When will this shit end?

[steviewevie]

26 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

I’m not sure if this was posted the other day but some good news regarding vaccines at this time!

 

should be, hopefully, fingers crossed...

[steviewevie]

20 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

 

why they releasing this...? comical end of a hard year thing? weird.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

should be, hopefully, fingers crossed...

Only on one hand, doing it on both is bad luck 😉

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

they're all on here....it's the lovable Boris Johnson show...he's a national treasure...

 

[Ryan1984]

Have had a couple of people I know have the app ping with instructions to self-isolate for four or five days despite not going very far. Does it keep track of where you’ve been without checking in?

[zahidf]

Some food for thought

- on December 20th, 521,594 people had received their first jab
- 366,715 of those were over 80
- So 70%
- the number vaccinated now stands at over 800k - so assuming the proportion holds, 560k over 80s
- There are 3.2 million over 80s in the UK
- They made up 54% of the death toll of COVID
- for 17.5% of the over 80s have received their first shot
- Estimates for the protection from the first shot range from 50-70%

So if the efficacy is 50% I make it that would mean a 4.7% drop in the fatality rate. Already.

6.6% if it is 70% effective on the first shot.

[Dark Star]

1 hour ago, Ryan1984 said:

Have had a couple of people I know have the app ping with instructions to self-isolate for four or five days despite not going very far. Does it keep track of where you’ve been without checking in?

Yep, if your phone bluetooth is on it will ping if someone who's spent whatever the set amount of time in close proximity gets a positive test.
 

[Mellotr0n]

50 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Some food for thought

- on December 20th, 521,594 people had received their first jab
- 366,715 of those were over 80
- So 70%
- the number vaccinated now stands at over 800k - so assuming the proportion holds, 560k over 80s
- There are 3.2 million over 80s in the UK
- They made up 54% of the death toll of COVID
- for 17.5% of the over 80s have received their first shot
- Estimates for the protection from the first shot range from 50-70%

So if the efficacy is 50% I make it that would mean a 4.7% drop in the fatality rate. Already.

6.6% if it is 70% effective on the first shot.

That’s the attitude. Worth bearing in mind the vaccination rate is likely to absolutely soar in the coming month. 

[zahidf]

 

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

Good Chance of Monday / Tue ...  not  long now 🙂 

[stuartbert two hats]

13 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

That makes me hopeful that they'll have some good new data in the 55+ group.

[Mr.Tease]

51 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

Why does his head look like its been superimposed onto his body, which in turn has been superimposed onto that background?!

[duke88]

3 hours ago, Ryan1984 said:

Have had a couple of people I know have the app ping with instructions to self-isolate for four or five days despite not going very far. Does it keep track of where you’ve been without checking in?

It doesn’t track your location, just your proximity to others with the app

[Crazyfool01]

First one of my colleagues to test positive now .... not sure what to do now .... they are shit at distancing ... he wears a mask .... ffs 😞 was always gonna happen 

[Guest]

45 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

First one of my colleagues to test positive now .... not sure what to do now .... they are shit at distancing ... he wears a mask .... ffs 😞 was always gonna happen 

Have you had much contact with them?

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Ozanne said:

Have you had much contact with them?

walked past them  a few times ... maybe used the same picking trolley ....  maybe been in changing room at the same time 😞 

[Mellotr0n]

4.76m vaccinations worldwide. 

EU countries all receiving their initial doses today to begin vaccinating tomorrow. 

Slovakian Minister for Health believes Slovakia can complete vaccination of their population within 3 months. 

[Sasperella]

6 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

walked past them  a few times ... maybe used the same picking trolley ....  maybe been in changing room at the same time 😞 

Its not a given though. I know plenty of couple were one tested positive and the other negative. 

Does your work not have a policy on what happen if one person gets it?

[Sasperella]

Just now, Sasperella said:

Its not a given though. I know plenty of couple were one tested positive and the other negative. Fingers crossed for you!

Does your work not have a policy on what happen if one person gets it?

 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Sasperella said:

Its not a given though. I know plenty of couple were one tested positive and the other negative. 

Does your work not have a policy on what happen if one person gets it?

yep absolutely .... im just a worrier ..... im sure they do .... might ring tomorrow and see if I can use some holiday though 😞 

[Sasperella]

2 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

yep absolutely .... im just a worrier ..... im sure they do .... might ring tomorrow and see if I can use some holiday though 😞 m

Fingers crossed for you! I'm sure you'll be fine 🙂

[st dan]

6 minutes ago, Mellotr0n said:

Slovakian Minister for Health believes Slovakia can complete vaccination of their population within 3 months. 

Hmmm this doesn’t seem to be fair- giving vaccine doses by absolute numbers rather than a fair proportion of the population? So the larger populated countries are essentially penalised then?

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, Sasperella said:

Fingers crossed for you! I'm sure you'll be fine 🙂

thanks ... probably 

 

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

walked past them  a few times ... maybe used the same picking trolley ....  maybe been in changing room at the same time 😞 

Hopefully you’ll be fine, you’ve kept all the precautions so I’m sure that means you have a really good chance of not picking it up!