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Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 15, 2021, 04:40:43 pmLooking like good news on the vaccination front. We were up to 320,000 in a single day yesterday. If we managed that, just five days a week from now to Easter, we'd pretty much have all the top 9 most vulnerable categories covered with a first dose.And I'd expect the daily rate to continue going up and there to be some vaccinations over the weekend.24/7 is the way to go, I’d certainly go in the middle of the night to get vaccinated
Looking like good news on the vaccination front. We were up to 320,000 in a single day yesterday. If we managed that, just five days a week from now to Easter, we'd pretty much have all the top 9 most vulnerable categories covered with a first dose.And I'd expect the daily rate to continue going up and there to be some vaccinations over the weekend.
When I talk about the importance of countering misinformation, it is precisely t**ts like Toby Young here that I'm thinking about.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55676037The man gets paid to churn out demonstrable shite.He's just been picked up on it by the Press Watchdog and in his response, publicised by the f**king BBC here without comment, he peddles another lie that he's been picked up on countless times.He says the WHO initially said the IFR was 3.4%.They didn't. Ever. They said in the early stages the CASE Fatality Rate was 3.4%. That is a totally different thing as he damn well knows.He also said yesterday that everyone now agreed that the IFR was actually 0.025%. And he used the difference between those two numbers to pour scorn on people who accept the word of "experts" when they can obviously get stuff so wrong.But hold on. We've had very nearly 100,000 COVID deaths in the UK. If the IFR was 0.025%, that would mean that 400 million people in the UK had been infected.But that's what he does. Peddling dangerous b*llocks for the desperate and gullible to pick up and repeat.Oh aye. And this Govt gave him a job looking over education standards a while ago. That's right. A man incapable of telling truth from lies or doing primary school maths. About 10 years ago we had a family trip to Legoland and I helped carry a pushchair for a lady down some steps , she thanked me and said I was far more thoughtful than her husband, who had left her to struggle. He promptly appeared and was none other than Toby Young took great pleasure in beating them hands down on the fire engine ride too
Stated on Talk Radio that over 300k vaccinations were achieved on Thursday I haven't heard it anywhere else though. If true brilliant, The centre at York is already working.
Raab speculated that a relaxation of the current lockdown would be a return to the Tier system possibly late Feb but more likely late March
Quote from: ravenrover on January 17, 2021, 12:34:54 pmRaab speculated that a relaxation of the current lockdown would be a return to the Tier system possibly late Feb but more likely late MarchThe big question is, why was this lockdown delayed so long? We knew from early December that something fundamentally different had started happening from late November, and that cases had started increasing again despite the lockdown-lite. What logic was being applied, in those circumstances, to justify easing, not intensifying the lockdown measures?If we had kept new cases down at 12,000 a day as they were at the start of December, we would, with the vaccines taking effect, have been able to move back to the Tier system much earlier, and 10-20,000 people who have died or are going to die over the next 6 weeks would be alive.It's part of the consistent pattern of response. Hope for the best and don't plan for the worst. Failing to learn the key lesson over and over again - that if you don't get ahead of the curve, this virus hits you f**king hard. And you don't save your economy by delaying the hard decisions and crossing your fingers. That is guaranteed to make the damage worse than acting hard and early.Fortunately it does look as though the vaccine distribution process has been better managed. But by the time that makes a real difference, we will have had by a long way the highest death toll and worst economic hit in Europe. And it didn't have to be that way.
Sunak also went out on a limb and suggested the public get on with things despite covid and of course there was eat out to help out. That initiative alone must've been responsible for a lot of unnecessary infections.Is he still considered a rising star of the tory party?He's certainly lying low these days.
I heard it was 2 weeks for the Pfizer and 3 weeks for the Oxford to take effect