Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 3)

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(Yahoo reprint)

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42 players test positive (so far), matches continue in front of almost full stands!

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https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/19783890.covid-19-carlisle-united-announce-new-brunton-park-capacity-updated-protocols/

The temporary new Brunton Park capacity will see a total seating capacity of 6,000 and terracing capacity of 3,999.

Say you aren’t going to do anything without saying you aren’t going to do anything.

The last league game that Carlisle played had an attendance of 3,795. They are out of the FA cup and everybody is still boycotting the pizza trophy. I guess there is a small chance that some people might not get into the Warwick, but it isn’t going to be many people.

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Sky One Reaction GIF by Curfew

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i kind of wish they’d just furlough them without pay or with reduced pay. nothing makes me more nervous than a whole bunch of unemployed reactionaries with military training

( see also: bremer firing everyone who was ever a part of the baath party in iraq. )

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Seems like this tweet about being “one of the safest places you can be!” is a bit misleading when they’ve been seeing so many new cases. Nearly 10,000 new cases in the city just yesterday.

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Oh, they’re playing games all right…which is why there’s a problem now.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-07/first-ever-covid-killing-steel-can-inactivate-99-8-of-the-virus

First-Ever Covid-Killing Steel Inactivates 99.9% of the Virus Within Hours

  • Created by Hong Kong scientists, it kills virus in three hours

  • Low-cost solution can help keep public places sanitized, safe

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As pandemic fears return with the omicron variant, the new product can potentially help people return to their normal lives after the disruption of the past two years.

Um, sounds great, and thanks for the summary, but doesn’t the virus almost exclusively infect people via airborne transmission? If that’s the case, then how much would steel that kills a virus that’s on its surface really help?

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Ah ha! :laughing:

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If only I could have more likes to give!

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Cornell University has taken the pandemic fairly seriously, with more than 97% of students fully vaccinated, a large number boosted, and masking indoors required. Yet this last week about 1 in 25 of their students tested positive. Omicron is probably coming for all of us eventually.

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Grifters. All the way down.

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Oi, anyone thinking that your fellow countrypersons are bonkers, due to anti-vaxers, covid-deniers and other protesters taking the streets? Netherlands? Belgium? UK? US?

Don’t despair. You are not alone.
We have our own asshats around here.

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“Omicron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in opening remarks. “We’re concerned that people are dismissing Omicron as mild. Surely we have learned by now that we underestimate this virus at our peril. Even if omicron does cause less severe disease, the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared health systems.”

I will repeat myself here: The healthcare system is in a desperate state. HCW are exhausted, traumatized and leaving in droves for their own mental health. It is possible that this may have happened at a worse time, but I can’t imagine what that would be. Influenza has returned with a vengeance, delta is nowhere near done with us, and omicron is coming over the hill like the charge of the Rohirrim. And yes, this makes us the Orcs.

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