When will this shit end?

[stuartbert two hats]

2 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

Sorry to play stupid but does the Oxford vaccine require the same sort of storage / transfer?

If not then does the article in Pulse suggest that Pfizer & Moderna are now the front runners?

Didn't the article say "one of them" required -70 storage? Suggesting that the other one doesn't, i.e. it's the Oxford vaccine.

[JoeyT]

1 minute ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Didn't the article say "one of them" required -70 storage? Suggesting that the other one doesn't, i.e. it's the Oxford vaccine.

Whoops it does indeed!

I think my excitement at the news / copying and pasting it all got the better of me 

[parsonjack]

43 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Maybe Glasto can go ahead then but only for healthcare workers and people over 85.

Stones again then?

[northernringo]

7 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

So testing has decreased?

Yeah, so I'm still approaching the figures with caution.

Of course it could potentially be a case that testing has gone down due to reduced covid levels within the community and a lack of demand but we'll have to wait and see.

Schools back yesterday and our relaxed lockdown has a week and a half left.

[Toilet Duck]

10 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

Sorry to play stupid but does the Oxford vaccine require the same sort of storage / transfer?

If not then does the article in Pulse suggest that Pfizer & Moderna are now the front runners?

Our twin hatted friend has answered this! 

[Crazyfool01]

27 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

Stones again then?

There is only one 85 year old that needs to be there and he celebrated that milestone not so long ago ... 

Edited November 3, 2020 by crazyfool1

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

Sheffield and Barnsley rate slowing. Doncaster and Rotherham about the same. 

[northernringo]

So does this news story look legit?

Or is the source a bit iffy?

I'd have expected it to be picked up by a larger news company by now if it was legit

[The Nal]

51 minutes ago, zahidf said:

As i said before, once there is a working vaccine, the govt will ignore scietific calls for social distancing e.t.c

IF theres a working vaccine. The virus won't vanish even if so. The only virus thats been eradicated via a vaccine in human history is smallpox.

[Crazyfool01]

Terrorism alert level raised to severe ..... this year doesnt want to go quietly  

[parsonjack]

3 minutes ago, The Nal said:

 The only virus thats been eradicated via a vaccine in human history is smallpox.

I'm a bit concerned that @Toilet Duckmight have some down the back of the sofa actually

😉

[zahidf]

4 minutes ago, The Nal said:

IF theres a working vaccine. The virus won't vanish even if so. The only virus thats been eradicated via a vaccine in human history is smallpox.

the govt isnt going for a zero covid strategy

Edited November 3, 2020 by zahidf

[Toilet Duck]

2 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

I'm a bit concerned that @Toilet Duckmight have some down the back of the sofa actually

😉

It was quite the shock actually when it was discovered in the freezer! We had to call around to find out what the hell we were supposed to do with it. Eventually, we had to ship it off to the CDC in Atlanta in a special box they sent over! No chance of anything like that happening in my house though, my wife is a firm fan of the home edit, so everything has its place! (luckily, cos outside of work I'm completely disorganised!). 

[balthazarstarbuck]

13 minutes ago, northernringo said:

So does this news story look legit?

Or is the source a bit iffy?

I'd have expected it to be picked up by a larger news company by now if it was legit

Would have been my question- never heard of the website. Has anyone corroborated it yet?

[Fuzzy Afro]

9 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Terrorism alert level raised to severe ..... this year doesnt want to go quietly  

Far more scared of that than covid tbh 

[Toilet Duck]

12 minutes ago, The Nal said:

The only virus thats been eradicated via a vaccine in human history is smallpox.

True, but there's a bunch of other things that are pretty much eradicated. If anti-vaxxers hadn't gotten in the way, measles would be under control (and it mostly still is), polio is all but gone (though it still pops up in places), and a bunch of bacterial ones have been wiped out in most developed places (tetanus, diphtheria etc). I don't think this CoV though is gonna be one of them. Too many places for it to hide if we even managed to vaccinate the entire human population of the world, so you're right, my guess is it will circulate with the other ones and be a perennial problem (with a vaccine), but closer to what we have to deal with annually in terms of managing flu (which is still a big problem and causes significant morbidity and mortality). 

[Ozanne]

A traditionally Tory favouring pollster.

All pollsters now saying the Tory is practically wiped out. 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Ozanne said:

All pollsters now saying the Tory is practically wiped out

we can but hope... I think you might mean the lead though  

[Ozanne]

2 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

we can but hope... I think you might mean the lead though  

Haha yes! Sorry. Although then being wiped out politically speaking is also favourable 😉

[Copperface]

3 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

So the context to this rule is that it was actually added in to the regulations because it wasn't in the original ones. 

So they already have given it back once.

The exemption to breach gathering numbers etc (which was always there) has been removed so such gatherings will be prohibited depending on the prevailing Tier or lockdown regs in force at the time in whichever area. Up till now demonstrations could take place as long as organisers presented a covid secure plan. Often, when those plans were breached, then the demonstration was declared unlawful under the regs.

So basically, they haven't banned them, they have just removed the exemption clauses. Semantics maybe, but important.

 

[mike46]

43 minutes ago, northernringo said:

So does this news story look legit?

Or is the source a bit iffy?

I'd have expected it to be picked up by a larger news company by now if it was legit

 

29 minutes ago, balthazarstarbuck said:

Would have been my question- never heard of the website. Has anyone corroborated it yet?

it’s a legit industry trade title, been around for about 30 odd years I believe. I’ve only ever done a little with them back in my PR days but I would say this is a story backed by some evidence. Fingers crossed!  

[Chrisp1986]

5 minutes ago, mike46 said:

 

it’s a legit industry trade title, been around for about 30 odd years I believe. I’ve only ever done a little with them back in my PR days but I would say this is a story backed by some evidence. Fingers crossed!  

It is a bit of a gossipy magazine for GP practices. We have a similar one in pharmacy called Chemist and Druggist, however that said, it is respected by some and is an easy read and I doubt they would publish this if they did not believe it to be true. 

[zahidf]

Lol

 

[ace56blaa]

Anyone know anything about the England daily case hold up? 

No figures out yet

[Crazyfool01]

Coronavirus: More than 7,000 people given wrong dates for self-isolation by Test and Trace

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-more-than-7-000-people-given-wrong-dates-for-self-isolation-by-test-and-trace-12122748

and still they continue to fuck up test and trace ...:(