F**k me

[notevenat20]

In case anyone was doubting that we should stay home, take a look at www.covidmessenger.com/. The columns to compare is the one third from the right which is the most recent week and the one second from the right, which is the week before.

Oh shit.

Didn’t you already know this? It’s been on the news.

Your post is fear mongering. We’ve all stocked up on that already, thanks.

Depressing

@CountessFrog how are stats and figures Scaremongering?! I’m fed up of hearing that term it’s the new ‘fake news.’

Sorry I stand corrected fear mongering but it’s pretty much the same thing.

Your post is fear mongering.

How?

I knew numbers were going up but I didn't know they had gone up by a factor of 4.5 in one week on the Isle of Wight for example!

No, it’s not.

Scaremongering is hyping up news, like fake news.

Fear mongering is stoking up fear. Which is what you are doing.

Lockdown won't change things for at least 2 weeks
You can thank our twatty PM and the stupid relaxing of rules at Christmas.
But it's ok cos Boris clapped for the NHS.

Fearmongering is about exaggerated rumours... these are hard facts! Discussing them doesn’t make them less true - sadly.

The Isle of Man is in lockdown again now having been covid free for a while.

I may be the only person who didn't know that the rate of increase had massively increased in 29 Dec - 04 Jan compared to 22 Dec - 28 Dec.

Yes this is before lockdown. Fingers crossed for next week.

If you’re on a thread titled ‘coronavirus’ and don’t want to see facts and figures or hear anyone’s concerns whilst siting figures, then May I suggest you go elsewhere.

Yes its shocking yet there are still so many people out! I had a hospital appointment Friday and the roads were almost at normal levels - I don't get where they are going. I dropped by the super Tesco on the way back and it was surprisingly empty.

@Pipandmum

Yes its shocking yet there are still so many people out! I had a hospital appointment Friday and the roads were almost at normal levels - I don't get where they are going. I dropped by the super Tesco on the way back and it was surprisingly empty.

So, your journey is allowed but no one else's?

Yes, it is staggering OP. Such a huge jump in cases in a single week. Our area went up 29% in that time.

I hope we can talk about data and facts on here without it being called fearmongering. Reminds me of the Brexiters who called all concerns about the various effects of Brexit “Project Fear”

I feel much more fear from reading people posting about how they dismiss facts relating to coronavirus than I do reading the actual facts. So countessfrog you have successfully stoked up fear here, thanks.

Surely that's why we are in lockdown again @notevenat20

I'm not sure why you are surprised?

Yes, it is staggering OP. Such a huge jump in cases in a single week. Our area went up 29% in that time

Mine went up 100% in that time and it doesn't seem to be rare.

Even compared with everything else that's happened since March, the current number, rapid growth and trajectory of confirmed positive case numbers is extremely noteworthy and not something the country has experienced before in this pattern. To discuss it is natural. To pretend it should be ignored shows denial.

I'm not sure why you are surprised?

The previous weeks had cases going up 20-30% a week. Now it's often 100-350%!

In no way is this scaremongering. If you don’t want to talk about the reality of what we’re in then avoid these topics.

@ssd I’m shocked that’s it pretty much across the board and also the volume of the leaps. Hereford for example has had huge growth when it was Tier 1 (could be the reason!) a couple of weeks before Christmas.
I live rurally and we’ve had low case numbers through out but we are now at nearly 450 per 100,000 that’s huge compared to the first wave.

@CountessFrog

No, it’s not.

Scaremongering is hyping up news, like fake news.

Fear mongering is stoking up fear. Which is what you are doing.

Nonsense, people are allowed to quote actual statistics on a discussion board.

No one has to look here or read a particular thread.

@notevenat20

In case anyone was doubting that we should stay home, take a look at www.covidmessenger.com/. The columns to compare is the one third from the right which is the most recent week and the one second from the right, which is the week before.

Oh shit.

I'm subscribed to this for my area. The numbers have shot up in 7 days from 400 odd to 1886 . It's not scaremongering Problem being because the gov changed the way deaths etc are counted, nobody believes the figures anymore. As a nurse looking after predominantly covid patients, I can well believe it

I look at CM everyday and it is scary how the numbers are increasing day on day.