Coronavirus

Quoted from Stadium

Just one person among 87 people who reached the south coast of England in four separate vessels on Saturday had the disease, a Home Office spokesperson said.

That’s good to hear then 86 must of been wearing there masks🤔

We've had covid now for best part of a year and I wonder if our politicians have learnt anything. Thankfully we now have vaccines which have been rolled out helping to protect us.

This weekend has seen thousands out in the sun and looking at the photo's not social distancing. So where are the Police who by their on words are their to 'advise';  missing.

The biggest group for spreading covid has been school children. Now I really do sympathise that they are not in school but many are being taught online. So why has Boris decided to open the schools next week. Easter is only 4 weeks away so wouldn't it be better to open them up at the start of summer term. This would give the NHS more time to vaccinate 1,000's more people helping to protect all of us.

Stammer and Co. could stop sniping at Boris and become fully supportive, for the time being. Neither of them have come up what to do in the future. We are treated by the politicians as being them same, whereas some of us live in the countryside as opposed to those who live in high populated cities. Many live halfway between these two extremes.

I do realise that the government have their hands full but we do need to know what the future plan for our health is and what the opposition plan would be. Or as in any war a coalition plan to beat covid.

Are you real? Starmer’s done nothing BUT support Boris which is exactly why the govt have been allowed to fail again and again and again.

Quoted from ska face

Are you real? Starmer’s done nothing BUT support Boris which is exactly why the govt have been allowed to fail again and again and again.

As you know ska I'm middle of the road in politics. I know Stammer did support Boris at the beginning but as months went on, to me, he and his aides started sniping so I'm only expressing my view and not supporting either side.

What I am more interested in is what's next for us. Vaccination every year, like flu, masks all the time, social distancing etc. It would be nice to know what the plan is

Quoted from DB

The biggest group for spreading covid has been school children.

Where have you got this from DB?
I’ve not seen a shred of evidence to support this!

Quoted from Humbercod

Where have you got this from DB?
I’ve not seen a shred of evidence to support this!

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Zero chance of lessons being learned...only a few days prior to his big reveal last week they altered shielding guidance...again, then announced the opening of schools. Good idea some may say...excrement idea for me who now has seen our shielding numbers go from 2 to 4, meaning I technically don’t have enough teachers to cover all the lessons.

The testing process is farcical at best (aside from being pretty pointless) and schools are still in whatever bubble system they had previously, although I expect the ‘advice’ offered by PHE (this has seemingly varied depending on who you get on the phone) will be somewhat different.

Once again, specialist settings were seemingly left out of any guidance and have to cobble it together as best they can and then information fed to parents, but the government doesn’t tell a full story creating even more confusion.

So sadly, lessons haven’t been learnt...but we trundle on.

It's a bit strange at present as there is great news in that the vaccines seem to be very effective, even after a single dose, so that side of things is working out almost better than we could have hoped. On the other hand, other parts of government policy seem to be formed on a wing and a prayer.

The pre-print paper which Hancock was getting so excited about yesterday does seem to indicate that, in addition to reducing symptomatic infection by 60 to 70% in the over-70s, a single dose of either of the two vaccines also reduces the risk of hospitalisation by 80% and the risk of death by 85%. The proviso is that the immune response from the AZ vaccine doesn't really kick in fully until around 4 weeks after the immunisation (Pfizer is a bit quicker). With these numbers, we ought to be able to get the pandemic under control by the summer (providing the immunity provided is relatively long-lasting) and any future surge in infections in the autumn ought to be hugely less deadly and damaging.

However, in the rush to get schools fully open, it seems a bizarre choice not to attempt to give the teachers some form of protection through vaccination. I get that, statistically, it is probably better to immunise those in their 40s before focussing on teachers, but the argument for going this way seems to mostly be that it would be too difficult to organise the vaccination of teachers so best just to do in by age order!

It will be the case that I get vaccinated before my wife (who is a secondary school teacher) just because I'm a decade older - despite the fact that she's going to be spending 3 days a week in classrooms full of teenagers. I, on the other hand, have virtually no contact with anybody outside of immediate family.

It will be interesting to see if the endless testing of teachers and pupils will actually bring to light many infections or not. I suspect they are going this way just because they've bought so many of the lateral flow tests and need to get them used up!

Quoted from DB

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Link?

Quoted from Humbercod

Link?

Too late to say. It's a I've had for many weeks even months.