When will this shit end?

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, Mr.Tease said:

Would it be possible for us all to start cooking up batches of the vaccines in our living rooms, like in Breaking Bad?

Makes it sound like before long you could get a vaccine mixology kit like you do for some fancy cocktails.

I mean, I seem to recall that you can buy genetic editing kits for an slightly unsettlingly cheap price that you can use to experiment on yourself, which is probably as ludicrous an idea.

[dotdash79]

Looks like international football could be about to stop. 
 

 

[xxialac]

3 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

Looks like international football could be about to stop. 
 

 

Unless they agree to play both legs in neutral non-quarantinable countries I suppose.

 

[stuartbert two hats]

26 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Portugal and Spain in trouble....l

Blimey.

[dotdash79]

2 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Unless they agree to play both legs in neutral non-quarantinable countries I suppose.

 

Are clubs going to release players for international matches with that risk

[zahidf]

According to telegraph, schools in March, non essential shops on April and pubs/restaraunts in May

[xxialac]

Just now, dotdash79 said:

Are clubs going to release players for international matches with that risk

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, you're right.

[dingbat2]

36 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Portugal and Spain in trouble....l

Shit, thats one of the most scary graphs I have seen since this all started. What's going on in Spain and Portugal to make infections increase so exponentially all of a sudden, will it also spread to France, another new, even more transmissible, variant maybe? Bloody frightening, just shows how quickly things can change with this tosser virus. The whole thing is on a knife edge still for countries not as advanced with vaccination acquisition rollout

[dingbat2]

1 minute ago, dingbat2 said:

Shit, thats one of the most scary graphs I have seen since this all started. What's going on in Spain and Portugal to make infections increase so exponentially all of a sudden, will it also spread to France, another new, even more transmissible, variant maybe? Bloody frightening, just shows how quickly things can change with this tosser virus. The whole thing is on a knife edge still for countries not as advanced with vaccination acquisition rollout

... and for what it's worth i would happily sacrifice my jab for someone in a more vulnerable group than me in Portugal or Spain at the moment

[xxialac]

9 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Blimey.

All the UK PR is to talk up how 'dangerous' the Brazil (and South Africa) strain is.

How now we must be protected from people from Portugal sufficient to quarantine people from there.

Yet the truth is that it's the British variant that has made things bad there

Over 50% of recent infections are the British strain (the red circles) and that's the main reason it's got so bad, so quick in Portugal.

https://nextstrain.org/groups/neherlab/ncov/portugal?c=clade_membership&f_country=Portugal&p=grid&r=division

[Chapple12345]

18 minutes ago, zahidf said:

According to telegraph, schools in March, non essential shops on April and pubs/restaraunts in May

Seems sensible, perhaps later spring/early summer will be more like tier 2 as the weather will be better so people will be willing to meet outside more 

[xxialac]

In other news, sounds like Japan has given up on having fans at the Olympics.

And Varadkar has doubled down on Ireland's borders being closed for tourism this Summer.

What a world...

[stuartbert two hats]

8 minutes ago, xxialac said:

All the UK PR is to talk up how 'dangerous' the Brazil (and South Africa) strain is.

How now we must be protected from people from Portugal sufficient to quarantine people from there.

Yet the truth is that it's the British variant that has made things bad there

Over 50% of recent infections are the British strain (the red circles) and that's the main reason it's got so bad, so quick in Portugal.

https://nextstrain.org/groups/neherlab/ncov/portugal?c=clade_membership&f_country=Portugal&p=grid&r=division

That's almost reassuring. Awful that Portugal have been hit so hard, but at least it's not a new, aggressive variant that can't be beaten that is driving the growth. I don't know their current lockdown status, but presumably if they implement something similar to us, they will be able to get a similar drop off?

[Leyrulion]

14 minutes ago, xxialac said:

All the UK PR is to talk up how 'dangerous' the Brazil (and South Africa) strain is.

How now we must be protected from people from Portugal sufficient to quarantine people from there.

Yet the truth is that it's the British variant that has made things bad there

Over 50% of recent infections are the British strain (the red circles) and that's the main reason it's got so bad, so quick in Portugal.

https://nextstrain.org/groups/neherlab/ncov/portugal?c=clade_membership&f_country=Portugal&p=grid&r=division

Did Portugal close its borders to the u.k?

[xxialac]

1 minute ago, Leyrulion said:

Did Portugal close its borders to the u.k?

Yeah, 6 days ago.

But feels like it's too late if the new variant is taking hold so much.

[Ozanne]

 

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

The British variant was first detected in September, that was at a point when our levels of virus were at the lowest they’ve been since the beginning, so it’s not like it’s come from how we’ve handled the second wave here.

This is a global issue and variants will be popping up all over the place, it’s hardly the UKs fault that Portugal are having a tough time now from a variant that was about nearly 6 months ago, and visa versa for any other variants that pop up elsewhere.

[John the Moth]

Just had an interesting exchange with an antivaxxer.

They’d posted a news article on fb about Merck abandoning development of its vaccine program. The tone of the post was very much “thank goodness” with a little victory dance and some thoughts and prayer type sentiments.

I added my thanks in the comments for clearly demonstrating the robustness of the clinical trial process.

Curiously, the fb post has gone now...

(as a result of this I’ve since been spammed by DM with amongst other things. you tube videos and articles from “Epoch Times”, ‘proving’ how dangerous vaccines are, to which I responded with peer reviewed papers from respected medical journals)

[xxialac]

Oh I'm not saying it's the UK's fault, just that it's a bit rich for the govt to bang on about other variants, without also acknowledging that it's our own variant that has done most damage so far.

[Ozanne]

4 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Oh I'm not saying it's the UK's fault, just that it's a bit rich for the govt to bang on about other variants, without also acknowledging that it's our own variant that has done most damage so far.

They do talk about it quite a lot to be fair, they say it’s the reason we’ve seen the level of cases that we have.

[Ozanne]

Covid-19: Basildon nurse meets her baby after months in hospital with virus https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-55830450
 

Some positive news to end the day.

[xxialac]

2 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

They do talk about it quite a lot to be fair, they say it’s the reason we’ve seen the level of cases that we have.

Ah, yes you're right, though cynically I think they use it as a shield to defend the high level of deaths and it gets dropped from the conversation at all other times.

All conversations get diverted now towards the vaccine programme as there is nothing else positive of substance they can point to. e.g. Patel brought it up 4 times today, when she was giving a specific statement about travel quarantines which had nothing to do with vaccines. 

[Ryan1984]

Just ended up on the Daily Heil site to see how the enemy is reporting things and there are two big articles trying to encourage sympathy for Spaffer.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

[Bryanrebe]

2 hours ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

One of my best friends, whose wedding was originally August 2020, is now suggesting Glastonbury weekend next year as a new date, when indeed will this shit end?

Not ok dude, not ok.