Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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thing is two years ago you had people on this forum and social media (maybe not the best way to judge, like) saying this is what was needed
Thankfully times have changed, or at least in countries that aren't run by dictatorship governments
I was probably 1 of them.
But the thing is, there are probably some people who STILL think this is whats needed.
Well yes, that's very true. The wife tests a few times a week for work, although obviously there's no guarantee that someone in the same household would catch it, and she's also been negative since catching it in the very beginning.
I'm not sure sticking your head in the sand and hoping it all goes away is the world beating strategy Javid thinks it is though.
But we're all as vaccinated as we're ever going to be, Bruce. Loads of people have had it at least once, so have that natural immunity too. Loads of people have had it twice now.
Not sure it's about sticking anybody's heads in the sand and we'll probably be looking at some form of measures in the winter again perhaps.
There's full stadiums and arenas again now all over the world pretty much so it isn't like we're the only country doing this.
Billy Dean
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Was wondering why I haven't had it yet.
grandjoeblue
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That Eric Deng who has posted that tweet always pushes for heavy lockdowns and as much restrictions as possible. I don't really see how lockdown can be used when large portions of society are vaccinated. Masks on public transport etc is debatable but lockdown can't be justified.
That's not entirely true either though, is it? Most evidence suggests that the protection of the vaccines is fairly low after a few months, hence why boosters are common. We don't say "I had a flu jab in 1973 so don't need worry anymore...". I quite agree that we do ultimately have to live with this thing, but it seems at the moment that the government's idea of "living with it" is to pretend it doesn't exist.
NHS staff don’t seem to be getting lined up for another booster either. Most of them had their last one more than six months ago.
The cynical take would be that the government would rather try and save money than roll out another round of boosters to protect people…
I honestly can’t see there ever being another lockdown in the UK, there’s no way the majority of the public would comply with it this time after the way this Government have broken the rules themselves and the Government will be well aware of this. On top of that, there’s no way that they can afford to bring furlough back.
grandjoeblue
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Yeh it will not happen here. I think there's still a chance masks might come back on some settings though.
I mean I didn't really suggest that but most people have had a booster of some sort within the last 2-3 months
I imagine they will be rolling out another booster later in the year ahead of flu season, for those at-risk groups especially.
We can go back to this but the vast majority of people didn't even need any vaccine to not end up close to needing hospital if they got COVID.
Yeah nobody tbf I think is suggesting lockdown and anyone who isn't absolutely outraged at what they're doing in China is questionable tbh.
Most people are well over this now. If you have symptoms/test positive then do your bit and don't mix. Other than that, get on with it and if you want to get a vaccine when/if more boosters become available then you should be able to but that should be choice.
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