Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
- 9,524
Behind the scenes photo of JVT calming down Boris before last night's presser.
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[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread
- Thread starter Bozza
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I reckon he'd go for the low blow first, then steam in with an upper cut before finishing with a diving elbow
to the chest on the floor.
Or a straightforward head-butt.
swindonseagull
Well-known member
The cacophony of noise from the NSC viral experts who said there would never be a vaccine is but a distant memory now
All of them graduated from the University of Facebook, with the occasional evening class with Professor Google.
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
- 18,399
Flu numbers are at a record low and so the NHS is coping very well with COVID capacity, fantastic news.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...vid-vaccine-means-NHS-miss-winter-crisis.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...vid-vaccine-means-NHS-miss-winter-crisis.html
crodonilson
He/Him
NHS bed occupancy below 87% currently against 95% last year and lower than any November in the past 7 years.
It’s an interesting stat, and one I find both surprising and unsurprising in equal measure.
This time lest year, I remember I had a horrible sinus infection. My head felt like a balloon, I couldn’t hear properly, my eyes hurt and my nose was constantly streaming. Obviously, because I wasn’t physically bed ridden I was in the offices, shaking hands and sharing tight meeting rooms at close quarters, ‘cos that’s what you did, innit. It ran right the way through Christmas and into the new year.
I would say most years from October through to March I’ve spent more time than not with some kind of mild, irritating but not in any way incapacitating illness. This year, and I’m conscious of jinxing myself here, unless I’ve had a case of totally asymptomatic Covid, I’ve not been remotely ill once (hangovers aside, obvs). I’ve been working from home, away from all those dirty fúckers who bring their disease into the office like some badge of honour. And yes, I’m staring straight in the mirror as I write that.
The bugger about Covid is that it’s so infectious, so whenever measures have been imposed to suppress it, it must have kicked the fúck out of all of those old school illnesses that normally bother us this time of year. I think they call them ‘retroviruses’...
P.S. I honestly didn’t write this whole post just to tee that line up, I promise.
Unless of course those that would be struggling with Flu have already succumbed to Covid!!!!
Well, no. Wrong thread for a start, but the reality is that the measures put in place to suppress Covid, plus general improvements in public hygiene, will have also had a major impact on the other diseases that would be prevalent this time of year.
I'm sure all of these factors are in play. The positive thing regardless is that there is capacity in the healthcare both in the UK and, from what I've seen, all over Europe. No crisis in that sense.
If someone told me in late March or April that this would be the "end result" in Covid-19 vs. the World, I'd take it.
Yep, bang on mate.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Is this going to be the live broadcast of Hancock and Morgan with two metre needles
Marshy
Well-known member
We could not have ben more accurate !
sydney
tinky ****in winky
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800,000 doses of vaccine due in the UK by the end of next week, with more expected before the end of the year:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55184849
I suspect that there will be a small amount of wastage due to the implications of storing and administering this particular vaccine, however in theory that's enough to immunise 400,000 people, roughly 6% of the population amongst many of which will be those most vulnerable to the virus. Whilst clearly there remains a large and complex logistical effort ahead of us, it seems logical that we could very quickly begin to see a significant reduction in Covid-related deaths and a disconnect between that figure and case numbers.
And that, surely, is the key to us beginning to get our lives back.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55184849
I suspect that there will be a small amount of wastage due to the implications of storing and administering this particular vaccine, however in theory that's enough to immunise 400,000 people, roughly 6% of the population amongst many of which will be those most vulnerable to the virus. Whilst clearly there remains a large and complex logistical effort ahead of us, it seems logical that we could very quickly begin to see a significant reduction in Covid-related deaths and a disconnect between that figure and case numbers.
And that, surely, is the key to us beginning to get our lives back.
There will be a moment soon when the tide will turn on the virus and the situation will only continue to get better, and better, and better.
nickbrighton
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- Feb 19, 2016
- 2,129
The government do seem to have stolen a march on the rest of the world here. The early approval of the vaccine, and the pre-ordering looks like they have finally got something right first go (early days I know). We look to become the first Western country to begin a large scale vaccination, and so should be the first to see the benefits .If the Oxford Vaccine gets approval in the next week or so, we could well find ourselves embarking on a countrywide, general vaccination quite soon after Christmas.
With the first immunisations taking place next week to the most at risk, (90+% of all covid deaths are in this group), we should see a massive reduction in hospitalisations and deaths start to become apparant around Christmas/New Year.
How different things look from just a few weeks ago
With the first immunisations taking place next week to the most at risk, (90+% of all covid deaths are in this group), we should see a massive reduction in hospitalisations and deaths start to become apparant around Christmas/New Year.
How different things look from just a few weeks ago
