Covid Predictions for 2021

[Thewiseoneincognito]

Behold! A New Year cometh! What do you think will come our way in 2021? Intrigued to hear people’s opinions, I’ll go first...

1. Possible full UK lockdown with school closures once the devastation from Christmas mixing becomes apparent early January. We may see harsher restrictions come in to play too.

2. Vaccine successes and failures. With so many companies coming forward with various concoctions it is a given that there will be issues with at least some of them. I have a feeling the virus may well adapt too. Vaxxed people letting their guard down only to find themselves not as immune as first hoped.

3. More mutations particularly as people who have already had it get reinfected and pass it on. The odds seem stacked against us so I’m expecting a nastier mutation in 2021.

4. A fourth National Lockdown possibly around May/ June depending how long the third lasts for.

5. Furlough scheme extended indefinitely perhaps morphed into a universal basic income once it becomes evident certain industries will not be returning for a very long time (theatres, clubs, live music venues etc)

6. High street catastrophe following another longer hard lockdown.

7. Unrest as people split into believers and non believer camps. I expect more prolific calling out those who refuse to wear masks or comply with restrictions.

8. A breakthrough or realisation that may shift everyone’s perception and understanding significantly.

9. Widespread NHS recruitment drive to deal with new reality of constant covid patients. The key to future lockdowns being less drastic is a more robust NHS.

[quote Thewiseoneincognito]@siestalady I don’t see any threat or suggestion hope in that sentence at all.

I suppose this thread will be bumped again later in the year so we can assess just how well we’re doing taming our house tiger.

Here pussy pussy 🐅[/quote]
honestly - likening covid to having a tiger in your house/driving the wrong way down a motorway - are you ok hun?

@GoldenOmber

we take as many precautions as possible

We don’t, though. We take as many precautions as we consider compatible with our basic wish to live our lives.

So we could avoid driving altogether to cut down car accidents and reduce the health harms of air pollution. But we don’t.

We could insist that people with chicken pox or shingles are put in mandatory quarantine, like some countries did/do with covid cases. But we don’t. We don’t even routinely vaccinate against chicken pox.

We could make it against the law to cross a road except at a pedestrian crossing with a green light. But we don’t.

We could avoid hot food forever to reduce the risk of burning ourselves or of causing house fires due to cooking (which is the cause of many of them). But we don’t.

So we could keep masks and distancing and bans on household mixing in place for covid indefinitely. But we won’t, for the same reason we don’t do all those other things.

[APPLAUDS]

Covid is more like a litter of really annoying stray cats which keep breeding and coming back for food, no matter how many times you banish them. Irritating and prolific, but not particularly dangerous. A tiger would be meningitis or sth - rare but dangerous.

@Jourdain11

Covid is more like a litter of really annoying stray cats which keep breeding and coming back for food, no matter how many times you banish them. Irritating and prolific, but not particularly dangerous. A tiger would be meningitis or sth - rare but dangerous.

YES!!

Golden omber, I can't really take the dc to school and then go to work unless I drive so its not really a choice for me.

13:46Thewiseoneincognito

@Peteycat I’m disappointed, I’d have thought Pete, with cat in your name you’d have got the analogy.

The analogy was shit.

What an absolute dumpster fire this thread is.

@GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr indeed. It must have struck a chord and clearly piqued your interest enough to come along and read it. 😉

@GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr

What an absolute dumpster fire this thread is.

Yes, I have to say I had my head in my hands seeing so many posters deride the original predictions (which turned out to be on the nose) as "fear mongering", "pessimistic", etc.

Hopefully they've changed their tune now eight months have passed and Covid has gone nowhere.

Zombie thread

Someone bumped it on purpose (@NannyAndJohn) Someone actually spent a long time hunting it down and then gleefully bumped it. Agree it’s a very worrying thing to do.

[quote Thewiseoneincognito]@GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr indeed. It must have struck a chord and clearly piqued your interest enough to come along and read it. 😉[/quote]
Aaand that's why it's a dumpster fire.

People crowing about how right they were when actually, they weren't entirely, and completely missed out all the positive developments of the past eight months, and all the lives saved thanks to vaccines - which were dismissed as 'concoctions' at the start of the thread, interestingly. Using emojis to convey their smug self righteousness. It's so unbelievably crass and insensitive. Tens of thousands of people have lost loved ones and all certain people can do is resurrect ancient threads to 'prove' how right they were (even though they weren't).

It's a new low, it truly is.

@GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr with regards to your remark about concoctions, do you not agree the issues around AZ fit the point? I would say it does, the vaccines have been successful in many respects but also not quite as successful as we ideally need them to be to truly move forward safely.

Time will tell I suppose.

Keep an eye out for my 2022 prediction thread around the same time this December, I’ll look forward to reading your response.

[quote Thewiseoneincognito]@GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr with regards to your remark about concoctions, do you not agree the issues around AZ fit the point? I would say it does, the vaccines have been successful in many respects but also not quite as successful as we ideally need them to be to truly move forward safely.

Time will tell I suppose.

Keep an eye out for my 2022 prediction thread around the same time this December, I’ll look forward to reading your response.[/quote]
Perhaps by then you'll have learned the meaning of empathy and sensitivity, and how not to be supercilious and crowing in the face of tens of thousands of deaths, but I doubt it.

@GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr

Please show me where this crowing in the face of the deaths is?

Plenty of people ridicule me on here, it’s an open forum I accept not everyone agrees with me nor I with them, I’m never abusive and certainly don’t expect it either. This was a thread where I clearly stated what I expected to happen (and was laughed and scoffed at) simply as point of opinion, whether it came true or not is irrelevant because it was a discussion I initiated, I opened with what do YOU think will happen in 2021.

Does it not strike you for one second that the reason I am so vocal about our response to Covid is BECAUSE I don’t want to see the deaths from our blind stupidity?

Of course that doesn’t fit your narrative or beliefs but that’s ok, I’m not using fancy words to try and twist an opinion, you are. You’re seeing things that aren’t there. Read my Covid posts over the last 12 months, you’ll find I’m fairly consistent in advocating for a safe solid response and that our naive ignorance right now is leading us to a place we will come to regret.