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2020-07-29 Britain
Report: British PM 'extremely concerned' over second coronavirus wave
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-29 02:01|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 But remember, lockdown destroys businesses!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-29 02:46||   2020-07-29 02:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes he should recuse himself from COVID decisions as he obviously (and his rather bumbling government) cannot see the difference between testing more and there being more...

Hospitals empty and still killing people by deferring treatment of non-COVID. The disastrous over-response to COVID shutting down the country mirrors how COVID kills, it doesn't, the immune over-response does.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-29 04:39||   2020-07-29 04:39|| Front Page Top

#3 "cannot see the difference between testing more and there being more..."

Explain?
Posted by European Conservative 2020-07-29 07:49||   2020-07-29 07:49|| Front Page Top

#4 If you double testing of a virus that is mostly asymptomatic you will get a spike in numbers found to have it.

The underlying case numbers probably have not changed.

Test more find more. With the %age of false positives being pretty unknown too, it could PURELY be an artefact of testing more!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-29 07:52||   2020-07-29 07:52|| Front Page Top

#5 The cases are there, whether you test or not. The logic escapes me.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-07-29 07:56||   2020-07-29 07:56|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Game farm owners generally inflate the herd numbers. It really is better for business.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-29 07:56||   2020-07-29 07:56|| Front Page Top

#7 The cases are there, whether you test or not. The logic escapes me.

It makes a perfect sense - if you're still sailing the Diamond Princess.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-29 08:29||   2020-07-29 08:29|| Front Page Top

#8 The Trump administration's response to COVID-19 has puzzled me.
Herd immunity isn't going to happen. The first Germans who caught the virus in late January today no longer shows any traces of antibodies. He could catch it again.

This means we need to keep the numbers as low as possible. COVID-19 isn't harmless. And we still don't know much about it and what it might do in the future.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-07-29 08:50||   2020-07-29 08:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Learned recently of a lady and her friend near Charleston, SC who signed up for the test. They stood in a long line in the heat for a couple of hours. They finally gave up and left. A few days later they received notification that they had tested positive.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-29 08:57||   2020-07-29 08:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Tests need, of course, be swift and efficient. From what I heard this isn't always the case, even in Germany.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-07-29 08:59||   2020-07-29 08:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Swift tests that report positive results on subjects not tested are no more useful than slow tests that report positive results on subjects not tested, European Conservative.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-29 13:41||   2020-07-29 13:41|| Front Page Top

#12 But PM Johnson’s health difficulties does explain the sudden turnaround in how the thing is being handled over there.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-29 13:47||   2020-07-29 13:47|| Front Page Top

#13 #11 You're assuming this is not an urban legend, TW?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-29 13:54||   2020-07-29 13:54|| Front Page Top

#14  You're assuming this is not an urban legend, TW?

A fair question, g(r)omgoru — I am making an assumption, yes. Given overworked labs dealing with multiple tests of individual patients and multiple data collection organizations requiring copies of test results, people walking away from filled out forms that then got mismatched to test samples is certainly plausible. I have seen a number of first-person reports, but they were not analog friends/relations, so I concede it’s possible they’re all dogs or the equivalent.

My bottom line assumption is that it’ll be at least a year before the data is cleaned up. And also that Mr. Wife can eschew everything hydroxychloroquine if he wants, but at this stage I’ve decided if I get sick I’ll take the combo treatment.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-29 16:22||   2020-07-29 16:22|| Front Page Top

#15 I interviewed a CV survivor last week for a project I am trying to organize.

She was infected in march, cleared by april, still having problems here in july. Weakness and easily exhausted.

Her descriptions of the symptoms were pretty graphic.

This isn't something you want to catch.
Posted by flash91 2020-07-29 16:57||   2020-07-29 16:57|| Front Page Top

#16  I’ll take the combo treatment.

Why would anyone not take all radical measures to beat this thing? Work at home, wear a mask, daily temp, don't mingle, teleconference, home food and supply delivery and lock the gate.

Like choosing between cancer treatments. Should I take the easy route and hope it goes into remission or take 6 months of hell to cure it?

Sure some people don't have the luxury of choice but they do have the luxury of rational behavior.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-29 17:02||   2020-07-29 17:02|| Front Page Top

#17 I REALLY don't want a lung transplant.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-29 17:26||   2020-07-29 17:26|| Front Page Top

#18 People are avoiding testing.Even when sick not getting tested. Go on vacation but don't tell anyone where you are going. This is now the norm in my area. Oh, we will still have the vigilant brown shirts to protect us all.
Posted by Dale 2020-07-29 18:41||   2020-07-29 18:41|| Front Page Top

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