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

The difference of of course was that you could unstrap your seatbelt and get out of the car.
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Delta is resistant. Half of those testing positive have been vaccinated - that's around 160,000 a day.
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The whole point of restrictions is to give time for healthcare facilities to be developed to meet future demand. This the government has failed to do. This does not mean we should continue down the same path. Conditions now are as ripe as they will ever be to break the back of the pandemic by going for herd immunity. Yes, there will be deaths and hospitalisations and long covid. But there will come a time, relatively speedily, when it will be over. To go on as we have been just spins out the agony and will result in just as much damage in the long run - if not a good deal more.
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@sciencefliestothemoon2305 A hell of a lot of people are getting their faces coughed on then Seriously though, are you saying that all these people have only tested positive because of temporary infection from another party?
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@sciencefliestothemoon2305 And a good thing too. We need more people developing long-term immunity at the cost of a few sniffles.
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@DJWESG1 That will be some time in the 23rd century or so then.
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@Yeknodathon You've been working on that little joke for days, haven't you my sweet lovely!?
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@Yeknodathon Actually the figures supporting the traditional view of the timescale involved in the construction of the Great Pyramid are now looking entirely reasonable. No aliens needed. Just lots and lots of people and lots and lots of beer.
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@Yeknodathon Alas, time is the enemy. Hopefully though sufficient information on the mechanics of the 2020 fraud will become available to prevent a repetition in next year's mid-terms and to guarantee success for Trump or his nominee in '24.
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Very few -if any - will be seriously ill and none will be dead - unless the occasional 90-year old has snuck in to have a good time.
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I thought this was one of the definitions of infinity.
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@anglonorse2943 Well we're more than halfway there already.
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More that 50% of adults are already doubly vaccinated and over 80% have had one jab. The good news is that vaccination doesn't prevent infection in all cases, but reduces symptoms considerably. Every day we are turning out 60,000 or so people who are immune at very little cost to their health. This works. Strict lockdowns don't - unless possibly if they are imposed before the virus enters the population to any degree.
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@anglonorse2943 We're approaching it rapidly though and the current situation as it develops will at least encourage waverers. I tend to subscribe to two heresies here: firstly that the 80%+ immune figure is unnecessary before HIT is reached and secondly that new variants emerge as the result of more infections. I think it just as likely that evolutionary imperatives apply and that minor variations only become successful when circumstances alter sufficiently to bring advantage to such variations. Lockdowns could actually breed variants.
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Most of those who have died "with" covid have been very elderly and very frail. They were on their last legs and if hadn't been covid it would have been something else. By far the largest category of people who have died has been those over 90.
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@swannvictor1388 I wasn't thinking as such; just reporting the facts.
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@swannvictor1388 Which facts do you dispute then?
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 @swannvictor1388 Time you checked ONS statistics, Swann.
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Not true. If it actually was impossible to isolate the vulnerable (and I don't see why this was true) then the vaccination programme is doing the job. Herd immunity is now on the horizon.
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They are now 12 points ahead in the polls - a further 2% increase. I guess many people don't view the world in the same way as you do.
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Have you compared the death to case ratio though? Bit of a shock, nein?
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@peterebel7899 Crudely, but reasonably, by measuring the number of people who have died in a particular week as a percentage of the number of cases recorded two weeks before; 14 days being the average period of time between the onset of symptoms and death.
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@JohnSmall314 Why? Are we working out a batting average or comparing the impact of the pandemic as it stands at the moment?
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@JohnSmall314 Why this absurd urge to politicize everything? I hold no brief for Boris Johnson but I cannot see how the benefit of the vaccine is being thrown away. On the contrary, we are now in a position to take a run at herd immunity with relatively few casualties. This may have happened entirely by accident but making a country's "performance" entirely the result of political decision is nonsense. Pre-existing natural conditions play a far greater part.
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@JohnSmall314 No. They demonstrate that we have a population with a large proportion of frail, elderly people. (This is not to imply this government is wise, however - except in the pursuit of self-interest perhaps!)
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@peterebel7899 There are many factors involved in a country's "performance" . In Japan the low death rate has different explanations from the high death rate in the UK. The relationship between Covid and malaria, for instance, is most interesting - with the countries with the most malaria all being way down on the list of covid deaths. Japan was malarial until the 18th century until when the disease was wiped out by efficient marsh drainage. The paper below gives a number of hypotheses to account for the huge differences in survival and infection rates between Europe and Asia and would certainly explain why the elderly in Japan have escaped, while the elderly of Europe have not. Genetic differences as a result of responses to earlier epidemics seem highly significant. "Several genes may be involved in the genetic predisposition to COVID-19, and the combination of multiple genes may be important for the severity of the infection. Among them, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to various diseases such as autoimmune diseases and infectious diseases. The composition ratio of HLA types varies greatly depending on the country and ethnic group. Since HLA is a protein of the immune system that is responsible for antigen presentation, HLA has been attracting attention in relation to disease susceptibility. Ellinghaus and colleagues performed GWAS on patients in Italy and Spain [17]. But, it was found that certain HLA types are unlikely to be associated with exacerbation of the novel coronavirus at least in Italy and Spain. Nevertheless, since HLA types, which are present only in Japan and other Asian countries, may show resistance to the novel coronavirus, further analysis is necessary." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7403102/ Japanese and east asian immune systems
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@peterebel7899 As you will see from this paper the average period between the onset of symptoms and death is 14 days. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/928729/S0803_CO-CIN_-_Time_from_symptom_onset_until_death.pd Time between onset and death approx 14 days
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@peterebel7899 Sorry about that. Let's try again! There are no hard and fast rules, obviously. Cases differ but this is the official UK analysis, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/928729/S0803_CO-CIN_-_Time_from_symptom_onset_until_death.pdf
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@bh5037 There's no use crying about it. Getting something done about it is more important. The vast majority of these people had led very long lives and we must be grateful that the disease does not kill babies and children.
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You should concentrate your serious mind on working out the huge gap between infections and deaths compared with the previous waves and considering the implications of this.
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