When will this shit end?

[shoptildrop]

18 minutes ago, zahidf said:

One way to keep numbers down

 

Was just about to post this.... they really are just leaving us to it and gone "fuck it" we want our holiday break, if some of you get sick or die so be it 😞 

Edited July 8, 2021 by shoptildrop

[balthazarstarbuck]

35 minutes ago, zahidf said:

One way to keep numbers down

 

Absolutely fucking moronic. If you want people to use their judgement, at least give them the means to do so.

Anyway, you’re allowed to order one pack a day online. Suspect I’ll be doing that for the next week or so to stockpile for this wave.

[fraybentos1]

Cases down by a big chunk on last week in Scotland and positivity rate dropping too!

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, fraybentos1 said:

Cases down by a big chunk on last week in Scotland and positivity rate dropping too!

Football effect ? 

[Stanton]

12 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Football effect ? 

Will certainly be helping. Plus our schools finished up 2 weeks ago. 

[JoeyT]

21 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

Cases down by a big chunk on last week in Scotland and positivity rate dropping too!

Also, England hopefully through the worse of the growth...

 

[fraybentos1]

53 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Football effect ? 

I imagine it has an impact. Also schools ended here end of June which also helps plus less testing for kids I guess.

Also, cases were dead high I wasn't sure how much further they could have gone up (hope I am not tempting fate here..)

[zahidf]

At the Downing Street lobby briefing the prime minister’s spokesperson confirmed that the exemption to quarantine for holidaymakers returning from amber list nations will only apply to those who have been vaccinated by the NHS. He said:

It does need to be a vaccine administered through the NHS rollout so you would need to have received your vaccine through the NHS rather than in a different country.

[zahidf]

 

[zahidf]

So don't panic and crack on with reopening?

 

[Hannibal Schmitt]

So no spectators at the Olympics. This will be pretty bleak then.

[fraybentos1]

15 minutes ago, zahidf said:

So don't panic and crack on with reopening?

 

If Scotland continues like that for a few more days then my optimism will continue to grow. Time will tell! Defo seems to be going down for now though...

[st dan]

5 minutes ago, Hannibal Schmitt said:

So no spectators at the Olympics. This will be pretty bleak then.

That’s a shame given all the time and money spent preparing for it - but it’s obviously the correct decision. They should be given the chance to host it again at the next opportunity, although that looks like it will be 2036!

[zahidf]

Eek

 

[Hannibal Schmitt]

18 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Eek

 

Yes, but only 5 hospital admissions, which is rather weird.

[stuartbert two hats]

30 minutes ago, Hannibal Schmitt said:

Yes, but only 5 hospital admissions, which is rather weird.

You wouldn't expect many hospital admissions during fast growth, you expect them after high cases.

In other words, there's not much enough time for those cases to progress to hospital admissions.

[kalifire]

32 minutes ago, Hannibal Schmitt said:

Yes, but only 5 hospital admissions, which is rather weird.

Hospital admissions trail infections by a week or two usually, don’t they? It was only last week the Netherlands had less than 800 new infections a day, so hospitalisations will probably not be far behind, unfortunately. Let’s hope not. 

Edit: what Mr Hats said. 

Edited July 8, 2021 by kalifire

[Zoo Music Girl]

3 hours ago, balthazarstarbuck said:

Absolutely fucking moronic. If you want people to use their judgement, at least give them the means to do so.

Anyway, you’re allowed to order one pack a day online. Suspect I’ll be doing that for the next week or so to stockpile for this wave.

Yeah I kind of feel like we should stockpile a bit too. Have been using them before seeing people we really don't want to infect. I know it's not perfect but was better than nothing! Wonder how much they will charge.

[Ozanne]

 

[Ozanne]

Vaccination update:

[balthazarstarbuck]

5 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Yeah I kind of feel like we should stockpile a bit too. Have been using them before seeing people we really don't want to infect. I know it's not perfect but was better than nothing! Wonder how much they will charge.

Thankfully our council give them out like sweets, so we should be ok.

Christ knows of the value. Sticking my finger in the air I think I’d pay a tenner for a box of 7.

 

[st dan]

9 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Vaccination update:

Looking at the dramatic decline in recent first dose numbers, guess we’ll do well to get to 90% of adults vaccinated now. 

[dingbat2]

[northernringo]

Social distancing won't be removed in NI until 16th August at the earliest.

[Chapple12345]

2 minutes ago, dingbat2 said:

We've seen it happen before and I'm not trying to talk it up but...

 

3 minutes ago, st dan said:

Looking at the dramatic decline in recent first dose numbers, guess we’ll do well to get to 90% of adults vaccinated now. 

I wonder if this will be a deal breaker into vaccinating children too