Glassjaw

Yeah, it will be an issue for years to come as it is highly contagious. In the U.K. people get Covid and isolate a few days then get on with life. Most people aren’t afraid anymore. Like most respiratory viruses it will continue to put vulnerable in the hospital, unfortunately. Japan has the highest numbers and they obsessively wear masks like Thais.

Here we go with more nonsense about the U.K. new variants will keep coming because that’s what a virus like this does. It keeps getting more contagious and less deadly; as many predicted. To keep the world locked up and not having mass gatherings for years on end because of a virus we now have vaccines against is RIDICULOUS full stop. My and many others livelihoods rely on large events and most people don’t give it a second thought here now. You get it for about a week as a mild cold if you’re vaccinated and that’s it.

You’re talking absolute rubbish and he doesn’t have his hands in all the media outlets. The hospitals still aren’t being filled up; people get the sniffles for five days and then are fine. Still people desperate to cling onto Covid being the menace it was, I see.

Some people on this forum still treating omicron as if it was alpha and delta and listing deaths and infections as if it is all relevant. Omicron is here to stay and there will continue to be peaks of infections for a while, but most in Europe don’t care. With vaccinations it’sa head cold for a few days. Masking in crowded places doesn’t hurt at all, as should be your right to do or not do.

Everything is open and life is normal. There’s no laws to self isolate anymore either. 99% of vaccinated are getting it as a cold (I had it two weeks ago) so obviously the numbers are still high. It’s much better to be in this situation than Thailands ridiculous policies.

So you can or can’t be fined for daring to get some fresh air while no one is around or what?

China are already preparing to cover it all up just in case.

The first year was a complete balls up in every respect. When the vaccines got rolled out and we opened up we lead the way in living with the virus and despite the risks, it has been worth it.

All I did was fill out a form and that was it when I went there.

A novel Coronavirus is not the same as flu. Obviously a global pandemic with restrictions against a highly contagious virus effects the flu and its ability to spread. When a novel flu virus we have no immunity to arrives then this whole circus of lockdowns will probably start again. Let’s hope that’s not for a long time.

How many of them actually needed to be in hospital?

England hasn’t had a lockdown for a long time. Looking very much like the peak has passed and for the most part we had normal life since July last year.

But these are very low deaths in the first place so it’s silly to compare to now when omicron is causing much more infections. Many places still have delta causing damage and haven’t had their peaks of omicron yet. The best way out is to vaccinate the world and let it spread everywhere. Unfortunately still too many anti vaccine types in places like America who could drag this out. I will laugh if the whole world has moved on while china stagnates in a zero Covid policy.

Not an ex pat, but have enjoyed spending a few months here for a number of years. In the last ten days I’ve been stopped three times and searched by police just for daring to be foreign while walking at night which is bordering on the ridiculous. If I did live here it would make me think twice about my future here as it makes me feel unwelcome. Hopefully it’s just a pandemic thing that they’ve been told to crack down on (with racial profiling).

Such sensible proposals won’t go down well with officials and their favourite scapegoat (and the usual puritans).