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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 1096757" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>Making sense of the latest Covid wave in Scotland is tough as the statistics being used have changed. Seems it has been plateauing at a very high level for over a month and isn't really subsiding. 80 deaths in with Covid mentioned on death certificate in the past week (again a different measurement and likely more accurate than people who died with a usually incidental positive Covid test in the past 28 days). So I make that very roughly about 1/7th of the 7 day average deaths during the worst of times. </p><p></p><p>No boosters planned for under 50s so I'm in the slightly surreal situation of actively seeking to catch Omicron (in a controlled environment) during this period of mild summer weather rather than risk getting it in the depths of winter with almost zero residual protection and a health service that will likely be buckling. </p><p></p><p>I genuinely think this is the most appropriate course of action from a medical standpoint given the reported refusal to offer boosters to under 50s. So I've volunteered to drive three colleagues for a couple of hours to sit in an airy room with about 200 folk for 90mins with every second chair empty. By this time next week hopefully I'll be holding off a very mild dose of it and will then feel a bit more comfortable about socialising indoors over the winter. Its so transmissable now that I'm going to get it some time, so I figure I'm best to do it on my own terms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 1096757, member: 74121"] Making sense of the latest Covid wave in Scotland is tough as the statistics being used have changed. Seems it has been plateauing at a very high level for over a month and isn't really subsiding. 80 deaths in with Covid mentioned on death certificate in the past week (again a different measurement and likely more accurate than people who died with a usually incidental positive Covid test in the past 28 days). So I make that very roughly about 1/7th of the 7 day average deaths during the worst of times. No boosters planned for under 50s so I'm in the slightly surreal situation of actively seeking to catch Omicron (in a controlled environment) during this period of mild summer weather rather than risk getting it in the depths of winter with almost zero residual protection and a health service that will likely be buckling. I genuinely think this is the most appropriate course of action from a medical standpoint given the reported refusal to offer boosters to under 50s. So I've volunteered to drive three colleagues for a couple of hours to sit in an airy room with about 200 folk for 90mins with every second chair empty. By this time next week hopefully I'll be holding off a very mild dose of it and will then feel a bit more comfortable about socialising indoors over the winter. Its so transmissable now that I'm going to get it some time, so I figure I'm best to do it on my own terms. [/QUOTE]
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