What amazes me is how so many people, in the UK( and elsewhere), swallow the media BS about variant risks and new waves, without questioning the numbers, STILL.
It is standard practice here that if a new variant is discovered and a bigger percentage of positives, in that test area, are that new variant then the testing ramps up. More testing centers might open up, the media tells people, in those areas, to go get tested and loads of people start testing themselves, at home, out of interest/fear.
This results in more positive test results because more people are being tested. The big scary number that morons get hung up on still means absolutely fuck all, on its own, because they more often, than not, dont say how many tests have been done in that area, so no ratio available, but the fact covid patients numbers aren't rising, and deaths aren't either, means there is no fucking terrible 3rd wave inbound. Maybe one day, but this indian variant aint it.
FFS the article that was posted upthread about covid patients(they only have had one jab or some bullcrap) had the NHS top dog saying there werent that many covid patients and, shockingly, said he was amazed how many non covid people were in hospital. Err...... that will be because there are more people with all the other illnesses and problems, than there ever will be with covid, and they have started going back in to hospitals. What a fucking moron.
People here have have been licking each other for weeks/months now and so many have been leading maskless, hugging, normal lives, for alot longer than the media wants other countries to believe, and the best we can do is 6-7 people dying within 28 days of a positive test.
More of a media flap and panic amongst the people should be about the ridiculous number of cancer patients who have not had proper treatment, in the last year or so, the rising alcohol deaths due to depression and the enormous fucking backlog of operations and procedures. Absolutely fucking definitely going to result in more than 6 deaths a day and social decay, not so far in the future.
Put these numbers with scary graphs on the front page, you lazy media cunts. How about more words of encouragement to get out and exercise and make the most of the bloody sunshine. Honestly; fuck them and this bullshit gov.