Coronavirus

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Are you worried about contracting coronavirus?

  • Yes, I am absolutely terrified

    Votes: 12 15.6%

  • Yes, I am slightly concerned

    Votes: 35 45.5%

  • I am neither concerned or unconcerned

    Votes: 7 9.1%

  • No, I am slightly unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • No, I am totally unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • Bring back the old poll

    Votes: 3 3.9%

  • Charlotte Awbrey tits out doing the Macarena

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • I believe VoR is evil

    Votes: 11 14.3%
  • Total voters
    77
Ag said:
My real concern is that the numbers are down due to lockdown rather than vaccines. You really can't prove it either way unless you test it against total lockdown vs no lockdown. Both are terrible in their own way.
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There was a really promising study released from Scotland this morning showing the reduction in hospitalisations among people who had the vaccine at least 3-4 weeks ago.
 
Pingu said:
There was a really promising study released from Scotland this morning showing the reduction in hospitalisations among people who had the vaccine at least 3-4 weeks ago.
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LIKE, but it's such a short test period.

The full picture won't be known for years, even decades.
 
I absolutely respect the reasoning of people who want to wait for full vaccination/more safety/zero transmission before going anywhere public. And I won't put pressure on them to do anything different.

But I've already set up my tent outside the local pub. See you in April!
 
I mean, I definitely make a distinction between sitting outside the pub and sitting inside or going to a crowded club or music venue.

Easy enough to socialise mainly outdoors during the summer anyway.
 
Ag said:
Did Spanish Flu just become FLU?
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At a basic level, the really bad strain was so deadly that it was outcompeted by less lethal versions which could spread more easily and died out.
 
Pingu said:
There was a really promising study released from Scotland this morning showing the reduction in hospitalisations among people who had the vaccine at least 3-4 weeks ago.
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See also Israel, who are now easing restrictions because of the success of the Pfizer vaccine.
 
So glad the tiers are dead at least.

I honestly cannot wait to be inside a packed pub or club again... and gigs! Fingers crossed 12 June is a go.
 
That looks good - 'staycations' allowed from April probably.

it really irritates me they call them 'staycations'. That word is supposed to be for staying at home, not holidaying in the UK.
 
Lucille said:
Nightclubs on the 21st of June is much earlier than expected and VERY EXCITING if it happens.
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This was by far the most exciting thing for me... and I'm 38 :D What the fuck? I'm DESPERATE to go to a sweaty, packed night club oddly.

But the first few weeks is very slow progress, then it ramps up considerably quite quickly... i think those changes will feel quite fast - but I also think the figures will drop extremely fast around May time as well (which is what they must be projecting). They dropped fast last year and stayed low all summer, and that was even without a vaccine.
 
A lovely threshold reached today - West Devon became the first British region in months to fall below the >10 positive rate. They have a rate of 7 and have turned a lovely shade of silver on the BBC’s map

After going from red to orange last week, Liverpool regions have already gone yellow. The last 2 weeks have seen a heck of a change

it’s still curious though that 10k people per day are testing positive. The rate of decline is slowing.
 
cwej said:
This was by far the most exciting thing for me... and I'm 38 :D What the fuck? I'm DESPERATE to go to a sweaty, packed night club oddly.

But the first few weeks is very slow progress, then it ramps up considerably quite quickly... i think those changes will feel quite fast - but I also think the figures will drop extremely fast around May time as well (which is what they must be projecting). They dropped fast last year and stayed low all summer, and that was even without a vaccine.
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Same age and would love nothing more! But I am one of those who refuses to grow up.
 
funky said:
A lovely threshold reached today - West Devon became the first British region in months to fall below the >10 positive rate. They have a rate of 7 and have turned a lovely shade of silver on the BBC’s map

After going from red to orange last week, Liverpool regions have already gone yellow. The last 2 weeks have seen a heck of a change

it’s still curious though that 10k people per day are testing positive. The rate of decline is slowing.
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Yes but 3000 of those are asymptomatic completely; a further 6500 or so of them are not hospitalised, experience mild flu-like symptoms. 500 new hospitalisations is too many still, but the majority of the people who would have been hospitalised before have now been partially vaccinated at least, so that number should theoretically be a lot lower going forward too.

The rate of decline is slowing because we've not changed anything in the last 6 weeks - there's nothing to slow it down further unless they just locked everyone in their homes for a few weeks.
 
Congrats British girls. I don't know when France will come out of its semi-coma. I guess in summer because God forbid French people are not allowed to go on holiday.
 
Loufoque said:
Congrats British girls. I don't know when France will come out of its semi-coma. I guess in summer because God forbid French people are not allowed to go on holiday.
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Miss Macron said we’ll all be vaccinated by the end of August. I can’t see that happening with the current rollout rate. The whole EU vaccination strategy has been quite the fiasco so far.
 
Dark Carnival said:
Miss Macron said we’ll all be vaccinated by the end of August. I can’t see that happening with the current rollout rate. The whole EU vaccination strategy has been quite the fiasco so far.
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Babes, at the current rate the whole population will be vaccinated in 2024. I know this country makes an art of taking its sweet ass time, but really... no... next. As soon as I can jump on the next train back to the UK, I'm going to be very Silicone, saline, AstroZeneca... inject me
 
Maybe I'm being pessimistic but the rate of UK vaccinations seems to have declined across the last few days, and it's not being offset by a dramatic increase in second doses. Sunday had the lowest number of vaccinations since their dashboards started on 11 January; I hope this is just a blip rather than an indication of any supply problems.
 
David 5000 said:
Maybe I'm being pessimistic but the rate of UK vaccinations seems to have declined across the last few days, and it's not being offset by a dramatic increase in second doses. Sunday had the lowest number of vaccinations since their dashboards started on 11 January; I hope this is just a blip rather than an indication of any supply problems.
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Yeah i'd noticed that as well.

I do wonder if it's "vaccine fatigue" with GPs/etc slowing down their urgency to get people done. Certainly batch-jobs such as carehomes will have all been done now too.
 
Lucille said:
Serbia is doing very well if you fancy a trip to LOVELY BELGRADE.
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I was reading about the geopolitics of vaccinations, Serbia flexing that it is playing the west off against the east to get doses. Fair play.
 
Are that many people refusing it? I know a handful of nutjobs but most people are happy to be stabbed. I'd happily accept a microchip from Bill himself just to have my life back at this stage.
 
I keep seeing regional news reports about low uptakes on the vaccine in some areas, but I don’t know if they’re just interviewing select surgeries and blowing it out of proportion.
 
There was some talk about bottling bottle necks at some point. Mebs that?
 
Scotland to aim for reopening most of the economy (and return to a levels system) by the end of April.
 
 
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