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I've been thinking about this for two days, and I still can't come with a better pun than that. You win! :)

No problem, post up your address and we'll hire a van to pop all of our bins up your way. Sans cats, obviously. :)

Only slightly. But please keep posting up the science at least, seeing things casually parachuted in from twitter etc. and posited as 'fact', really is damaging my health. :)

Absolutely. And I'll bet out of that 5% most of them are just feckless malingerers pretending to have a cough. And even though on it's own 5% is an utterly meaningless statistic, I think it completely proves that it's blindingly obvious that that the press are just making stuff up to scare...

Interesting read that, thanks, although there are conflicting opinions even there. I think what's clear though, is that viruses certainly do not always mutate to become less virulent. Blimey, if you follow Cov long enough, not only do you become better at forensic accountancy and law, but you...

Politely, it's not just this government. Here's the European CDC take on it (VOC = Variant of Concern): "Although current data on the severity of the infection associated with the Omicron VOC remain limited, evidence to date raises concern that the Omicron VOC may be associated with a...

Hmmm... A few things to clarify the science here - it took me about ten minutes to find these out, so I remain entirely unconvinced that repeating stuff unchecked is in any way smart: Is there evidence that Omicron can re-infect people who have already had Covid? Yes...

Right, all of the links I've provided are subordinate to your crystal ball. There's no problem with ambulances queuing, people are just making this stuff up. In your opinion, despite all of the evidence there's no issue anywhere other than A&E. The reason you seem to suggest there are...

Absolutely, and I think that's why there's genuine concern (as opposed to the Boris get-out-of-jail-free kind). It looks like infections are going to rise exponentially, in fact if I had a fiver I fancy we might start running out of test kits sometime in January. Whether hospital admissions...

The ones queuing outside A & E aren't likely to be there for routine appointments are they? Hmm...I think I'll book my serious fall, stroke, heart attack, car accident for Tuesday... I haven't much on that day. 😁

C'mon Nick, you're starting to argue black is white here. What do you think happens to most people who go to hospital in an ambulance? They have a quick wipe down and are sent on their way?! Filter out the nonsense indeed!

Yes, it's hard to get data on this in a straightforward way, but it's easy enough to find lots of similar stories. It's definitely worrying, and I don't for a moment believe that the NHS isn't already under huge pressure.

Then why are ambulances queuing for hours outside hospitals to admit people? https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2590 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-hospital-england-b966273.html

That's not entirely true either, but I agree the booster drive will have an impact. Fwiw I got to see a GP today, again let's not misinform and put people off even trying.

You won't know that until it's infected a very large number of people, as above. What would you do now? Take a punt on it being a cold?

All perfectly reasonable Steve, but the problem is that the NHS is already at breaking point, and possibly beyond it. Data on this is much harder to find, but I know personally of two seperate incidents where people with breathing difficulties have either waited for an ambulance for over six...

The problem is that if you let it rip now, and then in a few weeks time it turns out that for even a small proportion of those infected it's serious, then that small proportion will be a very large number. By then of course, it's too late to do anything. Here's the key point again, as made by...

Fair enough, if that's what you think is being said. What's the lie that's currently being pushed, would you say?

When I had it, symptomatically, I had two negative LFTs and one positive, on consecutive days of feeling like death. PCR was positive.

Given even with a booster it's likely there will be a breakthrough in a significant percentage, it will hit the old too. The point of vaccinating/boosting everyone is to slow the spread. Even if only a very small percentage of young people are affected, it's still going to be potentially a...