The Times today

[ToomuchHeat]

(Last line ‘mass exposure’)

Cheer up, Covid is losing its grip

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cheer-up-covid-is-losing-its-grip-zsxrk2w26

Less than 1k people who have been double jabbed have required an overnight stay in hospital due to covid?

That's bloody amazing, isn't it?

millions of them suffering from Long Covid

Millions, eh?

@TraumatizedFlower Why do you consider NannyAndJohn's comment ridiculous?

OK, maybe not millions of children suffering from long Covid, but surely not unreasonable to think long Covid cases in children could be in the thousands if the government continue with their plans to allow Covid to spread unchecked among school children in the Autumn.

So what’s the solution? How do we shut down the country? Cripple the economy? Stop our kids having an education? Answers on a postcard please

@FourTeaFallOut

Less than 1k people who have been double jabbed have required an overnight stay in hospital due to covid?

That's bloody amazing, isn't it?

Agree.

That statistic has cheered me up and made me feel more reassured the rising cases won't be a total disaster!

Think @FourTeaFallOut was being sarcastic?!

So what’s the solution? Well for a start we could offer the option of vaccination to everyone over the age of 12, as some other countries are already doing.

Maybe try not to feed it, ToomuchHeat? Despite the spamming of every single Covid thread, I took the trouble to look up PHE's numbers about Long Covid and every single one of them was based on "estimated numbers of self reports"

Nobody's suggesting on here that it doesn't exist - post viral syndrome has always existed - but it could just be worth delaying the panic until we have a more reliable idea of how many are affected, or even a proper method of diagnosing it

Sounds like better news.

And misinformation being deleted on this thread.

No I wasn't!

I think that's amazing. Less than 1000 people from the millions and millions who have been double jabbed, including tge most elderly, the most sick and the most exposed...we couldn't have realistically hoped for more from a vaccine.

misinformation being deleted on this thread

Thank god for that - I'd been wondering how long it would take HQ to address this obsessive posting, especially as the Data threads are being infested too

It’s time for NannyAndJohn to be banned, surely

[quote LilyPond2]@TraumatizedFlower Why do you consider NannyAndJohn's comment ridiculous?[/quote]
Because it's was scare mongering nonsense. Hence it's been deleted.

Well that was a longer sentence than you usually write, AF!!

It's not our call to make of course, but I'm just relieved they finally seem onto it

Nobody's suggesting on here that it doesn't exist - post viral syndrome has always existed - but it could just be worth delaying the panic until we have a more reliable idea of how many are affected, or even a proper method of diagnosing it.
The trouble is that if the government pursues its current policy, huge numbers of children will already have had Covid by the time more research has been carried out. If your research subsequently establishes that long Covid is going to wreck the lives of a significant number of children, it will be too late to turn the clock back.

Hear bloody hear @AnyFucker

It is time for @NannyAndJohn to be banned, I agree. I hope it’s a troll cos if not, god help anyone who knows them in real life!

@Bobholll

It is time for *@NannyAndJohn* to be banned, I agree. I hope it’s a troll cos if not, god help anyone who knows them in real life!

A bit like Hyacinth Bucket on crack...

Because it's was scare mongering nonsense. Hence it's been deleted.
Is it really scaremongering nonsense to suggest that it might not be possible to achieve herd immunity through letting the virus spread? Surely the potential for new variants which are better at re-infecting people is a genuine issue. Is that not what happened in Manaus?

I think the scaremongering has been cumulative.