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.

@CountessFrog

Are we still here?

Giant, alarming, emergency morgue, stuff of nightmares.

And you don’t think that’s a bit sensationalist?

You’re confusing hyperbole with actuality.

The fact that the people taking up hospital beds are mostly younger than the cohort currently being vaccinated means that the vaccine isn’t going to pull us out of a hole in the immediate future, though that’s not a reason to change strategy. I’d reckon that the turning point for NHS burden won’t come until a week after all the over sixties are vaccinated. Once all the over fifties are done and it’s taken effect then we can finally exhale.

But on the upside vaccinating front line staff to reduce absences due to sickness and self-isolation should improve the NHS’s ability to cope.

@CountessFrog

Are we still here?

Giant, alarming, emergency morgue, stuff of nightmares.

And you don’t think that’s a bit sensationalist?

Are you struggling with the reality of this?

They have to put the dead somewhere.

It's because the week beginning Dec 29th is basically the first week we were always likely to see a rise due to Christmas mingling. It takes around a week for cases to show and be tested so anyone who got it as a result of mixing with someone that was either incubating it or a symptomatic at Christmas likely started showing symptoms that week. The people who were incubating potentially caught it the week before during shopping/socialising/mingling in the pre Christmas run up when the new variant was spreading insanely but people were out in droves buying things and mixing before a lockdown hit.

Honestly - even if a poster or two was using hyperbolic language (which I don't think they were - I think they were being accurate) then so what?

Talk about de-railing.

We're still in the middle of a massive emergency. With emergency morgues necessary, because lots and lots of people are dying, of all ages.

This was predicted. The question should be why didn't the government do more to prevent this happening. Things they could have done: funding for schools to allow good quality blended learning, masks in the classrooms, better school testing, paying people to isolate, better testing in general, better tracing allowing local public health to lead (and have the funds spent on failing centralised systems). All of these things could have been done but weren't, despite spending vast sums of money on private companies who generally just ballsed things up.

I blame all those flexible bubbles

@YogaLite

I blame all those flexible bubbles

I blame the government who on being told that the second wave was building in September, fannies about with tiers and let it build until November Lockdown then reopened and put London in Tier 2, promoted a five day festival of Christmas, and still hasn't instituted a lockdown that's even as tough as March/April, despite the situation being a clear order of magnitude worse.