When will this shit end?

[efcfanwirral]

6 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

I do love some honesty at times. Also like that he said it and then kept having to backtrack because he knew how it'd sound

Surely he's gone soon, leaks against him are so regular now.

[plaskins]

12 minutes ago, Lizzim said:

I have my candles lit in the garden. To be honest though I do that every night.

Is that so the hedgehogs can have a midnight candle lit dinner?

[steviewevie]

 

[Ryan1984]

Apparently a lot of films have had release dates brought forward today (Kong v Godzilla being the first blockbuster after the May reopening). Hopefully that’s a good sign of things improving.

I put it in the politics thread but Johnson seemed to be playing to the crowd in front of him, telling them exactly what they want to hear - we’re vaccine awesome; shut up, BBC etc.

[Crazyfool01]

Talking up the issues now so he gets another poll bounce when things open on time or sooner ... 

[Lizzim]

6 minutes ago, plaskins said:

Is that so the hedgehogs can have a midnight candle lit dinner?

No,  it's for the squirrels.  Grey ones, not red unfortunately.  And sometimes the urban foxes pop in for a night cap. It's a mixed crowd.

[blutarsky]

2 hours ago, Barry Fish said:

Not true   most are wearing them 

Well, I’m a teacher in a fairly large secondary school so we’ll agree to disagree shall we? 

[westholtschic]

46 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Nothing to be seen here ... just my lights ... 😞 

Had the chap opposite us but that was all.

[efcfanwirral]

Makes sense 

[missnutmeg]

46 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Think this should be in the good news thread too ... fatboy slim has had his jab 🙂 

 

Gutted I didn’t get one of those stickers when I had mine 😞

[Crazyfool01]

5 minutes ago, missnutmeg said:

Gutted I didn’t get one of those stickers when I had mine 😞

I just got a business card 😞 

[Quark]

1 hour ago, eFestivals said:

The shit is ending for efests cos advertising revenues are back to about normal.

Great news. The advertising I mean, must be a bit of a weight off for you

[henry bear]

2 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

So is my wife 

Your wife is agreeing to disagree with you?

[Andre91]

Mask compliance is excellent at our school. We have around 40 kids out of 1200 who are legitimately exempt from wearing masks. In lessons and walking around, the kids are great. You have to remind some of the more, erm, ‘lively’ students to pull it up over their noses but they understand, overall. 
 

I can only speak for my school but saying that 50% of kids in school aren’t wearing masks is a touch hyperbolic. 

[JoeyT]

Brazil really up against it 😔

 

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, JoeyT said:

Brazil really up against it 😔

 

America's nutter got voted out and ours got a grip. Brazil are stuck with theirs, fucking it up big style.

[Crazyfool01]

Reductions in vaccination volunteers required from the 24th ... so we will probably have hit the peak numbers a few days ago and dropping off from now 

[Crazyfool01]

23 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Mask compliance is excellent at our school. We have around 40 kids out of 1200 who are legitimately exempt from wearing masks. In lessons and walking around, the kids are great. You have to remind some of the more, erm, ‘lively’ students to pull it up over their noses but they understand, overall. 
 

I can only speak for my school but saying that 50% of kids in school aren’t wearing masks is a touch hyperbolic. 

I guess each school will have significant differences in the numbers  wearing them ... my local Sainsbury’s I’ve not seen a single colleague without ... my shop I think we are at 70% maybe ... so there will be an element of I’m not doing this because my mates aren’t and that will spread . I’ve lost all concept for the reasons people don’t wear them to be honest because of some telling me they can’t because of asthma and many other things ... they aren’t fun and I’ll be glad to see the back of them but for now it’s necessary ... and the only reason I can see people that shouldn’t be wearing them is that they cause severe distress ?! 

[zahidf]

Jab the kids

 

[stuartbert two hats]

7 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Jab the kids

 

If the aim is to cut transmission rather than to protect against disease, then I would have thought it would be worth waiting for the second generation vaccines given the pitiful showing from the AZ vaccine against the SA variant.

EDIT: having said that, the timelines might just line up.

Edited March 23, 2021 by stuartbert two hats

[eFestivals]

1 hour ago, Quark said:

Great news. The advertising I mean, must be a bit of a weight off for you

Is good news was worried it might've come back too slow

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, JoeyT said:

Brazil really up against it 😔

 

omg, that death rate.

[incident]

3 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

If everyone in groups 1 to 9 have had a vaccine and they all required another one within a 12 week window - surely we have to keep going at least at the same pace to do that.

I am finding it confusing why we need less people ?   Are we potentially going to make people wait longer than the 12 weeks? or do we have a bit of head room on that?

This is very imprecise beer mat maths, with a dozen holes that can be poked in it, but -

As of right now, 2.36 million people have received a second dose. We exceeded that number of 1st doses on 11th January, so it's likely that the bulk of people vaccinated prior to that have now had their second dose already. Which on a 12 week window, if the numbers translated exactly, would mean the second dose rollout is "done" as far as 5th April.

Remember that the rollout in January started slow and increased from there - it was late Jan before we started to see 400,000+ days and so second doses will need to broadly match that pattern.

Now obviously it doesn't work exactly like that, as some of the people will have had second doses ahead of the official (10-12 week gap) schedule - especially for Pfizer recipients where the extended gap is more about consistency and improving coverage rather than an efficacy benefit, and where doses are being issued when possible due to lower availability. But still there's enough there to suggest we don't have a significant number of second doses "needed" in the next two weeks and the ones that are done will mostly be on a 10 week gap rather than 12.

[Guest]

 

[Zoo Music Girl]

Got my second volunteering shift tomorrow so will see how busy it is compared with last week. I did notice on the MS Teams group I'm in for SJA volunteers that they cancelled a bunch of shifts this week at another centre due to a low number of appointments. Not sure what to make of that!