When will this shit end?

[Fuzzy Afro]

28 minutes ago, Mellotr0n said:

I dunno.

Kill thousands of their own people just for some perceived attempt to flimsily save face?

That’s French government logic for you. 

Edited March 19, 2021 by Fuzzy Afro

[eFestivals]

32 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

 

The SznPAreonly offeringscottish nurses1%too. I have lots of sympthy fotr nurses at the moment they are having to deal with me. 

Edited March 19, 2021 by eFestivals

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

The SznPAreonly offeringscottish nurses1%too. I have lots of sympthy fotr nurses at the moment they are having to deal with me. 

Me too, they should clearly be getting a much bigger pay rise with all things considered. 

[Mellotr0n]

 

 

[eFestivals]

Havejust read that nutter piers corbyn is standing for london mayor khan must be terrified

[Quark]

13 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

The SznPAreonly offeringscottish nurses1%too. I have lots of sympthy fotr nurses at the moment they are having to deal with me. 

How are the ribs?

[eFestivals]

2 minutes ago, Quark said:

How are the ribs?

Still painful

[Mr.Tease]

1 minute ago, eFestivals said:

Still painful

It's meant to be agony, I do hope they get better soon

[Mr.Tease]

 

[Quark]

4 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

Still painful

Bugger. Hope for a speedy recovery.

[eFestivals]

The vaccine fromom India havsjust arrived when someone opened the crate to check thit was full of dosa's.somone has a hearing problem.

[hodgey123]

30 minutes ago, Mellotr0n said:

 

 

This a new record?

[efcfanwirral]

 

28 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

 

Awful - that sort of thing angers me so much. Pharmaceutical profits over lives

[Mellotr0n]

22 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

The vaccine fromom India havsjust arrived when someone opened the crate to check thit was full of dosa's.somone has a hearing problem.

Are you alright?

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, Ozanne said:

 

this is all well and good, but in the end not enough people give a shit.

[DeanoL]

19 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

 

Awful - that sort of thing angers me so much. Pharmaceutical profits over lives

Is this as straightforwards as it seems though? I can understand that Pfizer don't want other people to make their vaccine as they want the money off it. But the Oxford/AZ jab is different, because it's not being sold at a profit. If we dropped the patent restrictions, that would then *allow* other pharmaceutical companies to sell it at a profit.

[Ayrshire Chris]

Worrying that the rate of infection in parts of mainland Europe is on the increase. Looks like more lockdowns in France, Germany and Spain.  Not great news for foreign travel this summer. 

[JoeyT]

Shithousing of the highest order from Hancock 😂

 

[Mr.Tease]

17 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

Is this as straightforwards as it seems though? I can understand that Pfizer don't want other people to make their vaccine as they want the money off it. But the Oxford/AZ jab is different, because it's not being sold at a profit. If we dropped the patent restrictions, that would then *allow* other pharmaceutical companies to sell it at a profit.

From what I remember in an article a few months ago, The original intent of the scientists behind the Oxford jab was to make it patent free, but the gvt hooked them up with AZ as they needed them to mass produce it etc, and one of the requirements of that deal was to drop the patent waiving idea but do it at cost price instead (while the pandemic is ongoing, maybe they're allowed to start charging more for future holiday vaccinations etc). 

I could understand the hesitation to waive patents if they were worried about quality control, maybe even a worry about a race for ingredients etc, but sadly I think it is mainly about profits long term,though I could be wrong. 

[steviewevie]

22 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Worrying that the rate of infection in parts of mainland Europe is on the increase. Looks like more lockdowns in France, Germany and Spain.  Not great news for foreign travel this summer. 

surely they will make space for smug vaccinated brits to holiday?

[incident]

1 hour ago, Mellotr0n said:

 

 

By my count, that puts us within spitting distance of 50% of the Adult population having first doses - maybe even over it if the NI number is higher than expected.

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, incident said:

By my count, that puts us within spitting distance of 50% of the Adult population having first doses - maybe even over it if the NI number is higher than expected.

Just said on news in Southwest we are up to 54% jabbed here ... full of oldies though down here 😀

[JoeyT]

More tests, less positives, significant drops in deaths but same roadmap?

 

Edited March 19, 2021 by JoeyT

[Mellotr0n]

Must be close to our last over 100 deaths day, you’d hope. 

Also, with 50% approx vaccinated and a further number previously infected, feels like you need to whisper it but we must be approaching a bit of the old...herd immunity. 

[Guest]

Yeah they said yesterday that the roadmap will stay in place as whilst we haven’t yet seen (if we even will) any uptick after schools have gone back it’s just one stage. So they still need to keep an eye on things as we open up, as we wouldn’t want to open up too quickly and risk going back a step.