Lighthouse

So… Rice to win a penalty 3 minutes after he should have been given a stonewall second yellow, followed by the inevitable Antonio (90+3) to win it.

Unless you’re a bedridden anti-vaxxer on an MV ward.

In my example, the 10 elderly cancer patients are in hospital are there, come rain or shine because they’ve got cancer. Covid could be irrelevant to why they’re in hospital but it still counts as a statistic. Even if they caught it in hospital, they would most likely be protected by the vaccine BUT still count as a ‘vaccinated hospitalisation with covid’. The real problem is the people in hospital with covid who have no other business being there and going by most reports they are overwhelmingly people who are unvaccinated.

Which is a pointless statistic because it only shows who’s in hospital WITH covid and not as a direct result because of it. For example if you have 10 elderly patients, having cancer treatment, who are all fully vaccinated and 10 unvaccinated patients in a ward with covid, that will just show up as a 50:50 split in the statistics. Where’s that random paragraph segment even from, anyway.

I’m not sure what must be going through your head to serve somebody with ‘legal papers’ which aren’t actually legal papers. What was the end game in that plan? They all turn up in front of a judge, who finds them in contempt of court and slaps a fine on them, or just hope that absolutely nobody of any legal standing actually glances at the papers and Shearer gets sent to prison? It’s like turning up to US border control with, "My Passport and Viser Visa," written on a napkin and hoping for the best.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59758784 I don’t have any particular point to make about this article but that nurse has lovely eyes.

It says it black and white in the first paragraph, "envisaging anything from 200 to 6,000 deaths a day from Omicron depending on how many more restrictions we’ll get." That’s basically my point. Of course the government asks them to model worst case scenarios, why wouldn’t they. You don’t need a plan of action for the, "yeah, well basically it’s mild but fairly infectious and admissions sort of tail off." You need to know what could happen IF we start getting 100k, 200k or a million infections per day. I repeat, it’s not like we’ve taken these worst case scenarios and locked everyone in their homes. Cases are rising - wear masks, get jabbed, work from home if at all possible. It’s proportionate to the rise in cases we’ve experienced so far.

Are they, or are those just the figures the media use to make sensational headlines? I'm sure they've modeled dozens, maybe hundreds of different parameters and possibilities. Nobody is hanging their hat on these predictions. We've been asked to wear masks in indoor venues and get a booster jab, which so far seems to have done a pretty good job at containing the variant. Hardly 'batten down the hatches' is it?

You do understand that there's a difference between prediction modelling, based on mathematical algorithms, worst case scenarios etc. etc. and what is ACTUALLY likely to happen? Scientists are making their best estimates on a strain of virus which wasn't even heard of about a month ago. You seem to be one of the very few people continuously posting their astonishment about these figures.

Just shy of a million jabs recorded today, pretty good going.

Toto, I don’t think this thread is in Kansas any more. 🤔

Two auto-corrects I've sent which weren't well received: "I love you Abby!" - It was supposed to say 'baby' "I can't wait to see you Katie." - It was supposed to say 'later' My girlfriend at the time was not called Abby or Katie, although I had both of those on my Facebook friends list. She was obviously calm, rational and saw the funny side. 🙄

If only there was a simply way for people to get around that for free, in ten minutes…

Eye no.

Some of your posts have been moved to a more appropriate thread.

Ah right, so there’s a ten minute vaccine which cuts all vehicle emissions by 90%, which people are refusing to take?

Perhaps some more good news is a slight increase in people getting their first jab. 37,000 is nearly the population of Eastleigh and Chandlers Ford getting first jabbed every day.

I can’t be arsed arguing over this. Dropping three days in a row is proof of very little, it’s a weekend. Apparently I’m the one too terrified to leave my own home, which is weird because I’m not the one on here continuously posting over and over and over again about the worst case scenarios thrown up by prediction modelling.

Someone is saying they’ve dropped three days in a row, as if that’s proof of something. It isn’t. They aren’t doubling right now, which is obviously good news, but they are up 67% on last Sunday, which is less good.

It’s the weekend, reporting is always a bit behind. Last Sunday we had 49,00 cases The day before we had 54,000 The day before we had 58,000 It was the same the weekend before that, and the weekend before that. But whatever, crack on.

Fog lights. If they were any brighter driving home tonight I’d need sun cream.

At the time Red Bull pitted and Mercedes didn’t, there was nothing in the regulations to implore them to end the race under SC. Merc didn’t pit because they didn’t want to lose track position, not because they thought it was guaranteed to end that way. I haven’t seen it confirmed anywhere that max used his brakes in Saudi, although I could be wrong. Both drivers knew what was going on there and wanted to be second going over the DRS detection. You can say it wasn’t fair but then then Max got taken out by Mercedes in Silverstone and Hungary. He probably felt like he had the right to fight a bit dirty to get his points back.

I’m with you on all of that but it’s all information based, rather than any action which can be implemented. It’d great to know exactly how many died ‘with’ or ‘of’ Covid, how many were vaccinated, what demographic, underlying health issues etc. but really it doesn’t change anything. It’s just good to know. I’m sure anyone who is treated for cardiac issues has their covid AND vaccination status checked and this information is forwarded up the chain. As of right now, I can only assume there’s nothing particularly to report. We don’t even know whether these people at football games were vaccinated or had any kind of cardiac event at all.

Patient 4. As much disdain as I would have for the other three, they all have chronic lifestyle issues which they need to change. Your point is valid, the others are a huge drain on the NHS but only one of them refused to take a 15 minute free vaccine which would almost certainly have kept him out of hospital. There is no vaccination which would have cursed obesity, alcoholism and nicotine addiction.

So, in all honesty, would you chose who doesn’t get treatment based on whether they smoke and have good loft insulation, not who is vaccinated? The logic of the question is that if we end up in a scenario whereby there are more patients than we are able to treat, somebody will have to make that call. Hoping that doctors don’t have to make such calls might not be good enough.