It Seems Like The Latest Omicron Virus Is Like Getting A Bad Cold

[dave50]

So why all the panicking, testing and isolating? Yes people might pass this cold on but so what? We never tried to enforce isolation in the past when people were spreading a cold virus. This unnecessary obsession with public health safety should stop.

[melv16]

Has anyone on here had; TB, diphtheria, polio, small pox etc.
If not, I wonder why?

[-SharonA-]

Bad cold!!!! What a joke. I've never felt so ill in my life. I'd rather have a bad cold right now.

[New Judge]

//Has anyone on here had; TB, diphtheria, polio, small pox etc.
If not, I wonder why?//

The reason that nobody on here may have contracted smallpox is because there is nobody to catch it from. It was declared eradicated by the WHO in 1980 and there has been no naturally occurring infection since.

[sevenOP]

-SharonA- : "Bad cold!!!! What a joke. I've never felt so ill in my life. I'd rather have a bad cold right now."

Sharon, did you have the Omicron variant ?

[dannyk13]

Melv.I had diphtheria as a child (40's)

[Peter Pedant]

// Why do you continually misrepresent the truth, Peter?//

I dont - I am the beacon of.... sensibleness or something

BUT I admit that I see a statement - - say - "there is too much testing for covid, and if they tested less...."
which is illogical and stupid
and I impishly think, change a word or two - - a 'for' to a 'then' - nothing much
and it now reads so profoundly gormless that even the author will blush and gasp "even I wdnt say that!" and then feverishly go back over his pensees and wise words...
to see if that particular blunder was his....

[Peter Pedant]

// Why do you continually misrepresent the truth, Peter?//

I learn it from lawyers like you NJ

[-SharonA-]

Sevenop, I couldn't get a test online, they've run out and feel too ill to venture outside, join queue. So I don't know.

[sevenOP]

-SharonA- ,

thank you for your reply. I wish you a full and speedy recovery.

[Ellipsis]

> So why all the panicking, testing and isolating?

Panicking? What panicking?

Testing? To see if you've got it.

Isolating? To reduce the rate of transmission. Remember the R number? If the R number is above 1, the virus will eventually go through the entire population, which is fine (for most people, with this mild a virus). If the R number is way above 1, the speed at which the virus goes through the entire population is much greater, meaning that at any one time a bigger number of people is infected. And then a small percentage of that big number is still a big number, big enough to overwhelm some parts of the system. Which is why you are seeing various health authorities declaring "critical incidents":

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/06/nhs-trusts-england-critical-incidents-covid-pressures-omicron

Remember the original plan to tackle Covid, back in March 2020 - flattening the curve? Which we quickly pulled back from because so many people would die. That's what we're going for now, with the aid of vaccines, a milder variant and the fact that a lot of the people that would have been killed have already been killed.

[-SharonA-]

Thank you.