Coronavirus

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

It isn’t with P&O then? They announced today that vaccinations were required for passengers on uk cruises.

No, Fred Olsen. They are currently saying you won’t need to be vaccinated to sail.

 

[AndyWolves]

Would you want to go on a cruise ship without a vaccine?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

A year in age away from getting on the vaccine wagon before the wheels fell off. Marvellous.

 

[Kenny]

It's 4 weeks, more a flat tyre than the wheels coming off

 

[Kenny]

So as with everything with this Government you have to wait or dig around to find the truth.

So this morning they were aware of an issue so changed their plan to hide the issue. Obviously the letter being sent out this afternoon ballsed that up despite Hancock saying its a standard letter. AZ have confirmed no issues with supplies from within the UK but it turns out the issue is from India. 10m doses were due in early April but only 5m will arrive and the 2nd 5m 4 weeks late.

 

[Dire Wolf]

I'm now eligible, tried to book online and all the vaccine centres open to me have no appointments available, including the one 45 miles away in Carlisle. Rang my doctors to try and get an appointment through them, they are currently working through categories 7 and 8 and I'm category 9. I'm sure by the time they get to me the vaccine stock will have run out!

 

[BillyDee]

So, turns out that actually I am clinically extremely vulnerable and I should have been on the sheltering list and in group 4 for the vaccination .
Messaged my GPs yesterday, got a phone call this morning and am booked in for a first jab tomorrow with the follow up three weeks later...
Bit of a balls up, but sorted admirably quickly.

 

[Kenny]

Boris will be waffling shit at 5pm today.

No doubt because of the half info/half bullshit stuff yesterday that has led to the Media falling over themselves to whip up the anxiety levels in people (some papers calling a 4 week delay a crisis) he feels he has to set the record straight but going off past efforts, he will confuse things even more.

Some good news - Current vaccines can handle the Brazilian variant just fine.

 

[darlowolf64]

Been and had my vaccination this morning. Got the Oxford AZ one and so far it's painless...

 

[Kenny]

Wife has just been able to book her jab as well for this Sunday. Bonus

 

[Wolvensam]

So, shock horror, Hancock for some reason couldn't tell the truth this evening.
Not a supply issue but going into April concentrating on getting those 2nd doses into the vulnerable groups before starting, officially on the next group of people.

I did think this would be the case: they'll want to second dose everyone before the 17th May so businesses can open as planned, and anyone under-50 who isn't clinically vulnerable can use lateral flow testing in the mean time.

The importance now is on hospital admissions and deaths, not cases.

 

[Tredman]

We are doing lateral flow testing twice a week as out twins are at high school - its a proper pain in the ass and the results seem to be taken with a massive pinch of salt. Really not sure it is worth what must be a huge cost.

 

[machin05]

Yeah, the LFTs are a huge waste of time and resources from what I can tell - we've had to hand over our hall for the procedure and hire in about 6 agency staff to test and upload results and that's without rota-ing teaching staff to supervise all day.

We've just spent 2 weeks testing every student twice. Each year group takes a day. The upshot is that a negative result doesn't guarantee you don't have it, so if any does test positive the bubble/year group still has to self isolate. The only benefit I can see if it catching the odd asymptomatic positive case - but even the chances of that happening are slim. We've not had a single positive result so far.

When it goes to home-based testing from next week, hardly any households will continue to do it regularly, IMO. There's no requirement or repercusions for not doing it (staff and students). Plus we've only had 50% of families give consent to test in school, so that's at least half who won't be doing it at home.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Work have found a cunning way to make sure we go for tests. Go for regular tests and get a positive - full basic pay. Don’t go for tests but pick up symptoms and have to self isolate - SSP.

 

[lemonjelly]

mrs jelly mentioned earlier boris has been absent/quiet. she'll be pleased(!) he's on 5pm duty...
i worry the availability of lateral flow tests has reduced peoples taking care, and potentially people are doing those instead of the proper/better official tests. seen data that suggests where i work there is a core group of people being regularly tested, mainly young women. however, the majority aren't bothering.

Nephew has his test every friday at school. what's the point of that then?

 

[Tredman]

Tuesday & Friday for our kids

 

[lemonjelly]

testing the kids on fridays makes zero sense.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Just had my 1st shot. Feel sort of guilty - at a location on the poor hispanic south side of town specifically placed so the wealthy whites from the north side won't go there.

 

[lemonjelly]

taking mrs jelly for her first jab in the morning. one of the stepdaughters has sent a few texts this week trying to talk her out of it. spends too much time on facebook. Think I'd rather take the opinion of hundreds of scientists looking at masses of data, rather than random nobs on facebook.
thankfully mrs jelly is adamant she's going ahead.
if you're over 75 and catch covid, you've a 1 in 9 chance of death. If you're 40, you've a 1 in 1000 chance of death. If you have a vaccine, there is a 1 in millions chance of adverse effects.
anti vaxxers are insane.

 

[EpsomWolf]

taking mrs jelly for her first jab in the morning. one of the stepdaughters has sent a few texts this week trying to talk her out of it. spends too much time on facebook. Think I'd rather take the opinion of hundreds of scientists looking at masses of data, rather than random nobs on facebook.

You know how it is with your loved one when despite being on the same page almost all of the time and thinking you have the same sense of humour, you occasionally cock-up.

I said to the wife the other day, “I don’t know why you wasted 6 years and thousands of pounds on a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology when you could’ve got it all on Facebook”.

In retrospect I got away lightly with a death stare.