Coronavirus

[mentalboy]

[Nobby the Bastard]

No deaths attributed to flu last winter in the UK.

Mostly down to lockdown, I suspect. This shows just how virilent COVID is compared to flu because it was killing loads of people despite lockdown.
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[chickenstrip]

[UncleFester]

1. Covid was already active well before traditional flu season
2. don't think Flu is quite as transmissible.
3. By the time Flu season was a thing, we were well into lockdown and being 'clean' in all the places the Flu might reside.

That's my take anyway.

What will be interesting is this next winter as we've got no old flu to base this years vaccine on and everyone will be out and about and prime for catching it.

Will be playing potluck with whatever flu jab is out vs do i need to mingle until next year
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[Ste]

[stinkwheel]

Or did stopping people from all over the world crowding together in airports stop the flu spreading about?
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[Diggs]

[chickenstrip]

[MCN]

Covid19 was more successful at invading human cells than the humble killer influenza.

Hand washing, social distancing and lock-down probably helped too.

We were still well able to contract and pass on the usual shite, coughs and colds though.

So we need to work on the model more.
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[chickenstrip]

[sickpup]

[Islander]

[JackButler]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Ithey would have been staffed by military.
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[sickpup]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Estimated death rate for Covid in the range of 0.002% death rate.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

So if 150,000 people have died from/with it, then estimated infections would have to be in the order of 50 million people. 49.85M people who have had Covid-19 and built up antibodies, 0.15M died (sadly). Basically 74% of the population carrying antibodies.

Even accounting for statistical errors, there's still a large proportion of people who didn't know they had it, and a load more who had it and recovered. All of them now carrying an immune response, all fought and won naturally with the most advanced disease fighting system in the universe.

So how much impact are these vaccines really having, and can Hat Mancock really steal the credit for winning the war against a disease, which had at least a year in the wild unencumbered, triggering immuno-responses in a vast section of the populace?
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Well done for not saying, “herd immunity.” Although...

[mentalboy]

[MCN]

Don't post statistical info about COVID.

I will take from that evidence anything and all that suits my agenda.
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[MCN]

[stinkwheel]

Can I just say. If I was 16, I would refuse to have the vaccine. Licenced or not.

On the basis that the vaccine would be more likely to cause me harm than the virus.

Also on the basis that as a 16 year old, I was considerably more selfish than I am today so it is highly unlikely I'd have been willing to expose myself to that vaccine in order to protect other people who couldn't be bothered having the vaccine themselves or to allow leather-skinned middle aged southerners to have a fortnight in Torremelinos.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[chickenstrip]

I think now that we have very effective vaccines, and considering the huge take-up so far (and still rising), it has become a matter of personal choice. You can be protected, so you've no reason to complain if others choose not to be.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[chickenstrip]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

When it’s too late, you say? OK.