[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[nicko31]

Britain saves the day again. When will the Americans finally step up

This isn't the UK one

Oxford trials still ongoing, one of many worldwide. Good start today but hopefully a big move towards normality. We can vaccinate healthcare workers and the vulnerable first. UK should get 10m doses by end of 2020 with 30m more in 2021

Could be in a relegation dog fight with crowds in the spring

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Has anyone watched a Youtube video saying its full of mind altering drugs manufactured by Government scientists with no proof whatsoever by Skeptical Dave from his mums basement yet?

Great news. Light at the end of the tunnel.

 

[timbha]

This isn't the UK one

Oxford trials still ongoing, one of many worldwide. Good start today but hopefully a big move towards normality. We can vaccinate healthcare workers and the vulnerable first. UK should get 10m doses by end of 2020 with 30m more in 2021

Could be in a relegation dog fight with crowds in the spring

Not sure why but at first I read your last para as being a dog fight for the last ones to get the vaccine!!

 

[darkwolf666]

Has anyone watched a Youtube video saying its full of mind altering drugs manufactured by Government scientists with no proof whatsoever by Skeptical Dave from his mums basement yet?

Great news. Light at the end of the tunnel.

I'm happy to be first in the queue then, think my mind has needed altering for a while!

 

[macbeth]

Could be in a relegation dog fight with crowds in the spring

well if this quote from Sir John Bell, Professor of Medicine at Oxford, is anything to go by:

https://twitter.com/Coronavirusgoo1/status/1325816568480194561?s=19

 

[Peteinblack]

Has anyone watched a Youtube video saying its full of mind altering drugs manufactured by Government scientists with no proof whatsoever by Skeptical Dave from his mums basement yet?

Great news. Light at the end of the tunnel.

No doubt funded by Bill and Melinda Gates, at the behest of our extra-terrestrial Lizard overlords .

 

[Poojah]

Has anyone watched a Youtube video saying its full of mind altering drugs manufactured by Government scientists with no proof whatsoever by Skeptical Dave from his mums basement yet?

Great news. Light at the end of the tunnel.

I’ve spent my life paying good money for mind altering drugs. Now this is going to be free on the NHS - what’s not to like? More great news.

 

[Swansman]

No doubt funded by Bill and Melinda Gates, at the behest of our extra-terrestrial Lizard overlords .

Personally I dont trust these two or the vaccines made here in Europe, so I decided to participate in the Russian vaccine trials and its great, so far no side effiчто бы то ни было.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

No doubt funded by Bill and Melinda Gates, at the behest of our extra-terrestrial Lizard overlords .

It's developed In conjunction with Aliens posing as Chinese so they fit in on earth like in Men in Black. Apparently, It's really an injection so they can mind control us using 5G technology like an episode of Doctor Who I saw when it was worth watching.

 

[jackalbion]

Has anyone watched a Youtube video saying its full of mind altering drugs manufactured by Government scientists with no proof whatsoever by Skeptical Dave from his mums basement yet?

Great news. Light at the end of the tunnel.

You say this like mind altering is a bad thing?

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Boris waiting for the scientific bugle

 

[Springal]

Explains what they've been doing in the Southwick tunnel all this time now

 

[KZNSeagull]

JVT says that we have scored the first penalty in a shoot out but we have not won the cup yet, just proven that the goalie can be beaten.

 

[Saltydog]

Also one hell of a massive thanks to those brave souls who were involved in the trails too.

My heart felt thanks to you xx

 

[pasty]

Why would the UK want to sue a vaccine? Great typo on BBC website

 

[Easy 10]

JVT says that we have scored the first penalty in a shoot out but we have not won the cup yet, just proven that the goalie can be beaten.

That truly was a RUBBISH analogy wasn't it. We already know any goalkeeper can be beaten, who needs proof of that ? Feeble.

Johnson's remark that "the distant toot of the scientific bugle is louder, but is still some way off" was a more effective simile. There is (finally) room for some cautious optimism, but we're a long way off loosening the shackles based on this.

 

[Poojah]

JVT says that we have scored the first penalty in a shoot out but we have not won the cup yet, just proven that the goalie can be beaten.

He's a smarter man than me, no doubt, but I don't think that analogy works. Penalty shootouts have a binary outcome - you either win or you fail, and in most cases scoring the first penalty doesn't significantly increase your chances of winning the shootout, much less the cup itself.

In my mind, there has never been any doubt that science would defeat the virus and allow us all to get on with our lives again. The big question has always been 'when'. We still don't know the answer to that of course, but today has brought the world news that we now have something capable of protecting people against a virus which has decimated most of the countries on the planet, and should be celebrated as a giant, forward step.

The war is not yet won, but what we have in front of us now is a series of known and ultimately surmountable challenges (mass production, cold storage, logistics, and so on). That's a significantly more optimistic picture than the one we all awoke to this morning.

As an aside, I thought this graphic on the BBC was really interesting - showing how the typical vaccine production timeline is being reduced by at least a factor of 5. In other words, we've reached the 5 year point in less than 12 months.

Let me saying again; today's news is not quite the beginning of the end of all of this, but it is nevertheless an utterly remarkable achievement and potentially a crucial development in human history.

 

[AmexRuislip]

That truly was a RUBBISH analogy wasn't it. We already know any goalkeeper can be beaten, who needs proof of that ? Feeble

Awaiting a VAR decision

Johnson's remark that "the distant toot of the scientific bugle is louder, but is still some way off" was a more effective simile. There is (finally) room for some cautious optimism, but we're a long way off loosening the shackles based on this.[/QUOTE]

Refs whistle

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[Me and my Monkey]

I have a simile of my own. We're sitting on a raft in the middle of the ocean, it's a seemingly hopeless situation. Suddenly, we spot a ship on the horizon. Everyone jumps up in excitement and starts waving and cheering, so the raft tips over, we all fall into the sea and drown.

Thank you.


Is that a simile or an analogy?

 

[darkwolf666]

I'm not too ashamed to say I burst into tears when they said they could start vaccinations by Christmas...