Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

The vaccine rollout has been great for me, sure its not perfect, but we are hitting very good digits.

Can rightly criticise these jobbers for a lot but whoever is in charge of the roll out (it's certainly not Matt Hancock) is getting it right.

Miltary logistics helping, vaccine centres opening up. We're doing well. The one thing that so far is going alright.

 

[Goat]

Can rightly criticise these jobbers for a lot but whoever is in charge of the roll out (it's certainly not Matt Hancock) is getting it right.

Miltary logistics helping, vaccine centres opening up. We're doing well. The one thing that so far is going alright.

Oh for sure, not a chance these jokers have their hands on it.

For all the beating the NHS has had, it still has some very good people at its heart.

 

[BlueToff]

They are more than half full now still.
Have bloody waiting lists to get kids in.

I don't know what they can do about that though? Other than say not even key workers' kids can go to school?

 

[Toast]

I don't know what they can do about that though? Other than say not even key workers' kids can go to school?

You do know what needs to be done, it’s just no one wants to do it.

You lock down everything properly again, only open up essential shops and pay everyone’s salary via furlough again. Fully. Not the topped up lark.
That’s what gets you out of this quicker when combined with the superb number of vaccines being banged out.

 

[wainy]

I don't know what they can do about that though? Other than say not even key workers' kids can go to school?

The schools are the worst for it. The say the kids are kept in bubbles, but in my lads school they all arrive together on a minibus then split off into their separate classes. And even if the kids stay in their bubbles, we know the teachers all mix at break time and that. Fingers crossed these vaccines work against all strains of this virus.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

At this point I'd endorse Drath Wish style vigilantism against people breaking Covid guidelines.

Where are all the decent vigilantes when we need them?

 

[Tramps_mate]

Over 340,000 done yesterday, over 4,600,000 first doses plus over 400,000 second doses to date...we’re doing ok....

Agree. If they reach 500,000 a day next week then the 14 million vaccinations by mid-end Feb is totally plausible.

 

[bullybeef]

Well, this was how this thread started a year ago today.

Couldnt make up what’s happened in the following 12 months could you.

I seriously didn’t imagine how it was going to transpire when I posted that.

 

[Toast]

At this point I'd endorse Drath Wish style vigilantism against people breaking Covid guidelines.

Where are all the decent vigilantes when we need them?

I’d stand a Sky News crew at the gates of a school and ask parents who are dropping kids off what key work they do.

 

[Toast]

I seriously didn’t imagine how it was going to transpire when I posted that.

I’ve read the first few days worth of the thread a few times over the last 12 months.
Its safe to say you’re not the only one !

 

[BlueToff]

You do know what needs to be done, it’s just no one wants to do it.

You lock down everything properly again, only open up essential shops and pay everyone’s salary via furlough again. Fully. Not the topped up lark.
That’s what gets you out of this quicker when combined with the superb number of vaccines being banged out.

Okay, but we'd still have the same issues with key workers' kids would we not, in regards to the numbers in school?

Unless it's that people in non-essential shops (but remember places like Halfords opened the first time too) are classed as 'key workers'?

There's obvious steps to take, granted, but does it actually go such a way to halting things like it didlast time?

Think the time of year, the fact that people generally get ill around now and stuff, it all needs to be taken into account.

I agree though, more needs to be done. But every 'non-essential' place that I would go to has been shut for the last three months around me, bar Halfords (and I don't go often).

There's a little coffee shop open for takeouts at the lake where I go a walk. But again, I doubt that is in any way contributing to the spread since everyone is outside, wears a mask, can't sit down and literally just files past a counter to pay and then pick up their coffee. Nobody even comes within 2 yards of each other and at no point does anybody go inside the building.

 

[Tramps_mate]

You do know what needs to be done, it’s just no one wants to do it.

You lock down everything properly again, only open up essential shops and pay everyone’s salary via furlough again. Fully. Not the topped up lark.
That’s what gets you out of this quicker when combined with the superb number of vaccines being banged out.

Nope. As a single director limited company freelancer, I was due nothing if I was out of work. Zero.

 

[Toast]

Okay, but we'd still have the same issues with key workers' kids would we not, in regards to the numbers in school?

Unless it's that people in non-essential shops (but remember places like Halfords opened the first time too) are classed as 'key workers'?

There's obvious steps to take, granted, but does it actually go such a way to halting things like it didlast time?

Think the time of year, the fact that people generally get ill around now and stuff, it all needs to be taken into account.

I agree though, more needs to be done. But every 'non-essential' place that I would go to has been shut for the last three months around me, bar Halfords (and I don't go often).

There's a little coffee shop open for takeouts at the lake where I go a walk. But again, I doubt that is in any way contributing to the spread since everyone is outside, wears a mask, can't sit down and literally just files past a counter to pay and then pick up their coffee. Nobody even comes within 2 yards of each other and at no point does anybody go inside the building.

Halfords sell bikes for excercise.
No problem with that being open.

No need for a little coffee shop being open really is there ?

 

[BlueStevie35]

You do know what needs to be done, it’s just no one wants to do it.

You lock down everything properly again, only open up essential shops and pay everyone’s salary via furlough again. Fully. Not the topped up lark.
That’s what gets you out of this quicker when combined with the superb number of vaccines being banged out.

Essential throws up too many loopholes though, supermarkets and pharmacies should be the only ones open but you’ve got your B&Ms, Home Bargains, Poundland’s etc that sell what supermarkets sell only cheaper

 

[Charro]

I see we’re still at the point where people are going outside and getting angered at other people being outside.