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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
Not too worried about this new strain. The people behind the vaccines have already said that if a mutation affects the effectiveness of the vaccine, it’s a matter of days to adapt it (subject to the regulators being OK with it).

Also the new strain was announced by MATT HANCOCK... don’t we think that it might have been bigger worldwide news if it was actually going to be a problem?
 
Pingu said:
Not too worried about this new strain. The people behind the vaccines have already said that if a mutation affects the effectiveness of the vaccine, it’s a matter of days to adapt it (subject to the regulators being OK with it).

Also the new strain was announced by MATT HANCOCK... don’t we think that it might have been bigger worldwide news if it was actually going to be a problem?
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The scientist on Channel 4 news this evening seemed a bit bemused about how Hancock chose to reveal this new information.
 
It's clearly much harder to get taken out of Tier 3 than it is to get put in it. Luton has almost double the rate that we do in Central Manchester and more than three times the rate that they have in Trafford, but in Tier 2 it stays
 
We had our first positive covid case at school this week so half the staff and half the students are now self isolating until 23rd Dec!
 
FetchFugly said:
The scientist on Channel 4 news this evening seemed a bit bemused about how Hancock chose to reveal this new information.
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It's all a bit "we've approved it first because we have the best scientists"

Thanks to the Tory PR department we're a bit of a MOCKERY lately aren't we
 
Irresponsible as hell of them to have stirred up fear with that. Pretty sure the only reason was to have a faster spreading strain as an excuse for London.
 
So they vaccinated 130k in the first week. If that pace continues it will take 512 weeks to vaccinate the entire population, which equates to about a decade.
 
oooh got my screening appointment for the Janssen vaccine trial on Tuesday and I might get the first jab there and then. 50% chance of a placebo though.
 
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So they vaccinated 130k in the first week. If that pace continues it will take 512 weeks to vaccinate the entire population, which equates to about a decade.
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Yes, but this is with the vaccine that has to be stored at something like minus 85C.

Once the Oxford vaccine gets approval, we should see vaccination rates improve significantly.

I think most over 65s and others in high risk categories should be vaccinated by April/May.
 
I don't know what I was expecting but to be honest I was surprised they'd managed to do 130k so quickly!
 
lol, same

Low expectations and poor mental arithmetic
I assume it'll be quicker and easier when they're herding a rapidly moving queue through a vaccination centre / health centre / Boots, than at the moment when they're trying to get a steady arm from Doris, 95, in a care home...
 
Wasn't it to get to herd immunity? After the elderly and frontline workers are vaccinated
 
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Is the intention even to vaccinate everyone? I didn't think it was
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Depends on how effective the vaccine is long term. If it is a just the two doses and that is it, then yeah, they'll vaccinate the whole vaccinatable (is that a word) population.

But if it is an annual thing, then it will be treated much the same as the flu jab and probably only those at risk will get it.
 
I think that's the hope

"Only vaccinate the vulnerable for protection" was like a plan B I think, if herd immunity / sterilising immunity was looking unlikely
 
WeihnachZenGiraffe said:
Depends on how effective the vaccine is long term. If it is a just the two doses and that is it, then yeah, they'll vaccinate the whole vaccinatable (is that a word) population.

But if it is an annual thing, then it will be treated much the same as the flu jab and probably only those at risk will get it.
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Everyone in the US is encouraged to get the flu vaccine each year, and it is very easy to get (for those with health insurance). Why is it not the same there?
 
RJN said:
Everyone in the US is encouraged to get the flu vaccine each year, and it is very easy to get (for those with health insurance). Why is it not the same there?
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I assume it is just cost effectiveness. The benefit to a healthy adult isn't worth the cost here, where there is no profit to be made. In the US, I imagine that because people profit whenever the vaccine is administered, then that's why there is such a big push.
 
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The flu jab is usually only free for over-65s but they've extended that to over-50s this year. Anyone else can get it if they pay for it. (only £13.99 at Boots I see!)
 
My local grocery store "pays" me to get a flu shot each year (gives me a $10 gift card). But then people who don't have insurance have to pay $40 that they likely can't afford (and they are more likely to be vulnerable). What a great system!
 
WeihnachZenGiraffe said:
Depends on how effective the vaccine is long term. If it is a just the two doses and that is it, then yeah, they'll vaccinate the whole vaccinatable (is that a word) population.

But if it is an annual thing, then it will be treated much the same as the flu jab and probably only those at risk will get it.
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I assume they'll try and vaccinate everyone once to reduce the amount of the virus circulating in the population. No way they'll fund annual jabs for everyone, though.
 
I used to get free flu jabs at work. Can’t even say if they were effective or not because I haven’t had one in about 4 years and it’s not made any difference.
 
we've moved up a level so malls closed as of tomorrow, other businesses from the 25th. I can live with that!
 
The vaccination centre for the north of Bristol is on the same complex as the health centre I work at today and tomorrow. Queues of pensioners stood out in the rain waiting today. And now they have run out.
 
Given how it's already gone exponential again, the post-Christmas hospital scenes are going to be CARNAGE. I'd be thinking wave 1 Italy level carnage.
 
The lolly and the ivy said:
The vaccination centre for the north of Bristol is on the same complex as the health centre I work at today and tomorrow. Queues of pensioners stood out in the rain waiting today. And now they have run out.
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The real fun will be for the booster. What if they run out? How are they going to manage both new first time patients together with hordes of returning ones?
 
Cloud said:
Given how it's already gone exponential again, the post-Christmas hospital scenes are going to be CARNAGE. I'd be thinking wave 1 Italy level carnage.
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when our PM introduced the new restrictions last night she did mention that January-February might be the toughest yet. yikes
 
I think everyone needs to prepare themselves for a very tough January and February. Let’s all just be there for each other.
 
MARY said:
I think everyone needs to prepare themselves for a very tough January and February. Let’s all just be there for each other.
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This has been my worry for a while; it'll still be cold and dark, and we won't have an impending Christmas break (of some form) to look forward to. Even worse if it turns out that Christmas is an anticlimax that we don't get much out of.
 
My worry here is that people will be complacent. We're still tier 3 and the case rate has tumbled over the last few weeks (120 per 100,000 now). However, of the 16 local areas we're bundled in with in the PHE data, we're the only area where it is still falling. The others (all bar two of which are tier 2) are rising. Yet still I see people demanding that Bristol be downgraded to tier 2 or even 1 (!) on social media.

But to be honest, I don't think anything that was said yesterday would have made the slightest difference to anyone except the smallest minority of people's plans anyway.

I will see my mum over Christmas, and I will go in her flat. But I won't see anyone else other than a doorstep visit to my sister with presents for the kids.
 
It's never ending because they keep botching it! If they'd just let the super-rich whine and tell them that their remaining eleventeen billion would just have to do, we'd have locked down for another 2-3 weeks at the beginning and been in a much better place. But no, we had to get the serfs grafting again. Look at it. Britain is a pair of shitted pants left on a park bench next to a primary school. Everything about it is not just revolting but deeply worrying.
 
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