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UK hits record COVID-19 levels; nearly 5 million infected
The hill ^ | 04/02/2022 | SYLVIA HUI | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 04/02/2022 7:04:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

LONDON (AP) — The prevalence of COVID-19 in the U.K. has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week, according to the latest figures from Britain’s official statistics agency.

Some 4.9 million people were estimated to have the coronavirus in the week ending March 26, up from 4.3 million recorded in the previous week, the Office for National Statistics said Friday. The latest surge is driven by the more transmissible omicron variant BA.2, which is the dominant variant across the U.K.

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KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid; infected; omnicronvariant; record; uk
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not giving the whole story. How serious are these “cases?” How many are dyinf from the new wave and how many of those are vaxxed?


21 posted on 04/02/2022 7:54:06 AM PDT by arthurus (- covfefe qi)
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To: Baldwin77

Th3y have runny noses man, it could,be terminal! /s


22 posted on 04/02/2022 7:54:53 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: bray

Vax side effects. Britain is one of the most vaxed countries on the planet.


Ha! It only took 8 posts, to get to the truth of the matter.

PlanDEMIc of the “Vax”d.

Real scientists and docs warned of this, nearly two years ago.


23 posted on 04/02/2022 7:58:04 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Bob434

It could be their brains melting and running out.

Honestly, I have never seen so many so controlled by fear in my life.

I’m still seeing all kinds of people walking around heads down like they have been beaten, with their masks dutifully up to their eyeballs. Outside.


24 posted on 04/02/2022 7:59:10 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: metmom

We fi ally starting to see less people wearing masks. You’re right, folks act like they have been Ina toxic relatio ship and have been beaten senseless


25 posted on 04/02/2022 8:05:30 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Sarcazmo

They are doing triple digit deaths per day. None of them are children so the wackos who so desperately want kids and even folks under 60 to be in their bizarre denominator can find sanctuary thus. Don’t have UK’s excess deaths by age handy so don’t know what triple digit additional deaths per day does to the overall annual death rate for 60+.

In the US last year it was well over 25%. Meaning 25% more oldsters died last year than a pre Covid year.

This is not rocket science. It has always been a single choice first. Do nothing or Do something.

If you do nothing, there are no other decisions to be made. Well, other than funeral arrangements for your parents or grandparents. But you could theoretically ignore that, too. So . . . if you choose to do nothing, you have no other decisions to make.

If you decide society must do something for the oldsters, then you have other decisions. What is the something? Usually people jump up and run around the room and declare they will riot if there is more lockdown. But that is the first mention of lockdown. The focus was “something”, not “lockdown”.

Is there some “something” that we have multi country proof will work, via clinical trials or multi-country statistics? Not really. In fact, lockdown generally fails that criterion. It didn’t seem to always work. UK and US had many lockdowns in different areas. The virus didn’t care. Killed lots of oldsters. Australia had very strict lockdownish restrictions, and until recently they had very few deaths. Lockdown has not proven itself.

Lockdown also has multiple definitions. Some places “locked down” but didn’t close schools. Some places closed schools. Some places defined essential business different than other places.

So in general stop obsessing over lockdown. No one knows what it means, particularly. And let me point out another thing. Lockdown is not some endpoint on the spectrum of restrictions. You can shoot the infected and all those around the infected. That has historical precedent in plague. You can evacuate cities. That also has precedent, and NYC largely did this. They escaped the surge of winter 2020/2021 nearly entirely.

So stop going into panic when you think of lockdown. Lockdown 1) is a mild restriction and 2) there is no proof it works.

We need another “something”. Two years in, we don’t have it. So people are dying. The global deaths are in decline. It’s not like that hasn’t happened before. The next death surge is likely and as for when, let’s just suggest sometime this year.


26 posted on 04/02/2022 8:55:16 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Owen; Sarcazmo
So stop going into panic when you think of lockdown. Lockdown 1) is a mild restriction and 2) there is no proof it works.

BS it’s a “mild restriction”.

It an infringement of our rights and since it doesn’t work, is nothing more than tyranny.

You’d fit better at DU than here with your support of leftist tyranny.

27 posted on 04/02/2022 10:08:56 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: metmom

So you equate lockdown with shooting infected and those nearby? Because that is serious restriction. Of course it doesn’t touch the rights of the shooter. Only the rights of the shot.


28 posted on 04/02/2022 10:18:31 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Owen

Red herring.


29 posted on 04/02/2022 10:22:22 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: metmom

Heh... I got him goin’. Sorry bout that.


30 posted on 04/03/2022 6:10:20 AM PDT by Sarcazmo
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To: Owen; metmom

“always been a single choice first. Do nothing or Do something.”

Yes.

The American understands that this decision is the sole purview of the individual.

The statist or communist believes, falsely, that the decision belongs to the state, or “community”.

“If you decide society must do something for the oldsters, then you” are a dirty communist and I’ll fight you to the end, as an American.


31 posted on 04/03/2022 8:08:14 AM PDT by Sarcazmo
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

You got it wrong it’s .1215! You forgot to divide by two to get the yearly count👍🤓


32 posted on 04/03/2022 8:33:24 AM PDT by gbs
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To: Sarcazmo

Too often doing something “for” others translates into doing something “to” them.


33 posted on 04/03/2022 9:44:44 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: gbs
We do not disagree. The more the simplest of arithmetic is applied to the officially official numbers as reported by the officially official Covid websites, the anomalies leap out.

The pandemic has been a magnificent deception, amplifying a small and perhaps novel respiratory virus into the great plague. The real great plague has been the "event" and its event sponsors and profiteers.

34 posted on 04/03/2022 10:09:56 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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