Coronavirus (2021) thread

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kevin horlocks wand said:
well what about all the millions who have had Covid Or been vaccinated? I don’t see those who have been vaccinated being given the green light to get on with their lives.

doing things for Society by getting jabbed doesn’t seem to give any degree of advantage “papers, or no papers”

my Thoughts following the last two conferences is these restrictions on our liberties are with us for years to come. Vaccine or no vaccine, papers or no papers unfortunately.
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We have a road map to a way out of this, that's what the vaccination is achieving. We have to wait for the whole country to be finished and then the rest of the world.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Why the doom and gloom ? Didn’t he announce we’re all systems go for the current roadmap out of lockdown ?
which seemed unrealistic a couple months ago.
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That’s the way I saw it. He defiantly gave the impression that the May easing of restrictions (as well as next Monday’s) should go ahead.

I am not too fussed about the June restrictions. Wearing a mask in a supermarket or getting beer delivered to your table in a Pub / restaurant is not great hardship.
 
GM Weekly Pop Scores after today:~

Borough / Score Today / Score 7 days ago / up or down wk to wk/ Testing is % of local population who have tested positive for Covid over past year.

As ever with Pop scores going up is bad, going down good - the higher the number the better or worse depending on direction moving. The Pop Score is total cases in past week versus 100,000 POPulation to even out the comparison versus size and expected cases based on numbers living there.



Tameside 77 / 105 / Down 28 Testing positive 8.0%

Rochdale 73 / 99 / Down 26 Testing positive 9.5%

Manchester 70 / 98 / Down 28 Testing positive 9.5%

Bolton 70 / 106 / Down 32 Testing positive 8.9%

Oldham 69 / 115 Down 46 Testing positive 9.6%

Wigan 56 / 88 / Down 32 Testing positive 8.8%

Stockport 56 / 67 / Down 11 Testing positive 7.1%

Salford 55 / 77 / Down 22 Testing positive 8.9%

Bury 54 / 71 / Down 17 Testing positive 9.0%

Trafford 52 / 71/ Down 19 Testing positive 6.9%



As you see everywhere now falling and the gap between top and bottom is as narrow as I ever recall with every borough well below 100 for the first time in 9 months.

Bury loses lead as lowest weekly Pop back to Trafford but with just 4 separating the top 5 low scores - which in weekly pop terms is easily changed in just a day then this lead could now change hands often. And matters less than the fact all GM is doing remarkably similarly and well.

Trafford completes its recent turnaround and the race is back on for all the best of GM records.

Weekly cases:- Bury is up 1 but still leads on 102. Whilst - at 124 Trafford stays second. Salford in third now on 141. Rochdale next on 162 with Oldham 1 behind on 163 and Stockport trailing some way back now on 165. Tameside not far behind on 174. And Wigan sub 200 now on 181.

Outside for now is Bolton but now just on 202 and Manchester who are unlikely to manage sub 200 any time soon given its population but also falling fast at just 385. Which when you remember it was over 3000 in the early autumn shows how far it has fallen to its lowest weekly total since July.

Indeed Manchester was clocking up 385 - its current weekly total - every DAY during autumn/early winter.
 
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BlueHammer85 said:
Why the doom and gloom ? Didn’t he announce we’re all systems go for the current roadmap out of lockdown ?
which seemed unrealistic a couple months ago.
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defo it’s good , I was and am happy with the lockdown time table unlocking and speed we are going.

however there is a little undercurrent in these conferences recently about ongoing restrictions emphasising the lack of efficacy with the jabs ( as opposed to the success) the need for restrictions, i think they are applying the lube for further lockdowns and restrictions down the line. Obviously I hope I am wrong and as Boris stated 21 June ALL Covid restrictions are lifted and the coming out of lockdown is irreversible.

that would be amazing. However I am not so sure.
 
I thought the presser was extremely disappointing tonight.
Been looking forward to it for a few days and it was a damp squib with Whitty and Vallance miserable as usual.
So despite the excellent vaccination programme the facts are we will have vaccine passports rammed down our throats and now twice weekly tests may need to be done.
And SAGE now insisting that social distancing and masks could be in place for another year
Call this freedom, it suggests to me that we are in for another few months of shit.
 
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