Coronavirus (2021) thread

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So we’ve heard today the Vaccine works against the new variant, infection rate has dropped and the R number is now below 1

... but everyone saying we’re gonna be in lockdown longer than April
 
BlueHammer85 said:
So we’ve heard today the Vaccine works against the new variant, infection rate has dropped and the R number is now below 1

... but everyone saying we’re gonna be in lockdown longer than April
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Yes because the NHS is under very serious strain, that's going to take weeks at least to control, and we need to get it down far enough that the NHS can do other stuff, and keep it there.
 
HolisticJim said:
I completely agree. Absolute wankers. Shopping is the only place I go and whole families in there as you say.

And if I see another one in there with a mask under their nose I think ill put my can of diet Pepsi through their face.
Really annoyed me today....mum, dad, young teen kid and gran all with masks under their noses.
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I'm far from a mask nazi or for restricting people's freedoms but I'm getting sick of feckless selfish people. This country is full of them, the "I'll do what I want!" Brigade and " No one tells me what to do!"That's probably because since they were born nobody has, so unless they are forced kicking and screaming to just be less selfish for an hour, they won't.
 
cleavers said:
I haven't I'm afraid, I don't read articles from random people, what's his claim to fame ?
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Human progress through productivity increases was doomed because population growth would follow leading to famine and plague
 
I really don’t know how they are a distributing the vaccine, my wife had hers yesterday, she’s back room staff in the NHS, not frontline, in fact her whole office has had it. Now whilst I’m happy, she has diabetes so in high risk category that was not why she received it. I have not even been considered and I’m frontline, it seems who you know.
 
Indaparkside said:
At about £2,000 a week everyone will be wanting to book a week away at the seaside it will be bedlam mate
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Book now, I have, cottage for 3, Devon in august, £950. Can’t complain at that and just hope the ‘British weather’ doesn’t let me down!!
 
i8rags said:
Avoidable how exactly
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Well maybe locking down earlier back in March when we had perfect hindsight what was coming across from Italy and Spain.
Oh and not having a covid Xmas shopping blow out in December especially when we knew about a new strain and cases and deaths were rising.
Oh and listening to the scientists back in September instead of Rishi Sunak and the Great Barrington nutters who (the scientists) were advising lockdown when we had the hindsight of numbers rising.
 
Len Rum said:
Well maybe locking down earlier back in March when we had perfect hindsight what was coming across from Italy and Spain.
Oh and not having a covid Xmas shopping blow out in December especially when we knew about a new strain and cases and deaths were rising.
Oh and listening to the scientists back in September instead of Rishi Sunak and the Great Barrington nutters who (the scientists) were advising lockdown when we had the hindsight of numbers rising.
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Oh yeah and we the ppe fiasco, masks and schools u turns, test and trace shambles. A joke !
 
peter.evans said:
Oh yeah and we the ppe fiasco, masks and schools u turns, test and trace shambles. A joke !
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Not to mention mixed messaging - go to work, don't go to work, rat on your neighbour, don't rat on your neighbour.
Oh and back in February your inalienable right to go to the pub dressed as Clark Kent, change into Superman and shake hands with Covid patients.
 
i8rags said:
Avoidable how exactly
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Do what Norway does perhaps.

Crisis there today as cases reach all of 10% of our level.

Response:

Shopping centres and other non-essential stores will be closed from noon local time on Saturday, organised sports activities will be halted and schools must rely more on remote learning, the health ministry said in a statement

We've been way too late all through this.
 
I still thinks it's a total scandal that in the middle of a pandemic with all the knowledge they had the government introduced the subsidiary meal scheme , effectively flooding bars and restaurants with future ICU cases and unfortunately future deaths . There should be a criminal investigation when all the dust settles, gambling with the nations lives and nobody seems to have called them out on it .
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Do what Norway does perhaps.

Crisis there today as cases reach all of 10% of our level.

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Shopping centres and other non-essential stores will be closed from noon local time on Saturday, organised sports activities will be halted and schools must rely more on remote learning, the health ministry said in a statement

We've been way too late all through this.
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I think he was more being simplistic with his post, that regardless of what we do the end position of majority of countries will be similar. And of course, in that comment I mean countries of similar populations and positions in the world etc.
 
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