I don't think I have read so much crap in my life. I joined this club because I thought the members would be free thinking and intelligent as in a 'worldly wise' way with an attitude to adventure and discovery.
What did I find? none of the above. I haven't bothered to contribute for a year nearly. Why? well lets see
Complete acceptance of the current situation without any analysis of Gov stats (see references)
1) In last 20 years, 8 other years had higher death rates than 2020 (ONS 'age standardised mortality statistics')
2) Case/mortality incidence 0.04% (WHO/UK stats) that is 4 per 10,000. normal flu 1-5 per 10,000.
3) Recovery rate from Covid is 99.96% but for those females of you over 45yrs you have a 1 in 15 odds of breast cancer (6%) 150 times that rate! Guess who isn't getting screened at present, no FNA/mamogram tests (4 million+appt waiting times and suspension of cancer treatment for those with it) due to Covid
4) Save the NHS? lockdowns x4, destroy economy of all SME's and that includes campsites
At the height of the so called pandemic, sunday 23/4/2020, figures from NHS realtime bed usage (dashboard operational hub, no longer accessible by the way! ) and I quote:
40.9 per cent of NHS general acute beds were unoccupied as of the weekend — 37,500 of the total 91,600 relevant beds
Across England, 3,228 patients were in critical care beds — representing 78 per cent of the total of 4,122 critical care beds which were available in February.
In London 1,127 patients were in critical care
There are currently about 1,550 critical care beds available in London 25/4/2020
4)Vaccines, well they don't stop you getting the virus and don't stop you transmitting it (Pfizer/Astra and every other source if you bother to read it up). The end points of all trials for Covid were not to include this as you need years to determenine it, but as the influenza ones in over 70 years hasn't shown this, not likely! And the group dying of Covid is 80+yrs.
Vaccines for preventing influenza in the elderly, well I suggest you look up, if you can be bothered, the last metanalysis of effectiveness or more the lack of, in the group that dies of respiratory viruses on PubMed
'Demicheli V1, Jefferson T, Di Pietrantonj C, Ferroni E, Thorning S, Thomas RE, Rivetti A. Author information
Abstract'
By the way, vaccines are derived from the virus, you either use the core (DNA or RNA ) or surface protein to elicit an immune response or manufacture virus in chick embryo etc and weaken it (attenuation).
mRNA JAB is what you get, has never been used before in humans (killed the dogs used in SARS Cov1 vaccination 2004)
So here we have members recommending groups who should receive it next!!! You should all be ashamed and realise you have been brainwashed, not too difficult I expect!
Why have NHS staff not have first roll out? If they fall ill they can't deal with all the massive 'cases', I guess being an ex NHS/medical consultant like me they don't fancy it.
Can't wait for all the usual moronic abuse to follow this, wish I had never got a life membership but the least of the problems to come from the Gov.UK