[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[Guinness Boy]

Sat in the garden, in the warm sun, chatting with 3 mates and eating fish and chips this afternoon. Felt almost......normal. Psychologically much more uplifting than I expected.

In just over a month's time it will be my wedding anniversary. Last year we should have been in Cyprus. I spent it instead at home with restricted breathing and no sense of smell.

This evening I have just booked me and Mrs GB into a restaurant to celebrate this year's one, am completely recovered and looking forward to getting back to normal. Booking a restaurant - once such a normal activity for so many of us - felt like a breakthrough moment.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines have been found to be 90% effective (after 2 doses, 80% after 1 dose) in preventing Coronavirus infections in U.S. study of essential workers. That’s real-world data for you! Let’s go!
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[Poojah]

Seeing wife’s family tomorrow for the first time since Christmas.

Most importantly, our 3 year olds seeing them. He’s been asking when he can see Grandma and Grandpa for so long. Can’t wait to see his face light up when we see them.

As tragic as the last year has been, it’s a great reminder of what family and more specifically grandparents mean to kids. We haven’t seen my parents, save for a brief exchange of presents in a motorway service station on Boxing Day, since last August.

We told the kids, 7 and 5, that we were going to see grandma and grandad this weekend and I may as well have told them it was Christmas again. Absolute scenes! No doubt children (and adults) are more materialistic with each generation, but it’s lovely to see that family remains so important to them. They’ve missed out on school, holidays, just the odd day out - but no doubt they’ve missed their loved ones beyond our immediate family unit, more than anything.

I’m saddened but also massively heartened by that.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

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Real time data out of Israel shows vaccine is working on variants

 

[The Wizard]

Latest ONS antibody survey (from two weeks ago) shows 54.7% of people or just over 1/2 tested positive for antibodies.

Give us our freedoms back! The light at the end of the tunnel is here but they won’t let us drive out

 

[bhafc99]

Had my second Pfizer jab today.

Good news in my world, anyway!


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[zeemeeuw]

My wife's parents (late 70s) got their first dose of the AZ Vaccine last week in Kenya! We really were not expecting this to happen so quickly but the kids can look forward to seeing their grandparents again (mixed feelings for me obviously ).

 

[dazzer6666]

Latest ONS antibody survey (from two weeks ago) shows 54.7% of people or just over 1/2 tested positive for antibodies.

Give us our freedoms back! The light at the end of the tunnel is here but they won’t let us drive out

As the data is from 2 weeks ago, it's essentially the antibody levels from 5 weeks ago.......................in which time we've done about 15 million jabs....................

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Great news!

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[Kinky Gerbil]

Politics For All
@PoliticsForAlI
Police cars revolving light BREAKING: The ‘Kentish’ variant of coronavirus was NOT associated with a higher increase in mortality

Via
@PHE_uk


So not 70 percent more deadly...... There really needs to be accountability to sage/experts/media in pumping that bullshit out

 

[blue-shifted]

Politics For All
@PoliticsForAlI
Police cars revolving light BREAKING: The ‘Kentish’ variant of coronavirus was NOT associated with a higher increase in mortality

Via
@PHE_uk


So not 70 percent more deadly...... There really needs to be accountability to sage/experts/media in pumping that bullshit out

Good news thread and all. But nobody from SAGE said this was 70% more deadly. They did highlight evidence which suggested a very slight increase in mortality. For which there was some evidence at the time. They clearly couldn't suppress that evidence.

 

[A1X]

Politics For All
@PoliticsForAlI
Police cars revolving light BREAKING: The ‘Kentish’ variant of coronavirus was NOT associated with a higher increase in mortality

Via
@PHE_uk


So not 70 percent more deadly...... There really needs to be accountability to sage/experts/media in pumping that bullshit out

Is this kind of thing really necessary in the Good News thread? Post the news, then take your opinions somewhere else.

 

[driller]

Politics For All
@PoliticsForAlI
Police cars revolving light BREAKING: The ‘Kentish’ variant of coronavirus was NOT associated with a higher increase in mortality

Via
@PHE_uk


So not 70 percent more deadly...... There really needs to be accountability to sage/experts/media in pumping that bullshit out

They said 70% more transmissible not deadly.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Good news thread and all. But nobody from SAGE said this was 70% more deadly. They did highlight evidence which suggested a very slight increase in mortality. For which there was some evidence at the time. They clearly couldn't suppress that evidence.

From the independent - other sources reported the same.

The more infectious Kent variant of coronavirus may be up to twice as deadly compared with previously circulating forms of Covid-19, a new study suggests.

Epidemiologists from the universities of Exeter and Bristol found the B117 variant, which took hold in southeast England last year before spreading around the world, is between 30 per cent and 100 per cent more deadly.

 

[crodonilson]

Overall deaths down below the 5 year average for the third week running, lockdown and the vaccination programme is working.

 

[nwgull]

From the independent - other sources reported the same.

The more infectious Kent variant of coronavirus may be up to twice as deadly compared with previously circulating forms of Covid-19, a new study suggests.

Epidemiologists from the universities of Exeter and Bristol found the B117 variant, which took hold in southeast England last year before spreading around the world, is between 30 per cent and 100 per cent more deadly.

It's hardly pumping out bullshit when they're reporting the results of studies by epidemiologists from respected institutions, is it?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

It's hardly pumping out bullshit when they're reporting the results of studies by epidemiologists from respected institutions, is it?

They couldn’t wait to report it without proper and complete data, no harm in waiting till you have the full picture.

And it’s turned out to be “bullshit” so yes, it was pumping it out.

If they want to rush to conclusions, fine - there should be questions asked as to why and how they came to a conclusions.

 

[nwgull]

They couldn’t wait to report it without proper and complete data, no harm in waiting till you have the full picture.

And it’s turned out to be “bullshit” so yes, it was pumping it out.

If they want to rush to conclusions, fine - there should be questions asked as to why and how they came to a conclusions.

One study suggests higher mortality; one study doesn't. Which one is wrong - who knows? I'd certainly not discount a real-world and peer-reviewed study of 54,000 positive cases as bullshit.

If you want unsubstantiated bullshit, Karol Sikora is your man.

 

[Napper]

Is this kind of thing really necessary in the Good News thread? Post the news, then take your opinions somewhere else.

disagree

what he posted was good news and the comment after was ok for me

 

[crabface]

Do we have to argue on the good news thread? Alot of people come here for positive news not to see people arguing.