In the long run it'll be a manageable but pretty pointless nuisance, so perhaps it will be gone in years rather than decades? But nobody's letting go of it in the shorter term, and you'… (View Post)

The capacity of this thread has been overwhelmed by Omicron (View Post)

I'll repeat what I posted this morning, because I think we need to be reminded not to go easy on the anti-vaxxers if their demands upon hospital critical care facilities precipitate yet another … (View Post)

Elsewhere in the Guardian write-up of the current situation, this gem: The BMA, which represents 150,000 doctors, is the first major medical organisation to call for stricter measures. Dr Chaand Nagp… (View Post)

The 200,000 Omicron and 1,000,000 total figures obviously aren't case rates per day - that's crackers - but the 1,000,000 could be derived from the estimated total number of people who had … (View Post)