When will this shit end?

[stuie]

14 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

Because if he can get someone like Lisa Nandy to say she wouldn't book a foreign holiday now then it becomes a thing.  Then they get some representative of the travel industry - probably that gobshite from Ryanair - to come on and get all angry.  Then Simon Calder will come on, stood outside an airport or something, to earn his appearance fee.  Then the PM on Wednesday will throw it back at Starmer saying Labour want to cancel summer and claim his government is doing all it can to support the tourism industry.

And that's how content is made!

Spot on, that. 

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

To a certain degree, but scientists and politicians also have to react to what is happening...so maybe christmas could have happened if a new more infectious variant hadn't started spreading throughout SE England etc. And now we'll have to see the state of things in the early summer on what sort of foreign travel is allowed.

We were all going crazy about the impending disaster caused by the lax restrictions in early winter before we knew about the Kent variant. And SAGE were calling for a firebreak earlier than that. The government fucked up big style.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

23 minutes ago, jparx said:

Yep same here. We've booked to go to Japan for my 30th for the fall season this year. Leaning heavily towards "it won't happen", but it's fully refundable if we don't and we had a stonking deal on the flights and one of the hotels. Worth a punt.

Me too. Booked for September '20 then rescheduled for March '21, then rescheduled again for September '21. I have no idea if it will happen but it's six months away and if the last six months are anything to go by, I'm sure it's going to be a rollercoaster between now and then. I wouldn't be mad in moving it to October/November to be honest

[zahidf]

Oof

 

[Fuzzy Afro]

3 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Oof

 

This is exactly why the future wave fearmongering should be confined entirely to the travel industry. We are absolutely slaughtering every other developed nations when it comes to the vaccine programme, so we’ll avoid the feared summer wave whereas your France’s and Germany’s may still have high case numbers.

 

Of course, I’m still confused why we can’t allow vaccinated people to visit disease riddled areas given that the vaccines appear to reduce transmission as well as severe disease and that even bringing the virus back into a heavily vaccinated population doesn’t pose a material danger, but the answer will no doubt boil down to variant porn despite the fact that the vaccines work very well against all variants. 

[Punksnotdead]

5 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Oof

 

And to think, some people on here doubted they would even do a million per week! 😄

[fatyeti24]

12 minutes ago, Punksnotdead said:

And to think, some people on here doubted they would even do a million per week! 😄

I don't think it was too unreasonable to have some scepticism given our government's record over the last year or so. 

Thankfully the vaccinations are going well, because we've all witnessed in harrowing detail what happens when mistakes are made, and in Johnson's case, repeated. 

[Paul ™]

22 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Oof

 

Thanks for that, honest that's incredible and brought a small tear to think about how amazing everyone is doing to deliver that.

Thanks to everyone including those on here who are helping to achieve that 🥰 

[JoeyT]

24 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Oof

 

Incredible numbers.

How long was it that this increase is likely to last? Till the end of the month?

[Ryan1984]

3 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

Incredible numbers.

How long was it that this increase is likely to last? Till the end of the month?

Hugo kind of answers that further down the thread: 

 

[Punksnotdead]

8 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

I don't think it was too unreasonable to have some scepticism given our government's record over the last year or so. 

Thankfully the vaccinations are going well, because we've all witnessed in harrowing detail what happens when mistakes are made, and in Johnson's case, repeated. 

I'm not bigging up the shite government, far from it. I believe most of the credit goes to the scientists, the NHS workers, the volunteers who developed the vaccine and got it into so many arms so efficiently.

I've seen how they do it every year with the flu jabs, so I never expected any different for this.

 

[worthyraver]

I got the jab yesterday I couldn't even tell you what arm it was in this morning maybe I just got the 5G shit?

[Paul ™]

14 minutes ago, worthyraver said:

I got the jab yesterday I couldn't even tell you what arm it was in this morning maybe I just got the 5G shit?

We're tracking you, we already know you are a male in Essex.... awaiting next data upload for more info....

[worthyraver]

3 minutes ago, Paul ™ said:

We're tracking you, we already know you are a male in Essex.... awaiting next data upload for more info....

To be fair my phone signal is off the chart

[steviewevie]

2 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

We were all going crazy about the impending disaster caused by the lax restrictions in early winter before we knew about the Kent variant. And SAGE were calling for a firebreak earlier than that. The government fucked up big style.

yeah true...but I don't think it was expected to be as bad as it was...I certainly didn't think we'd see nearly 1.5k deaths per day.

Edited March 21, 2021 by steviewevie

[JoeyT]

 

[zahidf]

1 minute ago, JoeyT said:

 

Good direction so far

[steviewevie]

Have we had any days since last March with zero covid deaths?

[steviewevie]

4 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Have we had any days since last March with zero covid deaths?

looked at some charts...as far as can see got down to single figures last August, but didn't actually any have any zero death days. Just thinking we may see some zero covid death days in the coming months..that would be good....

[jannybruck]

5 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Have we had any days since last March with zero covid deaths?

One in August, along with a few single figure days. We'll get a zero before the end of the month.

[zahidf]

 

 

 

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, jannybruck said:

One in August, along with a few single figure days. We'll get a zero before the end of the month.

you think? By end of March?

[steviewevie]

3 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

 

 

yeah, I wonder why...trust in science? in the NHS? in politicians?! in the BBC (and others)?

[Crazyfool01]

5 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

you think? By end of March?

End of April more likely  ... lowest reporting day is Sunday and we only have one of those left this month ... 

[JoeyT]

Single figures by the end of April so possibly May for the first 0 death day?