Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Gabriel]

And Omicron new cases 4671 is almost half of the total cases !
I can see us walking straight in another national lockdown after Xmas.
What’s making it go through the roof again with so many people double jabbed ?

Vaccinations are not going to prevent people catching it, particularly when it is circulating so widely and particularly when people are socialising or in crowded spaces. What they will do is prevent the vast majority requiring hospitalisation (we hope).

 

[PragueBlue]

And Omicron new cases 4671 is almost half of the total cases !
I can see us walking straight in another national lockdown after Xmas.
What’s making it go through the roof again with so many people double jabbed ?

Shouldn't be necessary if it turns out to be a milder variant and not causing too many hospitalisations (which seems to be the info coming out of South Africa). Let's hope that's the case anyway.

 

[Marvin]

That can't be right surely?

In some of the more "diverse" areas I can believe it, but Westminster?

In Manchester 20% of 55-59 year olds are unjabbed. 12-15 is 28%. That's bad. In Westminster. in 55-59 year olds its's 30% unjabbed. This if for double jabbed. There'll be a lot of immigrants in Westminster I imagine and that community doesn't get jabbed so much. Probably don't have GPs

 

[Manc in London]

A third of Londoners are completely unvaccinated, as a surge of Omicron cases sweeps the capital.

The proportion of the population without a single jab is three times as high in London as in the country as a whole, and the 14 areas with the country’s lowest vaccination rates are all London boroughs. In Westminster four in ten people have not had a single jab.

Weird as someone on here claimed increasing cases in London were due to Delta as London had previously got away with it and that it only affected the NW lol

 

[domalino]

Had my Moderna booster at the Etihad as well this morning. Queues were huge, backing up all the way into the big main car park. Fair play to all the staff and volunteers there, it’s a monumental effort.

Was that a walk in, or did you have an appointment?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

If they think I'm having a fourth jab in 100 days they're having a fucking laugh.

It won’t be mandatory ;-)

 

[Pezzer2]

Don’t normally get unwell. I’ve had the confirmation that I’m positive today. Jesus I feel terrible. Headache, Fever, sore throat, cough etc… Knocked me for 6 this but at least my breathing is ok.

 

[Marvin]

Don’t normally get unwell. I’ve had the confirmation that I’m positive today. Jesus I feel terrible. Headache, Fever, sore throat, cough etc… Knocked me for 6 this but at least my breathing is ok.

Best of luck

 

[Manc in London]

That can't be right surely?

In some of the more "diverse" areas I can believe it, but Westminster?

More than half of Westminster's population (based on estimates but will be confirmed in the Census) were born outside of the UK. The proportion of homes in which English is spoken is equivalent to the number of homes in which Bengali and Arabic are spoken. I suspect that the 2021 Census data will indicate that the populations of all, or almost all, London boroughs will be more than 50% BAME. Worth noting that Westminster is within the 30%-40% most deprived boroughs in the country.

London boroughs are the most diverse in the country. This is why it makes me laugh when someone on here claimed that Delta hit the NW before London due to the large number of Indians living up north. There is around eight times more Indians living in London then there are in Leicester (city with second biggest Indian population).

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

As of 2011, ‘white‘ people constituted 61.68% of Westminster’s population and Black/Asian and minority ethnicies made up 38.32%.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/shocking-extremes-wealth-poverty-westminster-17125539

Wow - interesting.

Would never have thought that.