When will this shit end?

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Losing my hair said:

https://www.loudersound.com/news/brian-may-launches-sports-bra-adorned-with-guitars

Which begs the question .... did you have that link to hand ? 

[Losing my hair]

Just now, crazyfool1 said:

Which begs the question .... did you have that link to hand ? 

Once seen, never forgotten

[mazola]

22 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

FFS why can't they just test them? They're testing care home staff regularly aren't they?

It's like they just want to repeat the exact same mistakes again.

Is there any reason the nightingale hospitals could not be used like a halfway house for elderly covid patients who might not be quite well enough to go home, but not needing the full resources of a hospital bed. Then regular testing until a negative test shows you can go home

[danmarks]

Staff basically 

[polgara]

Our Trust received their allocation this week...well half of it for some reason. Managed to snag an appointment for  this morning - beauty of having rubbish lungs is that I was put in a higher category than the rest of my team. Bit chaotic at first but the actual vaccination part was quick and painless.  Now if I could get my shielding relatives vaccinated I’d be a lot happier.  Still going to be careful even when I’ve had the second dose for the sake of my partner and other people.

[Chapple12345]

 

[shoptildrop]

54 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/12/hospital-patients-to-be-sent-to-hotels-to-free-up-beds-for-critical-covid-patients?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Documents seen by the Guardian also reveal that the NHS is asking care homes to start accepting Covid patients directly from hospitals and without a recent negative test, as long as they have been in isolation for 14 days and have shown no new symptoms.

Seriously is it like new year same mistakes with this Government???

I mean 1st the rubbish kids food boxes, now this again?? WTFare they thinking 😞

[Chef]

 
 

 

[Chef]

1 hour ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

I’ve literally no idea, but my guess would be that Doctors need to continue to be Doctors, they can’t spend their entire time giving out vaccines as they need to do actual Doctoring. Plus their surgeries are small, so not easy to give vaccines efficiently compared to a very large venue when it won’t matter as much when people turn up etc.

If ‘Doctoring’ isn’t a real word it should be. 

[Ozanne]

8 minutes ago, shoptildrop said:

Seriously is it like new year same mistakes with this Government???

I mean 1st the rubbish kids food boxes, now this again?? WTFare they thinking 😞

It’s desperation isn’t it, I think it’s a sign of how tight things are in the NHS that they are trying this. I hope they think again or this is just a rumour though and they don’t make the same mistakes twice. 

[Ozanne]

I think this is bang on.

 

[Zoo Music Girl]

33 minutes ago, mazola said:

Is there any reason the nightingale hospitals could not be used like a halfway house for elderly covid patients who might not be quite well enough to go home, but not needing the full resources of a hospital bed. Then regular testing until a negative test shows you can go home

Not a bad idea but yeah they'd still need staff to run and look after them. And I guess they're not all located that close to existing hospitals so might mean quite a bit of to and fro.

Given the amount of tests that are being done daily now, though, I really don't see why they can't save a few for this purpose.

[FestivalJamie]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

Bit of a jump to 3.2 million vaccines in Uk .... not sure if that is 1st or 2nd Doses though on this 

https://www.howmanyvaccinated.com/united kingdom

 

That would imply they've done like 400,000 in the space of 4 hours? Idk how much I buy that...

The numbers are still rising now and it's past midnight?

Edited January 12, 2021 by FestivalJamie

[FakeEmpire]

7 minutes ago, FestivalJamie said:

That would imply they've done like 400,000 in the space of 4 hours? Idk how much I buy that...

The numbers are still rising now and it's past midnight?

"*Real-time is an estimated number based on daily vaccination rates"

[Cooter]

Yea, seems to be rising 6,7 or 8 every 2 seconds.

[Cooter]

1 minute ago, FakeEmpire said:

"*Real-time is an estimated number based on daily vaccination rates"

So sort of not real time then but just a bit of a guess.

[SheffJeff]

Sort of reminds me of when I used to download shit from napster.

[FestivalJamie]

5 minutes ago, FakeEmpire said:

"*Real-time is an estimated number based on daily vaccination rates"

Ok so it’s a bit pointless then really... 

Thanks for pointing it out though I was getting confused

Edited January 12, 2021 by FestivalJamie

[Gingerfish79]

I agree with Polly Toynbee in the Guardian. If the vaccine rollout goes broadly to plan and the country opens up for the summer, Johnson will trigger an election. 

[squirrelarmy]

3 minutes ago, SheffJeff said:

Sort of reminds me of when I used to download shit from napster.

The old limewire days when you used to try download a super low quality film and when you tried to watch it 2 days later it turned out to be something completely different 

[fraybentos1]

7 minutes ago, Gingerfish79 said:

I agree with Polly Toynbee in the Guardian. If the vaccine rollout goes broadly to plan and the country opens up for the summer, Johnson will trigger an election. 

No he won’t. Why would he? He has an 80 seat majority- the only way is down.

[mcshed]

2 hours ago, efcfanwirral said:

This government no - but its the future that makes it a worry. A socialist/communist revolution for example...

So in this scenario there is enough support in the country for this revolution to take place but they need to rely on a pre-existing ID system rather than creating one themselves and that is why we need to worry about vaccine passports?

[zahidf]

8 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

No he won’t. Why would he? He has an 80 seat majority- the only way is down.

Yeah... seems pointless to have an election this early.

[efcfanwirral]

12 minutes ago, mcshed said:

So in this scenario there is enough support in the country for this revolution to take place but they need to rely on a pre-existing ID system rather than creating one themselves and that is why we need to worry about vaccine passports?

If they become normal parts of every day life it isn't a hard sell to change it to something more intrusive. Luckily this country will probably never have such a scenario, but it's not guaranteed

Either way it doesn't matter - its happening. If it's not law I'll definitely be avoiding those places that require it (glastonbury included) but I think it will be law 

[a6l6e6x]

Some old folks I know are working their way through the vaccination queue now so it is real!

They should really open it up to 24/7 and get this thing out the door as quick as possible. It wouldn't be compulsory to go at 3am but if you opt in for times like that to get it out the way it should be an option. I'd let a bouncer give it to me in the queue if it meant I could go into underworld in camden for the night