A Liverpool centric thread on current number of cases by age
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That’s four record days in a row now. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday all being record doses given on those days of the week.
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However, in the article, it was also pointed out by other researchers that:
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but they don’t show directly — or definitively — that that difference is responsible for these thrombotic events
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was also cautious when assessing the finding. She says the data in support of it is “thin.”
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“I am not seeing much mechanistic data showing a causal relationship between the splice variants and blood clots,”
Could it be that the COVID-19 virus is “seasonal” in nature, like the flu? Most countries in Asia and Australia/New Zealand were hit hard from Feb to Jul 2020. In comparison, the pandemic worsened in Europe and the Americas from Sep to Dec 2020. This pattern seemed to repeat itself again in 2021. Granted, I have not accounted for the differing measures and attitudes by the countries in managing the pandemic. But it does seem a little coincidental.
Our government is planning for the eventuality that the COVID-19 virus will be endemic in nature. So we would have to live with it, either thru booster jabs or just focus on treating those that are seriously affected by it. Personally, I think this would likely be the case moving forward.
I think the link to seasons is very closely related to ventilation. People are just outdoors more often and for longer in the summer and when indoors windows will more likely be open.
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Asia is northern hemispere, are you sure of those dates?
In his defence, this forum has a very big problem that, which is a much larger problem than people perhaps first thought when it started despite the criticism of some; and that is the lack of pages. When there are no pages, if you are not active on a thread every single day, or worse, maybe let it slip up for a week; then I don’t think most people read the perhaps 300-400 posts in this thread for instance (I regularly have 350 unread posts and go straight to the bottom, as it is inconceivable to read all in between without pages) due to the lack of pages. Without pages, navigating is hopeless, so I regularly go straight to the bottom, and then I perhaps read those for the current week above. But scrolling through 300 posts + without pages ? That doesn’t work well so most posts go unread by me if I am in a period of being a bit less active like now. On This is Anfield, which had pages, I regularly read old posts, went back 30-40 pages and had a nice read. I loved it. I NEVER do that here because everything just gets lost in massive volume of posts without any sort of page numbers to use as reference points. I just don’t understand how it is possible to construct such a bad forum, but was told at the time by Arminius and others that this is how all new forums are and so on. If so, then all new forums are awful.
To be perfectly honest, I find this new forum beyond hopeless for that reason alone but I stay here for the people I have come to know and would be hard pressed to leave. But I hate it. The forum is awful and I doubt it will attract many new posters due to how it is set up without proper pages and high quality posts just gets lost in the void. It is just such a shame this.
To be clear, this is not an assault on those lovely souls that set up the forum, as I said, I was told that this is how new forums must be (not that I understand why, but I trust what I get told by good people), but for me it is a big problem at least.
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Not to mention ignored content.posters!
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I don’t quite get this criticism, mate. You don’t have page numbers anymore, but you have post numbers. The little scroll-bar on the right tells you exactly how many posts have been made and where you are in the thread, and you can navigate perfectly with that. I honestly don’t think that it is less useful than the former format of x post per page, rather a matter of being accustomed to a slightly different system?
There is also a useful feature you can use in case you didn’t notice: if you see a good post and subsequent discussion, but haven’t the time and want to be able to get back to it, you can bookmark it. On the bottom of each post, you can press on … , and then on a little flag called bookmark this post. There are then options you can chose in order to be able to get back to it at the time of your convenience.
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A lot nicer to use on mobile as well
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thank you for the reminder, these are things I easily forget.
That having been said, my criticism is subjective, some people are probably more comfortable with this even though I loathe the current iteration of the forum; despite me not understanding why and how. Pages for me is alpha-omega for any sort of written text, both forums, books and articles. My brain doesn’t navigate easily with post numbers though, and I suspect I am not alone losing hundreds (actually thousands) of posts here. The scrolling bar doesn’t really help that much in my opinion, it is not the same as pages. Besides, now I have used the forum for several months and I still have the opinion I had at the start, just that it has become even more cemented and firm and even more strongly felt than it was in the beginning (because in the beginning I was thinking that I could get used to it, but I don’t think I ever will).
But the bookmark option I should probably use more, as I tend to forget that it exists.
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I have a solution to this, to make sure you read all the best, most accurate information in this thread. Click on my profile and click on “posts in this thread” and it will filter out the not-so-good stuff and just leave mine, which is gold.
Very noticeable how those that I know have me on ignore post the most nonsense in this thread…
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Hahaha ! Golden nugget that ! 
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The period is thereabouts. @Kopstar brought up a good point on the relation to ventilation.
Bluemoon has millions pf pages of content because they have 6 posts to a page.
Pretty much how they estimate their fanbase.
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When looking at ‘seasonal’ nature of illnesses there’s many factors. Temperature affects all sorts of things including immune response for example. I have no doubt Covid is temperature dependant as it’s a coronavirus there’s no reason to think it’s that different from the common cold.
I prefer to stay away from Influenza comparisions as i don’t think it’s relevant when common cold is clearly closer then again I sure most people don’t recognise any difference a cold is flu and flu is a cold. It’s pretty clear temperature has an influence. Ventilation shouldn’t have much of an inffluence unless it’s room with probable frequentation from virus carrying population at least imo.
I have invoked effect of humidity, wet conditions however these are more difficult to correlate.
Worth stating that even after the UK cut its overseas aid budget it remains the second highest funder of overseas aid amongst the G7.
Fully appreciate the view, and would create a page option if it was possible but it’s just not an option. We prioritised mobile users as that was how users were shifting. I loved TIA (I was there from 2003). But sad truth is it was dying. More and more users drifting away. Something mirrored in many fan forums. Even in the year we won the league, many days that forum was a ghost town.
TIA was easier to follow but the primary reason for that is there were a lot less posts. Busier forums experience exactly same issue (RAWK becomes in many instances impossible to follow after a few days).
Bookmarks help, but also don’t forget you can use the summarise thread option so you only see the best posts 
I am aiming to have a big upgrade in a few weeks time. Cool New features, improved skins that I hope will make this place better. The server has also been massively upgraded in the anticipation of trying to grow the forum (purposely kept community small this first year)
The good thing is TAN is very healthy. We are self sufficient (TIA was run at a loss), happy community (only banned I think 1 user), and high community engagement. Last few days had roughly 170 users per day.
I will do my best to keep improving the forum and hopefully win you over 
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