Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

U.K. vaccines....254K jabs given yesterday......total first jabs 22,592,528....total second jabs 1,181,431 ...giving an overall total of 23,773,959 jabs.......slow day....

 

[SussexToffee]

U.K. vaccines....254K jabs given yesterday......total first jabs 22,592,528....total second jabs 1,181,431 ...giving and overall total of 23,773,959 jabs.......slow day....

Usually is by the start of the week.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Some of the language being used by Boris, Whitty and Valance makes me think that this definitely won't be the final lockdown.

There is absolutely no chance that the 4th stage will happen in June. An excuse will be made and the lockdown will extend.

 

[roydo]

That Witty quote was in response to the problems of opening up too quickly, (like those nutjob CRG want), instead of going with the existing road map. He was asked about it at the session earlier today.

 

[SussexToffee]

788,267 active cases according to Worldometer, was 820,037 yesterday.

Today there have been 5766 cases and 231 all settings deaths. There have been over 1.5 million tests.

 

[grandjoeblue]

That Witty quote was in response to the problems of opening up too quickly, (like those nutjob CRG want), instead of going with the existing road map. He was asked about it at the session earlier today.

Some outdoor activities could probbaly be opened sooner. The indoor activities cause the problems.

 

[grandjoeblue]

788,267 active cases according to Worldometer, was 820,037 yesterday.

Today there have been 5766 cases and 231 all settings deaths. There have been over 1.5 million tests.

1.5m tests in a day? Do they always do that many? 5766 out of 1.5m is extremely low.

 

[SussexToffee]

Some of the language being used by Boris, Whitty and Valance makes me think that this definitely won't be the final lockdown.

There is absolutely no chance that the 4th stage will happen in June. An excuse will be made and the lockdown will extend.

As long as the tests are being met, we should be okay. If we were opening up too quickly rather than a slow gradual move like we are, then I’d be worried about lockdown extending.

 

[davek]

Whoa whoa whoa...the surge will take down "those not vaccinated or those who the vaccine hasn't worked on"?

Weren't we all told the vaccine would at the very least put a floor under those taking it and there'd be no hospitalisation much less death if they caught the virus?

I detect A LOT of rowing back on the vaccines.

 

[SussexToffee]

1.5m tests in a day? Do they always do that many? 5766 out of 1.5m is extremely low.

That’s the Government dashboard figure, so I assume it’s recent. They usually do 992,000 when it’s high, or 750,000 when it isn’t. On a bad day, they do about 430,000.

I assume the flow tests being done now the schools have reopened, has been a huge factor.

 

[davek]

As long as the tests are being met, we should be okay. If we were opening up too quickly rather than a slow gradual move like we are, then I’d be worried about lockdown extending.

Slow gradual opening up...by sending ALL schoolkids back in rather than staggering their return...THAT cautious approach d'you mean?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Whoa whoa whoa...the surge will take down "those not vaccinated or those who the vaccine hasn't worked on"?

Weren't we all told the vaccine would at the very least put a floor under those taking it and there'd be no hospitalisation much less death if they caught the virus?

I detect A LOT of rowing back on the vaccines.

To be fair, my understanding was that they were always pretty clear that you could still transmit the virus if you've been vaccinated so he might just mean that rather than people will be hospitalised despite being vaccinated.

 

[davek]

To be fair, my understanding was that they were always pretty clear that you could still transmit the virus if you've been vaccinated so he might just mean that rather than people will be hospitalised despite being vaccinated.

Oh, I get you (if that is what he meant).

 

[roydo]

Whoa whoa whoa...the surge will take down "those not vaccinated or those who the vaccine hasn't worked on"?

Weren't we all told the vaccine would at the very least put a floor under those taking it and there'd be no hospitalisation much less death if they caught the virus?

I detect A LOT of rowing back on the vaccines.

Calm down Dave.

He was basically saying that the clowns in the CRG thing are exactly that. Clowns. Cos what they want will result in what he said.

No row back.

 

[davek]

To be fair, my understanding was that they were always pretty clear that you could still transmit the virus if you've been vaccinated so he might just mean that rather than people will be hospitalised despite being vaccinated.

Everything he said there suggested that the vast majority of the population need to be vaccinated before being able to safely open up.

So why aren't we doing that? Pol-economy reasons.