Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[COYBL25]

It's winter. People are still largely indoors. The vaccines are nowhere near rolled out - not even a single jab regime never mind the much needed 2 jab regime. The economy (despite all the hype about it) is not locked down in the way it was last spring.

Is it any wonder the cases are still so high?

It does, however, as you rightly say, mean that any nonsense about ending restrictions this side of May need to be binned. It should never have been up for discussion until the virus was suppressed. All the bollox talked of balances between health and wealth is exactly that: bollox. This is a national catastrophe we're going through, and the corporate fascists in the Tory Party congregated around the Orwellian named Covid Recovery Group should have the whip removed from them. They are a danger to the nation.

Then raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath it`s folds we live or die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We`ll keep the red flag flying here lol

 

[COYBL25]

People’s actions haven’t changed.
Social distancing is long gone.
It won’t change now either.

The only thing that has changed is having a vaccine.
Talk about getting lucky.

Some people have had enough mate, it`s as simple as that.

When I went for my run at the weekend, I saw a full on kids footy team training session, a kids cross country club out running, loads of gangs of young lads on their bikes and lots of groups of people out walking, who very obviously with their mates, rather than with their families.

This is all whilst the weather isn`t particularly great too, imagine what it`ll be like when it starts to warm up and the clocks go back.

I`m not saying it`s anyway right, but people can only hideaway in their bunkers for so long before they start going stir crazy.

* I did try shouting MURDERS at them, but all I got for that, was legged up a tree by Pit Bull cross, whose owner set it onto me.

 

[davek]

Some people have had enough mate, it`s as simple as that.

When I went for my run at the weekend, I saw a full on kids footy team training session, a kids cross country club out running, loads of gangs of young lads on their bikes and lots of groups of people out walking, who very obviously with their mates, rather than with their families.

This is all whilst the weather isn`t particularly great too, imagine what it`ll be like when it starts to warm up and the clocks go back.

I`m not saying it`s anyway right, but people can only hideaway in their bunkers for so long before they start going stir crazy.

* I did try shouting MURDERS at them, but all I got for that, was legged off a Pit Bull cross and had to hide up a tree.

You sound like you're advocating a free for all and end to locking down in order to shield the vulnerable.

 

[davek]

Thats great news. It seems a great and really robust vaccine from anything ive seen. Isnt it interesting it doesn't have the same profile as AZ, Pfizer and Moderna.

Dont say that to the cold war crowd on here. They've got a bigger presence on GOT than GCHQ....haven't you lads?

 

[COYBL25]

You sound like you're advocating a free for all and end to locking down in order to shield the vulnerable.

Not at all, just stating what I see and hear, when I’m out and about

My lad is shielding and in the very high risk category.

However, I don’t want to turn the world into the Archipelago Gulag either.

I gagging for a pint though.

 

[davek]

Concern in Germany over public reluctance to have Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine​

Philip Oltermann
Germany’s health minister, Jens Spahn, has made a point of saying he would be happy to be injected with the “safe and effective” AstraZeneca vaccine, as authorities in the country voiced their growing concern about the German public’s reluctance to be immunised against Covid-19 with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company’s vaccine.
According to German government agencies’ own monitoring, only 87,533 out of 736,800 delivered doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had been administered by Tuesday 16 February.
In Berlin, where the senate has promised the public the freedom to choose between different available vaccines, local media reported that out of 30,000 doses of the vaccine delivered last week, only 990 had been administered so far.
The British-Swedish own shaky data from its early trials, as well as some misleading reporting in German media, have created a prominent debate around the AstraZeneca vaccine’s comparatively lower efficacy in Germany, where medical authorities have initially permitted the vaccine for use only among the under 65s.
The health minister of the state of Saarland, Monika Bachmann, this week criticised the reluctant uptake of the vaccine among medical staff, after more than half of those scheduled to be vaccinated failed to turn up to their appointment at a special session for 200 people working in medical care.
Scientists such as the influential virologist Christian Drosten say the scepticism about the AstraZeneca vaccine is misplaced. “We have to do everything we can now to vaccinate as quickly as possible across the board,” the Charité hospital scientist said on his podcast on Tuesday. There’s always a hair in the soup somewhere, and some people are looking at it with a magnifying glass.”

Spahn on Wednesday described the vaccine as “safe and effective”, telling the broadcaster RTL: “I would let myself be vaccinated when I get an appointment – and that expressly includes the AstraZeneca vaccine.”

 

[roydo]

Concern in Germany over public reluctance to have Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine​

Philip Oltermann
Germany’s health minister, Jens Spahn, has made a point of saying he would be happy to be injected with the “safe and effective” AstraZeneca vaccine, as authorities in the country voiced their growing concern about the German public’s reluctance to be immunised against Covid-19 with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company’s vaccine.
According to German government agencies’ own monitoring, only 87,533 out of 736,800 delivered doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had been administered by Tuesday 16 February.
In Berlin, where the senate has promised the public the freedom to choose between different available vaccines, local media reported that out of 30,000 doses of the vaccine delivered last week, only 990 had been administered so far.
The British-Swedish own shaky data from its early trials, as well as some misleading reporting in German media, have created a prominent debate around the AstraZeneca vaccine’s comparatively lower efficacy in Germany, where medical authorities have initially permitted the vaccine for use only among the under 65s.
The health minister of the state of Saarland, Monika Bachmann, this week criticised the reluctant uptake of the vaccine among medical staff, after more than half of those scheduled to be vaccinated failed to turn up to their appointment at a special session for 200 people working in medical care.
Scientists such as the influential virologist Christian Drosten say the scepticism about the AstraZeneca vaccine is misplaced. “We have to do everything we can now to vaccinate as quickly as possible across the board,” the Charité hospital scientist said on his podcast on Tuesday. There’s always a hair in the soup somewhere, and some people are looking at it with a magnifying glass.”

Spahn on Wednesday described the vaccine as “safe and effective”, telling the broadcaster RTL: “I would let myself be vaccinated when I get an appointment – and that expressly includes the AstraZeneca vaccine.”

Shows what can happen when uninformed folk pronounce a verdict on sommet they know nothing about.

 

[Billy Dean]

Concern in Germany over public reluctance to have Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine​

Philip Oltermann
Germany’s health minister, Jens Spahn, has made a point of saying he would be happy to be injected with the “safe and effective” AstraZeneca vaccine, as authorities in the country voiced their growing concern about the German public’s reluctance to be immunised against Covid-19 with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company’s vaccine.
According to German government agencies’ own monitoring, only 87,533 out of 736,800 delivered doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had been administered by Tuesday 16 February.
In Berlin, where the senate has promised the public the freedom to choose between different available vaccines, local media reported that out of 30,000 doses of the vaccine delivered last week, only 990 had been administered so far.
The British-Swedish own shaky data from its early trials, as well as some misleading reporting in German media, have created a prominent debate around the AstraZeneca vaccine’s comparatively lower efficacy in Germany, where medical authorities have initially permitted the vaccine for use only among the under 65s.
The health minister of the state of Saarland, Monika Bachmann, this week criticised the reluctant uptake of the vaccine among medical staff, after more than half of those scheduled to be vaccinated failed to turn up to their appointment at a special session for 200 people working in medical care.
Scientists such as the influential virologist Christian Drosten say the scepticism about the AstraZeneca vaccine is misplaced. “We have to do everything we can now to vaccinate as quickly as possible across the board,” the Charité hospital scientist said on his podcast on Tuesday. There’s always a hair in the soup somewhere, and some people are looking at it with a magnifying glass.”

Spahn on Wednesday described the vaccine as “safe and effective”, telling the broadcaster RTL: “I would let myself be vaccinated when I get an appointment – and that expressly includes the AstraZeneca vaccine.”

That media leak and Macron’s comments are to blame IMO.

 

[peteblue]

Dont say that to the cold war crowd on here. They've got a bigger presence on GOT than GCHQ....haven't you lads?

I think the problem with the Sputnik V is it’s production quantities. Last time I looked, Russia had done a pitiful amount of vaccinations, so unless everyone is looking to license it and mass produce their own it isn’t going to ‘take off’... I would imagine it works ok, but no idea if it’s gone through any proving.....personally I’d wait until after Putin has had it......

 

[davek]

Not at all, just stating what I see and hear, when I’m out and about

My lad is shielding and in the very high risk category.

However, I don’t want to turn the world into the Archipelago Gulag either.

I gagging for a pint though.

It's difficult, but there is no way the (fairly lax) restrictions should be lifted anytime soon.

 

[peteblue]

Concern in Germany over public reluctance to have Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine​

Philip Oltermann
Germany’s health minister, Jens Spahn, has made a point of saying he would be happy to be injected with the “safe and effective” AstraZeneca vaccine, as authorities in the country voiced their growing concern about the German public’s reluctance to be immunised against Covid-19 with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company’s vaccine.
According to German government agencies’ own monitoring, only 87,533 out of 736,800 delivered doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had been administered by Tuesday 16 February.
In Berlin, where the senate has promised the public the freedom to choose between different available vaccines, local media reported that out of 30,000 doses of the vaccine delivered last week, only 990 had been administered so far.
The British-Swedish own shaky data from its early trials, as well as some misleading reporting in German media, have created a prominent debate around the AstraZeneca vaccine’s comparatively lower efficacy in Germany, where medical authorities have initially permitted the vaccine for use only among the under 65s.
The health minister of the state of Saarland, Monika Bachmann, this week criticised the reluctant uptake of the vaccine among medical staff, after more than half of those scheduled to be vaccinated failed to turn up to their appointment at a special session for 200 people working in medical care.
Scientists such as the influential virologist Christian Drosten say the scepticism about the AstraZeneca vaccine is misplaced. “We have to do everything we can now to vaccinate as quickly as possible across the board,” the Charité hospital scientist said on his podcast on Tuesday. There’s always a hair in the soup somewhere, and some people are looking at it with a magnifying glass.”

Spahn on Wednesday described the vaccine as “safe and effective”, telling the broadcaster RTL: “I would let myself be vaccinated when I get an appointment – and that expressly includes the AstraZeneca vaccine.”

Hahaha, talk about the biter getting bit. Germany has done more than most to trash the AZ vaccine for its own political and economic purposes, fully backed up by its glove puppet Macron talking through his backside. Of course the people will be worried. Please don’t take it, it’s gnats piss, use your own expensive Pfizer doses, and leave the AZ for the U.K. and the RoW......

 

[peteblue]

It's difficult, but there is no way the (fairly lax) restrictions should be lifted anytime soon.

I don’t think they will. The numbers are all going in the right direction but we are a few months off yet....

 

[Barnfred 55]

That media leak and Macron’s comments are to blame IMO.

I was about to say the same.

 

[peteblue]

Not at all, just stating what I see and hear, when I’m out and about

My lad is shielding and in the very high risk category.

However, I don’t want to turn the world into the Archipelago Gulag either.

I gagging for a pint though.

It’ll be worth the wait.....mind you I’m just going to nip down the pub to watch the football (on my own before anyone starts hyperventilating).....

 

[toffee82]

It’ll be worth the wait.....mind you I’m just going to nip down the pub to watch the football (on my own before anyone starts hyperventilating).....

Contemplating buying my own pub at this rate.

Check out this commercial property on Rightmove!

Pub for sale in Springfield Hotel Walton Road, Walton, L4 4BE £150,000. Marketed by Everard Cole Ltd, Leeds

www.rightmove.co.uk

One near Goodison.