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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

DanFST said:
Going to be Interesting come the 22nd.

Feeling I get from a lot of young people is as soon as their family are fully vaccinated, they will ignore any further lockdown.

Not sure how I'll react, fingers crossed for a decent roadmap.
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With most young people potentially having to wait until August/September etc for the jab when they have it most of the restrictions will be lifted

need_my_wedge said:
News reporting this morning that lockdown possibly staying in place until all adults have been vaccinated........:censored:
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It’s one person from Public England Health saying that some restrictions will be in place until all adults will be vaccinated- I suspect if there are it will be the very smallest of restrictions

I don’t what is going on at the moment but lockdown is working , the vaccine is working and we are moving forwards

But there appears to be only the desire to concentrate on the negative and doom and gloom from the Media and it’s not doing people any good

The anger and peoples mental health will start to get worse if they don’t start being more positive in the media,

The roadmap they announce is going to be key , it will have to concentrate on the positives and get us moving againb
 
Slime said:
I totally agree, but I don't think the media actually give a toss!
In fact, it'll give them plenty of headlines to write and twist to fit into their particular agendas.
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They make money by fabrication and weaving webs of deceit... I have started to turn stuff off , walk away , stop eating anything that doesn’t meet my pleasure scale or is winding me up .... I think it is good for my health :)
 
harpo_72 said:
They make money by fabrication and weaving webs of deceit... I have started to turn stuff off , walk away , stop eating anything that doesn’t meet my pleasure scale or is winding me up .... I think it is good for my health :)
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Exactly.
You're not forced to listen to or watch the news, just turn it off.
If anything important happens, you'll soon find out.
 
pauldj42 said:
Or the reader/listener has misunderstood/got confused and not bothered to check what has actually been printed/stated and fired from the hip.:unsure:
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That is true this morning, was just posting what I heard, didn't look it up. Ironically, had a discussion with Mrs wedge just yesterday on not believing everything you read or hear..... my bad. Been a very long week at work and not thinking straight early doors. ?
 
An IT system for a crucial element of our fight to contain the virus crashes as soon as it goes live...and it‘s not as if we haven’t known for quite some time that such a system would very likely be required. I have sympathy for the supplier as I suspect that they were not given much time to develop and load test. I have been close to building large IT systems for the government so have a good idea how this stuff happens - and it’s usually down to delays in giving the supplier the go ahead to start building against a fixed delivery date as the requirements seem pretty understood.

Painful for the supplier and the pressure to fix it and increase capacity - if that’s the problem - will be huge...especially as quarantine starts Monday...a busy working weekend for many. Hopefully something simple. Sounds like it might be.
 
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need_my_wedge said:
That is true this morning, was just posting what I heard, didn't look it up. Ironically, had a discussion with Mrs wedge just yesterday on not believing everything you read or hear..... my bad. Been a very long week at work and not thinking straight early doors. ?
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We all do it mate, (y)
 
bobmac said:
Exactly.
You're not forced to listen to or watch the news, just turn it off.
If anything important happens, you'll soon find out.
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Does upset the missus though ? So now I just play call of duty mobile and get rid of my old man grumpiness on AI bots
 
Weird one golf friends

Just been invited for My vaccine by my Dr by txt (same contact details he always uses and the booking site took no personal details etc so not a scam)

No idea why I'm getting it

I'm 33 and yes a key worker but wife hasn't been offered

Unless work have told all our GPs of our key work status and they have been given permission
 
DanFST said:
Going to be Interesting come the 22nd.

Feeling I get from a lot of young people is as soon as their family are fully vaccinated, they will ignore any further lockdown.

Not sure how I'll react, fingers crossed for a decent roadmap.
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If Pubs, restaurants, cafes, gigs etc etc are closed what will they be doing other than having a party around their mates. If they do this they're just going to get reported, busted, fined or create complete anarchy on the streets. Whatever they did it would not be as simple as saying 'up yours'
 
Vaccine roll out seems quicker than calculated in some areas, around here South Glo’s/Bristol/N Somerset all over 65s in our roll up group have had jab 1 and now I know of 4 people aged 63, 63, 62 and 60 all going in next week - none of those jabbed so far have underlying health issues.
 
D-S said:
Vaccine roll out seems quicker than calculated in some areas, around here South Glo’s/Bristol/N Somerset all over 65s in our roll up group have had jab 1 and now I know of 4 people aged 63, 63, 62 and 60 all going in next week - none of those jabbed so far have underlying health issues.
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It seems to be dependent on organisation within an area and then doses available. Northumberland was storming ahead but then doses were diverted to other regions for a spell who were lagging behind. That obviously slowed us down. They are doing the over 70's here now but not beneath that age so far. The area you mention has been well orgnanised and have been ahead of the vaccine game from the beginning from memory. Good on them.
 
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