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Can anyone explain the mindset of anti-vaxxers like this? – politicalbetting.com
Can anyone explain the mindset of anti-vaxxers like this? – politicalbetting.com
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There is a known long term shortage of personnel running the system and this shows during holidays as not enough people to do the testing or process the results. Potential collapse of the testing infrastructure in the coming weeks if infections increase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU7VPAvN61Q
But apparently the UK testing system is utter shit...it should be more like the Germans.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/12/29/covid-testing-tatters-sajid-javid-blames-huge-surge-demand/
QTWTAIN.
Edit: And yes, it may be argued it does not help to pour mockery on such moronic beliefs in the sense of getting them to change their minds, but at a point irrationality cannot be fought with rationality and mockering and ostracism is the only mitigation until it flares out on its own for the next conspiracy.
There is nothing to see here, and no cause for alarm.
Maybe he can even figure out where he was for the last 10 days..?
This is just a lie....
I fully expect the system to be unable to cope at some point in the next week, especially after New Year when lots of people say can't be too careful.
Oh, sorry, my mistake.
Remember they used to print BoZo's columns
They start off talking to some people and before long the only people they communicate with on the subject of COVID are from a tighter and tighter group. More and more radical in their... beliefs. They spiral inwards until they disappear up their own arses. From which vantage point they throw shit at the rest of us.
This is exactly how all the other extremisms work. It's how the PIRA found Irish people to blow up pubs. It's how ISIS found Begum.
The process is self filtering. Most fall out of the "spiral" - which increases the "purity" of those that remain.
What you have in the header, is triple distilled nutters.
Only traitors would look at his face, his body language and hear his stuttering eventual answer and conclude that he fucked off to Mustique.
Be careful what you wish for - it may become true.
Quite often the same people get a flu jab every year, and as others have noted whilst Covid is not flu, why getting annual jabs for the latter is ok but repeated covid jabs is not is bizarre.
Will the system finally fall over at some point, I am sure it will. You have to pick some limit and 900k PCR test capacity is extremely large, but I am pretty sure it won't take much of something to go wrong and the elastic to finally snap.
And people are treating LFT tests like sweeties, some doing multiple a day or just doing them daily because why not, they are free. Then running out and getting pissed off they can't get another 20 of them instantly. It is clear there is very large demand and so take some personal responsibility and plan to use them when necessary.
There may or may not be a sensible explanation for their numbers, but if there is one I can't yet see what it is.
Oh, and get the new Omicron symptoms more widely reported. Use Chris Witty on the telly, telling us what to look for.
Just wait until next week when the usual suspects try and blame the French for our lack of Border Control Posts, staff or computers.
The availability of testing is, for this future purpose, almost worthless. I should think there are literally millions of people who have (quietly) not yet Covid tested themselves on a single occasion. Let's get used to it.
1) They are doing the seven day rolling calculation themselves.
2) They sum up the last seven days of data. Missing data = 0
3) So Scotland et. al. not reporting meant that they had 6 days of data / 7 then 5 days of data / 7 ........
And the scale of the graph looks like it's plain wrong. The most recently reported Scottish 7-day case rate, for example, is over a thousand. Not in the low sixties.
The media have done this every day for the past 3-4 days. They log on mid morning or see a tweet that says no tests....they write a load of stories, knowing at midday a load more become available.
There is definitely huge demand and they are working at near max capacity, but to claim nope you couldn't book anywhere basically all day is just untrue.
As I also said, I fully expect the elastic to pop at some point in the next week. But the UK is trying to do 1.5-2 million tests a day, nobody in Europe is trying this, especially not over the Christmas holidays.
I give credit where its due, UK testing system is very very good. Everybody laughed at Boris last Christmas when he said everybody would do a test before going to the footy or the theatre. Now, its why can't I do 4 a day....
Now if he’s lied about it, then that’s different. I mean why? Why lie?
The NHS is struggling to provide normal, safe care. People needing urgent treatment are not able to receive that treatment in the same timely fashion as usual and as a result some will die earlier than would otherwise have been the case. For example people with suspected or known cancer or heart failure, requiring investigation or treatment. How is this fair?
It's what he does.
It’s probably time to stop the routine, home testing and get it back to what it should be, a diagnostic tool for hospitals.
Might free up some cash too...
I was at my son's over Xmas and he has had a positive PCR. He has not had a booster yet.
I have a negative LFT, been boosted and I feel fine, but still have to isolate for 10 days.
I have been requested via the app to take a PCR test, but apparently I should still isolate even if that is negative too, so what's the point in taking one?
Vaccines work, boosters work. And Johnson, Sturgeon and Drakeford being absolute CU Next Tuesdays with the restrictions doesn't change that.
I am coming to the conclusion that Track & Trace is simply stopping healthy people from working.
The French government’s website still appears to suggest that British nationals can travel via France if they live in the EU. On the “Brits in Brussels” Facebook page, several people said that they had been able to travel through the Eurotunnel on Wednesday.
A press officer for the French Interior Ministry contacted by POLITICO on Wednesday couldn’t confirm or deny the information and pointed to guidance online.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-based-brits-cant-travel-home-via-eurotunnel-company-warns/amp/
Isn't that the pro-lockdowners logic that you love? Manage demand rather than supply?
The remaining 95% of the adult population is under nothing more than social pressure to get jabbed at all. Even the pretty minimal vaxport regime can be circumvented with a negative test.
Where as Germany, good luck getting a test let alone a result anytime over Christmas. DW News reporting their system couldn't handle Delta properly, let alone Omicron.
Also an interesting point raised - apparently France figures include re infections?
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/if-youre-told-to-self-isolate-by-nhs-test-and-trace-or-the-covid-19-app/
You do not need to self-isolate if any of the following apply:
you're fully vaccinated – this means 14 days have passed since your final dose of a COVID-19 vaccine given by the NHS
you're under 18 years and 6 months old
you're taking part or have taken part in a COVID-19 vaccine trial
you're not able to get vaccinated for medical reasons
Occam's razor explanation is he has had a week off with his wife and his young kids. If he should do that during Omicron wave, well that's a different matter.
Regardless, if I feel aggrieved at being told to do something I do not want to do (which happens all the time, a great many actual laws never mind encouragements require us to do things) and I indulge in conspiracy mongering as a result, that would be my fault, not the fault of those trying to encourage me.
It's a choice to go down that path. So far they have not hard their choice taken away, we should not take away their own agency and choice to proceed down this path either.
This governments forward planning...🙄
This morning I saw a medic interviewed on my partner's TV saying very well the same thing, but, diplomatically, not mentioning any denial.
Private Eye has recently published one of their "special reports" entitled PROFITS OF DOOM, describing profiteering over the virus.
I feel angry.
I suggested the other day that a lot of testing is pointless as the official symptoms (that justify a PCR test) are wrong.
If cold and sore throat are the symptoms of Omicrom, why not change the guidance? Very strange.
You have to get an LFT administered by a chemist or a GP.
And again for a PCR.
I think the mistake the government made is they should rationed them some what.
Perfection.
"Contacts who are not required to self-isolate
If you have had contact with someone who has COVID-19 you are at higher risk of becoming infected yourself and are strongly advised to take daily LFDs for 7 days.
If you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, you are not legally required to self-isolate if you are fully vaccinated or you are below the age of 18 years 6 months."
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-contacts-of-people-with-possible-or-confirmed-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-who-do-not-live-with-the-person/guidance-for-contacts-of-people-with-possible-or-confirmed-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-who-do-not-live-with-the-person#exempt
Some might even call it, a shortage...
They do have a superb collection of her work, displayed with a pleasing lack of pretension. Tickets only and no crowds at the moment; thoroughly recommended.
This is the issue with describing it as a "mild cold".
Why do we need jabs then?
And. Why have you been off work for more than.a week? Skiver.
For most people up-to-date with jabs this may be true. But we know this virus treats people very differently. Always has.
6 months from last jab it's a different story.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/29/sunken-warship-river-thames-explosives-board-could-cause-mass/ (£££)
Tom Scott video (not paywalled):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9u41aeItss
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/when-to-self-isolate-and-what-to-do/
It does not follow, however, that every single time he is accused of lying it should be assumed to be an accurate accusation and it is unreasonable for people to not simply assume every single word is a lie.
There's surely a difference to treating what he says and claims with caution, and acting as though he has never told a truth.
It's funny, to a point, but it is also lazy if intending to take the moral high ground.
Like boosters, young people (rightly) view them as a ticket to do whatever they want. The social pressure to take a test before going out is huge.
And there are a load of factors of why people's experiences vary e.g. South Africa lots of people have had Beta and Delta, the parental lineage of Omicron.
I recall yesterday seeing a university professor who kept taking LFT tests until she got a positive, and then boasted about it on Twitter. It just seems like mass derangement and panic.