then there is staff shortages in the ambulance service (100 ambulances down in London) and hospitals.Khan last did this on January the 8th 2021, two days after what was to turn out as the peak of patient admissions at 977/day. In this omicron wave the latest data is for 210 admission on the 15th. If Khan had declared a major incident at 210 admissions in the delta wave he'd have done it a whole month earlier on 7 Dec 2020 when admissions were exactly 210.
Also, cupid_stunt is very much "average UK person".
In fact not quite a whole one of either.Yes, I heard cupid_stunt has one breast and one testicle.
I might be growing paranoid, living under this government for what seems like decades, but it seems possible that they'll change the rules on isolation, to make it significantly shorter, to address the staffing disaster that is happening. The numbers are incredible, not just the firefighters and hospital staff but everything else too the less visible stuff.
Already we don't have to isolate at all if we are a vaccinated confirmed contact of covid positive people which tbh makes no medical sense really at all does it.
I found this interesting. I asked all the old people I know (a princely sample size of 5) and they claimed it was actually pretty normal for family dispersed all over the country to meet up for Christmas: even before mass car ownership, people were pretty happy to make use of trains and buses, of which there were a far higher and more convenient number and route density than today, of course.
France should be fine
Time-lapse of long Eurostar queue before travel ban
Travellers in St Pancras station, London, line up to get to France before it closes its borders to the UK.www.bbc.co.uk
The government’s SPI-M-O group of scientists, which reports to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), also warned that, based on their modelling, hospitalisations could peak between 3,000 and 10,000 a day and deaths at between 600 and 6,000 a day.
As well as the alarming scenarios above, Sage also modelled the impact of measures imposed under step 1 of the roadmap used last spring. If step 1 measures were imposed, the modelling suggested that infections could be limited to between 200,000 and a million a day. Hospitalisations could run at between 1,500 and 5,000 admissions a day and daily deaths would be 200 to 2,000.
PCR = PRCOmicron = Moronic
PCR = PRC
makes you think
LFT = TFL
Well, the vessels of your liver do resemble a tube map (sortish of vaguely) so liver function tests could be of use to the mappers at TFL.
Realistically, infections can't run at 2 million a day for very long. In a week, you'd have infected 20% of the UK population. After a month, there is literally nobody left to infect, but the bushfire would have burned out long before that point.
Don't get me wrong, this is a disastrous scenario that would totally fuck things up, and the systems would collapse for as long as the badly ill infected people that need hospitalisation stay alive, which means that many people would unnecessarily die. I'm just saying that you can't reduce it to the soundbite of "2 million infected a day."
You can, but then the headline, "up to 2m daily infections" is misleading. "Daily" implies some kind of sustained rate, not a peak.You can talk about that as peak values, especially if talking about the actual number of infections on a day rather than the number we manage to detect.