Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

They are being linked to increased testing in schools in the MUEN

Is that the same MEN who told us Bury were in deep trouble a couple of weeks ago - when they had had a few days the week before when numbers were up - but by the time they reported it from the 6 day old numbers Bury was on the up. And now Bury is heading for number 1 in GM in many measures and has the lowest weekly cases already. Something the MEN will likely not report even when they do spot it - next week probably.

I posted in here a couple of days ago that Manchester and Stockport were both on the up in the week since the school returns and this likely was the reason. But that they are not really much of a rise and both are under 100 with a Pop Score which is not at all a concern.

If anything the school return so far has not caused as many cases as I expected. It may yet do so as these would not be an instant thing so the coming week will be telling. But as of now we are pretty flat but have fallen a lot in the past few weeks. And Yorkshire overtook the NW as the most infected region in this past week too.

As I say many times using week old data in a fast moving pandemic can be very misleading. And using it to talk about school returns then hours old in that data - not even a week - would be very misleading.

 

[domalino]

honestly, it’s just bizarre now

The EU has already accidentally released the unredacted AZ contract and we know AZ are completely and utterly protected from being sued either by The EU or individuals receiving the vaccine. Any contract with an individual country is going to be pretty much identical.

 

[JamesMCFC]

honestly, it’s just bizarre now

I honestly think its because it's British and ever since we left the EU they are like an old girlfriend who won't let go so they will try and make your life a misery.

 

[True_Blue69]

honestly, it’s just bizarre now

I was massively against leaving the EU, now I’m starting to thing Farage was right all along. What a bunch of see you next Tuesdays.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Says who? Are these the 5 day old rates the media use or last nights as posted in here.

I post the totally up to date GM numbers every evening in here if you look back and a table of the score per 100,000 population (Pop Scores) watching them go up and down.

Manchester actually has its best numbers since midsummer last year right now and was not even the highest in Greater Manchester yesterday.

Was posted yesterday on the Tameside News

The latest coronavirus infection rates for every borough as five areas see rises

The latest figures show five areas across Greater Manchester experienced increases in infection rates

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[RobMCFC]

Seems like it's not just some of us Blue Mooners that think this is a political move. From the BBC news feed:-

"The decision by some European countries to suspend the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is a "political one", the director general of Italy's medicines authority AIFA has said."

 

[blueparrot]

I was massively against leaving the EU, now I’m starting to thing Farage was right all along. What a bunch of see you next Tuesdays.

Except It's France a country that is in the EU acting independently as it can not the EU.

 

[BlueHammer85]

The UK's medicines regulator, the European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organisation have all backed the vaccine after several countries paused its rollout.

 

[Healdplace]

I honestly think its because it's British and ever since we left the EU they are like an old girlfriend who won't let go so they will try and make your life a misery.

Cruel as it is there is some irony that the British variant (which is just called that and used as a form of abuse because we happen to have a great science team that can detect these things first) is creating waves across Europe and a British vaccine is successfully fighting it here but elsewhere in the world being 'British' is used as a way to disparage, not encourage.

If this was not such a tragedy as we soar ahead and they stumble it would be amusing.

But it is anything other than that. It is a terrible human catastrophe for Europe - which Brexit or not we are still inexorably part of and should care that the leaders there seem worryingly adept at screwing this pandemic up.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Humans really are a ridiculous species. We're ran by fucking morons at every level.

Anyone that desires power us generally a tit. In any walk of life. Usually a reason why they want to be in charge

as billy connolly said, “anyone that desires to be a politician should be immediately banned from being one”