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over a year ago
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The normal flu will be put down as covid for everyone , there will be no normal flu , it's not been around since march , I dont no where the fuck normal flu has gone , just disappeared off of the face of the earth after millions of years . |
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"The normal flu will be put down as covid for everyone , there will be no normal flu , it's not been around since march , I dont no where the fuck normal flu has gone , just disappeared off of the face of the earth after millions of years ."
I sort of know what you mean .Since Covid No one that I know of has had normal flu they have all had Covid without actually being tested for it ..I can’t see how people can say they have had or have Covid without ever being tested.
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"The normal flu will be put down as covid for everyone , there will be no normal flu , it's not been around since march , I dont no where the fuck normal flu has gone , just disappeared off of the face of the earth after millions of years .I sort of know what you mean .Since Covid No one that I know of has had normal flu they have all had Covid without actually being tested for it ..I can’t see how people can say they have had or have Covid without ever being tested."
Thats the trouble with many of the symptoms being the same, its a shame there's not a symptom yet that makes covid stand out on its own |
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over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others."
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
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Pandemic. |
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over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
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It's almost like people know how contagious and deadly the flu is yet don't with something new |
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over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic."
Plandemic
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"The normal flu will be put down as covid for everyone , there will be no normal flu , it's not been around since march , I dont no where the fuck normal flu has gone , just disappeared off of the face of the earth after millions of years .I sort of know what you mean .Since Covid No one that I know of has had normal flu they have all had Covid without actually being tested for it ..I can’t see how people can say they have had or have Covid without ever being tested."
So why don't they get tested then? |
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over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others."
Youre wrong.
Sesrch for poeple with flu this year.yoi would think with all the measures in place it would actually stop... |
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over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic."
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August 18 2020
Britain records 1,089 more Covid-19 cases as daily average shrinks for third day in a row - while officials post 12 deaths and figures show six times as many people are now dying from flu and pneumonia
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
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I submit to such stunning reasoning. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Dailymail
August 18 2020
Britain records 1,089 more Covid-19 cases as daily average shrinks for third day in a row - while officials post 12 deaths and figures show six times as many people are now dying from flu and pneumonia
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Doesn't that quote go completely against your original post that no-one was dying from flu? |
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over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Dailymail
August 18 2020
Britain records 1,089 more Covid-19 cases as daily average shrinks for third day in a row - while officials post 12 deaths and figures show six times as many people are now dying from flu and pneumonia
Doesn't that quote go completely against your original post that no-one was dying from flu?"
Yeah but no but yeah. |
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
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Honestly amazed you can operate a computer. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
Honestly amazed you can operate a computer. "
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Dailymail
August 18 2020
Britain records 1,089 more Covid-19 cases as daily average shrinks for third day in a row - while officials post 12 deaths and figures show six times as many people are now dying from flu and pneumonia
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We're talking about this as if it's bad news. Surely if the number of deaths from covid are dropping that's brilliant news?
Secondly, but dad, rest his soul, had a long battle with cancer but died of pneumonia. Sometimes deaths don't make it convenient for us to categorise so we can have an intellectual wank about it after the fact. |
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
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Peurile .. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others."
That combined with the annual fact that there is normally sod all flu in July/August etc anyway....
Covid is NOT flu. |
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over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning."
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had Covid symptoms in late march, first week of lockdown. And I can tell you it is not like flu. I didn't have a fever but I had the cough and breathlessness for 7 weeks. There was no testing available then, so don't even know if that was Covid or not. It was ghastly though and I couldn't hold a conversation without starting to cough for most of that time. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Dailymail
August 18 2020
Britain records 1,089 more Covid-19 cases as daily average shrinks for third day in a row - while officials post 12 deaths and figures show six times as many people are now dying from flu and pneumonia
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Now I was expecting that...they have to put something down on the death certificate for all them who didn't die in the 28 day limit...hmmm |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The normal flu will be put down as covid for everyone , there will be no normal flu , it's not been around since march , I dont no where the fuck normal flu has gone , just disappeared off of the face of the earth after millions of years ."
So you're trying to say flu has been around for millions of years? You'd be right in stating microbes have been around since the dawn of time on earth. You could be right in saying SOME pathogens have been around that long. However, any virus of the RNA genome will not have been around that long. The genome is unstable and so mutates (evolves).
I'm happy to elaborate a bit more if needs be. |
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over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning."
And so you should because I've noticed on here over the past months reading these forums you add absolutely nothing to most threads and just resort to some kind of negative retort or insult.
Kinda like your latest post about somthing to do with a copy and paste or what ever nonsense you come up with.
How about answering my question with some actually intelligent input insteae of simply "pandemic" what is that supposed to even mean?
So your saying hundreds of thousands of lives each year that could be saved if every flu season we was to mandate social distancing, masks, ect, but we dont because its not a "pandemic"??
So those hundreds of thousands of deaths globally from flu that could be vastly reduced, are not because its not a pandemic.
Yeah what ever either give a more intelligent response or in future dont both even replying and from now on every single insult or retort to antagonize a forum poster that i see i shall report it every single time until the mods on here see what you are like and do somthing about it. |
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over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning.
And so you should because I've noticed on here over the past months reading these forums you add absolutely nothing to most threads and just resort to some kind of negative retort or insult.
Kinda like your latest post about somthing to do with a copy and paste or what ever nonsense you come up with.
How about answering my question with some actually intelligent input insteae of simply "pandemic" what is that supposed to even mean?
So your saying hundreds of thousands of lives each year that could be saved if every flu season we was to mandate social distancing, masks, ect, but we dont because its not a "pandemic"??
So those hundreds of thousands of deaths globally from flu that could be vastly reduced, are not because its not a pandemic.
Yeah what ever either give a more intelligent response or in future dont both even replying and from now on every single insult or retort to antagonize a forum poster that i see i shall report it every single time until the mods on here see what you are like and do somthing about it."
You need to look further into what I post then. If you do you’ll see lots of posts where I give figures about the infection rate of Covid in the U.K..
Then again it’s not something you appear to be taking seriously going off your plandemic comment.
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning.
And so you should because I've noticed on here over the past months reading these forums you add absolutely nothing to most threads and just resort to some kind of negative retort or insult.
Kinda like your latest post about somthing to do with a copy and paste or what ever nonsense you come up with.
How about answering my question with some actually intelligent input insteae of simply "pandemic" what is that supposed to even mean?
So your saying hundreds of thousands of lives each year that could be saved if every flu season we was to mandate social distancing, masks, ect, but we dont because its not a "pandemic"??
So those hundreds of thousands of deaths globally from flu that could be vastly reduced, are not because its not a pandemic.
Yeah what ever either give a more intelligent response or in future dont both even replying and from now on every single insult or retort to antagonize a forum poster that i see i shall report it every single time until the mods on here see what you are like and do somthing about it."
Ignoring the war of words but responding to the other bits...
You make a good point regarding improving hygiene and safe distancing to reduce flu (and other contagious / infectious disease deaths).
In my limited experience I have seen over the years a mostly decreasing attention to hygiene standards... Both personally and in hospitals. How much, if at all that leads to spread of disease I have no idea but common sense would suggest it will not help. So if nothing else the increased hygiene and consciousness of where our hands have been and wiping down of surfaces, increased use of ppe etc has got to be a good thing....if we maintain them. |
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning.
And so you should because I've noticed on here over the past months reading these forums you add absolutely nothing to most threads and just resort to some kind of negative retort or insult.
Kinda like your latest post about somthing to do with a copy and paste or what ever nonsense you come up with.
How about answering my question with some actually intelligent input insteae of simply "pandemic" what is that supposed to even mean?
So your saying hundreds of thousands of lives each year that could be saved if every flu season we was to mandate social distancing, masks, ect, but we dont because its not a "pandemic"??
So those hundreds of thousands of deaths globally from flu that could be vastly reduced, are not because its not a pandemic.
Yeah what ever either give a more intelligent response or in future dont both even replying and from now on every single insult or retort to antagonize a forum poster that i see i shall report it every single time until the mods on here see what you are like and do somthing about it.
You need to look further into what I post then. If you do you’ll see lots of posts where I give figures about the infection rate of Covid in the U.K..
Then again it’s not something you appear to be taking seriously going off your plandemic comment.
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning.
And so you should because I've noticed on here over the past months reading these forums you add absolutely nothing to most threads and just resort to some kind of negative retort or insult.
Kinda like your latest post about somthing to do with a copy and paste or what ever nonsense you come up with.
How about answering my question with some actually intelligent input insteae of simply "pandemic" what is that supposed to even mean?
So your saying hundreds of thousands of lives each year that could be saved if every flu season we was to mandate social distancing, masks, ect, but we dont because its not a "pandemic"??
So those hundreds of thousands of deaths globally from flu that could be vastly reduced, are not because its not a pandemic.
Yeah what ever either give a more intelligent response or in future dont both even replying and from now on every single insult or retort to antagonize a forum poster that i see i shall report it every single time until the mods on here see what you are like and do somthing about it.
Ignoring the war of words but responding to the other bits...
You make a good point regarding improving hygiene and safe distancing to reduce flu (and other contagious / infectious disease deaths).
In my limited experience I have seen over the years a mostly decreasing attention to hygiene standards... Both personally and in hospitals. How much, if at all that leads to spread of disease I have no idea but common sense would suggest it will not help. So if nothing else the increased hygiene and consciousness of where our hands have been and wiping down of surfaces, increased use of ppe etc has got to be a good thing....if we maintain them. "
I hope you're not implying sanitation and hygiene standards were low pre Cv19. Some of the worst culprits of not adhering to infection control policies are doctors (sources: infection control specialist nurse and self as a patient in an isolation room when doctor brought in wheeled cabinet of tools for inserting cannulae, taking bloods and blood gasses etc - instead of making up an aseptic ready trolley of required items). |
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning.
And so you should because I've noticed on here over the past months reading these forums you add absolutely nothing to most threads and just resort to some kind of negative retort or insult.
Kinda like your latest post about somthing to do with a copy and paste or what ever nonsense you come up with.
How about answering my question with some actually intelligent input insteae of simply "pandemic" what is that supposed to even mean?
So your saying hundreds of thousands of lives each year that could be saved if every flu season we was to mandate social distancing, masks, ect, but we dont because its not a "pandemic"??
So those hundreds of thousands of deaths globally from flu that could be vastly reduced, are not because its not a pandemic.
Yeah what ever either give a more intelligent response or in future dont both even replying and from now on every single insult or retort to antagonize a forum poster that i see i shall report it every single time until the mods on here see what you are like and do somthing about it.
Ignoring the war of words but responding to the other bits...
You make a good point regarding improving hygiene and safe distancing to reduce flu (and other contagious / infectious disease deaths).
In my limited experience I have seen over the years a mostly decreasing attention to hygiene standards... Both personally and in hospitals. How much, if at all that leads to spread of disease I have no idea but common sense would suggest it will not help. So if nothing else the increased hygiene and consciousness of where our hands have been and wiping down of surfaces, increased use of ppe etc has got to be a good thing....if we maintain them.
I hope you're not implying sanitation and hygiene standards were low pre Cv19. Some of the worst culprits of not adhering to infection control policies are doctors (sources: infection control specialist nurse and self as a patient in an isolation room when doctor brought in wheeled cabinet of tools for inserting cannulae, taking bloods and blood gasses etc - instead of making up an aseptic ready trolley of required items). "
I should have put "in hospitals" in first sentence. |
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning.
And so you should because I've noticed on here over the past months reading these forums you add absolutely nothing to most threads and just resort to some kind of negative retort or insult.
Kinda like your latest post about somthing to do with a copy and paste or what ever nonsense you come up with.
How about answering my question with some actually intelligent input insteae of simply "pandemic" what is that supposed to even mean?
So your saying hundreds of thousands of lives each year that could be saved if every flu season we was to mandate social distancing, masks, ect, but we dont because its not a "pandemic"??
So those hundreds of thousands of deaths globally from flu that could be vastly reduced, are not because its not a pandemic.
Yeah what ever either give a more intelligent response or in future dont both even replying and from now on every single insult or retort to antagonize a forum poster that i see i shall report it every single time until the mods on here see what you are like and do somthing about it.
Ignoring the war of words but responding to the other bits...
You make a good point regarding improving hygiene and safe distancing to reduce flu (and other contagious / infectious disease deaths).
In my limited experience I have seen over the years a mostly decreasing attention to hygiene standards... Both personally and in hospitals. How much, if at all that leads to spread of disease I have no idea but common sense would suggest it will not help. So if nothing else the increased hygiene and consciousness of where our hands have been and wiping down of surfaces, increased use of ppe etc has got to be a good thing....if we maintain them.
I hope you're not implying sanitation and hygiene standards were low pre Cv19. Some of the worst culprits of not adhering to infection control policies are doctors (sources: infection control specialist nurse and self as a patient in an isolation room when doctor brought in wheeled cabinet of tools for inserting cannulae, taking bloods and blood gasses etc - instead of making up an aseptic ready trolley of required items). "
Exactly that... Its one example... I've witnessed staff sneeze then put hands on a patient, not clean down beds between patients,examine one patient then move directly to another patient and examine them, empty or missing hand sanitizer stations, over crowded waiting rooms that are poorly cleaned, staff wearing work clothes on tube and bus then wearing the same uniform to treat patients with no ppe between them and whatever has been carried in on their uniform... And so on... And that's before you talk about patients traipsing in with filthy shoes / clothing, or being knowingly ill and going to work to spread to colleagues... The list is endless... If this has taught us all to be a bit more mindful of how we spread disease... That's a good thing. |
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The typical flu season is approaching, as our warmer season tails off. That we've not been within our main period for flu will help to explain its lower visibility. The improved hygiene measures on average, with social distancing etc will have helped to suppress some infectious diseases from spreading, as someone highlighted  .
In contrast with the spring 2020 covid-19 point, we are now testing for it - back then, people were informed to isolate without testing, unless admitted to hospital.
The 2019 flu deaths were 1,223 for England and Wales - I don't know the other national figures. Numbers vary by year.
The great difference between flu and covid-19 is that flu may be prevented by vaccines, in addition to hygiene measures etc. A larger immunisation programme is planned for this winter flu season.
An aspect of some viruses and humans is that infection with 1 virus can displace other viral infections, preventing simultaneous infection. The mechanisms of this are not fully understood. Alongside this, the UK winter season typically has a sequence with which the same infections repeat each year, typically starting with common colds. We don't yet know how covid-19 infection levels may alter our sequence of winter infections, if at all, nor which - if any of them - might be involved in viral displacement in any way.
This new virus and its effects on us is obviously something that we don't know that much about just yet. Neither do we know if our predicted flu strains included in the 2020 vaccines are going to match the actual ones that are prevalent this year - that will obviously influence the level of flu infection that takes hold here.
Will you be having the flu vaccine? Its NHS availability is broadened this winter. It's also available typically in pharmacies, for about £10 - 15. The greater the levels of vaccination, the closer the country is to achievement of herd immunity, which is great, as it helps to protect those unable to have the vaccine, as well as potentially reducing the impact on the NHS. |
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others."
Yer I'll go with that better hygiene is the best way to stop flu and covid
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning.
And so you should because I've noticed on here over the past months reading these forums you add absolutely nothing to most threads and just resort to some kind of negative retort or insult.
Kinda like your latest post about somthing to do with a copy and paste or what ever nonsense you come up with.
How about answering my question with some actually intelligent input insteae of simply "pandemic" what is that supposed to even mean?
So your saying hundreds of thousands of lives each year that could be saved if every flu season we was to mandate social distancing, masks, ect, but we dont because its not a "pandemic"??
So those hundreds of thousands of deaths globally from flu that could be vastly reduced, are not because its not a pandemic.
Yeah what ever either give a more intelligent response or in future dont both even replying and from now on every single insult or retort to antagonize a forum poster that i see i shall report it every single time until the mods on here see what you are like and do somthing about it.
Ignoring the war of words but responding to the other bits...
You make a good point regarding improving hygiene and safe distancing to reduce flu (and other contagious / infectious disease deaths).
In my limited experience I have seen over the years a mostly decreasing attention to hygiene standards... Both personally and in hospitals. How much, if at all that leads to spread of disease I have no idea but common sense would suggest it will not help. So if nothing else the increased hygiene and consciousness of where our hands have been and wiping down of surfaces, increased use of ppe etc has got to be a good thing....if we maintain them.
I hope you're not implying sanitation and hygiene standards were low pre Cv19. Some of the worst culprits of not adhering to infection control policies are doctors (sources: infection control specialist nurse and self as a patient in an isolation room when doctor brought in wheeled cabinet of tools for inserting cannulae, taking bloods and blood gasses etc - instead of making up an aseptic ready trolley of required items).
Exactly that... Its one example... I've witnessed staff sneeze then put hands on a patient, not clean down beds between patients,examine one patient then move directly to another patient and examine them, empty or missing hand sanitizer stations, over crowded waiting rooms that are poorly cleaned, staff wearing work clothes on tube and bus then wearing the same uniform to treat patients with no ppe between them and whatever has been carried in on their uniform... And so on... And that's before you talk about patients traipsing in with filthy shoes / clothing, or being knowingly ill and going to work to spread to colleagues... The list is endless... If this has taught us all to be a bit more mindful of how we spread disease... That's a good thing. "
If staff wear uniforms outside the hospital then they should be wearing a long coat over it. Community staff obviously have to wear it.
If you see poor standards in the hospital, report them at the time. Infection control is mandatory (annual) training. Policies are strict re jewellery (no wrist watch or jewelled rings - only one plain band), clothing above elbow, step by step hand-washing, use of ppe etc. |
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"The typical flu season is approaching, as our warmer season tails off. That we've not been within our main period for flu will help to explain its lower visibility. The improved hygiene measures on average, with social distancing etc will have helped to suppress some infectious diseases from spreading, as someone highlighted .
In contrast with the spring 2020 covid-19 point, we are now testing for it - back then, people were informed to isolate without testing, unless admitted to hospital.
The 2019 flu deaths were 1,223 for England and Wales - I don't know the other national figures. Numbers vary by year.
The great difference between flu and covid-19 is that flu may be prevented by vaccines, in addition to hygiene measures etc. A larger immunisation programme is planned for this winter flu season.
An aspect of some viruses and humans is that infection with 1 virus can displace other viral infections, preventing simultaneous infection. The mechanisms of this are not fully understood. Alongside this, the UK winter season typically has a sequence with which the same infections repeat each year, typically starting with common colds. We don't yet know how covid-19 infection levels may alter our sequence of winter infections, if at all, nor which - if any of them - might be involved in viral displacement in any way.
This new virus and its effects on us is obviously something that we don't know that much about just yet. Neither do we know if our predicted flu strains included in the 2020 vaccines are going to match the actual ones that are prevalent this year - that will obviously influence the level of flu infection that takes hold here.
Will you be having the flu vaccine? Its NHS availability is broadened this winter. It's also available typically in pharmacies, for about £10 - 15. The greater the levels of vaccination, the closer the country is to achievement of herd immunity, which is great, as it helps to protect those unable to have the vaccine, as well as potentially reducing the impact on the NHS. "
I'm sure I've seen (not read) studies of co-infections if anyone wants to look for them  . |
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Plandemic
I submit to such stunning reasoning.
And so you should because I've noticed on here over the past months reading these forums you add absolutely nothing to most threads and just resort to some kind of negative retort or insult.
Kinda like your latest post about somthing to do with a copy and paste or what ever nonsense you come up with.
How about answering my question with some actually intelligent input insteae of simply "pandemic" what is that supposed to even mean?
So your saying hundreds of thousands of lives each year that could be saved if every flu season we was to mandate social distancing, masks, ect, but we dont because its not a "pandemic"??
So those hundreds of thousands of deaths globally from flu that could be vastly reduced, are not because its not a pandemic.
Yeah what ever either give a more intelligent response or in future dont both even replying and from now on every single insult or retort to antagonize a forum poster that i see i shall report it every single time until the mods on here see what you are like and do somthing about it.
You need to look further into what I post then. If you do you’ll see lots of posts where I give figures about the infection rate of Covid in the U.K..
Then again it’s not something you appear to be taking seriously going off your plandemic comment.
I like your posts, you seem very intelligent and articulate "
Ditto..
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
That combined with the annual fact that there is normally sod all flu in July/August etc anyway....
Covid is NOT flu."
You're spoiling the conspiracy man.... 
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Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one .. |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one .."
Except they have, a 13 day old baby, died, a 3 year old, died, a 5 year old, died, a seven year old, died. The young are less affected, but they are definitely still affected. |
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"I had Covid symptoms in late march, first week of lockdown. And I can tell you it is not like flu. I didn't have a fever but I had the cough and breathlessness for 7 weeks. There was no testing available then, so don't even know if that was Covid or not. It was ghastly though and I couldn't hold a conversation without starting to cough for most of that time. "
I had covid 19 early April and I have had worse flu.
Only difference covid 19 lasted twice as long as flu. |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one .."
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By *eeleyWoman
over a year ago
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Dailymail
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over a year ago
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one .."
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one .."
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc "
It does /facepalm |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc
It does /facepalm"
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"The normal flu will be put down as covid for everyone , there will be no normal flu , it's not been around since march , I dont no where the fuck normal flu has gone , just disappeared off of the face of the earth after millions of years ."
It's not flu "season" yet and yes many people died from flu in the 2919/20 flu "season" so what's your point ? |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc "
Wtf? You do realise asbestosis is not a communicable disease, neither is lead poisoning. No wonder you don't believe a virus can be contagious. Knowledge to you is what words are to dyslexics, and numbers to dyscalculics.
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc
Wtf? You do realise asbestosis is not a communicable disease, neither is lead poisoning. No wonder you don't believe a virus can be contagious. Knowledge to you is what words are to dyslexics, and numbers to dyscalculics.
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc "
Errm. It has. |
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"I had Covid symptoms in late march, first week of lockdown. And I can tell you it is not like flu. I didn't have a fever but I had the cough and breathlessness for 7 weeks. There was no testing available then, so don't even know if that was Covid or not. It was ghastly though and I couldn't hold a conversation without starting to cough for most of that time. "
Im off to donate convalescent plasma on Monday. Why don't you volunteer....? You will know for certain then. |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one .."
Do they have an "awww bless" icon? |
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Most flu like symptoms will mean you have to self isolate for 10 days. Whether or not social distancing will help prevent the spread of the common cold or flu this winter remains to be seen. Think about how many people every winter that you know get a cold or the flu. It's usually a lot, whether the a cold or covid who is to know with symptoms ranging so much between people. I know I wouldn't fancy queuing next to some one coughing or sneezing all over the place this winter. |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one .."
Both of my daughters (12 & 16) and the neighbour’s kids have had it as have a number of their friends. There is no evidence whatsoever that any particular demographic is more likely to contract C-19. And how do you imagine it’s possible to create a virus that know’s how old or what ethnicity you are? |
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"Most flu like symptoms will mean you have to self isolate for 10 days. Whether or not social distancing will help prevent the spread of the common cold or flu this winter remains to be seen. Think about how many people every winter that you know get a cold or the flu. It's usually a lot, whether the a cold or covid who is to know with symptoms ranging so much between people. I know I wouldn't fancy queuing next to some one coughing or sneezing all over the place this winter. "
You won't be queuing next to someone unless SD is removed. |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc
Errm. It has."
Yet police and staff are not required to wear a mask.
You think masks are really for everyones safety? |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc
Wtf? You do realise asbestosis is not a communicable disease, neither is lead poisoning. No wonder you don't believe a virus can be contagious. Knowledge to you is what words are to dyslexics, and numbers to dyscalculics.
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Lead and abestos affects everyone it comes in contact with. It doesnt choose age sex height or ethincity.
An infectious disease that chooses only certain demographics... times of day and if your staff or not. Or eating at a restaurant .... thats some smart virus. |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one .."
Do you like to just make shit up?
Quite a few children and teenagers have had it. |
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over a year ago
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc
Wtf? You do realise asbestosis is not a communicable disease, neither is lead poisoning. No wonder you don't believe a virus can be contagious. Knowledge to you is what words are to dyslexics, and numbers to dyscalculics.
Lead and abestos affects everyone it comes in contact with. It doesnt choose age sex height or ethincity.
An infectious disease that chooses only certain demographics... times of day and if your staff or not. Or eating at a restaurant .... thats some smart virus."
False, lead and asbestos do not poison everyone that comes into contact with them. |
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"The typical flu season is approaching, as our warmer season tails off. That we've not been within our main period for flu will help to explain its lower visibility. The improved hygiene measures on average, with social distancing etc will have helped to suppress some infectious diseases from spreading, as someone highlighted .
In contrast with the spring 2020 covid-19 point, we are now testing for it - back then, people were informed to isolate without testing, unless admitted to hospital.
The 2019 flu deaths were 1,223 for England and Wales - I don't know the other national figures. Numbers vary by year.
The great difference between flu and covid-19 is that flu may be prevented by vaccines, in addition to hygiene measures etc. A larger immunisation programme is planned for this winter flu season.
An aspect of some viruses and humans is that infection with 1 virus can displace other viral infections, preventing simultaneous infection. The mechanisms of this are not fully understood. Alongside this, the UK winter season typically has a sequence with which the same infections repeat each year, typically starting with common colds. We don't yet know how covid-19 infection levels may alter our sequence of winter infections, if at all, nor which - if any of them - might be involved in viral displacement in any way.
This new virus and its effects on us is obviously something that we don't know that much about just yet. Neither do we know if our predicted flu strains included in the 2020 vaccines are going to match the actual ones that are prevalent this year - that will obviously influence the level of flu infection that takes hold here.
Will you be having the flu vaccine? Its NHS availability is broadened this winter. It's also available typically in pharmacies, for about £10 - 15. The greater the levels of vaccination, the closer the country is to achievement of herd immunity, which is great, as it helps to protect those unable to have the vaccine, as well as potentially reducing the impact on the NHS. "
Flu is not prevented by flu vaccine. On the contrary. Look foe plenty of studies that found flu vaccine makes one more susceptible to respirstory related illness. |
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over a year ago
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"The typical flu season is approaching, as our warmer season tails off. That we've not been within our main period for flu will help to explain its lower visibility. The improved hygiene measures on average, with social distancing etc will have helped to suppress some infectious diseases from spreading, as someone highlighted .
In contrast with the spring 2020 covid-19 point, we are now testing for it - back then, people were informed to isolate without testing, unless admitted to hospital.
The 2019 flu deaths were 1,223 for England and Wales - I don't know the other national figures. Numbers vary by year.
The great difference between flu and covid-19 is that flu may be prevented by vaccines, in addition to hygiene measures etc. A larger immunisation programme is planned for this winter flu season.
An aspect of some viruses and humans is that infection with 1 virus can displace other viral infections, preventing simultaneous infection. The mechanisms of this are not fully understood. Alongside this, the UK winter season typically has a sequence with which the same infections repeat each year, typically starting with common colds. We don't yet know how covid-19 infection levels may alter our sequence of winter infections, if at all, nor which - if any of them - might be involved in viral displacement in any way.
This new virus and its effects on us is obviously something that we don't know that much about just yet. Neither do we know if our predicted flu strains included in the 2020 vaccines are going to match the actual ones that are prevalent this year - that will obviously influence the level of flu infection that takes hold here.
Will you be having the flu vaccine? Its NHS availability is broadened this winter. It's also available typically in pharmacies, for about £10 - 15. The greater the levels of vaccination, the closer the country is to achievement of herd immunity, which is great, as it helps to protect those unable to have the vaccine, as well as potentially reducing the impact on the NHS.
Flu is not prevented by flu vaccine. On the contrary. Look foe plenty of studies that found flu vaccine makes one more susceptible to respirstory related illness."
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Do you like to just make shit up?
Quite a few children and teenagers have had
it. "
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Do you like to just make shit up?
Quite a few children and teenagers have had
it.
how many have died from having it?"
That's not the statement I was responding to. I'm sure you can find such info if you really want to know though. |
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"Flu is not prevented by flu vaccine. On the contrary. Look foe plenty of studies that found flu vaccine makes one more susceptible to respirstory related illness."
The most useful thing you could research would be how to discriminate information.
Your current abilities in that arena are sorely lacking. |
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"Flu is not prevented by flu vaccine. On the contrary. Look foe plenty of studies that found flu vaccine makes one more susceptible to respirstory related illness."
We've both had the flu jab for over two decades and never got the flu, perhaps we've just been lucky then? |
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"Flu is not prevented by flu vaccine. On the contrary. Look foe plenty of studies that found flu vaccine makes one more susceptible to respirstory related illness.
We've both had the flu jab for over two decades and never got the flu, perhaps we've just been lucky then?"
Maybe a side effect of the flu jab is that it makes you luckier... |
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc
Wtf? You do realise asbestosis is not a communicable disease, neither is lead poisoning. No wonder you don't believe a virus can be contagious. Knowledge to you is what words are to dyslexics, and numbers to dyscalculics.
Lead and abestos affects everyone it comes in contact with. It doesnt choose age sex height or ethincity.
An infectious disease that chooses only certain demographics... times of day and if your staff or not. Or eating at a restaurant .... thats some smart virus."
Lead and asbestos are toxic substances but you have to be exposed to certain forms and I assume toxicity also depends on the amounts, for example, asbestosis has been found in people who worked with the stuff historically. It cannot be compared to a virus.
CV 19 exposure does NOT differentiate between demographics BUT people's immune systems do differ according to age, gender, status (class, employment, education), environment and perhaps ethnicity. I state perhaps because I'm not aware if the difference between Caucasian and BAME is their immune system or something else.
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"Ha! I've experienced this on the forum where a poster uses research to back up his argument. I've gone to the research and it actually doesn't. "
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Do you like to just make shit up?
Quite a few children and teenagers have had
it.
how many have died from having it?"
It's a small number, fortunately. I stated about a study of age bands and gender. Thread is called Glad I'm Female". It included the UK and other countries, totalling nearly 400 million people: 0-9 years, if I remember correctly, was 6 boys, 7 girls. Not sure of date the study was done. |
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"The typical flu season is approaching, as our warmer season tails off. That we've not been within our main period for flu will help to explain its lower visibility. The improved hygiene measures on average, with social distancing etc will have helped to suppress some infectious diseases from spreading, as someone highlighted .
In contrast with the spring 2020 covid-19 point, we are now testing for it - back then, people were informed to isolate without testing, unless admitted to hospital.
The 2019 flu deaths were 1,223 for England and Wales - I don't know the other national figures. Numbers vary by year.
The great difference between flu and covid-19 is that flu may be prevented by vaccines, in addition to hygiene measures etc. A larger immunisation programme is planned for this winter flu season.
An aspect of some viruses and humans is that infection with 1 virus can displace other viral infections, preventing simultaneous infection. The mechanisms of this are not fully understood. Alongside this, the UK winter season typically has a sequence with which the same infections repeat each year, typically starting with common colds. We don't yet know how covid-19 infection levels may alter our sequence of winter infections, if at all, nor which - if any of them - might be involved in viral displacement in any way.
This new virus and its effects on us is obviously something that we don't know that much about just yet. Neither do we know if our predicted flu strains included in the 2020 vaccines are going to match the actual ones that are prevalent this year - that will obviously influence the level of flu infection that takes hold here.
Will you be having the flu vaccine? Its NHS availability is broadened this winter. It's also available typically in pharmacies, for about £10 - 15. The greater the levels of vaccination, the closer the country is to achievement of herd immunity, which is great, as it helps to protect those unable to have the vaccine, as well as potentially reducing the impact on the NHS.
I'm sure I've seen (not read) studies of co-infections if anyone wants to look for them . "
Co-infections can and do occur, though some viruses seem to have a kind of pecking order. This is about our body, rather than the viruses, as you understand. I'm appreciating all of your wise words in the forum btw |
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"The typical flu season is approaching, as our warmer season tails off. That we've not been within our main period for flu will help to explain its lower visibility. The improved hygiene measures on average, with social distancing etc will have helped to suppress some infectious diseases from spreading, as someone highlighted .
In contrast with the spring 2020 covid-19 point, we are now testing for it - back then, people were informed to isolate without testing, unless admitted to hospital.
The 2019 flu deaths were 1,223 for England and Wales - I don't know the other national figures. Numbers vary by year.
The great difference between flu and covid-19 is that flu may be prevented by vaccines, in addition to hygiene measures etc. A larger immunisation programme is planned for this winter flu season.
An aspect of some viruses and humans is that infection with 1 virus can displace other viral infections, preventing simultaneous infection. The mechanisms of this are not fully understood. Alongside this, the UK winter season typically has a sequence with which the same infections repeat each year, typically starting with common colds. We don't yet know how covid-19 infection levels may alter our sequence of winter infections, if at all, nor which - if any of them - might be involved in viral displacement in any way.
This new virus and its effects on us is obviously something that we don't know that much about just yet. Neither do we know if our predicted flu strains included in the 2020 vaccines are going to match the actual ones that are prevalent this year - that will obviously influence the level of flu infection that takes hold here.
Will you be having the flu vaccine? Its NHS availability is broadened this winter. It's also available typically in pharmacies, for about £10 - 15. The greater the levels of vaccination, the closer the country is to achievement of herd immunity, which is great, as it helps to protect those unable to have the vaccine, as well as potentially reducing the impact on the NHS.
I'm sure I've seen (not read) studies of co-infections if anyone wants to look for them .
Co-infections can and do occur, though some viruses seem to have a kind of pecking order. This is about our body, rather than the viruses, as you understand. I'm appreciating all of your wise words in the forum btw "
Aww thank you  .
As for pecking order, I can just imagine some cartoon version of cv19 coming along and telling other viruses to do one cos he's the new kid on the block |
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"It’s strange how a contagious disease doesn’t spread when everyone is either locked down or increasing hygiene and keeping away from others.
Even stranger is why hasnt lock downs and mandated face masks and social distancing been put in place every single winter/flu season for decades to save the hundreds of thousands of people that die every flu season globally.
Answer me that?
Pandemic.
Dailymail
August 18 2020
Britain records 1,089 more Covid-19 cases as daily average shrinks for third day in a row - while officials post 12 deaths and figures show six times as many people are now dying from flu and pneumonia
We're talking about this as if it's bad news. Surely if the number of deaths from covid are dropping that's brilliant news?
Secondly, but dad, rest his soul, had a long battle with cancer but died of pneumonia. Sometimes deaths don't make it convenient for us to categorise so we can have an intellectual wank about it after the fact. "
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc "
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"Its a man made virus as its spread to fast to quick and only hitting the elderly, people with chronic conditions and ethnic minority,..funny no children or teenagers have had it ...a real pandemic would hit every one ..
Exactly. Like lead poisoning or asbestos. If its contagious it will infect everyone including police, staff etc
You couldn't make this stuff up
Oh silly me, he just did "
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