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Coronavirus

Glenda's Legs said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1464173338956386308

I appreciate it is taking a few days to get the quarantine hotels up and running again, but hopefully in the meantime the authorities will be using the PLFs to follow up on Day 2 testing etc.
They should be at least trying to keep incoming passengers separate from other flights within the airport confines, even if somewhat redundant once those passengers leave the airport.
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You mean our government aren't organising the response well?

I struggle to believe it.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
In this case they have for once acted decisively in stopping all flights after today until quarantine facilities are up and running, so I suppose that's something of an improvement.
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Flights take up to 12 hours. So understandable. Can't tell them to turn around.
 
Mikey10 said:
You mean our government aren't organising the response well?

I struggle to believe it.
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Lol. We don’t live in a police state. We don’t force people to do anything we expect them to act like adults. We can’t make laws up overnight to specifically target people on an individual flight.
 
So the Nu variant is already in Israel and Belgium but looks like the vaccines are doing their primary purpose of preventing serious illness thus far.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1464197943645421593
https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/our-services/find-consultant/dr-neil-stone
Qualified in Medicine from Guy's, King's College and St. Thomas' Medical School in 2004

Specialist training in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in London

Clinical experience in Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi and Nigeria

Completed a PhD on cryptococcal meningitis at St. George's, University of London

Honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Gutter Boy said:
Could also be a milder version, like the new Delta one that is taking over the previous one is.
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Hope so. If not it will wreck havock if it is as transmissable as we think. Uk has high levels of immunity, but other countries could be in trouble.
 
Chances are we have the 'new variant' now too. What is striking is how little science really understands about how viruses mutate and interact with populations. But it is a natural part of human evolution. Surely within 6 months the paranoia will have abated and the world can get back to normal ways of living - with plenty of colds and flu as part of normal life. Maybe we'll need covid vaccines every 5 years or less, maybe we won't. It is notable that kids seem to do okay without vaccines. So there should be a point where we get ontop of this. And it is just the isolated 'tribes' who are at risk - as was the case with Amazonian Indians when the common cold devastated their populations when the Spanish arrived.
 
Lilbaz said:
Cases up today to about 50k, but hospitalisations and deaths down.

The boosters seem to be doing their job.
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Hmmm. Deaths are actually steady (+3 on this day last week) and the rate at which hospitalisations were falling has slowed.

We’re now just about two weeks past the point when cases started rising again after half term, so the next week should tell us a lot.
 
Mikey10 said:
Hmmm. Deaths are actually steady (+3 on this day last week) and the rate at which hospitalisations were falling has slowed.

We’re now just about two weeks past the point when cases started rising again after half term, so the next week should tell us a lot.
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Deaths are down 15.5% over the last 7 days according to the government dashboard. Hospital admissions and the amount of people in hospital sre down. So can't see a rise in deaths in the next week.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
 
johnola said:
Lol. We don’t live in a police state. We don’t force people to do anything we expect them to act like adults. We can’t make laws up overnight to specifically target people on an individual flight.
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It wouldn’t be a stretch to organise a way to get them through an airport without having potential contact with hundreds of other passengers. Nor would it be beyond the realms of possibility to organise safe onward travel, and assistance to isolate.

The laissez-faire approach is fine, as long as you’re prepared to take the consequences.
 
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