Coronavirus (2021) thread

[PragueBlue]

There have been many missteps but our support for the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine combined with our procurement strategy have been world class.

Certainly a lot better than the EU, who are making a bit of a mess of it at present.

 

[mosssideblue]

Defo

Football, Horse racing, care homes etc

Why do I feel you are taking the piss?

 

[kaz7]

To be honest there are a lot of countries fairly similar. The difference between 1200 and 1500 / million in fairly insignificant in statistical terms , especially with different counting systems.
There will need to be a long hard look at how we coped with this , but not just here in many countries in europe and the U.S in particular where we were all caught unprepared for this.

We had a month at least on italy , they and the WHO were shouting at us but we went the opposite way to everyone else , we wasted our warning time

 

[crublue1]

It's time supermarkets started doing their bit aside from adverts going on about masks and only one person shopping, but then doing bugger all to enforce any of these rules.

I went to do my weekly shop at Aldi today. Although not overly busy, I'd try to time it so it wasn't, there was still couples and whole families shopping. Kids running about grabbing stuff,none in masks, sitting on the counter at the back where you pack your shopping, it winds me up.

Food shopping is the only place I mix now. I have no choice but to go there or I'll starve and deliveries are once again booked up in advance. I understand single parents may have no option but to take their kids but the majority were full families. I feel like I'm playing bloody Russian

It's time supermarkets started doing their bit aside from adverts going on about masks and only one person shopping, but then doing bugger all to enforce any of these rules.

I went to do my weekly shop at Aldi today. Although not overly busy, I'd try to time it so it wasn't, there was still couples and whole families shopping. Kids running about grabbing stuff,none in masks, sitting on the counter at the back where you pack your shopping, it winds me up.

Food shopping is the only place I mix now. I have no choice but to go there or I'll starve and deliveries are once again booked up in advance. I understand single parents may have no option but to take their kids but the majority were full families. I feel like I'm playing bloody Russian roulette once a week.

I use Aldi as well, but the only time I will go is Sunday morning.
I've found the best time for turning up is half an hour after it opens.
The scrotes are either still in bed or having a pre- shop mcdonalds, and the initial rush of people who wait outside for it to open has subsided.

 

[kaz7]

Football, Horse racing, care homes etc

Why do I feel you are taking the piss?

He is playing you

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Certainly a lot better than the EU, who are making a bit of a mess of it at present.

As a Leave voter it would be easy for me to leap in but I think it's really sad that they are making such a bad job of it. I work for a German company and a lot of my colleagues throughout the EU & recently Switzerland are also friends. There is a huge amount of anger at the lack of urgency. My Dutch colleague was diagnosed with prostate cancer late last year and though he has had radiation treatment he has no idea when/if he will get vaccinated.

 

[blueparrot]

We had a month at least on italy , they and the WHO were shouting at us but we went the opposite way to everyone else , we wasted our warning time

I know, but all europe and N. America had warnings, all had a summer before a second wave, none prevented it, most have broadly similar death stats. We have got a lot wrong, some was unavoidable, but I don’t think any country won’t have many lessons to learn from it.

 

[Ban-jani]

We have the worst per population in the world , shocking decisions at the beginning has cost us bad

No we don’t.

 

[jimharri]

The current level of lockdown (level 5, the highest )in Ireland is set to continue for at least another 4 weeks. It was initially put in place until the end of january. But the Taoiseach has confirmed that the level 5 lockdown will not be eased at the end of the month. They were eased in December, allowing a semblance of normality for Christmas. But, as many predicted, the figures skyrocketed.

 

[PragueBlue]

As a Leave voter it would be easy for me to leap in but I think it's really sad that they are making such a bad job of it. I work for a German company and a lot of my colleagues throughout the EU & recently Switzerland are also friends. There is a huge amount of anger at the lack of urgency. My Dutch colleague was diagnosed with prostate cancer late last year and though he has had radiation treatment he has no idea when/if he will get vaccinated.

I live in an EU country (Czech Republic) and we are up to 150,000 total vaccinations, which is about 1.5% of the population. Just not enough vaccines to do more. It may improve a bit if the EU approves some of the other vaccines.

Number of cases is higher (pro rata) than the UK at present and the geniuses here are talking about opening schools again in the next week or two.