Coronavirus - UK
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@Frank said in Coronavirus - UK:
Will the vaccines be effective against this new strain of Covid in the U.K.?
Virologist on BBC Radio explained vaccines will still be effective but may need to be tweaked. Apparently that's quite easy to do and happens all the time with 'flu vaccines.
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I think I've finally worked it out.
Back in my PhD days I attended the 1st International Congress on Skiing & Science in St Christoph, Austria.
The main speaker for the week long event was the Danish researcher Bengt Saltin.
He was instrumental in lots of the high performance sports physiology research and of advancing the field of study.
He was in his 40s at the time and over a couple of drinks later in the week I asked him what he was working on now/next.
His reply, pediatric nutrition and wellbeing.
Why I asked? Because I have young children.
And when I'm done with that, I'll move on to combating aging with science. Because my parents are close to 70 and I'm heading that way.
Long story short, the politicians and/or their parents, friends, supporters are either in or approaching the age of vulnerability from COVID-19 so they're shutting this country down until a vaccine can be rolled out effectively.
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
Sky news reporting complete and utter fear inducing fabrications this morning.
They should face charges.
It was funny watching BBC this morning and someone came on for an interview they obviously thought was going to be distraught and scathing. She was awesome, optimistic and upbeat. The interview got cut short.
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@Bones Not surprised.
I came home from the supermarket & my wife was pretty distraught. She' just seen on sky news that the government was very worried about the vaccine getting through to the UK from Belgium, France was stopping everything indefinitely & supermarkets were like to run out of food.
30 seconds of research showed the vaccine comes in by container, which is not changed at all, France making it clear they are working to figure out the best way to get things moving & various places sources saying that there is potential for broccoli and cauliflower shortage only from France.
So Sky just fabricated stuff from "government sources" to create fear and keep people watching. They need to face charges. Jail time.
BTW - Supermarkets ... it seems 4 lads on my street all got sent to go shopping this morning, so we did a compare and contrast as we were all going different places.
Sainsburies - No q's, everything stocked, no problems (where I went, fortunately)
Waitrose - long queue, lots of old people. Vege's thin on the ground, but otherwise fine
Tesco - no queues but very busy, some shelves a bit empty but basically fine
Costco - 90 min queue to get in, but once in loads of suppliesso all in all ... nothing too unusual a week out from the big fat red man.
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Don't read the Daily Mail, mate.
They were reporting that Pfizer vaccine stocks had run out and no new deliveries were due until March. Complete lies and Pfizer were forced to release a rebuttal.
Big headline that Pfizer vaccine stocks had been ruined. Turned out that only 200 doses were lost when a fridge failed. That's out of 2 million doses...
So Sky just fabricated stuff from "government sources" to create fear and keep people watching. They need to face charges. Jail time.
I'm starting to come round to the view that there really does need to be some sanction on the press spreading what are basically lies and causing panic in what is a national emergency.
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@MajorRage we did ours in Tesco about half 9 this morning. It's a superstore so plenty of room but was pretty busy. No shortage of anything we wanted. Big queues (cars and people) when we left though. Sainsbury's is opening 6am tomorrow and offering double points so my bro is going then but normal hours it'd be shit as the aisles are too small. Morrison's would be similar but is smaller again.
BBC were trying to suggest food shortages eh, and that it might be catastrophic but basically got laughed at by anyone they interviewed.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
Sky news reporting complete and utter fear inducing fabrications this morning.
They should face charges.
It was funny watching BBC this morning and someone came on for an interview they obviously thought was going to be distraught and scathing. She was awesome, optimistic and upbeat. The interview got cut short.
I watched Boris on the BBC. Nothing new really but he did reiterate that it’s only 20% of France traffic only and nothing will run out.
Of course in the wrap up the journalist said “well some of that 20% will be extremely important”.
It’s just straight bullshit.
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New Lockdown measures instituted across the UK on Saturday 19 December 2020 are already a success.
541 total deaths reported on 20 and 21 December compared with the projected 2,143 deaths if no measures had been taken.
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@MiketheSnow Winner winner, chicken dinner 😁
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow Winner winner, chicken dinner 😁
I was taking the piss
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow Winner winner, chicken dinner 😁
I was taking the piss
Yes mate. Thank you. 👍
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Jesus Christ I can't cope with the doom and gloom anymore! I need someone to tell me now the exact date life will be back to normal, I demand it. I don't ask a lot of anyone!
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - UK:
Jesus Christ I can't cope with the doom and gloom anymore! I need someone to tell me now the exact date life will be back to normal, I demand it. I don't ask a lot of anyone!
Probably by April when enough people have been vaccinated.
Until then, strap yourself in - there going to be a lot of bad news on death rates, I think.
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@Victor-Meldrew the new variants worry me, I just can't see the answer to any of this anymore. I honestly feel like this is going to be the rest of my life 😭
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@R-L
There's positive stuff. Vaccines are rolling out quite fast in the NHS according to Mrs M's daughter and Care Home residents have started getting it.
Oxford Vaccine has been submitted for approval which is expected just after Christmas. Much easier to manufacture and handle than the Pfizer one and the UK has 100m doses ordered.