Cases on the rise again?

[Garysmum]

Don't know if it's just me but looking at stats and clicky map - many local areas are on the rise again - some quite significantly so in the 50-100% rise in a week bracket.

I'm SE where there was a huge rise around Christmas which had started to fall but now it's climbing again.

Hospital numbers are rising too, which you would expect.

As I am CV, this is concerning with all the things giving a slither of protection gone.

I wonder what could happen if numbers get completely out of control - if people continually reinfect each other or we get a new variant. I assume most people don't care - they just want to get on with life and won't worry too much unless they are personally badly affected - for example if an elderly relative ends up in hospital or their kid gets long covid and can't sit exams.

We have a critical mass of low information people in the UK who don't have much of a clue about anything scientific

i don't know where to start with that statement.

I know.... low information people....and then the op goes on using bad grammar herself!!!

Yeah but come on, she's totes an expert.

@VikingOnTheFridge

Yeah but come on, she's totes an expert.

Another self appointed Covid expert on MN, just what we need. Putting those ‘low information’ right from their armchair.

@GirlInACountrySong

I know.... low information people....and then the op goes on using bad grammar herself!!!

Yes, lets focus on the use of the comma or letter over the science.

Unlike you I am a professional. In an actual profession that is directly related to what I am talking about.

Its precisely for this reason why folks like you are mocked (and treated as fools) by people in power (UK).

Anti-intellectualism is fracturing this country just like the US.

I don't see it getting any better either. Populism of this sort never ends well.

@VikingOnTheFridge

Yeah but come on, she's totes an expert.

I wonder if she is enjoying the Level 5 Health Emergency she was gleefully predicting a few weeks ago?

@merrymelodies

From over here in Canada, it looks as though England (and possibly the rest of the UK) has gone from one extreme to the other: from total lockdown and fear-mongering to now no masks at all and neither is doing much good.

Wear a mask (preferably an N95 or similar). Get vaccinated and boosted. Keep a 2 metre distance from others. Wash your hands regularly. It isn't fail proof but it's better than nothing at all.

Thanks for the banal and entirely unsolicited advice, but while I've always washed my hands regularly, and have been vaccinated and 'boosted', I won't be wearing a mask unless required to do so and I'm not sure how you think life can proceed indefinitely with everyone keeping 2 metres apart.

If you in Canada want to live that way, fine.

Unlike you I am a professional

I mentioned cases were rising last week and was scoffed at. It's going mad in so many schools

@BambinaJAS you are no professional love! just another mumsnet poster. You can barely string a coherent sentence together.

you are a low information person