Coronavirus Thread

[Jattdogg]

My sister inlaw (who is a nurse) has covid. Both her and my brother are sick.  He is  getting tested but likely has it too. They have been in close quarters seeing as they live in a flat/condo and are recent newlyweds from 3 months ago. Hopefully they will both be okay.

Edited 1 February 2021 by Jattdogg

[Leicester_Loyal]

The NHS have a website page which you can use to book a vaccination if you are in the top 4 priority categories.

 

It doesn't work if you are not eligible, but it does mean you don't need to wait just for the invite. Hopefully others here can make use of it.

 

https://www.nhs.uk/book-a-coronavirus-vaccination/do-you-have-an-nhs-number

 

Basically if your letter has been posted but gone missing, you can book yourself in here, rather than waiting for weeks.

[CosbehFox]

This post is at a bit of a political dig but the vaccination programme is an example of what happens when you let medical experts from within all the different parts of NHS trusts and subsequently GPS work together to achieve a goal. Not putting it out to a third party to manage

[Mike Oxlong]

The variants are the long term problem 

 

Evolving and emerging in countries that are under vaccinated regardless of what we do here and spreading through the global village unless very tight restrictions on movement remain in place and are effective 

[WigstonWanderer]

On 31/01/2021 at 13:59, ozleicester said:

Perth WA... No community transmission for 10 months.... today, Security guard from COVID Hotel has it.. SLAM..lockdown!!

 

Personally I’m pleased they are taking it seriously. Yes, it will probably turn out to be an overreaction, but better that than it getting out of control and require a 4 or 5 month lockdown to eliminate. We’ve had it pretty good so far with life carrying on pretty much as normal (the old normal), and worth paying this price to get things back to that state.

[ealingfox]

[Fox92]

12 hours ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Yeah some gift he received I think from British Airways. Thought it was a bit of daft move. But this daughter is pretty big at a PR firm.....

Call me cynical but I think his daughter was pushing him all along.

[Houdini Logic]

2 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Call me cynical but I think his daughter was pushing him all along.

I knew he couldn't have walked it all on his own!

[yorkie1999]

The only successful way i've read about of opening back up normally has just been demonstrated on the Isle of Man, eradicate the virus and then no travel in or out of the country apart from special circumstances. Whether the airline and holiday industries like it or not, this is really the only option for a couple of years. 

[SpacedX]

3 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

The only successful way i've read about of opening back up normally has just been demonstrated on the Isle of Man, eradicate the virus and then no travel in or out of the country apart from special circumstances. Whether the airline and holiday industries like it or not, this is really the only option for a couple of years. 

The TT is cancelled for the second year running which is a tremendous blow to the local economy. 

[filbertway]

7 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

The only successful way i've read about of opening back up normally has just been demonstrated on the Isle of Man, eradicate the virus and then no travel in or out of the country apart from special circumstances. Whether the airline and holiday industries like it or not, this is really the only option for a couple of years. 

Why only a couple of years?

[yorkie1999]

2 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Why only a couple of years?

Because i think that's how long it's going to take to protect all UK citizens.

[filbertway]

4 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

Because i think that's how long it's going to take to protect all UK citizens.

To get everybody vaccinated? Or are there other areas you'd include in protecting all UK citizens?

[yorkie1999]

1 minute ago, filbertway said:

To get everybody vaccinated? Or are there other areas you'd include in protecting all UK citizens?

Such as, bearing in mind the responsibility of protecting its own citizens is down to individual countries governments and the the fact that the vaccine is for the protection of the person who has received it.

[filbertway]

2 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

Such as, bearing in mind the responsibility of protecting its own citizens is down to individual countries governments and the the fact that the vaccine is for the protection of the person who has received it.

Sorry I've read that twice and not sure what you mean, I might be being dumb

 

[yorkie1999]

9 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Sorry I've read that twice and not sure what you mean, I might be being dumb

 

Sorry, what do you mean by other areas, I thought you meant other countries.

[filbertway]

16 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

Sorry, what do you mean by other areas, I thought you meant other countries.

Oh I meant other things that the UK needs to do to protect it's citizens.

 

Am I right in thinking that you'd want the majority of the world population vaccinated before opening our borders?

[goose2010]

1 hour ago, yorkie1999 said:

The only successful way i've read about of opening back up normally has just been demonstrated on the Isle of Man, eradicate the virus and then no travel in or out of the country apart from special circumstances. Whether the airline and holiday industries like it or not, this is really the only option for a couple of years. 

The Isle of Man has 85k residents. Its took them nearly a year to get this level. We have roughly 65mill people living in this country so yeah its not an option. 

 

The only option we have along with any countries with probably over 500k is the Vaccine. Unfortunately we just have to hold tight. 

[yorkie1999]

4 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

The Isle of Man has 85k residents. Its took them nearly a year to get this level. We have roughly 65mill people living in this country so yeah its not an option. 

 

The only option we have along with any countries with probably over 500k is the Vaccine. Unfortunately we just have to hold tight. 

You're quite correct, our only chance is the vaccine, but until everyone has had it, we should be baring travel in or out unless it's special circumstances and hoping that the vaccine will work on mutations, which at the moment it looks like it does.

[StanSP]

319,038 first doses yesterday 

3,156 second doses. 

 

9.79m total vaccinations done so far. 

[filbertway]

The massive downward trend of infections seems to be continuing which is great news.

[Finnaldo]

43 minutes ago, StanSP said:

319,038 first doses yesterday 

3,156 second doses. 

 

9.79m total vaccinations done so far. 

As seems to be a pattern, after a massive surge in vaccines a bit of a drop-off. 

 

But to have 319k as a drop off is an excellent feat in itself. Hopefully we see higher highs and lows as we carry on. 
 

 

[Guest Col city fan]

According to Hancock, 1 in 60 of the uk population were vaccinated just over this weekend!

Local people are doing amazing work

[The Guvnor]

There's no evidence to suggest the SA strain is any more dangerous than the other strains, but we will be doing door to door testing in those postcode areas where the SA strain infections have been identified.

Ummm

[Corky]

They've done the right thing in trying to stem the spread of it, to be fair. Too often they've left it too long so being proactive will hopefully reduce it.