Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

I saw on the news yesterday or Wednesday - a doctor/consultant saying just what that tweet says, so that the urgency is to make sure that there are no vaccines just sat there, and they need to just be rolled out as soon as.

 

[zzr45]

Just seen that up to 40% of the healthcare staff in LA refused to take the vaccine. Very worrying if that percentage of healthcare staff are not willing to take it.

Surely it should be basically mandatory if you are a hospital worker? Roughly around 20% of spread is in hospitals and if the staff aren't vaccinated that will continue.

Edit: https://www.latimes.com/california/...ne-access?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

You’d think so wouldn’t you? Like if the government announced a law tomorrow that to work in a hospital or care home after x date you need to show proof that you’ve been vaccinated it would make sense.

Of course, there’s those that can’t receive the vaccine and the argument that it violates people’s right to choose, but it’s not like I could fly a plane tomorrow without doing the licensing which the law requires me to do so.

 

[grandjoeblue]

You’d think so wouldn’t you? Like if the government announced a law tomorrow that to work in a hospital or care home after x date you need to show proof that you’ve been vaccinated it would make sense.

Of course, there’s those that can’t receive the vaccine and the argument that it violates people’s right to choose, but it’s not like I could fly a plane tomorrow without doing the licensing which the law requires me to do so.

Yeh generally I'm not convinced about making it mandatory but if you work in a care home or a hospital you should be vaccinated.

 

[COYBL25]

Yeh generally I'm not convinced about making it mandatory but if you work in a care home or a hospital you should be vaccinated.

Anyone who has a job, that brings them into contact with the public in any shape or form should be vaccinated mate.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Anyone who has a job, that brings them into contact with the public in any shape or form should be vaccinated mate.

I would probably agree but I would say thats more debatable. If you are literally interacting with vulnerable and elderly every day you're putting people at significant risk.

 

[davek]

Yeah. I just shared it. It is good old "retweets ≠ endorsements" bit. It is a news, doesn't mean she wasn't mental.

Here are SS of her fb post (not mine, someone posted on another forum I'm on) completely lost her sense of reality surely.

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She had handcuffs on her that she "had to keep on"...but then got dressed when they allowed her a few minutes to put clothes on.

Is she part of a circus act?

 

[dublinbluenose]

Virus essentially out of control now in Ireland from a relatively stable position at the end of November. A disastrous opening up before xmas. There was around 4000 poitive swabs waiting to be confirmed yesterday on top of the 1600 reported.

Close contacts now not being sent for testing as system overwhelmed with requests for tests. Government still intent on opening schools on tbe 11th. I know 2 kids who wont be going back!

 

[COYBL25]

I would probably agree but I would say thats more debatable. If you are literally interacting with vulnerable and elderly every day you're putting people at significant risk.

There’s also the legal implications too.

 

[davek]

Virus essentially out of control now in Ireland from a relatively stable position at the end of November. A disastrous opening up before xmas. There was around 4000 poitive swabs waiting to be confirmed yesterday on top of the 1600 reported.

Close contacts now not being sent for testing as system overwhelmed with requests for tests. Government still intent on opening schools on tbe 11th. I know 2 kids who wont be going back!

The West has underlined what a basket case they are throughout the crisis. It's lack of behavioural discipline that has us here - our societies creaking under the weight of their own contradictions of rampant commercialism and individualism at a time when we need to handle a killer virus.

South East Asia there's been about 40,000 deaths
Japan 3,000
South Korea <1,000

The East has shown it's not all about vaccines - vaccines are needed because of terrible political organisation and the actions of civilian populations weaned on some remorseless path to a consumerist nirvana.

 

[dublinbluenose]

The West has underlined what a basket case they are throughout the crisis. It's lack of behavioural discipline that has us here - our societies creaking under the weight of their own contradictions of rampant commercialism and individualism at a time when we need to handle a killer virus.

South East Asia there's been about 40,000 deaths
Japan 3,000
South Korea <1,000

The East has shown it's not all about vaccines - vaccines are needed because of terrible political organisation and the actions of civilian populations weaned on some remorseless path to a consumerist nirvana.

Exceptionalism will literally be the death of western civilization

 

[Billy Dean]

Exceptionalism will literally be the death of western civilization

Human civilisation too probably

 

[Paul1986]

Shortage of vaccines apparently. Oh well we might be on the road to normality this time next year.

 

[davek]

Shortage of vaccines apparently. Oh well we might be on the road to normality this time next year.

I cant believe there's a shortage of vaccines; Johnson told us we had 40m doses of the Pfizer vaccine secured. He wouldn't lie to us.

 

[LinekersLegs]

If the front line workers aren't taking it then that is incredibly worrying. Dread to think what those numbers translate into with the wider population

Possible it might be L.A. specific, hope so although given how hard hit they are it is still bad news.

 

[peteblue]

Possible it might be L.A. specific, hope so although given how hard hit they are it is still bad news.

*sighs...you can lead a horse to water.....