Ultimately, the only person who will come out of the #covid #pandemic looking good will be #sweden https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2.. They refused to #lockdown and as a result have a stronger #economy and better #mentalhealth ... It's also worth noting that #happiness is directly related to the #immune response to a #virus - people who believe they will get better tend to do so.
Looks like there is now some #community #covid spread in #nz #auckland https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nation.. I suspect an #emergency #lockdown will follow soon. The problem is, they currently have *zero* idea how the hell it got here.
@barray on Fri Aug 13 04:59:31 UTC 2021 said: &eI really suspect #nz is about to have a massive wake-up call: https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0813.s.. The #vaccine for #covid is not working, so either the Country opens up and accepts the #pandemic - or it remains in #lockdown forever. At some point a decision needs to be made. I understand that #aardvark is old and in the category of people most likely to be affected, but I really suspect this is all in vain.So a key person in the #oxford / #astrazeneca #vaccine development for #covid has no said that the #delta #india #variant makes #herdimmunity impossible: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/delta.. Why are we even bothering then? #israel has 80% #vaccination in #adults and recently got another surge in cases. *There is no way out, we just need to accept the reality.*
Looks like #china 's #ccp is having *massive* problems with the #indianvariant #deltavariant of #covid - putting the entire Country back in full #lockdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spw7L_Lg.. Looks like they are blaming #foreigners again, but nobody in the #mainstream #media will call them out as #racist for it... Good luck to them anyway, the #chinese #vaccine is not particularly great. It's so bad in fact that #poor foreign Countries are refusing to buy any more of it!
Daily cases of #covid in the #uk are now going down: https://www.worldometers.info/coronaviru.. This was as I expected in a recent #covidlockdown article - the #vaccines have worked: https://coffeespace.org.uk/blogs/covid-l.. Even if they didn't, #lockdown cannot continue. The analysis here is simply wrong: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/..
#australia has now #deployed the #military to #enforce the #lockdown - the sign of a completely normal #democracy and *there is nothing to see here*: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia.. Very strange indeed.
Thinking to write an #article later on the #covid situation in the #uk - it appears as though the #uk have #won the battle and successfully brought the #country out of #lockdown ... But #boris refuses to take the #win and is enforcing a lockdown by other means. I'll collect my thoughts later and try to write an article on the them over on the #coffeespace #blog !
I hear that the #uk 's #labour #mp #jessphillips has lost 3 stone over the #covid #lockdown due to a #keto #diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Phill.. Good on her! We need more #ketochads out there. I'm reading nothing but positive benefits from the keto diet, and mostly feel those too. It has been tough so far, but the benefits for sure outweigh the negatives of being #overweight ... I hope that the next time I see my family I will be in good health.
This is actually batshit insane: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=2.. #southkorea are forcing #gyms to stop playing fast-paced #dance #music and #running to prevent #covid ? These #lockdown rules get more insane by the day.
Apparently #matthancock hid #covid data that influenced the decision to extend the #lockdown in the #uk https://www.lotuseaters.com/matt-hancock.. Looks like the political arena is turning against him, I suspect his time is almost up...
Senior #bbc #politics #editor was chased out of #london by anti- #lockdown #protesters https://www.lotuseaters.com/traitor-seni.. Whilst I dislike the BBC and thinking that these protestors have a point, they were over the top.
Ouch, looks like the #uk will see a 4 week delay to #covid #lockdown restrictions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HtT-AOmA_0g The rumour is that it will be Spring next year before the lockdown is fully lifted. Apparently the #india #delta #variant is still of quite high concern.
According to this WIP article, #suicide rates over the #covid #lockdown period have actually gone down, despite #depression increasing: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-did.. This flies in the face of previous assumptions about the effect of lockdowns on the population. This leads to the idea that depression and suicide are not as directly related as previously thought.