Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[spectateur]

People who don’t go on holiday, that’s the type that love this and hate pubs.

People on low incomes can't afford flying off on holiday and eating out in pubs and restaurants.

 

[SussexToffee]

People on low incomes can't afford flying off on holiday and eating out in pubs and restaurants.

I’m sure those people are hating this also, even if they don’t go on holiday and don’t eat out.

 

[SussexToffee]

The suspension of vaccines will lead to more tragic statistics.

Am sure every vulnerable person will have been jabbed by June, so this won’t have been worth worrying about all along. Hopefully.

 

[BlueToff]

Won’t be happening, the 50’s and overs will all have been vaccinated by then.

They are the most vulnerable.

Sick of these four walls, a laptop, trips to Tesco with traffic lights outside, while some stupid website tells me “Fun things to do during lockdown”, like dancing on a webcam, cooking or watching a film.

Get a bike

 

[Amw79]

Just had call from doctors to go and get vaccine this afternoon. Happy days.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

It's a good point. Amidst the understandable clamour for a return to "normality" I'll bet there are millions of people equally settled and happy with the "new normal".

And some people will be in-between.

The longer anything goes on for, the more routine and normalised it becomes. People are extraordinarily adaptable, and routines become ingrained, especially so the older you get. The most obvious difficulty for a lot of people will be returning to offices after a gap of longer than a year. I foresee a lot of teething issues and general disillusionment.

After a short period, the novelty of normalisation will wear off for many people, and the struggles of the daily grind will return. Not that there isn't struggle due to lockdown either, obviously.

But just as an observer, it certainly won't all be partying and gigs and things for me, post-lockdown. I'll have to admit here to being quite a boring old fart but I just wonder if some peoples expectations of life before and after covid are a bit out of kilter now, after all this.

It all adds up to a multitude of psychological and mental health issues, another pandemic all on its own.

Very good points.

 

[Billy Dean]

Big problem for the NHS system is that you have no idea how much your treatment is costing.
I recently had a doppler échographie on my legs. Cost 89eur, paid 70% by the cpam and 30% by the top up insurance.
Better to know how much you're costing the system I.m.o.

All about opinions I guess. That’s not really a problem for me. I can’t compare with France, but I have the feeling I’m being given honest treatment by the NHS regardless of cost. I don’t always have that feeling in Germany lol

 

[Tubey]

Delay down to India then.

Fair enough, but doesn't explain why domestic supply chain isn't meeting current demand really. 5m doses shouldn't throw the schedule off by a month, it'd be 2 weeks max.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Am sure every vulnerable person will have been jabbed by June, so this won’t have been worth worrying about all along. Hopefully.

Not just vulnerable people that catch Covid and die from it.

 

[Neiler]

Covid-19 reinfections are rare, but more common in people 65 and older, study finds

Researchers found that initial infection with Covid-19 was likely to bestow 80% protection from reinfection among under-65s.

www.thejournal.ie

 

[SussexToffee]

Not just vulnerable people that catch Covid and die from it.

Yes, but the vulnerable are the most likely.

 

[BlueToff]

Delay down to India then.

Fair enough, but doesn't explain why domestic supply chain isn't meeting current demand really. 5m doses shouldn't throw the schedule off by a month, it'd be 2 weeks max.

Is it not that there's gonna be a huge uptick in people needing their second jab in the coming weeks?

So they're basically gonna stop for a month - which is annoying - to ensure that all those second jabs are met and ensure that the over 50s all have got their first jabs by the target?

 

[Tubey]

Is it not that there's gonna be a huge uptick in people needing their second jab in the coming weeks?

So they're basically gonna stop for a month - which is annoying - to ensure that all those second jabs are met and ensure that the over 50s all have got their first jabs by the target?

That's the idea 8 think yes, so they're saying 4 weeks to be safe as it'd be a PR disaster if people had their second appointments cancelled.

 

[BlueToff]

That's the idea 8 think yes, so they're saying 4 weeks to be safe as it'd be a PR disaster if people had their second appointments cancelled.

So hopefully (I'm not full of confidence, but hopefully) come the end of April there'll be plenty of stocks to basically double down on the roll out and make up for lost time...

Fingers crossed it won't push the dates back (if it does, it does). That June one, while optimistic, clearly wasn't reliant on every single adult having had their first dose, because June 21st wasn't the target for that one anyway.

If only someone slightly less useless than Hancock had spoken yesterday and could have given that information as to why there was going to be a delay.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

You're just a wind up merchant, I've given facts not opinions.

I always have to remember despite this being GOT it's social media and wind up idiots are two a penny.

Do well to remember that. I never forget its just "social media".

As it topical Welsh NHS had no role in procurement or the amount it received in any of the COVID vaccines, its all managed centrally from Westminster. You are factually wrong that all NHS matters are fully devolved.

The suspension of vaccines will lead to more tragic statistics.

So did the debate that led to dithering with lockdown face masks etc. Well until the "science evolved".

There are no guarantees about adverse effects with theses vaccines apart from what we know at this time. This cerebral thromboses could be the beginning of wider issue going forwards, and nobody knows until we get there, as we are all in a live trial. Awaits crystal ball data, with dose of hindsight.