Coronavirus (2021) thread

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BlueHammer85 said:
you can still go round to see your family
you can still go and see your mates
you can still go pub
you can still go to restaurants
you can travel anywhere in the UK and some destinations abroad
you can go cinema
you can go gym
more importantly, you can go for a nice walk, listen and review my album selection

what exactly is it you need so much for your mental well being ?
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True_Blue69 said:
Is that a serious question? Just to be able to go on a day out and not have to put up with all these bullshit restrictions would be a start. Going to town for an all day drinking session with my mates (more than 6) without having to worry about booking tables or where we can get in. Go to a club, a concert, a football match where you don’t need to take 4 tests to go to, sit in a restaurant with more than 2 households, have a birthday party for my daughter without worrying about it raining as we can’t have more than 6 inside. The list is endless and the more people start accepting that this is normal and not that bad the longer this is going to get dragged out.
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Mere inconveniences. I am sure you would take these on the chin to save some lives, wouldn't you or are they are so annoying you don't care?

You do realise if the removal of social distancing restrictions is lifted, we could be locked down for most of the summer?
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
On exactly 21st June? What clubs are open during the week anyway? What concerts are planned for that week? What football are we able to go to?

What sort of mental fortitude do people have where they can’t just wait a few more weeks to make sure a good few more people have had their second jab?
We’ve already seen how cases are rising around here, if we can just get a few more their second jab until we’re in a position where we feel it’s time to open up, then we open up.

We’ve done 62 weeks, we can make it 64 or 65 just to make sure a few million more people are in a safer position.
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26th June there are big club nights on that have sold tickets, been cancelled twice already. There’s barely anyone in hospital with it, barely anyone dying and the vaccine doesn’t stop you catching or passing it on, what exactly do you want to be in place for things to open fully? Cases mean nothing now and until people accept this we will be in this for a lot longer than necessary.
 
Manc in London said:
Mere inconveniences. I am sure you would take these on the chin to save some lives, wouldn't you or are they are so annoying you don't care?

You do realise if the removal of social distancing restrictions is lifted, we could be locked down for most of the summer?
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How do you work out that removing social distancing restrictions will result in us being locked down all summer? The vulnerable are all vaccinated. If they weren’t I would agree with you, but they are so what are we trying to achieve?
 
Just been to walk my dog on the field next to our local covid test centre in Rammy, had a quick chat with one of the ladies who works there and she said been much busier last few days however vast majority are school children.
 
True_Blue69 said:
26th June there are big club nights on that have sold tickets, been cancelled twice already. There’s barely anyone in hospital with it, barely anyone dying and the vaccine doesn’t stop you catching or passing it on, what exactly do you want to be in place for things to open fully? Cases mean nothing now and until people accept this we will be in this for a lot longer than necessary.
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I agree with you there, if there is hardly anyone in hospital and hardly anyone dying then that’s a reason to open up on 21st. If those numbers are slightly rising and they just feel a couple more million people having their second jab would be preferable, then delay it a week or two.

I think anyone planning big events the week of reopening when they were told from March that the 21st June date was subject to change, then they’re daft.
 
True_Blue69 said:
How do you work out that removing social distancing restrictions will result in us being locked down all summer? The vulnerable are all vaccinated. If they weren’t I would agree with you, but they are so what are we trying to achieve?
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That’s the thing, the vulnerable aren’t all vaccinated yet. My Mother is 64 and has lupus and she’s only just had her second jab two weeks ago, so there’ll be a number of people who aren’t fully vaccinated yet.
 
True_Blue69 said:
How do you work out that removing social distancing restrictions will result in us being locked down all summer? The vulnerable are all vaccinated. If they weren’t I would agree with you, but they are so what are we trying to achieve?
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Everyone in hospital with the new variant have not been vaccinated…
 
Rammy Blue said:
Just been to walk my dog on the field next to our local covid test centre in Rammy, had a quick chat with one of the ladies who works there and she said been much busier last few days however vast majority are school children.
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Blimey proper cracking through them there then... I'm around 30 and I've got to drive for 35 minutes to get mine. Not sure if there's lots of people currently getting vaccines around here or there's considerably less centres/capacity.

Then you have London which is massively behind any other region.
 
crooky said:
Blimey proper cracking through them there then... I'm around 30 and I've got to drive for 35 minutes to get mine. Not sure if there's lots of people currently getting vaccines around here or there's considerably less centres/capacity.

Then you have London which is massively behind any other region.
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Test centre mate, not vaccinations, lol.
 
490 infections in Scotland

14 of them in over 65s
99 aged 45-64

166 aged 25-44
210 aged 0-24

4.2% of all tests were positive which is rising quite substantially now.

Hospital numbers up 18 since last update and ICU up 2, 1 death (aged 65-74).

16k first doses
21k second doses

Not much of this news is encouraging.
 
Up from 94 patients and 5 icu ventiulated seven days ago.

Positiviuty at 4.2% up from 2.8% seven days ago.

Scotland like the North West are the two big concerns right now.

IF this spreads beyond to other parts of the UK there will be no unlocking in 3 weeks - but the very people annoyed at that would be the ones most likely to import what for now are localised outbreaks to the rest of the UK which the number one priority is we get under control and well down before any kind of national free flow.

Unless things turm in the next week / 10 days (and they might) it will surely either be a national delay of a few weeks or a return of regional lockdowns until things change.

Hospital data in Scotland is still a modet uptick but it is going upwards as is the North West and we will be very clear we have to avoid this escalating nationally.

Still impossible to call as to which way this will go in next 10 days.
 
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Rammy Blue said:
Test centre mate, not vaccinations, lol.
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Ha. That makes a lot more sense.

I need a nap... Thought you might be a Yank to start with as they're into school age I think. Did the research into where 'Rammy' was and concluded that wasn't the case. Then didn't read your post properly..
 
splinter said:
Third wave ?
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It is not there yet imo but we are on a knife edge as to which way this goes as the NW and Scotland show.

If other England regions and Wales and N Ireland start to increase too then, yes, that will be the case.

Right now there are hints of both places going up and some getting control.

You cannot call whether this is a third wave or just a blip that will be defeated as we jab more and more.

But we will soon know.

And third wave is a misnomer anyway as the one in London and Kent in Dec/Jan was that.

The second wave was in the NW in the early/mid autumn. But as it did not bother others it gets forgotten.
 
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