Covid passports for football

Quoted from golfer

Yesterday when the Precinct was fairly quiet I waited while the wife went into Next and during a 10 minute period I counted 13 people who were not wearing a mask. The majority of these were 20 something year old males who i am pretty sure weren't exempt. Grow up you selfish bstards and think of other people before you kill someone. I don't suppose you care at the moment but when it happens to you I hope you'll be squealing like a baby.

Quoted from Dave Gilberts Left Peg

You Sir, are an absolute idiot, I feel embarrassed to support the same club as you. Are you a member of Sage?

Quoted from Maringer

Nope, but I have a scientific background, can read and comprehend. If you'd like to offer a different opinion to me, you should try it. Who knows, you might even learn something?

Trolling aside, I did some shopping in Aldi last night (Cleethorpe Road). 90% of the men in there weren't wearing a mask. Probably approximately half of the women. I think perhaps 1 member of staff was wearing in a mask - round his chin.

Given that Omicron is apparently still at relatively low levels around here, people aren't going to know what hits them over the next week or two.

Quoted from rancido

I know the choices and risks bipolar causes because of my daughter and she decided the vaccine was still her best option.

Quoted from Maringer

Don't be so ridiculous. The harms reported in the vast majority of the Yellow Card reports are absolutely nothing to do with the vaccination. To my knowledge, the risk of heart problems with the mRNA vaccines haven't led to any reported deaths at all, around the world. The Adenovirus vaccines (AZ and the J&J which isn't used in the UK), can cause a clotting issue on very rare occasions, but a lot less than 100 people have died in the UK from millions of doses given:

https://www.gov.uk/government/.....9-vaccine-foi-21-496

Incidentally, it seems you are certain that Omicron is milder than Delta or earlier variants. It's an interesting view, but there is no data to show this is true one way or the other yet. The problem is that, even if it is milder than the earlier variants it is so, so infectious that it is likely that it will find its way into enough vulnerable people to be very dangerous, especially if they all become infected in a very short period. Over 80,000 people died in the big Alpha wave which lasted 4 or 5 months and it seems that one or two modellers think there are likely to be perhaps third to a half of that number for Omicron, albeit compressed into a shorter period. Let's hope they are right, though 30,000+ deaths aren't anything to be happy about.

As for footy, with the case rates we're going to be seeing over the next month or two, I simply can't see how the football season can continue without a break. Loads of the players, officials and pretty much anybody involved in the running of a game will be infected or isolating over the next month or two so I suspect we'll see play suspended, perhaps after Boxing Day, until a future date. Probably during February or March. A bit more leeway this season as the World Cup isn't going to be played until November/December so there wouldn't be the rush to get all the fixtures played if it was a summer competition. It wouldn't be difficult to rejig the season a bit more so that it didn't start until September and then continued to June 2023.

Quoted from golfer

Yesterday when the Precinct was fairly quiet I waited while the wife went into Next and during a 10 minute period I counted 13 people who were not wearing a mask. The majority of these were 20 something year old males who i am pretty sure weren't exempt. Grow up you selfish bstards and think of other people before you kill someone. I don't suppose you care at the moment but when it happens to you I hope you'll be squealing like a baby.

Quoted from Maringer

Given that Omicron is apparently still at relatively low levels around here, people aren't going to know what hits them over the next week or two.