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.

I would be shitting it if I lived in Barking and Dagenham. Pole position for cases.

Richmond on Thames is doing ok

This is the Xmas effect

That’s really informative OP, thanks

@Lemons1571 Probably because loads of residents have fled to their second homes... (lighthearted)

The increase is scary but need to keep in perspective.

For example I’m in S Yorkshire. Jump from 751 to 1108. Which is worrying but then I remember:

The population is over 1.4 MILLION people. And the measurements are tested cases not people that are actually ill. So in fact the people who are ill and dying while tragic are still a tiny tiny amount of the population.

I hate “casedemic” figures.

@Blessex

This is the Xmas effect

Most people I care for caught it before Xmas. We won't see the affect of mixing over Xmas for a least 2-3 weeks based on incubation period, getting really poorly that you need hospital care.

How is this scare mongering?
It is fact.

I would be concerned for Liverpool and Cheshire. By looking at this data you can see cases are rising really quickly in these areas. Not yet at the high levels in London but the data only goes up to the 4th January.

Don't forget many people are still obliged to go to work who are unable to work from home. Perhaps that will be stopped with Tier 6.

@notevenat20

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%!

Op it’s the new variant

We and this hit just before Christmas

Tier 4 etc and still rising. It’s impact is pretty stark

That website is a bit messy. I’m not sure why it has multiple entries for ‘London’ or ‘Lancashire’ for example, so not so easy to make sense of the figures. This website is very helpful and a bit more precise: www.trafforddatalab.io/covid19.html

For example I’m in S Yorkshire. Jump from 751 to 1108. Which is worrying but then I remember:
The population is over 1.4 MILLION people. And the measurements are tested cases not people that are actually ill.

Those are numbers per 100k I am afraid. So you need to multiply by 14 to get the number for S. Yorkshire.

glad you've finally got the message op. Shame it took until we were over our heads in the shit for the penny to drop. Youve been minimising and stirring on these threads for months.

@Biscusting

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.

Exactly this. If people want to talk about covid and pandemic they are more than free to do so. No one is making anyone read it! Someone may not mean to be ‘Scaremongering’ maybe they just want some reassurance in a very strange time.

Sobering reading.

Yes, we hear the news every day, but seeing the figures laid out is a stark reminder of where we are at.

A month ago I only knew of one person who’d had it, and that was a friend of a friend.

Since Christmas Day DH and I have tested positive, my Dad has it (despite shielding! He’s fine, thankfully) and both my sisters and their families have it. All from separate infections, none of us have seen each other.

It is shocking. I haven’t left the house since Xmas day but I’m seeing hordes of people walk past my house (rural) on their daily walk. Stay the fuck home!

glad you've finally got the message op. Shame it took until we were over our heads in the shit for the penny to drop. Youve been minimising and stirring on these threads for months.

This is just nonsense. And also a little stalky.

@notevenat20 it’s quite one thing hearing it on the news everyday it’s another sitting and actually looking at the figures isn’t it?
We all know what’s going on but to actually read in to it can bring it home a little I find anyway as when they do the press conference and they bring their graphs up I can’t make head nor tail of it!

@Shudawuda

The increase is scary but need to keep in perspective.

For example I’m in S Yorkshire. Jump from 751 to 1108. Which is worrying but then I remember:

The population is over 1.4 MILLION people. And the measurements are tested cases not people that are actually ill. So in fact the people who are ill and dying while tragic are still a tiny tiny amount of the population.

I hate “casedemic” figures.

You do understand, don't you, nearly a year into this, that the "cases" who don't get terribly ill still spread it to people who may get terribly ill and die or have lifelong health problems who could have avoided it if that contact hadn't been positive in the first place? Testing can take days after infection.

Our local area has jumped to 426 from 162 over less than 2 weeks.

CountessFrog - stating facts is not fear mongering.

@Catty1720 I completely agree. I was really shocked to see how much faster growth. As was pointed out here, this must be B117 finally becoming the dominant and much more infectious variant in the country.