Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[MikeH72]

No not supermarkets or churches. You still have to take 2 pcr tests a week at your own cost though for them. It is basically nipping any social life for the unvaccinated in the bud.

When are the gold stars coming?

 

[marnie]

When are the gold stars coming?

??????? Sorry you have lost me Mike.

 

[MikeH72]

??????? Sorry you have lost me Mike.

I don’t like what these people appear to be doing Marns.

 

[marnie]

I don’t like what these people appear to be doing Marns.

Got Yer.

 

[LinekersLegs]

No not supermarkets or churches. You still have to take 2 pcr tests a week at your own cost though for them. It is basically nipping any social life for the unvaccinated in the bud.

Previously those two pcr tests could get an unvaccinated person into the pub/cinema etc? Or was there no testing requirement?

 

[Deleted member 48881]

2020 all over again

 

[marnie]

Previously those two pcr tests could get an unvaccinated person into the pub/cinema etc? Or was there no testing requirement?

Yeah you could get in with proof of pcr. That rug has now been pulled from under their feet.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Currently only those 50 older, over 16 with a health condition or work in a frontline health position and jab over 6 months ago. Going to expand it to over 40s soon iirc and initially think it was only in the most senior

OK, that makes sense, then. Here (as you know) it's available to a lot of service-based positions as well as everyone in healthcare, which represents a sizable fraction of our workforce.

Not sure how restrictive they were for boosters, but like every other country, they were restrictive for the initial doses when vaccine supply was limited early on. That means fewer people in the younger age groups would have been 6 months out from their 2nd dose (and thus eligible) when boosters first became available.

I thought they were broadly inoculating by May or so (slightly behind our timetable), but I could be remembering wrong. @LinekersLegs explains the result well. If almost no one sub-50 is getting it, and availability for 50-69 is comparatively deprioritized, then the results make sense in that policy context.

 

[Wizard]

When are the gold stars coming?

Apologies if you don’t know the significance of the gold stars but please don’t conflate the identifying of Jews in Nazi Germany with unvaccinated people not being allowed to go to the pub.

 

[sageyefc]

I don’t like what these people appear to be doing Marns.

You’ll be attending 5g rallies next, put yer mask on and relax

 

[LinekersLegs]

OK, that makes sense, then. Here (as you know) it's available to a lot of service-based positions as well as everyone in healthcare, which represents a sizable fraction of our workforce.

I thought they were broadly inoculating by May or so (slightly behind our timetable), but I could be remembering wrong. @LinekersLegs explains the result well. If almost no one sub-50 is getting it, and availability for 50-69 is comparatively deprioritized, then the results make sense in that policy context.

California now taking bookings for all adults who want a booster


Good news for likely impact on my local Covid rates but really wish we were doing more to get first doses to poorer nations.

 

[marnie]

I look at this Greek Island with a population of about 115,000. All tourists are now gone so tourist bars and hotels are now closed. We have about 68 % fully vaccinated and yet the daily cases in the last fortnight are averaging about 50 to 60 a day.

 

[LinekersLegs]

I look at this Greek Island with a population of about 115,000. All tourists are now gone so tourist bars and hotels are now closed. We have about 68 % fully vaccinated and yet the daily cases in the last fortnight are averaging about 50 to 60 a day.

Do they report how the cases are distributed? Majority in kids, young adults, parents or elderly?

 

[Martin Alvito]

California now taking bookings for all adults who want a booster


Good news for likely impact on my local Covid rates but really wish we were doing more to get first doses to poorer nations.

Just going to come out and say it: those people don't vote here. As long as public health policy is effectively being set by the states, we're going to see fifty governors scrapping for resources under a "to Hades with foreign relations" approach.

When we've seen the states knuckle under to federal mandates, it's usually been in the face of media bullying or threats of withholding of federal funds for highways and what not. I can't say that underwriting the export of the vaccine to countries with limited capacity to pay would be popular with voters, either.

 

[marnie]

Do they report how the cases are distributed? Majority in kids, young adults, parents or elderly?

No we just get it per island/region. There could be 25 walking around my village and I wouldn't know.