Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[degsy]

Blind eye not brown eye

 

[davek]

I’ve said it before but it’s probably worth saying again. Not everyone lives in a city, or even a town. People in rural areas have almost no facilities. We have a church, primary school, a small shop and a pub. You rarely see a bus. For some people, certainly the older ones but also for the young families, life does indeed revolve around the pub. Not for getting pissed and causing mayhem before going to a takeaway or a club, but for just seeing someone to talk to or have a game of dominoes. In these places the pub is the centre of the community.

Years ago we could use the school facilities and outside areas for a fete or whatever, but that’s no longer allowed of course. People can’t really have a get together in the shop and the church only opens on Sundays and for funerals. There is only the pub and it’s car park and grounds.

Cities and Towns have everything, rural communities have the pub and that’s it.....

But if people are serious about keeping safe, no matter whether you're town or country, making a go of the restrictions means you'll of necessity stay away from indoor places. All indoor places.

The upside is that you dont have the type of infectious rates towns and cities do, and anyone able enough can find safe space. I know where I'd rather be living now if I had the choice.

 

[davek]

No, but neither are the PCR ones.

Those results weren't doubted or if they were, the people were shot down for it as conspiracy theorists.

Don't see why it should be any different for these, and if the lateral flow tests can be administered on a wider basis, then that's going to help.

I read somewhere that those administed by the army we're only 50% accurate, that figure rising to 75% for trained medics.

I think that was for the lateral flow tests.

 

[davek]

Prof David Salisbury, former director of immunisation at the Department of Health, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that if the Oxford jab had 60% efficacy, while others had higher efficacy, then "tough choices" would have to be made.
"I think you have to think very carefully what we do with one hundred million doses of a product that isn't protecting as well as the alternative," he said.
Prof Salisbury suggested higher efficacy vaccines could be given to more vulnerable people while lower efficacy jabs could be given to under 55s.


*cough*

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/coronavirus-thread-serious-stuff.109382/page-4097#post-8277335

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Next year this time around I hope this thread gets locked, because of no post for a month, and this thing will be a distant memory. I don't want to think of death this often any f more.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Prof David Salisbury, former director of immunisation at the Department of Health, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that if the Oxford jab had 60% efficacy, while others had higher efficacy, then "tough choices" would have to be made.
"I think you have to think very carefully what we do with one hundred million doses of a product that isn't protecting as well as the alternative," he said.
Prof Salisbury suggested higher efficacy vaccines could be given to more vulnerable people while lower efficacy jabs could be given to under 55s.


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https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/coronavirus-thread-serious-stuff.109382/page-4097#post-8277335

No prizes for guessing which jab all the Tories and their business mates will be getting.

Absolutely stinks as usual.

 

[davek]

No prizes for guessing which jab all the Tories and their business mates will be getting.

Absolutely stinks as usual.

They'll have had there's already. Tested on a couple of serfs first. Pfizer premium quality.

 

[BlueToff]

I read somewhere that those administed by the army we're only 50% accurate, that figure rising to 75% for trained medics.

I think that was for the lateral flow tests.

Yep, and there were also reports that there was a similar discrepancy between the PCR tests (some say 80% false positives but I think that seems a bit overboard).

My point is, the more testing, the better.

 

[davek]

Yep, and there were also reports that there was a similar discrepancy between the PCR tests (some say 80% false positives but I think that seems a bit overboard).

My point is, the more testing, the better.

Which could get people very ill or dead.

 

[peteblue]

I find it very hard to believe that horse riding is an acceptable and permitted form of leisure activity or exercise.

The rider and horse should`ve been shot on sight.

The rider strung up in a gibbet at the entrance to the village as a warning and the horse turned into horse pasties, to help feed the village serfs and proles.

We do that every year as a sacrifice for the Flu God......

 

[peteblue]

I see what you did there.

Czech mate....

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

If you go into a pub next week is it compulsory to have a meal.

 

[Nymzee]

If you go into a pub next week is it compulsory to have a meal.

Depends on Tier.

 

[Leylo]

If you go into a pub next week is it compulsory to have a meal.

Yep in tier 2, you'll be banging on the door in tier 3

 

[Barnfred 55]

Did you know that Royal Mail is essentially Czech now?

Is that why they say the Czech is in the post.



Where's that 'kin coat?