Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "" video.

  1. And it is so. As it happens though while UK tests are down by around 13%, positive results are down by around 30%.
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  2. It might be time to think about adjusting your priorities and going back to shitting yourself about climate change.
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  3. Although it must be very nail-biting for all you paranoia junkies out there to think that the pandemic might be grinding to a halt, it is a distinct possibility you know.
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  4. The number of people under 40 who have died of covid in the UK is statistically negligible.
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  5. 13% fewer tests - but 30% fewer positives. Go figure.
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  6. Makes sense. Deaths follow cases by 2 to3 weeks.
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  7. What's to be scared of? Your chances of dying were never very high if you were under sixty, and they're even less now. Get a life!
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  8. This is plainly untrue. Tests are down by 13% - but the number of positives is down by 30%.
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  9. Tests down 13%, positives down 30% I know it must break your heart, but you really must think ahead and start getting all fearful about climate change again.
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  10.  @jiversteve  Yup. We'll run out of alphabet before long - but each variant will have to be less and less virulent in order to survive.
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  11.  @rocketscience4516  Susan is too busy feeding her cats to bother about me!
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  12.  @ianl1052  To what purpose?
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  13.  @ianl1052  The existing strains are already vaccine-resistant to a degree - but it doesn't matter because once people are actually infected they develop long lasting immunity. Antibiotics, on the other hand, stimulate bacteria to evolve into forms which resist them. Viruses, especially coronaviruses, behave very differently to bacteria.
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  14.  @ianl1052  So what is your point? In any case covid hospitalisations as a whole are far fewer now than at a similar stage in the last wave - which is of some significance whereas a an arbitrary comparison with the same time last year is utterly irrelevant.
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  15.  @rocketscience4516  I fully admit that influenzas occasionally throw up more virulent strains, but the long-term tendency is always towards less virulence and increased transmissibility. This would appear to be even more true in the case of covids. Any pathogen which kills off its hosts has less chance of surviving and passing on its particular genome than one which only provokes mild symptoms and allows hosts to move around, infecting others.
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  16.  @ianl1052  To bring forwards herd immunity. Which it apparently has.
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  17.  @Liz_for_PM_again  I apologise if I have expressed myself too hyperbolically. It remains a fact, however, that it is an evolutionary imperative for pathogens to become less virulent and more transmissible if they are to successfully pass on their genes. Occasionally variants may arise which are more virulent, but they lose out in the race for long-term survival because they kill off their hosts. The trend of future variants will be towards increased transmissibility and reduced virulence. It cannot be otherwise. The two previous SARS pathogens you mention certainly disappeared so quickly due to this very cause. The common cold survives for millennia. Pathogens which kill and incapacitate generally do not.
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  18.  @rocketscience4516  I am neither.
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  19.  @rocketscience4516  I am NOT backtracking, merely agreeing that there can be occasional exceptions to a general trend. If I might ask you a question: what psychological need is there in your brain to always believe the worst in any possible situation? Is your nature so fearful that you need to find constant stimulation to justify what appears to be a deeply ingrained sense of panic? Do you perhaps confuse risk aversion with virtuousness? How was your potty training? That's more than one question I know, but I'm sure you can see what I'm getting at.
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  20.  @ianl1052  Nonsense. The Delta wave was inevitable.
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  21.  @Liz_for_PM_again  I am not an anti-vaxxer nor do I try to convince people of things that are not true.
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  22.  @ianl1052  This is not the case. This government's ineptitude has only been one of great many factors in the progress of this disease.
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  23.  @Liz_for_PM_again  I identify more with the Guardian of the Bridge of Death in Monty Python's Holy Grail. If you end up in the pit it's your own fault for being so bloody daft.
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  24.  @ianl1052  I doubt it very much. And most scientific opinion would agree, I think. In any case it's been quite a good thing all in all; testing the vaccines and creating a healthy wedge of immune people to protect against future waves - if any.
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  25. No. Case numbers are dropping. Honestly and truly. It's sad I know, but there it is.
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  26. The obvious probable answer is that we are approaching herd immunity - having said that these viruses do behave in very unpredictable ways.
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  27.  @mididoctors  In principle I agree, but the virtue-signalling paranoia junkies get on my tits. I really want to see them annoyed and frustrated. It's a weakness, I know.
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  28.  @olmostgudinaf8100  You can't get covid multiple times. Cases of people being re-infected even once are as rare as hen's teeth. There is actually considerable divergence of opinion on the percentage of people who need to be actually immune before the Herd Immunity Threshold is passed. I'm no mathematician, but there are some who draw a distinction between homogenous and heterogonous levels of infection - which, as far as I understand it, means that if not everybody has the same chance of getting the disease the percentage required drops considerably.
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