Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Rammy Blue]

Pandemic on and my street is having an on/off power cut. Naturally I decided to sit here in the dark as the other option was being arrested for going for a walk.

Why can’t you walk? It’s not illegal.

 

[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

Yea that’s a good point about teaching staff

Thanks but it’s not just about vaccinating teachers or teachers feeling safer in the classroom.

It is about community spread.

The arguments from SAGE etc about the problem of opening schools isn't one of concern for individual teachers, it is one of understanding what opening widely and quickly will do.

From SAGE papers released last week, we know they told govt last summer that opening schools would increase transmission, and not that schools reflect community transmission (the line the govt used and heads etc.).

I would therefore prefer to see SAGE and independent experts forming a consensus in agreement with opening before this actually happens.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Why can’t you walk? It’s not illegal.

We allowed to more than once?

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Watch out for a delayed reaction.
I had my AZ jab on Friday morning.
No reaction
Until
This morning 48 hours later I feel like shit.
Been in bed most of the day drinking gallons of tea.

Mum was similar. Ok for a couple of days then completely wiped out last week with shivers and lack of energy.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Well, dismal cold weekend, but fired up with optimism after the match yesterday, I booked a holiday let in France in July. I was even nearly sober.

I reckon maybe 50:50 chance of that coming off, but no cancellation charge until June. Needed something to look forward to.

 

[richardtheref]

So you haven't got involved and said over the last couple of weeks that you want a quicker appointment for your Mum and that you were prepared to drive her to a vaccination site outside of her village. Clearly there will be isolated cases of administrative errors or a relative handful of people who are in logistically difficult places but when 15 million people have received their first jab when yesterday's figures are announced later its a bit of a stretch to say that Johnson will say 'anything'.

All I was pointing out was that Boris had said in the North East 100% of over 80s had been vaccinated. Not true. They have just started in the last few days in the Durham dales. Just pr spin by our fool of a PM

 

[shemnel]

Just some personal thoughts and I think one thing to note with the lowering cases and increasing vaccine protection is that as numbers of priority groups descend, the consequential IFR of covid must now decrease at a far greater rate.

IFR was estimated at anything from 0.5 to 1% (I think I read a reasonable guideline was 0.7%) but that of course includes young uns where it's <0.1 and very old ones where it was >10%.

As the severe disease burden drops in the older categories, the overall population IFR crashes. The hospitalisation threat of opening up too quickly in spring is now not the same as the autumn due to this, plus the better weather on top.

 

[Gray]

Mum was similar. Ok for a couple of days then completely wiped out last week with shivers and lack of energy.

Wife had her first jab at 1:30pm yesterday, this morning she felt worn out and went back to bed. Got back up at 3pm and is bouncing around the house now dishing out instructions.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Some question the actual death toll when so many are being put down as Covid when it’s other symptoms that played a larger part in their death. Ie: if they have Covid and got hit by a bus. They would be recorded as a Covid death.
How accurate is that ?

 

[Healdplace]

I had that extreme fatigue too on the night after my jab (Tuesday) and it was the only thing different from any other jab I have ever had. I slept really well after going to bed early. The mildly sore arm thing lasted about 48 hours. Pretty similar to how the flu jab often does.

The leaflet you get with the jab says the sore arm and tiredness are in the most common reactions.

So nothing to worry about.

It means your immune system is being sent the message to rev up the engines and be on alert.