Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Deckard2049]

So you want 100% of people to be vaccinated before any normality resumes?

If so, wake me up in about 2024 when that might have happened.

I think it’s more we could be looking at a situation where the people statistically least at risk from the virus and last in the queue for the vaccine could be banned from some aspects of public life for a long time. For example, going on holiday. If many countries require you to be vaccinated and you have no access to a vaccine then you’re stuck. Meanwhile the golden girls are off to Benidorm.

It could be seen as a bit of a kick in the teeth to the younger generation who have sacrificed a fair bit.

 

[tsubaki]

Man who denied that he had employees all the way to the Supreme Court tells his employees they will need to be vaccinated:

Pimlico Plumbers to introduce 'no jab, no job' work contracts

Move comes amid concerns about Covid ‘anti-vaxxers’ but may have legal implications

www.theguardian.com

 

[davek]

Do they inject the Covid vaccine up your backside instead then or something?

What?

 

[peteblue]

My wife and I had our flu vaccine last year at the local Superdrug. I don't see the problem. It's not like the elderly don't go shopping, or indeed that hospitals and other medical facilities aren't well known hotspots for getting all manner of infections.

It’s the slippery slope...people will be getting their eyes tested in Tesco’s if we carry on like this......

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It’s the slippery slope...people will be getting their eyes tested in Tesco’s if we carry on like this......

I had my eyes tested at Barnards Castle.

 

[davek]

Supermarkets are not going to have the data to invite folk for a jab. So the elderly/vulnerable will be most likely done via GPs.

And I am not sure retail is THE environment neither.

It is. The most frequent environment cited as being visited prior to a positive Covid19 test is a supermarket.

 

[roydo]

It is. The most frequent environment cited as being visited prior to a positive Covid19 test is a supermarket.

Will take your word for it.

Germany see it differently though.

 

[davek]

Will take your word for it.

Germany see it differently though.

COVID-19: Supermarkets most common places visited before positive test - latest data

PHE collated the data using the NHS Test and Trace app for people who tested positive between 9 and 15 November.

news.sky.com

Fresh supermarket rules as they're found most common place to catch Covid

A new study has found that supermarkets are the most common place to catch coronavirus in England

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Will take your word for it.

Germany see it differently though.

Incidentally, around 9,000 pharmacies are typically used to administer the flu jab each year. Dave just thinks we should ignore that resource in a national emergency in case people die in the middle of Boots.

 

[navidson]

It is. The most frequent environment cited as being visited prior to a positive Covid19 test is a supermarket.

Probably because that's the only place most people can actually visit - so by proxy it's likely to be that

 

[davek]

Probably because that's the only place most people can actually visit - so by proxy it's likely to be that

There's something to that, yes.

However, the question is whether it's a good idea to be bringing people into one to get them a vaccine shot. If we had functioning local health authorities properly funded and staffed they wouldn't come into the reckoning.

No one, surely, would argue that a supermarket is a better place than a local health centre to administer safely and competently a vaccine.

 

[Charro]

COVID-19: Supermarkets most common places visited before positive test - latest data

PHE collated the data using the NHS Test and Trace app for people who tested positive between 9 and 15 November.

news.sky.com

Fresh supermarket rules as they're found most common place to catch Covid

A new study has found that supermarkets are the most common place to catch coronavirus in England

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Why are you posting Manchester’s version of the echo to try and verify something you’ve said?

 

[davek]

Why are you posting Manchester’s version of the echo to try and verify something you’ve said?

It doesn't 'try'. It simply does.

 

[roydo]

There's something to that, yes.

However, the question is whether it's a good idea to be bringing people into one to get them a vaccine shot. If we had functioning local health authorities properly funded and staffed they wouldn't come into the reckoning.

No one, surely, would argue that a supermarket is a better place than a local health centre to administer safely and competently a vaccine.

I have probably spent longer in a chemist waiting on meds than I would if I went there for a jab.

I had my flu jab in the local town hall.

 

[navidson]

There's something to that, yes.

However, the question is whether it's a good idea to be bringing people into one to get them a vaccine shot. If we had functioning local health authorities properly funded and staffed they wouldn't come into the reckoning.

No one, surely, would argue that a supermarket is a better place than a local health centre to administer safely and competently a vaccine.

Well that's a wider problem - We don't have functioning local health authorities so we have do resort to alternative methods to get this bloody thing in people's arms

A supermarket isn't better than a health centre - but they are probably more roomy and have more modern facilities that local GP surgeries