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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

The doom merchants at SAGE are at it again, I guess they're concerned that they are not going to be relevant soon so they are already getting the stories ready.

"Studies, released yesterday by Sage, suggests there will be 750 deaths a day in England by November, with 20,000 people in hospital fighting the virus."

"While both the Pfizer and Oxford vaccines cut transmission by 60 per cent, the research said it might be insufficient to fight the morr agressive Covid mutations."

"Professor Neil Ferguson’s team at Imperial College London have said the R-rate is likely to climb to four, with an additional 130,800 fatalities between now and June next year."

It's nice for them, pay cheques regardless of any pandemic and possibly more likely to get a rise with this sort of thing. Do they honestly think that the public are going to take further lockdowns. We have vaccines, hopefully they continue to work however if they don't then we all just have to learn to get on with it as best we can.
 
GuyInLyon said:
Sorry. I didn't understand your response the first time and still don't.
"Re what guy (y)"?
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GuyInLyon said:
Sorry. I didn't understand your response the first time and still don't.
"Re what guy (y)"?
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Sorry GuyInLyon, you commented “what would be the point of that”. Do you mean what would be the point of opening the pubs without serving alcohol.
“Re what guy” I wasn’t sure what you meant by your post.

That aside how is France coping at the moment. I was supposed to be travelling to Normandy in April which was put back from last Sept. April’s trip has been cancelled and pushed back to September.
 
Tashyboy said:
Steve coming from a sleepy hamlet in the midlands, how bad is it in London village. I was surprised how slow the rollout is. We keep hearing about how London in general is favoured but the roll out seems slow. Why’s that.
Gotta go having me toenails painted ?
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My part of the 'village' is probably as quiet as your hamlet... Local hospital has been over-run with cases as is the case with many of the adjacent hospitals also... Not sure why the roll-out of the jab is lagging behind and I am not convinced the excuse of relative low numbers of elderly cuts it... As I noted earlier... Family in their 60's have had jabs living where there's been relatively low cases yet I have family living on the other side of the village, where there has been high levels of cases, well into their 70's who've yet to have contact regarding being jabbed... Hopefully any anomalies will level out sooner rather than later... Certainly no favouritism for Londoners from 'management' ;):(...
 
road2ruin said:
The doom merchants at SAGE are at it again, I guess they're concerned that they are not going to be relevant soon so they are already getting the stories ready.

"Studies, released yesterday by Sage, suggests there will be 750 deaths a day in England by November, with 20,000 people in hospital fighting the virus."

"While both the Pfizer and Oxford vaccines cut transmission by 60 per cent, the research said it might be insufficient to fight the morr agressive Covid mutations."

"Professor Neil Ferguson’s team at Imperial College London have said the R-rate is likely to climb to four, with an additional 130,800 fatalities between now and June next year."

It's nice for them, pay cheques regardless of any pandemic and possibly more likely to get a rise with this sort of thing. Do they honestly think that the public are going to take further lockdowns. We have vaccines, hopefully they continue to work however if they don't then we all just have to learn to get on with it as best we can.
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SAGE are supposed to be, as you put it, 'doom merchants' and issue warnings that encourage change. As Chris Whitty put it in a speech a year ago, the best position is for stuff to be done and then people to say 'Told you so, it was an over-reaction' when in fact the measures just succeeded by a whisker.
 
Ethan said:
SAGE are supposed to be, as you put it, 'doom merchants' and issue warnings that encourage change. As Chris Whitty put it in a speech a year ago, the best position is for stuff to be done and then people to say 'Told you so, it was an over-reaction' when in fact the measures just succeeded by a whisker.
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I saw the clip the other day where My Whitty was being filmed and called a liar Re the pandemic. The person calling Whitty a liar was 15 yrs old. My lad was telling me he heard the lads mother on the radio saying “her son was a bad boy and he has had his PS4 taken off him, but she don’t think it’s that serious to ground him” . It was pointed out to her that we are in lockdown and we should all be grounded anyway.
 
MegaSteve said:
Can't speak for elsewhere but I feel much of the 'issues', here in London Village, are led by the thousands taking to the tube [on a daily basis] clad in hi-vis on their way to sites with no future [office/retail]... Yet, despite that, the focus seems to be with the relatively low numbers, in the hundreds, of covidiots partying...
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Thank dog someone’s still paying Tax, contributing to the system eh?
 
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Tashyboy said:
Steve coming from a sleepy hamlet in the midlands, how bad is it in London village. I was surprised how slow the rollout is. We keep hearing about how London in general is favoured but the roll out seems slow. Why’s that.
Gotta go having me toenails painted ?
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Maybe London is slower due to the diverse population. I read that take up of the vaccine amongst the BAME community is something like 15% which shocked me. If correct then as London has a significant BAME population it maybe partly explains it.
 
Anyone in authority has to give the worst case scenario as whenever the public inquiry comes, they don't want to be hit with the "why didn't you warn us" hammer.
 
I don’t know if it is a national booking base but these are up and running in the Notts area. I have used them to book appointments for both of our parents. Once registered I checked every day and as soon as bookings became available for my parents in booked them in. 9 days later there NHS letter came to book. Similar with in laws. We booked them in and five days later there letter came. Ironically they were over 70,s and it kicked off a bit as they had not got anywhere near finishing the over 80’s so they cancelled over 70,s to finish off most of over 80,s but honoured the bookings that had already been made. It seems that as soon as appointments are available. They are on here first.

Check it out.
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