Coronavirus (2021) thread

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GM Weekly Pop Scores after today:~

Borough / Score Today / Score 7 days ago / up or down wk to wk/ Testing is % of local population who have tested positive for Covid over past year.

As ever with Pop scores going up is bad, going down good - the higher the number the better or worse depending on direction moving. The Pop Score is total cases in past week versus 100,000 POPulation to even out the comparison versus size and expected cases based on numbers living there.


Rochdale 125 / 119 / UP 6 Testing positive 9.2%

Tameside 117 / 111 / UP 6 Testing positive 7.7%

Salford 112 / 106 UP 6 Testing positive 8.6%

Wigan 99 / 100 / down 1 Testing positive 8.5%

Bolton 97 / 106 / down 9 Testing positive 8.7%

Stockport 97 / 87 / UP 10 Testing positive 6.9%

Oldham 96 / 87 / UP 9 Testing positive 9.3%

Manchester 94 / 77 / UP 17 Testing positive 9.2%

Bury 69 / 90 down 21 Testing positive 8.7%

Trafford 61 / 60 / UP 1 Testing positive 6.7%


No doubt the current star of GM - Bury - dropping like a stone and challenging Trafford on all fronts now. Apart from best Pop Score which at 2010 ahead of Trafford I think we can safely say it will never close whilst this thread exists.

Bolton has had a good week too.

Not been a great week for Manchester or Stockport - with I suspect school testing driving cases up.

Hopefully that will now settle down. And with both still sub 100 they are only struggling relatively speaking not in real terms.
 
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AlgarveBlu said:
Portugal as well now suspended AZ - pissed off as was given the nod my 86 year old mum would finally get hers this week so that’s looking shot.

a complete screw up which is just going to give anti Vaxxers a collective hard on and set us back months with the unnecessary fear this will cause. Leaves us with Pfizer really in the eu as J&J are already getting their excuses out.
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From what I have read/heard the number of people who were going to get blood clots anyway far out weighs the likelihood of the AZ vaccine causing one. Furthermore the rationale behind it is flawed anyway. Its like saying you need to ban seat belts in cars because there were four incidences of people drowning in cars which ran off the road into the rive and they couldn't get out due to wearing a seatbelt. So you save 4 people and condemn tens of thousands to serious injury and death.

Already cases are ramping up on the continent - there's no chance of us being allowed or even wanting to go to places where its all closed up for a holiday - they are killing their own tourism trade.
 
bluethrunthru said:
From what I have read/heard the number of people who were going to get blood clots anyway far out weighs the likelihood of the AZ vaccine causing one. Furthermore the rationale behind it is flawed anyway. Its like saying you need to ban seat belts in cars because there were four incidences of people drowning in cars which ran off the road into the rive and they couldn't get out due to wearing a seatbelt. So you save 4 people and condemn tens of thousands to serious injury and death.

Already cases are ramping up on the continent - there's no chance of us being allowed or even wanting to go to places where its all closed up for a holiday - they are killing their own tourism trade.
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tourism and there own reputation, many of these countries are behind on the roll out and getting a lot of anger from there own citizens. It doesn’t really make sense
 
BlueHammer85 said:
tourism and there own reputation, many of these countries are behind on the roll out and getting a lot of anger from there own citizens. It doesn’t really make sense
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I have been saying for weeks booking a foreign holiday this year is pure folly. For example Portugal came off the red list but we still aren't allowed to travel there. Put your time money and efforts into booking a staycation before the costs get too much to afford
 
bluethrunthru said:
I have been saying for weeks booking a foreign holiday this year is pure folly. For example Portugal came off the red list but we still aren't allowed to travel there. Put your time money and efforts into booking a staycation before the costs get too much to afford
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Yeh, I wouldn’t want to fly anywhere this year anyway - it will be mayhem.
 
It’s not about the number of blood clots as such, it’s the type and the symptoms alongside it.

It’s absolutely the right thing to do in normal times. We aren’t in normal times though, the commodity of time isn’t one that really exists.
 
worsleyweb said:
I have bought a really good tent. That will do me this year. Going to just fuckoff to the lakes every time it is hot.
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If it fits your garden go on YT - there are plenty of survivalists who will show you how to purify water and cook roadkill over salvaged wood - you will only need to go indoors to have a pee lol
 
bluethrunthru said:
I have been saying for weeks booking a foreign holiday this year is pure folly. For example Portugal came off the red list but we still aren't allowed to travel there. Put your time money and efforts into booking a staycation before the costs get too much to afford
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Done it for September, 3 generations (4 households) in a holiday house in SW Wales, we can even isolate there if need be, as there are 8 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, 2 weeks for £2.3k.

It's not my first choice for a holiday place in normal times, but I know I'll enjoy this one as we haven't been all together since Christmas 2019.
 
cleavers said:
Done it for September, 3 generations (4 households) in a holiday house in SW Wales, we can even isolate there if need be, as there are 8 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, 2 weeks for £2.3k.

It's not my first choice for a holiday place in normal times, but I know I'll enjoy this one as we haven't been all together since Christmas 2019.
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Where abouts
 
cleavers said:
Done it for September, 3 generations (4 households) in a holiday house in SW Wales, we can even isolate there if need be, as there are 8 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, 2 weeks for £2.3k.

It's not my first choice for a holiday place in normal times, but I know I'll enjoy this one as we haven't been all together since Christmas 2019.
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Last September me, my wife, son and partner and my daughter went to a static caravan site in Bournemouth where we go to every year - it was all legal at the time, all Covid secure - we didn't eat out we didn't go to any pubs and met friends out in the open on beaches or having a walk wearing masks or being socially distanced. Looking back it seems surreal and such a privilege to be honest.

We go there at least once a year and as we had worked out foreign travel was never going to be an option last year we booked twice with the June break being cancelled but we were able to roll it over until September this year ( at no extra cost Billy Bargain if you ask me ) and I think/hope/suspect that will be a goer. Have told the kids and partners they are all welcome to come and its the most anticipated holiday in years - I think for me vaccines and falling rates aside just going away again will be the cork out of the bottle !
 
bluethrunthru said:
Lampeter is lovely - remember travelling through there a few years back and wondering why it was still 1965 outside lol. Proper old world charm.
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Looking forward to a late/early christmas celebration :), it's actually my parents diamond wedding anniversary also, so I just hope the weather is not welsh, so we can have plenty of BBQ's in the lovely grounds.

Everybody can go do their own thing by day, but we can have some family time together in the evenings, I suspect there will be a fairly high wine and food bill.
 
cleavers said:
Looking forward to a late/early christmas celebration :), it's actually my parents diamond wedding anniversary also, so I just hope the weather is not welsh, so we can have plenty of BBQ's in the lovely grounds.

Everybody can go do their own thing by day, but we can have some family time together in the evenings, I suspect there will be a fairly high wine and food bill.
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sorry to swear mate but the anticipation of this brings a fucking tear to my eye - please, please get your jabs make this happen - anti-vaxxers please go to Beachy Head and jump - the rest of us want to get on with life.
 
bluethrunthru said:
please, please get your jabs make this happen
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Just my daughter, her boyfriend, and my lads girlfriend to get done, but we should all be at least one, and most of us the second by then, and I very much doubt that there will be restrictions on movement in September.

I'll be honest and say I wish we were all going somewhere tropical instead, but I'll be grateful for this lovely place in Wales this year.
 
cleavers said:
Just my daughter, her boyfriend, and my lads girlfriend to get done, but we should all be at least one, and most of us the second by then, and I very much doubt that there will be restrictions on movement in September.

I'll be honest and say I wish we were all going somewhere tropical instead, but I'll be grateful for this lovely place in Wales this year.
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Honest mate for now just somewhere away hopefully with some sun will be really enjoyed. The tropical sun will be back some day but to wake up somewhere away from home- breakfast then go out somewhere where you don't live will be bliss I hope we all enjoy !!
 
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