Rampage. Something rhetorically beyond surge, one supposes.
Yet from recent Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus resource Center data:
( 144,369 UK deaths over almost two years / 67,886,011 people in the UK ) x 100 = 0.213 percent of the population’
Less than one quarter of one percent over a period of about two years as “official” victims of the “pandemic.”
So in general tallying deaths has been well replaced with announcing cases which “rampage.” But fear itself seems to be driving an economic “rampage” of its own, as the article says, ‘Businesses are failing, people are losing their livelihoods and the industry is crippled. Mixed messaging, coupled with additional restrictions, have had a catastrophic impact on our sector over the last two weeks.”
One notes that the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center has become essentially a “vaccine tracker” in their own pages.
On the home page, “Global Confirmed” of 257,570,349 “cases” and “Global Deaths” of 5,151,177.
( 5,151,177 / 257,570,349 ) x 100 = ~ 2 percent of the “confirmed” but against the world's population...
( 5,151,177 / 7,908,379,040 ) x 100 = 0.065 percent
As a “pandemic” of the “confirmed” over almost two years, they calculate 2 %.
As a “pandemic” among all the world over almost two years, the result is much lower — 0.065.
Thus it depends on what numbers one chooses, by which to tell of the “rampage.”
Tallying deaths against an overall population is simply less a “rampage,” isn't it?
There is no “rampage”. There has never been a rampage except in the fake news media.
would you like to volunteer to be one of the quarter of one percent? How many doctors, nurses, scientists, cops, bus drivers, mothers and fathers comprise that one quarter of the one percent? Is life so casual to you ? Or is it your fear that pushes reality into an impersonal decimal?
Approx 1 in 6 UKers have been confirmed infected (similar to the US). Around 1/3 of those infected will have some form of long covid - which may be simple, like sniffles that last 6 months or brain fog, clumsiness, or it might be neurologic or organic, some severe. Of those discharged from ICU around 20 percent roughly will be readmitted in crisis within 90 days and 20 percent will be dead by one year. Discharge from hospital doesn’t mean 100% shiny brand new. Some have to learn to breathe or walk again. Some may never work again. Even asymptomatics can and do incur damage (notice all the people acting crazy lately?)
“rampage” as in from 2 cases to 67,000 omi cases in 3 weeks. That’s a remarkable rate of exponential spread that’s burning thru the 10% unvaccinated population, along with taking another share of the more frail and elderly. But I suppose since that population will only be one quarter of one percent they don’t matter. In which case, why treat them at all, right?