Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

They used Citywest for a mass vaccination center, testing center and isolation hotel.... not quite done nothing with it.

Plenty of nightingale hospitals were left unused in the UK, our private capacity here left unused etc...

Just because you invest in overflow capacity, doesn't mean you go all out to try use it to ensure the best value for the tax payers.

How's the covid positive nurse get to work? It would mean all staff in the complex would need to be covid positive also.

So you could end up with a lack of say porters because there's none close by who are positive, so what's you plan? Left them get infected so they can work there so the complex doesn't grind to a halt?

Covid positive HCW's have been called up to work in various countries, but the situation was so grim at the time, it was the only option. We're pretty bloody far from that to happen here.

The poor girl, can't she talk to anyone?

Of course, I was talking to him a couple of days ago and said the exact same to him but sure I might as well be talking to my dog for all the difference it made, his own wife said the same, she wanted to shut down the bar for Christmas until the Covid numbers go down a bit but now this guy was having none of it.😮

Best laugh is gonehome and his GP who can guess what variant of the virus you have.

Wouldn't be just covid you'd be treating in Dannos covid hospital either. As you'd need to move anyone being treated of anything that also had covid. Then who would move them. The covid porter or the non covid porter ha

Sounds messy.

Good point, need MRI/Endoscope/Physio and the endless other stuff.... unless he doesn't want to treat them for their actual illness. In which case, send them home (unless it's urgent care)

Why not just cancel all elective care and keep hospitals to covid only and emergency care, like we had back at the start. Talk about going backwards.

OK thanks for clarifying, I never heard that phrase before.

Have sort of only read the news headlines over the last week on the case numbers. I’ve got the damned thing and, one bad day aside, it’s been like a mild head cold for me. Nothing I’d have given a second thought to if Covid didnt exist.

My loose understanding was that Omicron was the dominant strain and the most transmissible strain but that it was also far less severe and very few had been hospitalised from it and hardly anyone had died from it. Is that correct? Because I had genuine hope that this was our way out of the pandemic, the virus has mutated into a strain that can replicate and move quickly and it didn’t make anyone too ill. Everyone’s a winner, happy days.

Then I log on here and see that people are talking circuit breakers and Tony the Gloom Merchant is spouting the same stuff he’s been saying for two years. Aren’t ICU and hospital numbers the only metric that matters here? If so, why are we taking doom and **** gloom?

If someone dies within 28 days of testing positive for covid in the UK it goes down as a covid death.

Just think about that for a while.

The 7 day rate here as of Christmas Day was even worse than the UK wasn’t it?

But isn't that the whole thing Dean, if you had family or friends with any type of underlying health condition and you unintentially passed it onto them it could be fatal, that's the whole problem with this godamn virus unfortunately.

Yeah and that’s a very good and very fair point. It’s not about how if affects me or people younger than me, it’s how it affects the vulnerable that’s important. Does this variant have the same impact on them as earlier variants? Genuine question by the way, I genuinely don’t know. Was just reading it was 80% less likely to cause serious illness or hospitalisation.

Yes it's viscious circle, too many people out at the same time in bars and restaurants then all back to house parties, see what the numbers will be over the next few days, this s*itshow is only starting unfortunately for all of us who are playing our part