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The overall threat will be WAY lower next year, if only because more people will be vaccinated and the virus will find it harder to spread.
No probs Pib. Easy mistake to make. I make plenty in my posts.
Been following this thread all the way through but rarely posting on it, as I'm less clued up than many.I don't mean this in an antagonistic way, but I'm curious as to what your response would be Nudga to the current situation? You've expressed an anti-lockdown and anti-covid vaccine stance throughout. I'm with you on some of the bullshit rules and how trust has been eroded massively by the way it has been handled politically, but I'm just interested to know what the alternatives would be if we didn't have lockdowns/jabs or both? As far as I can see the only other way is to let everyone catch it, which seems to me like it would be a disaster for hospitals, and obviously death tolls. I don't have extremely strong opinions though because I don't know enough about any alternatives and what they would be. I'd be curious to find out.My personal stance, as I'm sure many others' is, is in between the two extremes. Not a perfect analogy but I view it a bit like driving. I passed a test, have a licence, keep my car maintained, hold insurance, and drive within the rules of the road... there will never be no risk to me or others, but as long as I take those precautions then I feel fine about driving every day.By the same token I expect to be back at the Keepmoat for the Wimbledon game in a few weeks and hoping to go about my life as much as possible. I have followed the rules for the past 18 months (and continue to do so) and will have been double jabbed. There will never be no risk of catching the virus and getting ill, and others catching it as well, but having taken all the precautions available I feel that it is logical to return to living your life. Just the same as there being 25k people a year killed or seriously injured in road accidents, but still going out in the car every day.If I have to show proof of my vaccines on an app before I can go into the Keepmoat, I'm OK with that too for the time being. To continue the analogy, I would expect to have to prove I have a driving licence if pulled over in the car as well.
Was in the White Rose centre in Leeds today and we wore our masks and it seemed maybe 50/50 who did and didn’t. Went in a clothes shop and one of the assistants in there was saying they were short of staff. I asked if they were needing to recruit and she said no, a lot were in isolation.She did have a mask on but not all assistants did.
Quote from: pib on July 21, 2021, 01:37:27 pmBeen following this thread all the way through but rarely posting on it, as I'm less clued up than many.I don't mean this in an antagonistic way, but I'm curious as to what your response would be Nudga to the current situation? You've expressed an anti-lockdown and anti-covid vaccine stance throughout. I'm with you on some of the bullshit rules and how trust has been eroded massively by the way it has been handled politically, but I'm just interested to know what the alternatives would be if we didn't have lockdowns/jabs or both? As far as I can see the only other way is to let everyone catch it, which seems to me like it would be a disaster for hospitals, and obviously death tolls. I don't have extremely strong opinions though because I don't know enough about any alternatives and what they would be. I'd be curious to find out.My personal stance, as I'm sure many others' is, is in between the two extremes. Not a perfect analogy but I view it a bit like driving. I passed a test, have a licence, keep my car maintained, hold insurance, and drive within the rules of the road... there will never be no risk to me or others, but as long as I take those precautions then I feel fine about driving every day.By the same token I expect to be back at the Keepmoat for the Wimbledon game in a few weeks and hoping to go about my life as much as possible. I have followed the rules for the past 18 months (and continue to do so) and will have been double jabbed. There will never be no risk of catching the virus and getting ill, and others catching it as well, but having taken all the precautions available I feel that it is logical to return to living your life. Just the same as there being 25k people a year killed or seriously injured in road accidents, but still going out in the car every day.If I have to show proof of my vaccines on an app before I can go into the Keepmoat, I'm OK with that too for the time being. To continue the analogy, I would expect to have to prove I have a driving licence if pulled over in the car as well.Hi Pib, thanks for asking a reasonable question.If you've followed this thread then you would see my reasons.I'm going to politely decline on expanding any further because I can't be doing with being jumped on. I'm also going to step back from posting and coming on the forum as much as its not really a healthy pass time.I'm just going to pop in and check out the Rovers news. Have a great day all.Peace out, One Love.
How many on here a thick enough to still be using the NHS App. In a time when most adults are double vaccinated, the country is going to grind to a halt.Let's have a bit a WW2 spirit and grow some balls Far to many are pointing fingers.. if you want to wear mask , vaccinate and so on good, but dont class others as irresponsible. Some what to keep what little liberties they have left.
This WW2 spirit. Did it involve having bonfire parties that showed the Luftwaffe where built up areas were?
When you say certificate do you mean the card they gave you when you had your jabs?
Strange numbers today 39k cases seems lower than expected, 84 deaths unfortunately
Quote from: bpoolrover on July 22, 2021, 04:14:09 pmStrange numbers today 39k cases seems lower than expected, 84 deaths unfortunately If that 39k is the start of a sustained drop in the rate of increase in new cases that would be absolutely brilliant news. Too early to tell.My guess is it is down to kids' holidays so fewer school contacts. But that is likely to be at least balanced out by the relaxation of rules for everyone else. Hope I'm wrong and the new case number really do start falling.Deaths will inevitably keep on rising for a while even so because on average, those reported as dying today caught the virus a couple or three weeks ago. So the next 2-3 weeks of rises in deaths is baked in. It'll top out at at least 100 per day early next month, even if cases really have peaked.
Albie, we read every day about how the uk is viewed by someone not living here, but thanks for the link.On “freedom day”, surely “responsibility day” would be a better way of describing 19th July.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on July 22, 2021, 05:21:13 pmQuote from: bpoolrover on July 22, 2021, 04:14:09 pmStrange numbers today 39k cases seems lower than expected, 84 deaths unfortunately If that 39k is the start of a sustained drop in the rate of increase in new cases that would be absolutely brilliant news. Too early to tell.My guess is it is down to kids' holidays so fewer school contacts. But that is likely to be at least balanced out by the relaxation of rules for everyone else. Hope I'm wrong and the new case number really do start falling.Deaths will inevitably keep on rising for a while even so because on average, those reported as dying today caught the virus a couple or three weeks ago. So the next 2-3 weeks of rises in deaths is baked in. It'll top out at at least 100 per day early next month, even if cases really have peaked.BST, do you think that the government might have picked 19th July BECAUSE of the fewer school contacts due to school holidays starting?