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I'm guessing they will say in a few months, the booster only gives you a small limited time of immunity and a new variant will come along so we have to go get the booster plus
 
BlueHammer85 said:
I'm guessing they will say in a few months, the booster only gives you a small limited time of immunity and a new variant will come along so we have to go get the booster plus
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It’ll be when Pfizer have adapted their vaccine to incorporate Omicron in about100 days, they said a week or two back.
 
twosips said:
Same, sorta. Wife has just tested positive via LFT. She's got cold-like symptoms. Awaiting a PCR result. Can only presume ive got it coming on too as ive got a banging headache today. Neither of us are remotely concerned about anything serious (fingers crossed), more just gutted that we're gonna have to cancel some plans really. Is this basically the end goal really? Eventually it becomes endemic and no one is really that worried about it anymore?
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Interesting that the LFT's are working as I know a few people who'd had symptoms but were negative and later PCR proved they were positive. I had headaches and a bad cold earlier in the month, it only lasted about a week and now it's passed. I did multiple LFT's and all were negative, obviously it was probably just a cold but I couldn't have a PCR because I didn't have the classic symptoms so who knows?

The government needs to seriously think about changing the symptom criteria for PCR testing, does anyone really get the holy 3 symptoms? How many people are not going to isolate and spread it because the unreliable LFT is negative and they don't have the 'right' symptoms?
 
A third of Londoners are completely unvaccinated, as a surge of Omicron cases sweeps the capital.

The proportion of the population without a single jab is three times as high in London as in the country as a whole, and the 14 areas with the country’s lowest vaccination rates are all London boroughs. In Westminster four in ten people have not had a single jab.
 
I can't stand wet socks. I refuse to wear shoes around the house, but I being a clumsy ape, whenever I do the washing up, or go to the bathroom, you can be sure I'll be left with wet fucking socks. And there is nothing worse on this earth than wet socks.

For me. Also clammy, stuffy rooms. Fuck stuffy rooms. I have windows open on the coldest days. It's not like every time I'm in a stuffy room, I get a headache or feel sleepy. But I probably would feel a bit shit, one way or another. Also, traffic. Can't stand people driving fast, dodging orange lights at traffic. The noise and smell is just awful.

That's me, all over. Personal stuff. We're all different.

I find it easy to believe that facemasks are the same to some people as stuffy rooms are to me. If I was looking at 6 months of enforced stuffy rooms, I might well use the term, "horrendous".

Possibly, to some people, they are as bad as wearing damp socks.

If that's you, thanks for wearing one.

THANKYOU.

It's possible we could be doing enough in other ways to make up for the requirement to wear a mask, but we aren't. And anyway, whatever it was we chose to do, someone, somewhere, would hate it, and not because it's COVID or Nanny state. If a thing exists, you can guarantee, someone, somewhere hates it with a passion, because it just doesn't agree with them. We're all different, and that is for the best.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
A third of Londoners are completely unvaccinated, as a surge of Omicron cases sweeps the capital.

The proportion of the population without a single jab is three times as high in London as in the country as a whole, and the 14 areas with the country’s lowest vaccination rates are all London boroughs. In Westminster four in ten people have not had a single jab.
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That can't be right surely?

In some of the more "diverse" areas I can believe it, but Westminster?
 
And 25 million boosted and most of those will not get symptomatic infection but they should remind anyone who is boosted that you can still infect parents, and it takes 7-14 days to generate a good immune response. The 70% effectiveness refers to protection against symptoms, not transmission.

In every previous wave the peak does not go all the way to encompass the population, it reaches an equilibrium and then falls. Obviously that is going to feed into the serious illness calculation. It isn't going to rise inexorably with a constant doubling rate. We need to get a handle on the transmission rate, how it will change, and the extent of serious illness.
 
Summerbuzz said:
I can't stand wet socks. I refuse to wear shoes around the house, but I being a clumsy ape, whenever I do the washing up, or go to the bathroom, you can be sure I'll be left with wet fucking socks. And there is nothing worse on this earth than wet socks.

For me. Also clammy, stuffy rooms. Fuck stuffy rooms. I have windows open on the coldest days. It's not like every time I'm in a stuffy room, I get a headache or feel sleepy. But I probably would feel a bit shit, one way or another. Also, traffic. Can't stand people driving fast, dodging orange lights at traffic. The noise and smell is just awful.

That's me, all over. Personal stuff. We're all different.

I find it easy to believe that facemasks are the same to some people as stuffy rooms are to me. If I was looking at 6 months of enforced stuffy rooms, I might well use the term, "horrendous".

Possibly, to some people, they are as bad as wearing damp socks.

If that's you, thanks for wearing one.

THANKYOU.

It's possible we could be doing enough in other ways to make up for the requirement to wear a mask, but we aren't. And anyway, whatever it was we chose to do, someone, somewhere, would hate it, and not because it's COVID or Nanny state. If a thing exists, you can guarantee, someone, somewhere hates it with a passion, because it just doesn't agree with them. We're all different, and that is for the best.
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I don't understand how some people can't get it into their heads that other people might find face masks claustrophobic and psychologically oppressive.

One man's "fuck all" is another man's panic attack trigger.
 
South Africa excess deaths figure isn't an alarming jump which is a relief.

Weeks ending.
14th Nov 500 or so
21st Nov 1000 or so.
28th Nov 2000 or so.
5th dec 2500 or so.

Granted the lag from the big wave isn't going to be in any of this but its still reassuring.
 
gazinho said:
Had the Moderna booster at the Etihad today it was absolutely hammered, had Pfizer for my first 2 no idea why they changed it today but glad they did as the Pfizer queue was round the block whereas Moderna just walked straight through. Got told I had to wait 10 minutes after it just as I had with jab 1 and 2.

1 and only reason I got it is to carry on with my normal life I know absolutely shitloads who have said they wont be having a third jab for a great number of reasons.

There is absolutely no chance on earth ill be vaccinating my 10 and 4 year old daughters though even if this fuckwit tells us too tonight
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Had my Moderna booster at the Etihad as well this morning. Queues were huge, backing up all the way into the big main car park. Fair play to all the staff and volunteers there, it’s a monumental effort.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
A further 78,610 daily COVID cases were reported on Wednesday, up from 51,342 a week ago on 8 December.

Today's recorded cases are the highest of the pandemic so far, topping a previous record of 68,053 confirmed on 8 January.
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And Omicron new cases 4671 is almost half of the total cases !
I can see us walking straight in another national lockdown after Xmas.
What’s making it go through the roof again with so many people double jabbed ?
 
Also, it's been noted before that it's not just London - ALL the urban centres are way below the national average for jabs. Sure, they generally have a younger population, but it's still a big problem. Has been this way all year.

Take a look at the map of the north west.

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