Coronavirus

[Bibs]

£210bn in the UK up to August... will be well over £300bn I've have thought by March next year.

[Mark Blanchard]

6 hours ago, Kimbers said:

Looks like we will soon be able to get on with our lives!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54873105

Covid vaccine: First vaccine offers 90% protection

One of my mates manages the UK supply chain at Pfizer. He said the safety data isn't back yet, so it's not 100% confirmed. He said the old and vulnerable, key workers and hospitals will get it first and the vaccine should work for some people, but not everybody. And most people under 65 won't get vaccinated till mid next year.

He said there are other company's providing similar vaccines that will be released soon. Pfizer are give their formula away for free to other pharmaceutical companies world wide to help combat the virus.

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

 

[Dave Eds]

Got a mate who's at GSK producing millions of doses of 5 or 6 being trialled vaccines ready for release pending results.....

 

 

[Bazza 907]

Got a mate who's just left his job at a toy factory making tiddlywinks. Said it was counter productive...

[mg4lotus]

Got a mate who has just left his job at the cat food factory. He said "Because of Covid they were cutting back meowers".

[Barrykearley]

 

[Alfa2Evora]

I wasn’t allowed to say anything until today, but it's now okay for me to share that I have volunteered for the Covid-19 vaccine trials that a local Hospital are running in partnership with Pfizer. It's important that we all do our part to beat this virus.

The vaccine is the one that has been developed in Russia. I received my first dose this morning 06:20 am, and I wanted to let you all know that it’s completely safe, with иo side effects whatsoeveя, and that I feelshκι я чувю себя немного стрно и я думю, что вытл осные уши. чувству себя немго страом.

[thebartman]

Sorry to hear you're feeling a little strange .....    hope the 2nd or 3rd doses let you get back to normal - especiall the ears 🤣 

[slewthy]

Invest in cold storage!

 

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Sounds like you’re on the same trial as mayevora had on 3 November.

[Colin P]

Finally, one good thing to come out of COVID 19 - Peter Sutcliffe.

I remember holidaying in Yorkshire at the time as a kid and worrying about my mother. I also remember buying a Duplex Rover SD1 Scalextric car on that holiday. Still got it.

[red vtec]

5 hours ago, Colin P said:

Finally, one good thing to come out of COVID 19 - Peter Sutcliffe.

I remember holidaying in Yorkshire at the time as a kid and worrying about my mother. I also remember buying a Duplex Rover SD1 Scalextric car on that holiday. Still got it.

A woman I knew was his first girlfriend!! they were very young, she said he was a really polite young man. Just shows what lurks beneath. good riddance to him.

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

My eldest son was off school today with a touch of skiving-itis. His brother attended as usual.

After school, we started getting messages from his friends and even worried parents asking how we were all coping and if they could help us with our shopping. Apparently a kid at school, had started a rumour that our son had contracted coronavirus and by 3.15pm everyone in the town had taken the bait.

 

[PaulCP]

IMO the best way that the media could have dealt with the news about Sutcliffe today would to have been for them all to have ignored it. 

Stupid BBC just had to sensationalise it this morning saying that news of his death will bring back bad memories of his victims families. Well you stupid fcukers, it wouldn’t have would it had you not reported and sensationalised it.
They didn’t even take the hint when they interviewed the son of one of his victims when he said “I’ve not thought about it for years until you asked me to comment about his death”

[Toeside]

1 hour ago, PaulCP said:

IMO the best way that the media could have dealt with the news about Sutcliffe today would to have been for them all to have ignored it. 

Stupid BBC just had to sensationalise it this morning saying that news of his death will bring back bad memories of his victims families. Well you stupid fcukers, it wouldn’t have would it had you not reported and sensationalised it.
They didn’t even take the hint when they interviewed the son of one of his victims when he said “I’ve not thought about it for years until you asked me to comment about his death”

I was working/training as a youngster in Leeds during that period. Dark days with a respect to humanity. I agree sensationalising with interviews and correspondents  (in lock down!) visiting the area

 

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

I think they initially sent him to the prison near us. We all felt a bit more scared than usual!

[Colin P]

13 hours ago, Colin P said:

Finally, one good thing to come out of COVID 19 - Peter Sutcliffe.

I remember holidaying in Yorkshire at the time as a kid and worrying about my mother. I also remember buying a Duplex Rover SD1 Scalextric car on that holiday. Still got it.

Actually I just realised. My SD1 came a bit after this. It was my brother that bought the PMG Rover on that holiday, I bought the Mini HaHa, my first foray into adding lightness, the Rover came later because my brother eventually  refused to race me because the mini was so much faster . Still got the mini too.
 

Agree,  no need to sensationalise it, but a tenner says all the documentaries will be dusted off over the next few weeks. The coverage at the time was probably one of the first examples of panic being caused by the media coverage. 

[USAndretti42]

On 05/10/2020 at 20:35, Barrykearley said:

you really do have to wonder just what would have happened had this been 100years earlier 

It did and the Spanish flu killed between 17 and 100 million people.

On 08/10/2020 at 18:46, andydclements said:

 For example, if everybody that had symptoms were to isolate as required, the rate the infections spreads would be much less and so the people with no symptoms could carry on eating out and doing other things that keep the economy going but the overall rate of infection wouldn't be disastrous. 

Trouble is, people are infectious before they get symptoms.

[C8RKH]

13 hours ago, PaulCP said:

IMO the best way that the media could have dealt with the news about Sutcliffe today would to have been for them all to have ignored it.

Spot on. 

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

How’s the lockdown being heeded where you live? More of a mockdown round these parts. Just as many people out and about as usual, even at the weekend. If this is all it takes to keep the virus under control, then we’ll be fine.

[mg4lotus]

I think it's being generally adhered to around here. Numbers were starting to come down even before we were moved into tier 3 from what was being reported. And still coming down during lockdown.

You still see the occasional person that doesn't seem to understand the idea of masks.

[Steve V8]

It's mockdown here in the south west, the seriousness hasn't really occurred as this is our first wave.

Infections are running a mock through the schools and the government can't quite understand why infection rates are rising in young women. Perhaps those clever scientists should come and admire the unmasked habits of the gossiping locked down ladies (and some men) at the school gates.

[eeyoreish]

With schools and colleges still open and acting as mass melting pots I think most other people are looking on and thinking what’s the point..? Rightly or wrongly, but the reality is that very little was being spread in restaurants and pubs compared to education, hospitals, nursing homes and supermarkets, all of which remain open.

[ChrisJ]

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Our forebears, who faced risks on a scale few of us now in developed countries have any concept of, would have been bewildered by our obsessive focus on this single hazard of Covid. It is a serious disease, certainly, but there is no comparison to the Plague of 1665. Regardless, we have been led by ‘the science’ and our leaders to treat it as a threat far greater than anything else any of us has ever faced; and so much so that any precaution, any restriction, regardless of the fallout, is justified. 

It is surely one of the most peculiar facets of our current predicament that a certain type of scientist (whose sole focus in life is to tot up numbers and pretend to know the future) along with our hapless government ministers, have trapped themselves, and us, in the idea that life is worth living merely for the sake of being alive. In an even greater paradox, thousands have been condemned to dying alone, or indeed of loneliness, surely unprecedented in the history of civilization, for the sake of ‘saving’ others.

From an article in the Telegraph by Guy De La Bedoyere