When will this shit end?

[Fuzzy Afro]

2 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

If you think about it, the presence of all those Deliveroo drives is because so many people are following the rules and staying in!

Ah yes. The great virtue signalling middle class. Staying at home and outsourcing their risk to deliveroo guys. 

[Guest]

The amount of the people you see out and about will be so low in comparison to ones you don’t see that are at home. 

[steviewevie]

Marina Hyde...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/23/boris-johnson-dog-dilyn-prime-minister-spad-no-10

[gooner1990]

16 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Click and collect is allowed from shops. 

I know, the point was the social distancing.

[gooner1990]

19 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

If you think about it, the presence of all those Deliveroo drives is because so many people are following the rules and staying in!

Shame that the drivers themselves aren't when waiting for the orders to come out of the shop!

[xxialac]

Brilliant grilling of Hancock today. Never cease to be amazed at finding myself writing this but Piers Morgan is the only commentator to really hold these politicians to account. Exposed his incompetence, arrogance and brazen manipulation of the facts.

[gizmoman]

46 minutes ago, Punksnotdead said:

About time - I've been waiting for flying cars since I was a kid! 😄

Wish Gerry Anderson's view of the future had come to pass, would be far better than this shit!

[zahidf]

Nature is healing

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/19109815.police-urge-people-not-attend-dogging-event-canvey/

[Mellotr0n]

3 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Nature is healing

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/19109815.police-urge-people-not-attend-dogging-event-canvey/

It’s so lovely seeing people starting to enjoy normality again. 

[Leyrulion]

2 hours ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

No I'm on about the St John Ambulance one. I've done hours of training to qualify for that one and I'm eligible now but can't find any shifts. I think @Leyrulion had a similar issue?

I can never find anything on Good Sam either. Will keep trying though! 

Yep, the organisation behind the scenes appears to be a little chaotic. Which is fine, it is a national emergency after all and it doesn't seem to be affecting having actual people available. 

I have had my first shifts booked now, but they're in April. Haven't had my ID card yet but hoping it turns up at some point soon before April!  So definitely going to be going over the material before I attend my first shift. You do have 20 supervised vaccinations before you get signed off to do it so the delay isn't that bad really. 

I've even requested some shifts into May because they're even booked up that far in advance. I figure it's better for them to know they have cover a long way into the future. 

 

Tbh I am getting the sense that SJA are struggling a little by being SO volunteer led. It seems like the sheer volume of the logistics is almost too much, I don't quite understand why they haven't put some 6 month temp jobs in. Surely funding isn't an issue? Maybe they have and it's still not enough!

[JoeyT]

 

[RarerThanDandyB]

Vaccine booked for next week. Only 20 so it was a bit of a shock but get that needle in me. Shows how quick everything is being done. 

[StuMalinas]

Just now, RarerThanDandyB said:

Vaccine booked for next week. Only 20 so it was a bit of a shock but get that needle in me. Shows how quick everything is being done. 

do you have underlying health conditions

edit- if you don't mind disclosing

Edited February 23, 2021 by StuMalinas

[RarerThanDandyB]

Just now, StuMalinas said:

do you have underlying health conditions

Nope, the only thing was a heart murmur when I was born, that fully healed by 9/10 and I was permanently discharged. Didnt think that would count but thinking about it, if its on the system then that could've boosted me. 

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

Vaccine booked for next week. Only 20 so it was a bit of a shock but get that needle in me. Shows how quick everything is being done. 

That’s really odd ... you were Liverpool weren’t you ? 

[StuMalinas]

Just now, RarerThanDandyB said:

Nope, the only thing was a heart murmur when I was born, that fully healed by 9/10 and I was permanently discharged. Didnt think that would count but thinking about it, if its on the system then that could've boosted me. 

defo I go out on my ambulance placement in the next couple weeks so i'm starting to get nervous about not being jabbed

[RarerThanDandyB]

Just now, crazyfool1 said:

That’s really odd ... you were Liverpool weren’t you ? 

Born there, moved to Bolton when I was younger, in Nottingham now. Answer is it's happening in Nottingham.

[danmarks]

5 hours ago, music fan said:

Though I'm feeling fairly optimistic that all restrictions will be scrapped on 21st June and that festivals will be allowed to go ahead.  It's by no means absolutely definite.  And from what I heard with the PM's announcement and press conference yesterday, we will only be given ONE WEEK'S notice of each stage of lockdown/restrictions easing.  So if the 21st June all easing of restrictions doesn't go ahead/gets pushed back, well that would be no good for festivals and events that were all ready to go ahead in late June/early July!

Even after yesterday's announcements, a few concerts/festivals intended to take place in late June in Bristol have been cancelled. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/bristol-sounds-concerts-cancelled-after-5033439

 

 

 

I put this in the festival running from may thread yesterday.

Had an email cancelling all the dates about 9.30 yesterday morning

 Before any announcement.

[gooner1990]

It’s going to feel weird when I start to talk about Glastonbury on this forum again without COVID hanging over it like a giant cloud. 

[Greenelk]

1 hour ago, zahidf said:

Nature is healing

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/19109815.police-urge-people-not-attend-dogging-event-canvey/

Sometimes I'm so proud to come from Essex....

[zahidf]

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/

 

64+ year olds can now book vaccine appointments online.

[charlierc]

11 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

I wonder who will headline in 2038 ? 🙂

Probably Coldplay again

[gizmoman]

On 2/20/2021 at 5:41 PM, Toilet Duck said:

Bad news for Vit D in the latest study...larger trial to the one discussed last week, but no obvious impact on outcome. This one is in JAMA..

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776738

it’s not uncommon to get different results in different studies, systematic reviews will sort them out, but at the moment, correcting a deficiency with high dose Vit D doesn’t look like having the same kind of impact as steroids do. 
 

 

 

Sorry to go back to this study, but it seems there are serious concerns about the way it was carried out, this blog goes into it,

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-02-22/doctors-vitamin-d-erode-trust/

It's a 40 min video which goes into detail but

Bottom line is his criticisms,

• The doctors gave patients a single dose, one that barely qualifies as a high dose despite the study description, that earlier research on Vitamin D, conducted four years ago, proved doesn’t work. In other words, they designed a study that was entirely unnecessary because the outcome was known beforehand. The research was a complete waste of everybody’s time and a betrayal of the patients who took part because nothing could be learnt from it.
• Even worse, the form of Vitamin D the researchers gave the patients needs 10 days to become available in their bodies, far too late to help these seriously ill patients in their battle against Covid. Another form, calcifediol, which is available for use by the immune system immediately, should have been given instead, as it was in the Spanish study.
• In addition, not only was the wrong form of Vitamin D given but it was administered to patients 11 days after the onset of their symptoms – a huge time lag that, as Dr Vasquez observes, would ensure that many established drug treatments – for illnesses such as influenza, for example – would be guaranteed to fail too.
• The combined delay in treatment and the delay in the Vitamin D becoming active meant the patients had to wait three weeks before their Covid was being treated in any meaningful way. But that was the point at which the study ended and an assessment was drawn about Vitamin D as an ineffective treatment.

[xxialac]

14 minutes ago, zahidf said:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/

 

64+ year olds can now book vaccine appointments online.

That's a slot they've opened up especially for Paul McCartney

[zahidf]

 

Doh