Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

You have to ask why we are not told clearly like this the position in England, which I imagine is the same.

 

[blueparrot]

Jees. That's more than what sounded from the 'drop a little' comments from NS earlier in the week.

Not quite sure if she means the Pfizer supply will halve, not the total supply.

 

[Gray]

My wife, who is 70 in July, received a letter this morning that was dated the 4th February. It invited her to go online and book her 1st vaccination, when she tried to do that the web site said she was not eligible.

She rang 119 who confirmed that she indeed was not eligible. She asked why they had sent the letter, the NHS person said he would try again but say she was a health service employee. Low and behold that worked and she is going tomorrow for her first vaccination.

I don’t think the right hand knows what the left hand is doing during this pandemic!

 

[worsleyweb]

You have to ask why we are not told clearly like this the position in England, which I imagine is the same.

Because she gobs off first! Its quite simple.

 

[Healdplace]

Jees. That's more than what sounded from the 'drop a little' comments from NS earlier in the week.

Yes, but at least they are telling their people clearly the facts and why they are as they are.

Nor did they try to blame Boris or England.

Why do people in England have to watch the Scottish government to learn the situation here via guesstimation of numbers.

 

[worsleyweb]

Just heard of another man in his 40s committing suicide. Tragic times.

 

[Healdplace]

Not quite sure if she means the Pfizer supply will halve, not the total supply.

She gave these numbers as of total weekly supply - so the total supply is 150,000 or 200,000 at most for next 2 weeks down from 400,000 this week and seems mostly caused by Pfizer.

She said they are talking to AZ about their supply in coming weeks but no numbers as yet.

Seemed like she was hoping they might plug some of the gap.

But as she rightly noted this is a global vaccination supply process not just the UK.

 

[Healdplace]

Because she gobs off first! Its quite simple.

It is not Nicola Sturgeon today and yes it is simple.

Clarity usually is. Obfuscation isn't.

I do not live in Scotland but I am pleased she explained this in clear terms as it is likely to cause the same drop in England and good we know in advance why and what they are trying to do to mitigate it and how long it might last.

How is NOT doing that good?

A government owes a duty of clarity to the public unless it is a state secret which something like this surely isn't if it is a global supply issue.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Because she gobs off first! Its quite simple.

I'm sure Jimmy Crankie deliberately comes out with her plans to make it look as she is leading the way and it is purely for show. She seems to preempt any new measures by acouple of hours by holding her press conference at lunchtime when the Englands is generally at 5pm

 

[paulchapo]

true, it’s better this thread today for there being some discussion and proportionate consideration for lockdown lifting without the usual weld everyone in their wardrobe for a year brigade shouting it down.

You can't deny people the basics of humanity forever without a backlash. Even the poor sods in North Korea who face awful torture and death if they don't comply still kick back. Some of the awful scenes I have seen here at care homes and the behaviour of our own police force in certain situations have made many realise how quickly our freedoms and rights can be taken away, it is unsettling.

I don't have the statistics but many thousands die every year on our roads and from diseases caused by obesity, alcohol and smoking, but we don't ban any of them. Governments cry about the strain on the NHS but still don't ban them. People have a choice. Now if we've vaccinated everyone that wants it and done all we can we have to give people the choice to live a free life again. The virus is here forever, like the flu and other diseases, we will never eradicate it so we have to live with it. If people still want to isolate as much as they can they can do so,let the rest of us live our lives. We all die anyway and all we have at the moment is a joyless, stagnant, loveless form of life , which isn't living it's existing.