Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

Sad to see my favourite island in trouble - the Isle of Man. 35 new cases there in latest numbers. Up from just 5 last week. That is a big jump relatively. No deaths lately is the good news. But lockdown re-imposed and traced to a ferry worker on the daily trips from the island to and from the mainland.

Easy to talk New Zealand and isolation as pops up in here from time to time. But they are in the middle of nowhere not in the Irish Sea on an island where atop its highest point you can see England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland all at the same time (when Manannan's Mantle is not around at least) - the only place in the British Isles where you can do that.

Which rather shows the problem with comparing these islands to more remote parts of the world.

The IOM could never survive isolation. Too dependent. It has had to cancel the TT two Summers running which will have decimated much of its economy.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

My 93 year old grandma finally got her first shot this morning. Bizarrely, she was the last one in our household to get the vaccine due to a history of anaphylaxis.

Finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now, having become a hermit to preserve her life.

 

[Healdplace]

Some new data out today that I am waiting for the experts here to comment upon.

Seems to look good and prove that we made all the right choices about use of the AZ vaccine and it is stunningly efficient when given in two doses separated by 12 weeks and less so when done in the faster method.

Also that antibodies were still strong at 90 days afterwards suggesting it was not waning in efficiency.

Looks very promising. And such a shame the world got talked out of it by a mixture of rushed data that was promising and we gambled on being vindicated in time (as they were) and politics.

It is often wrongly assumed we rushed it through but remember it was not the first approved in the UK. The Pfizer one was up and running for nearly a month before AZ was approved when the further test data we waited for became available.

There was a huge mis-messaging on this vaccine that made us look like outlaws and the world the sheriff of Nothavingem.

Sadly it looks like that will have cost large numbers of lives.

 

[shemnel]

Sad to see my favourite island in trouble - the Isle of Man. 35 new cases there in latest numbers. Up from just 5 last week. That is a big jump relatively. No deaths lately is the good news. But lockdown re-imposed and traced to a ferry worker on the daily trips from the island to and from the mainland.

Easy to talk New Zealand and isolation as pops up in here from time to time. But they are in the middle of nowhere not in the Irish Sea on an island where atop its highest point you can see England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland all at the same time (when Manannan's Mantle is not around at least) - the only place in the British Isles where you can do that.

Which rather shows the problem with comparing these islands to more remote parts of the world.

The IOM could never survive isolation. Too dependent. It has had to cancel the TT two Summers running which will have decimated much of its economy.

i'm afraid to say i've seen England, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man and Scotland all from Scafell Pike a number of times!!

wish i was there this weekend

 

[Healdplace]

i'm afraid to say i've seen England, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man and Scotland all from Scafell Pike a number of times!!

wish i was there this weekend

Me too. But not ashamed. First went there for a family wedding by steam train and steam ship. Many years ago,

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Me too. But not ashamed. First went there for a family wedding by steam train and steam ship. Many years ago,

I like Scaffel Piike but it’s not quite Mount Cook!

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital deaths:

174 with 40 from NW.

Was 307 with 106 from NW last week.

Although the NW number still a little high well down on both from last week.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital deaths:

By age:

20 - 39 (2) 1.1%

40 - 59 (15) 8.6%

60 - 79 (80) 46.0%

80 PLUS (77) 44.3%

Another day with over 80s fewer than 60 - 79.

Four in past week now.

 

[Healdplace]

174 England hospital deaths by region

41 Midlands, 40 North West, 25 NE & Yorkshire, 22 London, 20 South East, 14 East, 12 South West.

Liverpool sadly again miles ahead of everywhere in the UK at 19 of the 40 in NW. Only one in double figures in England today.

Tameside at 4 and Manchester 3 next highest in NW.

This tragic legacy of Merseyside being 'rewarded' by going into lesser restrictions so attracting people into it because of the flawed tier system is not getting the media attention it should.

At the very least these lives sacrificed should stop that tier structure ever being resurrected.

About time the media did their job on things like this.

Plenty of us saw this coming in here. It needs calling out to stop it being repeated.

 

[ayrshire_blue]