Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by Sarah » Fri Oct 15 2021 11:45am

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Fri Apr 09 2021 3:07pm
The contactless spending limit will be raised to £45 from 1 April.
Now increased again to £100 from today:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58898474

Starling Bank already offer customers the facility to set their own lower limit if preferred. I see Lloyds Bank advertising they will also offer this soon; hopefully that means Halifax too and more to follow.

PS. Here's how badly the COVID-19 tragedy is going lately:

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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by expressman33 » Fri Oct 15 2021 12:11pm

Sarah wrote:
Fri Oct 15 2021 11:45am

PS. Here's how badly the COVID-19 tragedy is going lately:

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but the UK fatality rate from Covid is one of the lowest https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co ... EU~ITA~IND
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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by macliam » Fri Oct 15 2021 3:00pm

expressman33 wrote:
Fri Oct 15 2021 12:11pm
but the UK fatality rate from Covid is one of the lowest https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co ... EU~ITA~IND
That's where the mortality rate is set against the number of infections...... UK has a high level of infection and a high "actual" mortality rate in terms of the general population, but a lower mortality rate for those infected and hospitalized.

Thank you NHS.
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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by macliam » Fri Oct 15 2021 3:02pm

macliam wrote:
Fri Oct 15 2021 3:00pm
expressman33 wrote:
Fri Oct 15 2021 12:11pm
but the UK fatality rate from Covid is one of the lowest https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co ... EU~ITA~IND
Statistics prove what they prove.....

That data is based on the mortality rate is set against the number of infections...... UK has a high level of infection and a high "actual" mortality rate in terms of the general population, but a lower mortality rate for those infected and hospitalized.

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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by expressman33 » Fri Oct 15 2021 3:27pm

Sarah wrote:
Fri Oct 15 2021 11:45am

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Graph headline is misleading , should say Weekly not Daily
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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by Sarah » Fri Oct 15 2021 5:19pm

expressman33 wrote:
Fri Oct 15 2021 3:27pm
Graph headline is misleading , should say Weekly not Daily
I don't see anything amiss. It's a "daily" chart, conventionally meaning that each data point represents a single day, i.e. the rolling average is recalculated daily.
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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by Sarah » Tue Oct 19 2021 8:34pm

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223 deaths reported today, the highest daily figure since March 9th.

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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by Sarah » Sat Nov 27 2021 7:07pm

Health banker Javid confirms two cases of Omicron variant detected in UK:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59445388

Johnson concedes the so-called “irreversible” lifting of restrictions must begin to be reversed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59445124
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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by oldboy » Sat Nov 27 2021 9:08pm

Anybody else think that our beloved leader is in practice for a place in simply come dancing when he leaves politics, 'cos he turns and twirls ever so much.
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Re: Coronavirus/COVID-19 part 2

Post by macliam » Sat Nov 27 2021 10:11pm

The stupidity in all this is that anyone expects things to be "normal" or that they will go back to normal, whether politician or public.

The virus is with us, it mutates, it remains - we have an abysmal record in eradicating viruses, so it will stay with us and we will need to defend against it and/or accept the consequences.

It may become more contagious, it may become less deadly, we will develop better defences and better treatments - an if we can keep the number of infections to a treatable level, the number of deaths may reduce to a similar level as those from flu or other infectious diseases.

Protect yourself - don't expect others to do it.....
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