Coronavirus

[pauld]

Back to school then kids. You couldn't make this up. The spread will continue.

For a week and a half until it becomes obvious that what SAGE was telling them since before Christmas was actually right and that it helps drive the spread. Then another screeching U-turn. Too little, too late, that should have been the slogan this lazy incompetent ditherer fought the election on

[Batch]

it's a shitshow. primary closures in Swindon:

Closures so far : Beachcroft infants (7,8,9 closed only), Even swindon, Oakhurst, Shaw ridge

[Jimmy HaveHave]

it's a shitshow. primary closures in Swindon:

Closures so far : Beachcroft infants (7,8,9 closed only), Even swindon, Oakhurst, Shaw ridge

Maybe many parents wind let their kids go

[theakston2k]

I see they are now worried about the effectiveness of the vaccine against the South African variant but the vaccine could perhaps be tweaked in ‘4 to 6 weeks’. If there becomes any prolonged question marks about the vaccines effectiveness against various mutations I can’t see any choice but to just get on with things and live with it. I can’t see people following restrictions if the light at the end up tunnel keeps getting further away, next 2 or 3 months are make or break, putting your life on hold for 1 year is one thing, once we pass the 12 month mark in March people’s views will start to change.

[Batch]

no, it's due to unions advising staff not to go in.

[Batch]

I see they are now worried about the effectiveness of the vaccine against the South African variant but the vaccine could perhaps be tweaked in ‘4 to 6 weeks’. If there becomes any prolonged question marks about the vaccines effectiveness against various mutations I can’t see any choice but to just get on with things and live with it. I can’t see people following restrictions if the light at the end up tunnel keeps getting further away, next 2 or 3 months are make or break, putting your life on hold for 1 year is one thing, once we pass the 12 month mark in March people’s views will start to change.

oh fuck. where did you see that?

[Jimmy HaveHave]

How are France, Italy & Spain coping as we here verŷ little about them these days

[theakston2k]

oh fuck. where did you see that?

Bottom of this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55521747

Said everything will be fine but now in a game of ‘cat and mouse’.

[BambooToTheFuture]

I see they are now worried about the effectiveness of the vaccine against the South African variant but the vaccine could perhaps be tweaked in ‘4 to 6 weeks’. If there becomes any prolonged question marks about the vaccines effectiveness against various mutations I can’t see any choice but to just get on with things and live with it. I can’t see people following restrictions if the light at the end up tunnel keeps getting further away, next 2 or 3 months are make or break, putting your life on hold for 1 year is one thing, once we pass the 12 month mark in March people’s views will start to change.

I know you don't mean this in full so it's not directed at you in full but imagine people who have a very extreme view of this. It would seem quite ironic that the impatience of a human led to a demise of humanity. I think they call it natural selection to some degree.

Btw, what you say is fairly correct even if I am erring in the slight other side of not wanting to kill other people/put them at risk but I do share your concerns regarding mental health (as a reminder to some who will have you believe I stated I'm a consultant psychologist) and I'm glad I don't have to make that balance.

[theakston2k]

I know you don't mean this in full so it's not directed at you in full but imagine people who have a very extreme view of this. It would seem quite ironic that the impatience of a human led to a demise of humanity. I think they call it natural selection to some degree.

Btw, what you say is fairly correct even if I am erring in the slight other side of not wanting to kill other people/put them at risk but I do share your concerns regarding mental health (as a reminder to some who will have you believe I stated I'm a consultant psychologist) and I'm glad I don't have to make that balance.

But it can only be classed as impatience so long, if we are still in the position we are now this time next year due to mutations would you really be able to call people impatient or ‘COVidiots’ anymore if they chose to live their life normally again? At some point people have the right to make their own decisions. We’ve been told Spring is when some normality will start to return, if this doesn’t happen or we continue to lurch from one set of restrictions to another I think people will naturally take matters into their own hands. Like I say the next 3 months are make or break IMO.

[Batch]

cheers theakston. no need to panic yet then

[Bogus Dave]

Literally no different to the flu vaccine, which is the same basic vaccine tweaked every year to be effective against the most prevalent strain that winter

Calm down, stop panicking

[Nomoreheroes]

cheers theakston. no need to panic yet then

NO!

Everything else I have read has said:

- There is no reason that the vaccine shouldn't work
- Scientists are testing it now
- The vaccine can be tweaked if necessary to cope with the mutation
- The vaccine would be able to be tweaked in 4-6 weeks if necessary

That's a massive difference to the implication that the vaccine won't work and we have to find another one!

[bathford]

So we are now looking at a new full lockdown in the not to distant future..

How many clubs will be left if this continues for a full second year?

[Jimmy HaveHave]

So we are now looking at a new full lockdown in the not to distant future..

How many clubs will be left if this continues for a full second year?

A massive knock on if it happens, more job losses, maybe furlough extended again, housing market, economy etc