Been constipated Rob ? You’ll feel better now.
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Shock news, masks work, who knew?
Strange. I thought the Chinese had just been wearing them as a fun item for decades
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Don’t let the gumment know or there’ll be a mask tax by the end of the week
Masks don’t work so the study must be wrong / a lie.
But the study comes from Oxford and we’re all super-proud of super-British Oxford.
Gammon be explodin’ over that little conundrum.
Oxford Centre for the Bleeding Obvious
More shit today 
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Not convinced our digital thermometer from Aldi is accurate. This morning I am 34.3, according to NHS site this means hypothermia and need urgent assistance 
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My one from Amazon always has me as below average, whereas in reality I run a bit hot.
Maybe put a wooly jumper on just to be safe eh?
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Same name as one of my favourite pubs (St Agnes, Scilly) but this one is in Tynemouth and you have to admire their wit.
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Looks like a good place!
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Based on total hospital numbers at this link, it appears to be child hospitalisations the article is referring to? I don’t think it’s clearly written?
Appreciate there’s a lag, and some of those additional hospitalisations will be from prior to the 15 day period, but that’s approaching 2% or 1 in 50 of the 9k cases.
Numbers are consistent with various studies that have shown 2-5% cases are severe/critical in children.
Appreciate risk of death has consistently shown to be very low (as per the BMJ article doing the news rounds), but still…
At 1 in 30 you’re talking about 1 kid out of every two classes being hospitalised if 50% of kids get it. If hospitalisation rates vary by age group then you could have multiple kids hospitalised per class in some year groups?? This doesn’t feel acceptable to me. I admit I have zero idea how many kids are normally hospitalised from other respiratory viruses in any given season.
Especially when there is some concern about long term complications, even though this seems to be less of a concern in children. When they’ve been studied, lung and heart lesions have resolved in children in a way that they don’t appear to in adults. Only aware of small studies, case reports, though.
Then the transmission aspect - I didn’t realise until very recently that there is data on transmission from children. I thought it was still a woolly ‘probably less than from adults, maybe nothing blah blah’. It is less than from adults but still 1 in 20 (compared with 1 in 5 for adults). That for me is still enough risk to give me pause about the kids seeing elderly relatives now they are back at school.
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This is simply a sensible precaution.
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Haha fucksake just realised I got California and Florida mixed up.
Seems to be children only from this, considering there were 400’ish hospitalised on a single day in the last couple of weeks.
It’s not the virus I worry about, it’s the fucktards…
Apologies for the ES link.
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Do not let this happen, unless they are under 60 and healthy.
Once the rules were changed regarding children <11 distancing, we kept the kids from seeing friends in person until school went back, so that we were comfortable they could see grandparents without distancing. The minute they went back to school we stopped this. It seems like hardly anyone else is being this cautious.
Is it time to ban international flights, we seem to be importing and exporting covid 19 on our holiday flights without passengers adhering to social distancing or the wearing of face mask rules . I’m pretty pissed off with the covidiots, we’re an island for goodness sake, a harsh lockdown, restricted travel, implementation of pandemic precautions and the plague can be greatly reduced. But no, the soft option is winning, covid is steadily rising, wealth before health winning out. Ffs, if a child has chicken pox they are isolated the illness runs its course and the virus is relatively controlled before it gets out of hand, yes this covid virus is persistent, we know little about it and yet have started to embrace it as a necessary evil. It really is time to get a grip, it’s a life changing condition, time the government got its strategy right and stopped giving out conflicting messages and the general public blaming this inept government and starting to take responsibility for its health.
Rant over, happy now and hopefully covid free.
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