Excellent post. Punchy, thought-provoking, and amusing. Particularly like some of the analogies and metaphors. "Click vultures" made me smile!

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Positive data from UKHSA. The booster reduces likelihood of death by 95% - and hospitalisation 90%, months after being boosted. Certainly over time that will fall, but it's clearly reducing both deaths and hospitalisations significantly and staggering this wave in such a way that it's more manageable. Considering the current vaccine is still for a much earlier variant, and people will eventually likely pick up mild symptomatic cases that would have otherwise caused them a lot of problem (and may instead now offer a further 'boost') we're not in bad shape.

As has often been posited, unless there is a major curveball going forward, we will likely end up in a position where it's an yearly updated 'flu jab' type situation before long. Where the numbers remain low, likely primarily for groups mostly at risk. The vaccine has done and is doing exactly what we'd hope it would.

Edited by BlueJay (28 Jan 2022 12.36pm)

Dripping in sincerity as usual.

Edited by Stirlingsays (28 Jan 2022 1.02pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Coronavirus vaccines may reduce risk of long Covid, ONS study finds - [Link]

"Observational study finds double-jabbed people 41% less likely to report Covid symptoms 12 weeks after a positive test"

Still pretty high numbers really, but much better than winging it. Hopefully in time we'll get a more complete measure of the long term impact on those covid impacts disproportionately. It's very much a background issue right now due to deaths being (understandably) the core metric people look to.

Thousands needed to try a new Covid antiviral treatment - [Link]

The study is for those who 'currently' have Covid, so if that's you and you feel that this study is of interest the sign page is here [Link]

Disingenuous as usual.

After asking you to stop posting at me in disgust over your attitudes towards the Police's handling of grooming gangs I stopped posting at you for a long time....in the hope that you'd find the decency to stop posting at a person who had made it clear multiple times he didn't want to engage with you.

You didn't have that decency.

So if I'm forced to have your rubbish posted at my posts then I'm going to reply because otherwise it looks like I'm accepting it. So fine, if I'm forced to deal with your unwanted posts I'm going to reply with what I think of them.....and as most of them are dripping in disingenuous crap I'm going to call that out.

Don't like it, don't post at me.

Edited by Stirlingsays (28 Jan 2022 2.22pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)