Non - Pandemic

Tronathan82 said:
How the beach 'super-spreader' myth may have hampered UK Covid reaction | World news | The Guardian

Apparently the madness last summer didn't cause any outbreaks here...
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“We have known for some time that only about 10% of transmission events are linked to outdoor activities,” said Dr Müge Çevik, a lecturer in infectious diseases and medical virology at the University of St Andrews.

“Even those events generally involve either prolonged close contact or a mixture of indoor and outdoor time. We had a lot of existing knowledge even when the pandemic began about respiratory viruses and how they transmit in general, and everything directs us to the conditions in people’s homes and workplaces.”

Open the football stadiums!!!!
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...and athletics tracks. Been going on too long.

Ridiculous that when you go out for a run in a howling gale and folk are turning their backs, one held his nose yesterday like he was going underwater. I mean there's being sensible (outdoor markets, busy bus queues etc..) but there's utter paranoia.

What they don't know is that if I have to pass close I don't even breathe out! Some seem to think i'm spreading 'super germs' like Gazza's spitting image doll :slap:
 
northstandmark said:
“We have known for some time that only about 10% of transmission events are linked to outdoor activities,” said Dr Müge Çevik, a lecturer in infectious diseases and medical virology at the University of St Andrews.

“Even those events generally involve either prolonged close contact or a mixture of indoor and outdoor time. We had a lot of existing knowledge even when the pandemic began about respiratory viruses and how they transmit in general, and everything directs us to the conditions in people’s homes and workplaces.”

Open the football stadiums!!!!
:)
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Unfortunately football probably falls into the category of events that involve a mixture of close contact, indoor and outdoor time.
 
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Got my first PfizerBioNTech vaccination yesterday, as a carer of a clinically vulnerable person. Wife had her Oxford Astra Zeneca shot on Tuesday. All done quickly and professionally. It's rolling out really quickly now so hats off to NHS staff and all those involved in making it work. Hoping that we get good news next week from Boris though I think it's certain to follow the cautious approach he's already mentioned.
 
Bitzer said:
We'd better brace ourselves because it's going to happen again this summer. With the amount of people apparently heading to the south west for their holidays this year i reckon Cornwall might just sink into the sea.
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I reckon Brian's currently building a series of roadblocks
 
So Boris needs to keep in the slow to middle lane, with foot near break peddle and look for any dangers ahead.

Not going from slow lane to the outer fast lane and then have to pullover quickly into the slow lane and come to a sudden stop, like has happened in the past. Unfortunately this had led to a lot of casualties and fatalities.
 
billythekid said:
So Boris needs to keep in the slow to middle lane, with foot near break peddle and look for any dangers ahead.

Not going from slow lane to the outer fast lane and then have to pullover quickly into the slow lane and come to a sudden stop, like has happened in the past. Unfortunately this had led to a lot of casualties and fatalities.
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Middle Lane hogging is dangerous driving, stick to slow lane unless overtaking.

Sticking in the slow lane makes the journey longer, hopefully the services will be allowed to be open.
 
Had another one of these government letters this morning re shielding etc.

Last month was advised to shield except for exercise, appointments until 21st February.

Today’s letter has extended that until 31st March.

Will receive an update mid March.

So maybe not all hunky dory as the media make out.
 
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JIMNNINA said:
Middle Lane hogging is dangerous driving, stick to slow lane unless overtaking.

Sticking in the slow lane makes the journey longer, hopefully the services will be allowed to be open.
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He has been accused of ‘driving without due and attention/careless‘ by some people.
 
Last two paras worth noting.

BBC

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that government figures - due to be published soon - will show the jabs have cut UK transmissions and infections by two thirds.

Prof Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the first English lockdown, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK could be "a very different country" by the end of May.

He added: "We will still have rules in place but… I think society will be a lot more normal."

Prof Ferguson said two key bits of data - the infection rate and the effectiveness of vaccines - were "looking promising", but it would take "quite a long time" to assess the situation fully.

Prof Adam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said it was still not clear what effect injections were having on overall coronavirus transmission.

Most people immunised so far were "elderly", he said, and "not mixing that much within the population".
 
Couple of stories from Sky.

Two Florida women dressed as 'grannies' to get COVID vaccine, officials say

Two women disguised themselves as "grannies" to get second doses of a coronavirus vaccine, according to US media reports.

"So yesterday, we realised a couple of young ladies came dressed up as grannies to get vaccinated for the second time," ABC News quoted Dr Raul Pino, the director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, as saying during a press briefing.

"So I don't know how they escaped the first time."

According to the sheriff's office, the women were 44 and 34, CNN reported.

Both women had valid vaccine cards from their first shot, Dr Pino said.

They were denied their second shot due to issues with their ID cards.

Health officials do not know how the women were able to get their first vaccine doses and whether they had dressed up then as well.


https://twitter.com/x/status/1362748446491443202
 
billythekid said:
So Boris needs to keep in the slow to middle lane, with foot near break peddle and look for any dangers ahead.

Not going from slow lane to the outer fast lane and then have to pullover quickly into the slow lane and come to a sudden stop, like has happened in the past. Unfortunately this had led to a lot of casualties and fatalities.
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For me he needs to be in the middle lane getting ready to move into the fast lane:)
 
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