Over 100,000 New Cases Today

[lankeela]

could it just be that there are so many more people taking tests than there were before and we really had this many previously without knowing about them?

[ichkeria]

Yes I’d like to see more attention given to the hospital admissions.
Number of cases is not irrelevant though.
I’d imagine there are more tests because more people are testing then asked because they’ve got symptoms or think they might have, and we know there’s a more infectious variant in play now as well.

[bobbinwales]

//So if we test nobody and there are (very surprisingly) no positive results does that mean the virus has disappeared?// Thats silly point IMO. PCRs are generally testing people with symtoms (plus I accept some who pay privately as they have to to go or return from holiday). Why would we not want to check whether people really have Covid so they can take precautions, isolate or get treatment.
If we were doing 100 times as many PCRs on everyone just for the hell of it then the infection count would NOT go up x100- it might double at most IMO

[Stickybottle]

davebro
//Daily cases peaked at 68,000 last winter - and we’ve already topped 106,000 now.//

Am I right in thinking that's a complete invention?
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Do you actually follow the news at all ?
There are many spurious claims out there but generally the bbc is regarded as one of the more reliable media sources !

[youngmafbog]

//but generally the bbc is regarded as one of the more reliable media sources !//


Hahahahahaha

Hahahahahha

Hahahahahaha

(I refuse to wet myself) :-)

[bobbinwales]

very good YMB.
What about the govuk figures... after all thats where BBC gets them from

[Stickybottle]

youngmafbog
//but generally the bbc is regarded as one of the more reliable media sources !//


Hahahahahaha

Hahahahahha

Hahahahahaha

(I refuse to wet myself) :-)
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So you are disputing the figures given yes ?
Which sources do you use ? Facebook ? Or Dave in the bookies ?
Lucky you did not wet yourself
The egg on your face will suffice
So I wonder where the bbc did get their figures from then ? Please tell us because you obviously have a more reliable source

[Peter Pedant]

//Everyone is being encouraged to report positive and negative LFTs//

I thought you wouldnt get any more ( free) if you didnt report in your results

[Stickybottle]

youngmafbog

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases

Post your link when you are ready

[Stickybottle]

Peter Pedant
//Everyone is being encouraged to report positive and negative LFTs//

I thought you wouldnt get any more ( free) if you didnt report in your results
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I very much doubt that is the case
They are free to all and sundry in many outlets locally

[Peter Pedant]

// youngmafbog //but generally the bbc is regarded as one of the more reliable media sources !//

yeah but no but

so long as it fits the marxist narrative - Yemen, they had a christian woman doing charity, swathed in a doo-dah to respect local wishes and she said "Look at me everyone...."
They also mentioned in passing (literally at a gallop) a muslim group of surgeons who silently got on with their charity work - - not News at all, Muslims turning their hand to help rather than blow up maim and disfigure liddle children

AND

one fluffy little thing who was doing somehting mainstream marxist and said - "oh I was on covid and when figures came in - I said help I have never coped with percentages! I dont have to do that now thank god"

( so THAT's why they keep on saying 1 in 60 instead of 1.7% )

[bobbinwales]

Yes, famlies I know with school children have boxes of the kits, and they are often handed out locally to anyone who wants them.
The gov site isnt clear about what counts in the test and positive results count's...my guess is its just lab based PCRs as theres little or no control over lFTs- you can report any result you want or just tell noone

[Peter Pedant]

erm lickybottle - that is why I used a conditional I thought you wouldnt
rather than a past ( aorist or anterite) with future intent - I thought you didnt....

(I thought you wouldnt but you did) - no no please dont do an andy on me and tell the naming police

[burlyshirley]

bobbinwales - what WILL you do when there are no more covid
threads ?? So far you have posted 13 times on here !!! LOL. Get a grip man ...

[Stickybottle]

Peter Pedant
erm lickybottle - that is why I used a conditional I thought you wouldnt
rather than a past ( aorist or anterite) with future intent - I thought you didnt....

(I thought you wouldnt but you did) - no no please dont do an andy on me and tell the naming police
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If I could break that code I would answer it !
As such I shall end my participation in the thread
I guess I will never get that link from the strangely quiet youngmafbog after all
Oh well

[bobbinwales]

Jog on burleyshirley. I'll post where I like

[bobbinwales]

Its funny imagining burleyshirley having nothing better to do than complete a tally chart of my posts on a thread. Talk about get a grip!

[bobbinwales]

stickbottle... i dont think PP was having a go at you.... just pointing he was saying "I thought you wouldnt but you did".... he was just saying he had assumed you woud'nt get more LFTs if you dont send your results but I think he's noted your answer that you could still get more LFTs

[bobbinwales]

Thats 16 now,,, oops 17 including this one burleyshirley to save you updating your spreadsheet

[Spicerack]

Funnily enough as I was reading the previous page I was thinking 'I can see what's wrong with some of these people. They're watching the aBBC and they think it's true'
This page just confirmed it.
Not much to be said is there. They believe everything they see and hear. Hence they're constantly at Defcon1 and nothing anyone says will change their minds. All the money the Gov. pumped into ramping up the fear factor wasn't entirely wasted, I suppose.

[douglas9401]

Heard an expert on the 10 o'clock news ddeclaring that, in simple maths if the strain is 50% less dangerous but you have 50% more infections then the net patient number will stay the same, thus threatening the NHS, peace be upon it.

He seemed to forget the first bit where it's less dangerous when doing his sums.

I then thought to myself 'wonder if that's bobbinwales on t'radio'.