Coronavirus Thread

[BenTheFox]

I fully acknowledge the damage of coronavirus restrictions both in terms of the economy and people's wellbeing, but we have a clear plan to loosen them and are very close to doing so. In a week's time you'll be able to see friends in your garden and in as little as three weeks time hospitality and non-essential retail will start to open up. Protesting against restrictions at this point is just madness. 

[Soup]

13 hours ago, Legend_in_blue said:

It'll all come out in the wash sooner rather than later.

 

For instance, we've had the ONS admit to ignoring manufacturing instructions on how to report PCR positives this week.  One target gene used instead of the recommended two or three.  This, coupled with running cycles at over 30 when measuring for it, and hey presto, an increase in cases when the current lockdown began.

 

There's no getting away from the poor handling of the whole saga and the enquiry into this will go on for years.

TBH this is more of a concern to me than a protest. Why would they do this? I'm guessing to drive policy.

[Shane]

2 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

I fully acknowledge the damage of coronavirus restrictions both in terms of the economy and people's wellbeing, but we have a clear plan to loosen them and are very close to doing so. In a week's time you'll be able to see friends in your garden and in as little as three weeks time hospitality and non-essential retail will start to open up. Protesting against restrictions at this point is just madness. 

Agreed. However it wasn’t just anti lockdown protests, people were also protesting against the new bill govt are trying to pass through.

Anti lockdown protests have been going on pretty much every week, but there’s never been thousands of people like there was yesterday, so i’m guessing most people were there because of the new protest bill, not lockdown restrictions.

Edited 21 March 2021 by Shane

[yorkie1999]

14 hours ago, Tuna said:

Yeah like I said bellends:

 

 

What if all those people had been vaccinated

[Izzy]

21 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

What if all those people had been vaccinated

Then they’d be vaccinated bellends

[UpTheLeagueFox]

Wow. Just wow.

 

 

[Finnaldo]

44 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

Wow. Just wow.

 

 

Incredible effort really. Goes to show what our NHS can do with the funding, support and resources. And quite how skilled our army is at humanitarian logistics. 
 

We should be beginning to see regular six figure second dose numbers daily as well, should set us in good stead for reopening even if first doses trail off for a bit as has been predicted. 

[Guest Col city fan]

Such a shame all the cvnty protesters can’t do something useful and volunteer to give vaccines. 
That’d be something actually worth doing

[Soup]

6 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Such a shame all the cvnty protesters can’t do something useful and volunteer to give vaccines. 
That’d be something actually worth doing

Are you volunteering?

[Corky]

The general public surely aren't allowed to as we'd all be able to do our own at home?

[Leicester_Loyal]

27.3 million people received their first dose of vaccination, 2.2 million received their second dose, 33 deaths today (lowest number since the start of October), 6.1k patients in hospital as of 3 days ago, 830 on ventilators as of 2 days ago, testing around 1.4-1.5m people everyday, with only 4-6k positive cases everyday, we're surely over the hill now? It's hard to see them extending the roadmap, I really don't think the general public would accept it quietly, we've seen yesterday that the number of people starting to want this to come to an end is growing on a daily basis.

 

Hopefully the vaccine numbers next week are huge again, one last final push before they start to dwindle down, no reason we can't hit 30m + by next Friday.

[DennisNedry]

18 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

27.3 million people received their first dose of vaccination, 2.2 million received their second dose, 33 deaths today (lowest number since the start of October), 6.1k patients in hospital as of 3 days ago, 830 on ventilators as of 2 days ago, testing around 1.4-1.5m people everyday, with only 4-6k positive cases everyday, we're surely over the hill now? It's hard to see them extending the roadmap, I really don't think the general public would accept it quietly, we've seen yesterday that the number of people starting to want this to come to an end is growing on a daily basis.

 

Hopefully the vaccine numbers next week are huge again, one last final push before they start to dwindle down, no reason we can't hit 30m + by next Friday.

 

For me, we're reaching a tipping point where continuing lockdown is doing more damage than lifting it would cause. We're not quite there yet, but we're getting very close. The data is only going to look better and better as the huge amount of 50+ year olds currently being vaccinated build up their protection and the most vulnerable get the extra protection of their second doses. We're nearly there.

[Otis]

1 hour ago, Col city fan said:

Such a shame all the cvnty protesters can’t do something useful and volunteer to give vaccines. 
That’d be something actually worth doing

Don't think it works like that.

[Soup]

.Bristol kicking off. Not good

 

Appears it's a 'kill the bill' demo and not an anti lockdown protest. Such a shame as yesterday's events on the whole were in good spirits. This is ugly now with some shocking scenes. This will do nothing for the cause the protesters are protesting about. 

Edited 21 March 2021 by Soup

[CosbehFox]

Guardian calculated that EU stop the vaccines coming into the country. It would delay our programme by two months but barely assist the EU countries. 
 

Tomorrow the Govt are attempting to push through Coronavirus Act until October 

[Legend_in_blue]

4 hours ago, DennisNedry said:

 

For me, we're reaching a tipping point where continuing lockdown is doing more damage than lifting it would cause. We're not quite there yet, but we're getting very close. The data is only going to look better and better as the huge amount of 50+ year olds currently being vaccinated build up their protection and the most vulnerable get the extra protection of their second doses. We're nearly there.

 

Not if Sage and PHE have anything to say about it...

 

BBC News - Covid: Masks and social distancing 'could last years' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56475807

 

[AllGoneTitsSchlupp]

5 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Guardian calculated that EU stop the vaccines coming into the country. It would delay our programme by two months but barely assist the EU countries. 
 

Tomorrow the Govt are attempting to push through Coronavirus Act until October 

the turd is about to hit the fan

[Matt_Lcfc]

I really don’t understand the argument behind distributing vaccines out to other developed countries. We have had greater success because we could approve AstraZeneca and Pfizer via an independent regulator, the EU are punishing us for our own successes. I used to be strongly remain but it is evident that the EU is a flawed institution.

[twister]

Bristol thugs kicking off

 

disgusting voilence

[bovril]

9 minutes ago, Matt_Lcfc said:

I really don’t understand the argument behind distributing vaccines out to other developed countries. We have had greater success because we could approve AstraZeneca and Pfizer via an independent regulator, the EU are punishing us for our own successes. I used to be strongly remain but it is evident that the EU is a flawed institution.

As far as I understand we have had greater success because of the contract we signed with AZ. EU were naive, if anything. 

[Soup]

5 minutes ago, twister said:

Bristol thugs kicking off

 

disgusting voilence

I'm not excusing this at all but it appears  it's not a lockdown protest. 

[twister]

1 minute ago, Soup said:

I'm not excusing this at all but it appears  it's not a lockdown protest. 

Its bored ****ing kids from middle class backgrounds bored at uni kicking off, mostly far left types inspired by portlands antifa types

 

thats the truth so yes I agree.

 

Portland was thug central during the summer I hope we dont see the same here. antifa have taken over the downtown area of that town now at night.

[Matt_Lcfc]

7 minutes ago, bovril said:

As far as I understand we have had greater success because of the contract we signed with AZ. EU were naive, if anything. 

But that contract was signed because we could do the trials through an independent regulator. The problem with the EU is that it has grown to be too large and countries have different interests / objectives - this means that  it is a lengthy task to sign vaccines off and make any important decision.

 

I think that we have done well logistically too coordinating and opening big vaccine centres is much harder than it appears. Ultimately, our vaccination programme has been incredibly successful and I sincerely hope that this doesn’t change the roadmap.

Edited 21 March 2021 by Matt_Lcfc

[StanSP]

4 minutes ago, twister said:

Its bored ****ing kids from middle class backgrounds bored at uni kicking off, mostly far left types inspired by portlands antifa types

 

How do you know this, by the way?

[Soup]

4 minutes ago, twister said:

Its bored ****ing kids from middle class backgrounds bored at uni kicking off, mostly far left types inspired by portlands antifa types

 

thats the truth so yes I agree.

 

Portland was thug central during the summer I hope we dont see the same here. antifa have taken over the downtown area of that town now at night.

Yeah this is what I'm seeing. So different from the scenes yesterday and unfortunately they will.be lumped together