Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Summerbuzz]

Stepped on scales today and not exactly shocked to learn I lost 29 pounds in four weeks.

Gonna take a while to get that back.

I've lost something more, not sure what.

Probably a sense of my own mortality for the first time in my 46 years.

Really felt for you. Same age. Similair experience. Yours was worse. Mine kept coming back. Be very gentle on yourself for a bit. Walk, don't run. And stay warm.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I may be wrong but think he has been stalling as they didn't have the volume of doses avail

On Monday he definitely stated that they had 3 million AZ in bottles, and half a million AZ ready to go. It will be very interesting to hear how many have been sorted so far.

The numbers quoted are definitely going to be tracked.

 

[Summerbuzz]

I don't know why they didn't say by middle of March, would still be an outstanding achievement, why do they put so much pressure on themselves with these targets

Changing the topic from the last thing on people's minds, which was schools. It's really stressy and tiring having to go through the same cycle again and again, knowing full well it will happen again and again. He can't help it. Or at least, he won't. He's locked in a spiral. Political survival is all that matters to him, one crisis at a time. Constantly borrowing political capital from the future to gloss over today.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I don't know why they didn't say by middle of March, would still be an outstanding achievement, why do they put so much pressure on themselves with these targets

It is possible that he blurted out an over-promise as he is wont to do.

I think it had been often quoted as 25 million by the end of March, and that's still 2 million/week just with more time to make up for a slow start.

A GP on the BBC was saying on a busy day, they could do 500 vaccinations. 1000 sites in the country, if they could get them supplied could be 500k a day.

The big centres seem odd - the Excel in Docklands isn't that easy to get to unless you want to clog east London with cars.

 

[grunge]

Over 30,000 related covid deaths in the US since xmas eve!

This is a good place for US stats.



132k in hospital ( was about 90k early Dec ).
243k cases yesterday.
3793 deaths yesterday.

 

[manimanc]

Stepped on scales today and not exactly shocked to learn I lost 29 pounds in four weeks.

Gonna take a while to get that back.

I've lost something more, not sure what.

Probably a sense of my own mortality for the first time in my 46 years.

I didn't realise you was that ill tolm, that's scary the weight loss.

Hope you're well on the road to recovery pal.

All the best.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Because there has never been a roll out lke this. It started on Monday straight after new year. Teething trouble after a couple of days aren't a sign that nothing was planned,problems a week or so down the line would be. We aren't there yet but the fact we are ahead of most shows there has been some planning.

I am sorry but i don't believe there has been enough planning for the reasons listed below.

Why are we now getting the Army in 4 days after rolling out the new vaccine. If they were needed why weren't they working on this from day 1? Or are you saying it was always the plan to start using them on Day 4 of the AZ vaccine rollout? Sounds like what plans they had weren't sufficient to me?

Not vaccinating people on Sundays as has been reported? Why on earth not?

Not having enough glass vaccination vials as is being reported?

Not utilising everyone who is already trained and has capacity to vaccinate such as dentists and only using a few pharmacies also indicates this?

Requiring people to have umpteen needless pieces of paper to administer injections indicates to me that paperwork is being put before lives.

I except we are doing ok and better than most when compared to other countries but that should not stop us striving to improve, is it wrong for me the expect better?

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Stepped on scales today and not exactly shocked to learn I lost 29 pounds in four weeks.

Gonna take a while to get that back.

I've lost something more, not sure what.

Probably a sense of my own mortality for the first time in my 46 years.

All the best to you and your family Tolmie.

 

[unicorn]

England 661 hospital deaths by region:

London 164

South East 129

East 101

Midlands 97

NE/Yorkshire 79

North West 49

South West 42

Huge numbers either side of the Thames. 30 in both Southend and Gillingham, with similar number in Basildon the other day.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Boris at 5pm with the head of the nhs and army chief

That’s probably to reassure all the whingers who are making up that the Army and the NHS aren’t working together.