Coronavirus (2021) thread

[BlueAnorak]

How does being vaccinated stop the spread of the virus?

I will assume you really want to know and are not being facetious.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

No you don’t you lying fucker:)

Have you still got those rags working for you on 50p an hour lol

 

[Bluemanc100]

I can't stand Drakeford but on this it's maybe down to local organisational factors?

Having said that, its annoying that whilst in England - as I understand it - you can book a jab online, but here in Wales most of us have to wait to be contacted.

Luckily our local medical practice seem to be fairly well organised (I live in Rossett, and had my jab in Llay).

You can blame local agreements but the buck stops with him regarding online booking systems and whether mass Vaccination centres have been used to their full capacity... His comments live on TV stuck with me when he said that his priority was keeping vaccinators in a steady work and not with the pace of vaccinations. That’s why I’m getting my first jab on Wednesday and not over a month ago had I been able to drive the ~3 miles to England...

I only managed to get the appointment because my wife was in touch with our local GP practice manager who gave us access to a new online system.. I’d have been in the hands of the manual booking system for my (quite legitimate) appointment if Sue hadn’t done an online diagnosis sheet when she felt ill and had to chase as she had zero contact in a week...

 

[BlueAnorak]

Anyone think this road map out is too slow?
Here we have another great weekend yet people can't stay in hotels, yet we have 35 million who have had 1 jab yet we're still living with a lot of restrictions.
Seems very draconian to me

No.
We mustn't have to go back to lockdown again.

 

[Bluemanc100]

No.
We mustn't have to go back to lockdown again.

Tell that to our fucking selfish population..

 

[M18CTID]

That's exactly the spirit I read it in, mate.
I do, however, have serious concerns about the possibility of a huge wave when the Anzacs eventually fully open up.

Yep. This goes back to what many of us have spoken about. That those countries who did so well during the first wave could be vulnerable further down the line due to hardly anyone catching it in those countries in the first place and there being practically no herd immunity as a result. We’ve seen it with the Isle Of Man who have done a fantastic job of largely keeping the virus out, and probably thought they’d seen it off for good, then all it took was that one carrier around Christmas time and suddenly they ended up with hundreds of cases.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Yep. This goes back to what many of us have spoken about. That those countries who did so well during the first wave could be vulnerable further down the line due to hardly anyone catching it in those countries in the first place and there being practically no herd immunity as a result. We’ve seen it with the Isle Of Man who have done a fantastic job of largely keeping the virus out, and probably thought they’d seen it off for good, then all it took was that one carrier around Christmas time and suddenly they ended up with hundreds of cases.

They are probably more susceptible but we have also seen Manaus and Lombardia have 2nd mass outbreaks. Fingers crossed, we see the virus recede across the globe in the months ahead and that will hopefully give time for the widespread rollout of vaccines, internationally.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Yep. This goes back to what many of us have spoken about. That those countries who did so well during the first wave could be vulnerable further down the line due to hardly anyone catching it in those countries in the first place and there being practically no herd immunity as a result. We’ve seen it with the Isle Of Man who have done a fantastic job of largely keeping the virus out, and probably thought they’d seen it off for good, then all it took was that one carrier around Christmas time and suddenly they ended up with hundreds of cases.

New Zealand is the most southerly inhabited county in the world. Chile has a few outcrops with a population of 36 which are slightly more to the south but apart from Antarctica with a few scientific stations that's it. It is the most remote low/medium sized country anywhere.

 

[cleavers]

Thanks for that information. I always thought the world ended at the South Coast.

It pretty much does in NZ ;-)

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

As Boris has now spoken and said that 2 fully vaccinated people cannot meet indoors, as the vaccine isn’t 100% effective, it seems the chances of this being over are receding in inverse proportion to the data improving.