First omicron death

No problem Alegrias. I’m just interested in what others think about the information or lack of information that we’ve given about this particular death. I know that one death is statistically unimportant but I wondered if we were not being told anything for political reasons ie if the person was unvaccinated for example. Far be it from me to be cynical, moi? But I just wondered about that. I did hear yesterday that the person was unvaccinated, but it’s not official information and so I didn’t take it seriously.

Bit off topic - I'm fed up with medics appearing on TV to tell us how tired they are and how they are fed up with unvaccinated patients. I know that they are doing a sterling job but its government propaganda and scaremongering. Most of us know now that the NHS is stretched to capacity so what is the point of having sad nurses on TV telling us what we already know?

There was a program on BBC last night about surgeons. At the end one of them said something like "if you need us we'll be here to take care of you" That's what I want to hear.

Rant over. Hard hat on. Sorry to divert your thread maddyone.

At the start of the pandemic there were lots of stats regarding age, co morbidities of people who sadly died. Which did help people to make informed decisions. Eg it kick started me into losing the weight that had crept up over the years. But I can’t seem to see such stats now. Then again things like that can cause confusion. Eg Dr John said that, in SAfrica there were more very young children in hospital with Omicron, but that didn’t tell the whole story which was that those children weren’t in hospital because of covid. It was just picked up because they were in hospital with other health issues.

A sister/matron interviewed on the News last night admitted that her staff find it difficult to feel sympathy for unvaccinated Covid patients, but obviously they are still given the best care possible.

I’m not surprised they feel like that, so would I in their position.

No. It doesn't matter what his/her status was. It doesn't matter how old s/he was.

One death in 65 million people is statistically insignificant.

The public have no idea how to interpret the data as we can see from the continual discussions about vaccination status of people in hospital and whether vaccine passports are a good idea.

Knowing the status of this person will not help us decide anything.

I think that one death doesn’t really tell us anything about Omicron or the effectiveness of vaccines, so really it’s irrelevant if details are disclosed or not.

If the patient wasn’t vaccinated it might lead some people to think, well I’ll be all right then and be reckless.

If the patient was vaccinated it might lead others to be more frightened than they need to be.

And neither of those reactions would be right based on just one death.

We won’t know until a pattern emerges and then people need to be told.

I read he was not vaccinated.