No one in SA has been saying it’s “all mild illness”. They’re saying that for the scale of the outbreak, the number of serious cases is far below what might have been expected. (View Post)

Pray tell, how many days of exponential growth will it take for every molecule in the observable universe to be an Omicron virus? I’m sure we all understand exponential growth. Some of us also unders… (View Post)

What if the average length of stay is much reduced (5 days in SA), as is complexity of treatment required? For example only 10-15% of hospital cases in SA are on oxygen as opposed to nearly all in pr… (View Post)

Following on from last night’s numbers game. The Telegraph: “It came as health chiefs estimated that current daily omicron infections have reached around 200,000 a day in the UK, although just 4,713 … (View Post)

Potatoes are always better with proper fat. I did a whole duck at the weekend, used the fat on parmentier potatoes while it was resting. That’s cubed roasties. Lush it was. (View Post)