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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

larmen said:
Wouldn’t a potential booster be a slightly altered vaccine rather than left overs? New icing, to pick up on the analogies posted earlier today?
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Same vaccine unless approval is received for a different version, which will need a new identifier, e.g. the current Pfizer is the BNT162b2 vaccine, so the upgrade version which covers Delta or Theta or whatever will have a different name BNT162b3 or BNT174b1 or something. All the vaccine currently in use has to be specifically approved. Likewise the AZ UK version and the SII India versions are identical, although they have different brand names.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I get it. I do. But my words of reassurance that it is how it is and that serious consequences are unlikely are not taken well by my wife. I can try and explain that the real risk is low, but to my wife such words are hollow given her concerns and worries. And that is in fact all I am expressing…worry.
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H, reassure your wife by pointing out the realities that you see. I.e.
The Pro golfers who have had Covid, now back playing. Same with footballers, cricketers, rugby etc.
All the thousands of youngsters not badly affected.All young men, dealt with as a cold. Not much more than that.
O.k,, so Ethan has pointed out about Long Covid. There is such a thing. But , I suggest, it is a rarity in the full scheme of things.
His age is on his side. He can wear a good quality mask. He has had the first dose. ( How buoyed were you when you had the first dose.It offers a good level of protection). He isn't as much at risk as nurses etc have been.

All in all, the odds are with him.!
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Look - he and others want to work in their sector as it is their life…their passion. They have jobs but no work - but it will return. They are going to have to take a risk with the delta variant - and most will. But we should not have reached this point where the economy and the nation’s finances demand everything is opened up when a variant is rampant and many are not properly protected from it. And we need not have abandoned all measures that reduce transmission in indoor settings.

If it were not for the delta variant then this issue and risk would most probably not be with us - but it is and we know where responsibility lies yet denial is rife and those impacted are told to get over it or go somewhere else. Yup that’s the compassion and understanding I might expect from some.

He will take a risk; he is desperate to work; we require many like him to take a risk with their health so that we can start to do the things we want to do, the things that economic recovery requires of us.

So please - just accept that there are many 100s of thousands of young people out there who are going to be exposing themselves to a health risk we do not yet understand, and because of that many others will be worried for them.
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They are choosing to take the risk = their responsibility. Off loading that responsibility onto others to ramp vaccine delivery and financial support is naive. The U.K. has one of the best vaccine deliveries in the world, and the financial package offered to date has been outstanding.

Others have changed career paths whilst your son has continued to suck the (finite) life blood out of the state. I wish him well, and I hope you’re respective worries are unfounded but I have little sympathy for someone who you have bailed out a number of times, and continue to want the state to do even more.
 
Hobbit said:
They are choosing to take the risk = their responsibility. Off loading that responsibility onto others to ramp vaccine delivery and financial support is naive. The U.K. has one of the best vaccine deliveries in the world, and the financial package offered to date has been outstanding.

Others have changed career paths whilst your son has continued to suck the (finite) life blood out of the state. I wish him well, and I hope you’re respective worries are unfounded but I have little sympathy for someone who you have bailed out a number of times, and continue to want the state to do even more.
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I agree. My son in law works in the music industry but had no work so he got himself a job delivering food for Sainsbury's. It unsociable hours but he does to support his family.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Look - he and others want to work in their sector as it is their life…their passion. They have jobs but no work - but it will return. They are going to have to take a risk with the delta variant - and most will. But we should not have reached this point where the economy and the nation’s finances demand everything is opened up when a variant is rampant and many are not properly protected from it. And we need not have abandoned all measures that reduce transmission in indoor settings.

If it were not for the delta variant then this issue and risk would most probably not be with us - but it is and we know where responsibility lies yet denial is rife and those impacted are told to get over it or go somewhere else. Yup that’s the compassion and understanding I might expect from some.

He will take a risk; he is desperate to work; we require many like him to take a risk with their health so that we can start to do the things we want to do, the things that economic recovery requires of us.

So please - just accept that there are many 100s of thousands of young people out there who are going to be exposing themselves to a health risk we do not yet understand, and because of that many others will be worried for them.
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So explain to us where responsibilty lies for the Delta variant please? And who is in denial?
 
I've spotted a problem with the government's plan to remove restrictions and trust common sense.......


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SocketRocket said:
I agree. My son in law works in the music industry but had no work so he got himself a job delivering food for Sainsbury's. It unsociable hours but he does to support his family.
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I worked all the way through the lot. I was made redundant just before this all kicked off. I then signed up with Morrisons home delivery and worked in store where there was no social distancing by the stupid customers, and out delivering, sometimes to people who had covid. I've had sod all from the government, and yes this grates on me big time, as we've had no recognition, monitary wise. Please don't say that I've been able to earn money all the time. Others could have done the same but just grabbed the dosh and took time off. I'm now at Tesco. Working in store, in a damn mask all shift, which is horrendous. So all this rubbish about the young being now exposed to a "varient" whilst not being vaccinated does not get any sympathy from me. suck it up. Wear a mask and wash your hands and take all the precautions I had to whilst working with no vaccination. I still have not had it!!!!!!
 
SocketRocket said:
I know someone who's a Doctor in A&E, he says you'd never believe what some people get stuck up their bottoms.
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There is the Gary Delany joke:
I went to A&E with a hoover nozzle up …
The doctor asked what happened? I was hoovering naked and thought, let’s put the nozzle up my …



For the cream egg story it’s really important to know if they were wrapped or not. And considering that putting 5 m&m one on each other is a record, has Guinness said something about the eggs yet?
 
SocketRocket said:
I know someone who's a Doctor in A&E, he says you'd never believe what some people get stuck up their bottoms.
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Whatever you do, don’t do a search on YouTube for (Mod Edit) Seriously! Armageddon!

mod note, not a GM word, what the hell were you searching for it for? Perv ?
 
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larmen said:
Just wondering why it took a mod 40 minutes to change it? Due diligence? Proper research? Has the mod deleted their cookies?

Btw, what was the word?
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Not telling
Our sweary wordy filter only has sweary words in it, obscure perversions require either someone to report it or for a mod to stumble across it and deal with it manually

Hence the time lag ?
 
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