govt scared everyone to get them to stay home but they underestimated how cowardly a lot are and its going to be a real struggle to get them to go past their front door anytime soon. We should have been honest about who it affected from the start. |
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a second lockdown will damage the economy, what with brexit around the corner too, the
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I agree dotch but we are where we are and all talk of what might happen is in future conditional. Present tense makes a much more persuasive argument.
If we get Cummings et al telling us to go back to shops and restaurants while the WHO and our own scientists are saying there's a significant risk of catching the virus then it's going to be a damp squib. There are still far too many cases even of fit people being sent to hospital, laid up for weeks or being left with lasting issues. I read about two young divers who have come through the other side but are left with lungs more akin to someone over fifty. People just won't but into it If it's considered rushed. It's that big bowl of M&M's scenario. You're offered it but told one will kill you, a few will send you to hospital with all the terror for you and your family that entails, a few will make you seriously ill and bed-ridden for three weeks or so and lots more will either have no or only a mild effect. How many people are putting their hands in? Fact is, we ballsed up at the start so had to go into lockdown. Once in it we have to see it through till numbers are very low and it's significantly safer than it is now. Then we think about the economy. |
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1. Open a pub .
2. Open a betting shop . 3. Open another pub . 4. Open yet another pub 5. Open a KFC . |
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2. A 'sustained and consistent' fall in the daily death rate
I don't think there has been a significant rise in the death rate relative to previous years . Just a different label been invented and slapped on death certificates containing the prefix 'with'  |
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no deal brexit is what they wanted all along but they have focked te country in their devious way of getting it. well they will get their ideology of starting with a clean slate.
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Cummings and Boris have both had Covid.
Will be interesting to see if that makes them too cautious and results in us delaying the pain of the virus going through enough people get us immunity. People will not be able to survive a lock down until next summer and a possible vaccine. It has to be relaxed at some point and then the virus will spread even more. It is still r is 0.6. 10 million key workers are already out and about spreading it. The government told us the lock down was to protect the NHS being over run. Mission accomplished. Now they have moved the goal posts to 5 tests that have no metrics to be judged on. Let people out and trust them to social distance and protect the care homes properly. |
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What are the respective totals for the blue line and the orange line please ?
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........... for weeks 1 to 15 cumulatively . Thanks in advance
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Could be people not attending hospital because they were scared of Covid.
Could be people who would die inside a year anyway. We now know the backlog of operations already will take the NHS five years to clear we need to end this ASAP. |
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Non of the OPs listed Criteria have been reached , With Exception of the NHS coping .. For now ..
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Angoose - Very quick with the graphics , not so quick (forthcoming) with the actual figures
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Total deaths 5 year average 174693
Total deaths 2020 = 184960 How the hell is that a 59% increase , let alone a 76% increase ? By my calculation it's less than a 6% increase . Hardly 'significant' . Just a variance . Which raises the question : Why are your offerings so alarmist ? Do you have an agenda ?  |
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Where did I use the word 'hoax' ffs ? Another one who makes it up as he goes along
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Oh, by saying there hasn't been a significant rise and that people are merely inventing a new label for the death certificates you didn't mean to say it's all a hoax?
Alright. Sorry if that coupled with your history of spreading conspiracy theories about it indeed all being a hoax in the past gave me that impression. |
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How many of the British population have been 'killed by COVID-19' ?
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Reynard, do you really not recognise that there is something going on when there are consecutive weeks with significantly higher numbers of deaths? Numbers that aren't seen otherwise.
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Reynard, what measure of deaths has the Chief Medical Officer (Chris Whitty) been highlighting as the key measure of the impact of COVID-19 right from the outset ?
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edy - I agree , there is something going on , but I am not 100% sure exactly what it is . The nomber of deaths 'attributed' to Covid-19 has levelled off over the past fortnight so whatever this is as a result of it isn't COVID-19 .
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What's your best guess what it is?
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Why start at week 1? Let's go back to six months before that guy ate the bat and include those figures too!
#statisticalgeniusatwork |
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How many of the British population have been 'killed' by COVID-19 , according to Mr Whitty ?
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20 ? 30 ?
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2,000 ? 20,000 ?
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likely spike due to idiots drinking bleach now
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in carehomes,communitiy dr puts anything but covid on the death cert and its feet up gin and tonic in the sunshine ,in the garden,put covid in any shape or form and its extra paperwork,files,phone calls,etc,etc, whistleblowers have been saying it for 6 weeks now
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How about you give your definition of "killed by COVID-19" seeing as how you introduced the phrase in your typically alarmist manner ? ?
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Reynard
25 Apr 20 18:51 Joined: 30 Dec 02 | Topic/replies: 6,364 | Blogger: Reynard's blog How many of the British population have been 'killed by COVID-19' ? ^ Difficult one this. After the 500,000 worst case deaths paper was given credence by the UK government and Trump people with other conditions are too terrified to go to the hospital to get treatment. Green zones in hospitals sitting empty with staff with nothing to do as people too scared to attend. Deaths go up and will continue to go up due to the reaction to Covid. |
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The jail door could be opened tomorrow and most would remain self-imprisoned crying for the government to be tougher.
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IT, given what you have told us about you, shouldn't you be most understanding towards people locking themselves in? Will you stop self-imprisonment?
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It should be a personal choice.
Trust the people. I will do my bit to protect the vulnerable but I have nothing against the young, fit and health getting on with their lives. I do not want them to stop their education and building their careers to protect the vulnerable. Individuals and the state can do that in a focused way. |
