Those Covid passes have been so successful in the Welsh nightclubs they are going to shut nightclubs just after Christmas now.
We have to hope we start seeing data like this pretty sharpish otherwise it's going to be game over for a lot of businesses. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-hospitalizations-in-omicron-wave-much-lower
On the face of it that sounds very promising. Hopefully more evidence will support this soon. The total lack of financial support this time around could well be too much for many businesses to bare.
It's the ones that have closed until after Christmas already. That's hourly paid staff going without any salary the week before Christmas.
Awful situation, Staff who may have already been struggling from the last 20 months too. Have many places started shutting up? A young lady at work was telling me how bad its been and some clubs were already planning to shut after new year. She works doing a fire breathing performance so travels all over and said its really flat everywhere.
I can only vouch for what I’ve seen in London. Which is more at risk to the recent decisions due to the tourism/workforce mix vs. elsewhere. Mainly restaurants, but some pubs, and others trying to give it a go but closing at 9:30pm. The offices are shut and the Christmas Drinks cancelled.
The Irish are lucky that their curfew will protect them because Covid comes out in the evening, you don't catch it during the day. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing The first four days of this week we've done 5,861,975 covid tests. In the same four days the previous week we did 4,779,214 covid tests. If you do over a million extra tests you would expect the amount of cases found to rise. But instead the percentage of cases found to be positive has gone down..... Hospital numbers in England today are the lowest they have been for nearly a week. Let's not forget reports that a quarter of people in hospital with covid didn't go to hospital because of covid. They either caught it from staying there or found out they had it on arrival for something else when tested. South Africa seem to have hit the peak with a far worst vaccination rate and healthcare system and lifestyle than us. We have a lot to be thankful of and the situation isn't as bad as the press would have you believe. Be sensible, wear a mask, get boosted, but have a damn good Christmas to make up for last year and enjoy yourselves. It would be a sad waste if people after 2-3 jabs spend this Christmas locked away no better than last year when we didn't have a vaccine.
Too soon for optimism on the Omicron variant. A record 93,000 cases reported yesterday, hospital admissions are rising again and The Times reports ministers are drawing up plans for 'Step 2'-type restrictions to be reintroduced as a circuit breaker (non-work indoor gatherings banned and pubs and restaurants restricted to outdoor table service again).
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1...ovid-rules-latest-omicron-variant-update-sage I would say Boris has lost the plot if he thinks the public will listen to him, but he already lost it a long time ago. He hasn't a clue if he thinks telling people not to see people will work. The public wouldn't listen. This might have been the first in a long list of lies.....
Thing is though, people know what Boris is but they are still inclined to be sensible and cautious on their own account, and out of regard for others.
I think if he tells the public not to visit friends and family for a fortnight a lot will quite rightly not listen to him.
Equally, a lot will not visit anyway no matter what he says. I think people are making their own minds up either way now on what they feel comfortable with and mostly have been since Barnard Castle.
Outdoor table service in January is code for - we are making you shut but don't care if that means you go bust.
Talk of a two week lockdown for less than 100 known English hospital cases of a variant. We cannot keep living this way because it's not living.
111 of 169 hospitalisations in London hospitals were PCR tests taken in the hospital. Not people going in with Covid. Why isn’t this data reported correctly and fairly? I’ll give you a clue……. Also an incredible exchange between a journalist and someone working for SAGE on Twitter. Challenged on why they never model the least severe and realistic likely outcomes for new waves, it was essentially admitted they only model what they’re told to and what might influence government decisions. Fear mongering objective much?
No howling. Lots of positives to be taken from current data providing the crucial lines stay flat for the next two weeks. That doesn’t fit the narrative though does it?
To be fair, if you’re a minister making decisions, asking what the ‘reasonably worst case scenario’ looks like is sensible. You’d want to know that and the ‘most likely’ I’d imagine. I would anyway, not that I’m a minister (or ever likely to be!).