Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Gaylord du Bois]

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[Gaylord du Bois]

From March.

Coronavirus: European Union seals borders to most outsiders

The unprecedented 30-day travel ban will bar foreign travellers, with some exceptions.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[BlueAnorak]

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We travel a lot - more than most other countries in Europe per head.
We use truck transport for EU imports and exports far too much, rather than container transport
The border with Europe really isn't one except in name.
It is just too difficult to contain unless we use a quarantine app.
As politicians from ALL main UK political parties were not prepared to accept the human rights implications of preventing someone from Killing someone else by their stupidity, we are where we are.

 

[bluethrunthru]

It would appear there will be a Pfizer vaccine shortage for a couple of weeks at the end of January as they change production lines in Belgium to ramp up production.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

celebrating end of lockdown

 

[mcfc_ms]

Has anyone else had a letter from the imperial college London about anti body testing? Basically asking to register and get a free anti body test delivered ?

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Has anyone else had a letter from the imperial college London about anti body testing? Basically asking to register and get a free anti body test delivered ?

I had one back in the summer, register on the website and it turns up pretty quickly. They survey a 100,000 people to track where the virus has been.

 

[mcfc_ms]

I had one back in the summer, register on the website and it turns up pretty quickly. They survey a 100,000 people to track where the virus has been.

cheers, just signed up now

Was actually going to pay for one through work last week, so saves me £50

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

cheers, just signed up now

Was actually going to pay for one through work last week, so saves me £50

It looks like a pregnancy test instead you prick your finger and put your blood on it. Gives you a result after 20 minutes, you don’t actually send it back to a lab.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

We travel a lot - more than most other countries in Europe per head.
We use truck transport for EU imports and exports far too much, rather than container transport
The border with Europe really isn't one except in name.
It is just too difficult to contain unless we use a quarantine app.
As politicians from ALL main UK political parties were not prepared to accept the human rights implications of preventing someone from Killing someone else by there stupidity, we are where we are.

That’s a global laughing stock, unfortunately.

 

[andyhinch]

It looks like a pregnancy test instead you prick your finger and put your blood on it. Gives you a result after 20 minutes, you don’t actually send it back to a lab.

I read that as, it looks like a pregnancy test you prick. :-(

 

[ayrshire_blue]

I read that as, it looks like a pregnancy test you prick. :-(

That's what he said, **** ;)

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I had one back in the summer, register on the website and it turns up pretty quickly. They survey a 100,000 people to track where the virus has been.

I had one really early on too,I thought they be using me every month or so to see how the spread of CV went but only had the one which was negative.

 

[oman0115]

Good God that is cringe

 

[sky tot]

Has anyone else had a letter from the imperial college London about anti body testing? Basically asking to register and get a free anti body test delivered ?

My work partner did

 

[Rammy Blue]

Yes we should have gone earlier but that is a SAGE decision that the government chose not to overrule. The minutes of Sage meetings that were published clearly showed Cummings was pushing for the decision to be made for 2 weeks before it was made.
SAGE also didn't push for mandatory masks till the weight of evidence was clear because it wasn't in the pandemic plan either.
So they aren't perfect.

To be fair, the mask situation was so that joe public didn’t buy them all leaving the NHS with fuck all. As is always proved by bog roll storage etc.

 

[MaineDAWG2008]

my folks have their jabs this coming thursday. But not sure which of the vaccines are they being given.Oxford or Pfizer. One uses the MRNA and the other doesn't. Oxford is more like flu jab right? which to choose? do NHS patients have a choice or not?

 

[yeseye]

cheers, just signed up now

Was actually going to pay for one through work last week, so saves me £50

Can anybody sign up for this or do you need a letter off them ?
Ta.

 

[Gabriel]

my folks have their jabs this coming thursday. But not sure which of the vaccines are they being given.Oxford or Pfizer. One uses the MRNA and the other doesn't. Oxford is more like flu jab right? which to choose? do NHS patients have a choice or not?

Great news for them but they get no choice. Actually getting either is a privilege in the global circumstances.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

my folks have their jabs this coming thursday. But not sure which of the vaccines are they being given.Oxford or Pfizer. One uses the MRNA and the other doesn't. Oxford is more like flu jab right? which to choose? do NHS patients have a choice or not?

I doubt they'll get a menu.