UK scientists: bring in curbs now or face up to 2m daily Covid infections as Omicron spreads - Deaths could hit 6,000 a day and delaying restrictions until New Year will cut effectiveness, say Sage experts

Guardian ^ | 12/18/21

[BusterDog]

The scale of the threat posed by the Omicron variant was laid bare by government scientists last night as they warned that there are now hundreds of thousands of infections every day. That daily number could reach between 600,000 and 2 million by the end of the month if new restrictions are not brought in immediately.

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.

Sage urged the government to reintroduce “more stringent measures … very soon”. The minutes of its meeting on Thursday stated: “The timing of such measures is crucial. Delaying until 2022 would greatly reduce the effectiveness of such interventions and make it less likely that these would prevent considerable pressure on health and care settings.”

[BusterDog]

Coming soon to your sector of the Global Oligarchal Technocracy.

[no-to-illegals]

I will never trust a medical person that supports the covid lie

[ilgipper]

1 death does not project to 6000 a day.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Even in that one death, it is said the person died WITH Covid and not OF Covid.

[epluribus_2]

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhh!!

[cgbg]

Do we get a free backhoe rental to pick up the curbs before we bring them in?

[cranked]

The fear porn is real, bet.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

ilgipper :" 1 death does not project to 6000 a day."

In a real world, that is true.
If you're trying to encourage fear mongering, the 6,000 a day is just creative writing (A/K/A : Fiction)

[SmokingJoe]

How much extra is Bill Gates paying The Guardian to spew out this hysterical garbage?
I know Gates has already given The Guardian plenty of money before.

[Dutch Boy]

If the 6000 a day doesn’t happen, jail the guy that came up with that number as a terrorist.

[Allegra]

Are there still people who believe this bull feces?

[Skywise]

On what “science” do they base this?

There’s very little to NO factual studies on what effect the Omicron variant has.

Saying that it’s “worse” than Delta or even the original Alpha variant is malicious malfeasance AT BEST.

Again people, this is NOT science. This is akin to your garage mechanic telling you that the oil leak they didn’t fix the last two times is worse this time and requires more stringent (read $$$$) repairs than the last 2 times they didn’t fix it.

[SmokingJoe]

At 2 million infections a day and a population of just 68 million, it means just about everybody in the UK will be “infected” in just over a month.
How does that even make sense?

[BiglyCommentary]

Isn’t this the group that way overestimated covid by a factor of 100 and panicked everyone?

[ealgeone]

Haven’t we heard that 2 million figure before??

[Ouderkirk]

So for the sake of argument, they don’t get the 10K per day deaths.

What price will those who promulgated this nonsense pay?

These people have no skin in the game.

[ealgeone]

IF that happens then herd immunity comes into play....or else the UK is about to be de-populated.

[Brian Griffin]

cases up
deaths down

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

The counties around London are most impacted.

The graph shows Belfast area and Manchester cases up.

[skr]

Modelling is like poll-taking. A tweak here, a tweak there, and, voila, the desired outcome appears.

[SmokingJoe]

Why don't we look at the real reason:
Spreading fear porn and hysteria to push a far left agenda at the orders of their billionaire sponsors including Gates.