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Parkins left foot said:
Suspect that if we end up with more than we need (and we have pre ordered enough to cover everyone plus extras) then would hope we put any excess across to the the develpment aid budget we pay out & get stuff into the poorer nations of the world
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We already have committed to that I think and have made huge commitments to the covax scheme.
 
No Nation, right now will openly say we have 10 millions doses and we will hand over 1m to other countries. People who are currently under restrictions will lose their shit and it would kick off.

Obviously we could do it by simply saying we are increasing foreign aid to assist countries in purchasing vaccines and setting up centres but that would probably be met with enough people moaning about helping others.

Simply put, I wouldn't want to be in charge of sorting this out and hopefully when Countries reach the point they feel they can release folk back into society they will be more inclined to help other Countries do the same.
 
Kenny said:
Obviously we could do it by simply saying we are increasing foreign aid to assist countries in purchasing vaccines and setting up centres but that would probably be met with enough people moaning about helping others.
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That’s pretty much what the covax scheme is.
 
Very impressive and with more centres opening each week, if supply allows that number will be beaten by some distance soon.
 
If Boris wants to keep to his deadline then he has 14 days to vaccinate me (though seriously hope that it's a medical professional who does it rather than him)
 
AndyWolves said:
Over 9m in the UK have now had their first dose.
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Going to be quite a high % take up of the vaccine in these 4 groups.

Sadly think that % will fall a fair bit as the age groups fall.

On the vaccines- Israel is a great place to look at the moment. The data coming from there is showing some great signs. Just 0.04% of those who have had 2 doses of Pfizer have tested positive. 0 have been serious symptoms.
All this whilst the Country is experiencing a lot of cases outside of those vaccinated.
 
How would you facilitate that though? You'd have to not have any new admissions for a year, pushing everyone else a year back too, in order to create the spaces and then how do you ever recover that lost time?
 
Why do you need to? Most countries don't start school at 4/5 as here.
 
Kenny said:
Going to be quite a high % take up of the vaccine in these 4 groups.

Sadly think that % will fall a fair bit as the age groups fall.
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We've had some work done on the house over the last couple of weeks, so have spoken to a few tradesman in a polite bullshit kind of way. None of them are having it, consistent message of don't trust it and I've already had Covid it was just a heavy cold.
 
Tredman said:
Why do you need to? Most countries don't start school at 4/5 as here.
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Well if your current schooling age range is 4-18 and you get the whole lot of them currently in the system to repeat this year that pushes the schooling age range out to 5-19 for the next school year. That leaves a year of 4 year olds what would usually be ready to enter the school system with nowhere to go as the repeating year are still filling the spaces they'd usually be about to occupy.

How do you ever get back to 4-18 after you've pushed it out by a year? You either have to right off one year of first year intake when you drop the bottom age back to 4 or you keep the first year intake at 5 years old but allow any spare school places to be taken up by 4 year olds in a bid to get back to the original age range, but it'll take years to filter through and get back to a clean split.
 
MARKakaJIM said:
Well if your current schooling age range is 4-18 and you get the whole lot of them currently in the system to repeat this year that pushes the schooling age range out to 5-19 for the next school year. That leaves a year of 4 year olds what would usually be ready to enter the school system with nowhere to go as the repeating year are still filling the spaces they'd usually be about to occupy.

How do you ever get back to 4-18 after you've pushed it out by a year? You either have to right off one year of first year intake when you drop the bottom age back to 4 or you keep the first year intake at 5 years old but allow any spare school places to be taken up by 4 year olds in a bid to get back to the original age range, but it'll take years to filter through and get back to a clean split.
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I'd look to go 5-18 longer term with a modified curriculum, dealing with the existing pupils as best as is possible. Messy, but definitely better for the current pupils in the longer term and probably better for new pupils in the longer term.

Starting school at 4 (in the case of my twins, 4 days after their 4th birthday) is just a bit weird - we have a very good nursery system in the UK, at that age school isn't what they need.
 
Always thought our school starting age is a bit young, my grandson was only just 4 when he started, too early imo
 
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