Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

Scotland last two weeks patient numbers & icu ventilator

1347 v 1717 v 1989 today

93 v 133 v 150 today

 

[Marvin]

Do you realise that if we vaccinate at 500k per day then in four weeks time around 50% of the population would have been vaccinated or have had the infection.

Assumptions: 25% have had it, 7% have been vaccinated.

 

[Healdplace]

TASS now claiming their second vaccine - EpiVac is 100% effective.

Presumably the third one will cure 110% of those who die.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

We have been looking at Kilmarnock as well. Relatively Prestwick seems expensive. Need to stay near coast I'm allergic to the bloody midges!

Not many here mate, parks etc in the "summer" but not a great deal! Wee pests!

 

[Eds]

Do you realise that if we vaccinate at 500k per day then in four weeks time around 50% of the population would have been vaccinated or have had the infection.

Assumptions: 25% have had it, 7% have been vaccinated.

Not sure about your maths. 500k per day for 28 days would mean 14m vaccinate. UK pop is around 67m unless you are including 25% of population who may already have had it but then you are double counting as they may also then go on to have the vaccine.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Positive enough figures from Scotland today @Healdplace although obviously the death toll is horrible.

700 odd less cases than this day last week, the 3 digits in sight. On a selfish note, 'only' 96 cases in Ayrshire and Arran announced today, the lowest in some time. Good drops in Glasgow and Lanarkshire too.

And positive news on the vaccine front also.

 

[Healdplace]

Northern Ireland data:

24 deaths - was 22 last week 18 in hospital, 6 in care homes

713 cases - was 1205 last week.

Rolling 7 day cases average falls to lowest in over a month to 6092 - down from 6647.

At 26.6% positive. Which is around normal for here in past week. It has been as high as 50% and often in mid 30s.

137 care home outbreaks - down 2 on yesterday.

Patients 842 - up 19 in day.

Ventilated 57 - up 6 in day.


Things seem to be getting under control here too.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Love this kinda news.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

What do you guys think about this was I in the wrong or what?

I was shopping at ASDA with a client (I am a Support Worker). Whilst shopping there were a number of guys not wearing masks and I remarked on it to an ASDA member of staff and we were both frustrated- I went to ask the guy (Young fit man but could have had breathing problems I suppose) to wear a mask and he tells me to fuck off.

So I continue shopping and we get to the checkout and the first thing the staff do is have a go at my client for being too close to the checkout - I asked what about the other shoppers not wearing masks, then the woman in the next checkout called security, they come over and I said the same thing. Then another came over and by the end of it I am surrounded by 5 of their staff telling me I am being aggressive and that I am barred and to leave my shopping there and leave the store (I had paid already so I told them and then started leaving with my shopping. Then the store manager comes down and says right you out your never coming here again and we're phoning the police)

Is the moral of the story that it isnt worth it. Or right to take a stand.

btw being aggressive was not shouting or swearing - It was me being annoyed as I counted out the 5 security staff to them, all because my client stepped less than 2 mtrs towards the checkout which is surely ridiculous!

 

[Healdplace]

Positive enough figures from Scotland today @Healdplace although obviously the death toll is horrible.

700 odd less cases than this day last week, the 3 digits in sight. On a selfish note, 'only' 96 cases in Ayrshire and Arran announced today, the lowest in some time. Good drops in Glasgow and Lanarkshire too.

And positive news on the vaccine front also.

Agreed - numbers everywhere are starting to look better and deaths will obviously follow in a week or so regardless of the vaccine impact.

On BBC this morning they were claiming (not terribly persuasively with torrential rain and a storm and a blizzard on its way) that we should be looking in the garden for the first signs of Spring.

Feels a bit like that - not Spring, just maybe signs of pre Spring, but at least not quite mid Winter.