Wigan Warriors • Covid
nikos wrote:
per FT...
https://www.ft.com/content/d69a0a68-d5ac-4ac3-98ac-1bbceec513b6
"Health secretary Sajid Javid sent shockwaves through parliament on Monday when he revealed that an estimated 200,000 people in the UK had been infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant that day.
If Omicron infections continue to double every 2.5 days, as current estimates suggest, there will be a million people infected this coming Sunday alone."
Million infections on Sunday and another 6 days to Christmas.....it's beginning to look a lot like...... a dystopian horror film
My issue here is that a week or so ago the newspapers had headlines like “100,000 could die from Omicron”. There’s been 1 death. Now as sad as that is and I’m not wishing to dumb down the impact that’ll have on all who knew that person, it’s 1 death. There’s 15 hospitalisations from Omicron - how many is there year in year with flu? I almost sound like a conspirator here and trust me that’s not what I am but seriously what are we panicking about? It’s all ‘ifs, coulds, mights’ when the facts are clear; omicron is mild, hasn’t caused a surge in hospitalisations or killed nearly as many as the media scare mongered people into believing it had.
Statistics: Posted by 100% Warrior — Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:01 pm — Replies 17 — Views 1129