Intriguingly, we have had the opposite. So many have been applying that we have just can’t take them all, and our training centre is back to full capacity.
It might be everywhere but not homogenously, if it was the media and experts would be back to doom and gloom of a year ago. I live in fairly well populated area and the school I work in draws from a large area, so playing the percentages there should be some. But there are very few cases generally in the population but the panicky reporting is still rife and people drawing graphs to make it look like “we’re doomed”.
The fact that HQAC haven’t got us like the real world, is more to do with the “no can’t do that” management style we have become used to, than anything else. I hope they are going everywhere masked up … oh wait a minute.
Anyone else becoming concerned by the current case number trends?
No.
We have to live with it.
We definitely cannot lock down again.
This website…
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?_ga=2.239814147.1221743953.1610393324-2135302311.1599679207
Doesnt exactly show terrible news.
Seems low and stable to me.
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Depends where you are in the country. Nationally, the picture looks ok. Locally, our picture is less rosy.
And, whilst long term we need to live with it like other communicable diseases, we’re not quite at that point yet.
Yes and no to be fair.
No because we have the be sensible and move forward living with it as safely as possible and doing all we can to stop it.
Yes because I have a holiday booked in early November and I cannot print the words here that will describe my mood if SWMBO or myself get it and can’t go.
It’s the rate of increase that’s bothering me, 30% is quite high
Living. With. It. Doesn’t. Mean. Back. To. Normal.
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Not what I said
It will be taken out of our hands as the NHS is starting doing its usual we can’t cope winter doom and gloom.
There’s no chance of getting back to the old normal 
, the politicos have got us where they want us, things looking positive mention new cases, the media ever keen to present a we’re doooomed story and people get over excited. As throughout this since Mar 2020 there is no detail of where it is, just bland numbers and graphs.
I’m now firmly of the opinion that we need to get on with normal life with minimal restrictions. Maybe masks in very crowded places like the tube and packed commuter trains/buses. If we go back to lockdowns, I have to wonder what the point of all the vaccinations was. Lockdowns have hit so many businesses and brexit hasn’t helped. It isn’t supportable.
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Many will say they only had the vaccination to get out of lockdown and to avoid future ones. As that was how it was sold to the country.
So if we continue with lockdowns, I wonder if there is a legal case against the government. I don’t know what that would look like, but I’m sure someone more well versed in this area would end up bringing a case against them.
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Err, no? You can’t sue the government for lying.
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Err. The detail is in the numbers and graphs.
To put it in simple talk:
Case graph go up → three weeks later death graph go up.
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You could sue them if they decided to lock down to see if the decision was unlawful, or Wednesbury unreasonable.
You may need to dumb it down more.
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No that’s a national position, it gives a big number and used to create panic among the plebiscite as media outlets get far too excited. What we need is a bit of The Scousers “calm down, calm down”, not flap and spin.
Anyone involved in presenting data knows using scale and numbers can create the picture to fit the narrative. I saw information I provided to a manager in my old job presented to make things look better.
I looked at the local rag’s website and apparently 450 new cases in a week (not every week) of which 30 were bad enough to be hospitalised in a population of 175000 (0.2% and 0.02% respectively) was worthy of going to hell in handcart headlines.
I prefer to look at the cases of hospitalisations with the case numbers, rather than just the case numbers. In fact, hospitalisations have been fairly static since July (small dip in September). We are at around 80% of the case numbers of the January peak yet below 25% of the hospital admissions. Seems to me the vaccinations are working and we shouldn’t get too worked up, just yet. Deaths are currently lower now than they were at the beginning of September.
The data does not indicate a cause for alarm just yet, in spite of what the newspapers would have you believe.
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Are you suggesting that Journalists don’t tell the whole truth?
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The truth?
But yes, we all know Big News exists to make money. It isn’t a public service.