Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tubey]

Just seen that Miami and Florida is essentially fully open. Oldest state in america by age I believe. Around 25th in COVID deaths. Barely any lockdowns with a lot of things open throughout.

Are they just purely fortunate with climate which has helped massively?

Looking at the UK obviously in the summer in 2020 the cases/deaths went extremely slow and I'd imagine Florida is pretty warm even in winter?

I find it interesting as you'd expect them to be a top 5 state in death rates.

There's evidence that the further north a country/state is, the more COVID has an impact due to Vitamin D.

So possibly that.

 

[SussexToffee]

The seven day average drops below 9,688, that’s a drop from yesterday’s average of 10,189.

Last Friday there were 12,027 new cases and 533 deaths. Those figures were also an improvement on the Friday prior to that.

As for deaths, the seven day average was 383 yesterday, and today has fallen 357.

 

[davek]

But we dont need to vaccinate billions.

There are 66million people in the UK.

It's a pandemic. You know that pandemics dont mean just in one nation state...and that this country trades with the world and allows people in? People with variants that can evade vaccines?

 

[SussexToffee]

53,800,000 people are in the groups that the government hope are vaccinated for the first time by 31st July.

So far we are 19,117,555 first jabs through this and therefore 36% through already. 34,682,445 more first jabs to administer.

 

[Goat]

It's a pandemic. You know that pandemics dont mean just in one nation state...and that this country trades with the world and allows people in? People with variants that can evade vaccines?

So what?

Once we are vaccinated in this country we go back to normal, like the other countries who have suppressed the virus, like China and New Zealand.

 

[SussexToffee]

So what?

Once we are vaccinated in this country we go back to normal, like the other countries who have suppressed the virus, like China and New Zealand.

Too damn true, and bring it on I say.

 

[davek]

The GOT SAGE Committee members: @COYB, @BlueToff, @grandjoeblue etc...

What would you see as being the scenario from this point on? What would a graph look like for the period February 2021 to February 2022 look like?

Here's the death rate for the last 12 months in the UK...





....so what would the next 12 months look like?

 

[peteblue]

U.K. vaccines....521K jabs given yesterday....total first jabs 19,117,555....total second jabs 736,037....overall total 19,853,592........

Apologies I understated the total first jabs by 60K......should be total first jabs 19,177,555 and an overall total of 19,913,592.....

 

[davek]

So what?

Once we are vaccinated in this country we go back to normal, like the other countries who have suppressed the virus, like China and New Zealand.

We cant close ourselves off from the world. Have you forgot which maniacs run this country? They're the one's that have never stopped people getting in since this crisis began. China and NZ suppress the virus.

 

[TommyDavo]

Just back from getting the jab. For anyone who like me has a severe fear of injections can I just say I did not even know the girl had done it. Very well organised but also disappointingly quiet

 

[Chewbacca]

Just seen that Miami and Florida is essentially fully open. Oldest state in america by age I believe. Around 25th in COVID deaths. Barely any lockdowns with a lot of things open throughout.

Are they just purely fortunate with climate which has helped massively?

Looking at the UK obviously in the summer in 2020 the cases/deaths went extremely slow and I'd imagine Florida is pretty warm even in winter?

I find it interesting as you'd expect them to be a top 5 state in death rates.

I suspect Disney World and Universal closing and the almost complete cessation of the cruise liner trade has helped enormously as there will be very few tourists coming in from elsewhere in the US.

 

[davek]

 

[xena]

Daughter in law on furlough from nuffield heath gym. She's just started going in to book vaccine appointments for the bame community in Manchester.She made 300 calls and only got 17 appointments.
Ive seen on the news that it was a problem but didn't think it would be so bad .

 

[SussexToffee]

We will learn to live with this virus, the quicker the jabs get done the better and it won't be long before a huge degree of normality is back.

Hang on in there folks, as Shed Seven one said, it's getting better.

716,212 tests were done also.

 

[Billy Dean]

Exactly and not forgetting Ursula von der Leyen who said the the UK had compromised on safety
of the AZ vaccine also. The effect this has had on the vaccine roll out in France & Germany has
been devastating. They put politics in front of the health and well being of EU citizens.
Criminal to say the least.

TBF I don't think she really did say that. She sort of had her words turned round on her a bit by various newspapers but I don't think it was her intention.