RegTheDonk
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Shit timing mate, just hope it doesn't bite you too hard and the rest of your family are OK. Enjoy Xmas as best you can, and hopefully a win on boxing day.
Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (74 Viewers)
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Brighton Sky Blue
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Not you as well FP
Brighton Sky Blue
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Midlands could be upgraded to Tier 4 as of Boxing Day, meeting happening tomorrow to decide
chiefdave
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What on earth is going on? Wednesday Johnson was having a go at Starmer for suggesting tighter restrictions were needed a Christmas. Saturday they announce tier 4 restrictions in London and the South East saying they are needed to stop the new variant spreading round the country. Now, on only the third day of tier 4 restrictions, they're talking about putting the whole country into that tier on Boxing Day.
Brighton Sky Blue
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I'm guessing they've been persuaded by a few journalists questioning them yesterday on not reviewing the tiers sooner than planned.
SARS-CoV-2 Variant – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
On 14 December 2020, authorities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland reported to WHO that a new SARS-CoV-2 variant was identified through viral genomic sequencing. This variant is referred to as SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01 (Variant Under Investigation, year 2020, month 12...
Philosoraptor
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There may be a problem coming when part of the World decides to close the door on all travel with you.
Sounds like literally all bets are off in terms of previous restrictions/tier plans. Even talk of schools being closed for January as they think it ‘might’ transmit more easily between kids compared to previous strains/variants. Guess they’ll know more following further research now they know what they’re looking for/at.
By all accounts we might have shot ourselves in the foot a bit by actually having very good genomic surveillance/kind of testing that can spotted the sequencing changes (all above my GCSE science knowledge maybe BSB or other science bods will know more ?). Apparently we do way more Genomic surveillance than most/all other countries. Could’ve even started elsewhere but nobody else has spotted it til now.
Let’s hope it’s not as bad as first feared and transmission isn’t as rapid as they have modelled. As BSB mentioned and by all accounts it’s no more dangerous. Makes the AZ/Oxford vaccine sign off even more important though....let’s all hope this happens in coming days !
Ps should've kept our heads down China style, waited for it to be common everywhere then flagged it - kidding obviously !
David O'Day
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Just think thou least things can only get better
really?
NHS leaders raise concerns over pace of Covid vaccine rollout
Exclusive: more than half of hospital trusts in England yet to receive supplies as variant spreads
fernandopartridge
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A vaccination centre has opened by my house, in a cricket club car park. Steady stream of old folk going in today which is good to see.
LastGarrison
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Hopefully that means a few of them will get to their century.
hill83
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Breaking new boundaries every day.
LastGarrison
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Let’s hope it will soon be over.
And Out !!!
fernandopartridge
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This series of puns has really made me crease, thanks everybody. Wicket bantz
Brylowes
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Of all the problems in the short, medium and long term facing the future of this Country caused by the misguided catastrophe that is Brexit, this for me is one of the worst ‘ and definitely the most annoying.
People like this who previously had no interest in, opinion on, or understanding of politics were hoodwinked in with tales of a phantom enemy and fantasy’s of nationalism and faux patriotic bravado.
And now they won’t Fuck off...
Well I have previously wondered about this.
The relevant age groups to target first
www.independent.co.uk
The relevant age groups to target first
Tony Blair: We are in a race against time – we must change our vaccine policy now
Vaccine strategy should be changed – to get a single shot to as many people as possible to slow the spread of coronavirus
www.independent.co.uk
So case's this time around are likely a third+ higher than the original April peak .
Circa 130000-140000 thousand cases a day
Why should I fuck off? And what's to say j had no interest in politics prior? Brexit will do wonders for this country, probaly why Multipul other EU country's are waiting to see how we do before telling them to fuxk off thereselfs, kinda fun t how it's all this "everyone has a opinion" until you disagree then you go all bitchy, if your that bothered about the EU I'm certain it wouldn't take you long to get a visa and fuxk off to France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Netherlands, Belgium ect.
rob9872
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Fwiw I think most voted based on immigration. There will be lots who didn't but most did. I voted out. After 4 years and with what's going on elsewhere, I reckon if the EU said you can look after your borders but anyone who's there can stay and we'll just carry on as before, then most would say fair enough crack on. For democracy sake it needs carrying through to some degree but 4 years is huge and I'm sure they'd all cancel it if they could.
Brylowes
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You literally struggle to string more than a couple of words together, and yet you speak in such a disgusting way about someone that would have began life with no more advantages than you ‘yet went on to achieve so much.
And She fights for you as well.......Prick
Ireland Will do.
You can keep it all for you and your ilk.
Xenophobe.
Edit:-
Anyway fuck off to the Brexit thread if that is what you
champion.
Brylowes
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I’m not even sure why you’re so anti EU, you seem to be writing in a mixture of most member states languages.
Brylowes
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We always had control over our own borders, for proof look to the member states shutting theirs to us this week.
Nick
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You literally struggle to string more than a couple of words together, and yet you speak in such a disgusting way about someone that would have began life with no more advantages than you ‘yet went on to achieve so much.
And She fights for you as well.......Prick
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Did Corbyn sleep with her then? Fair play Jez, gone up in the shagger ranks.
rob9872
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Not entirely sure I agree but certainly lost my appetite for another Brexit row with an outcome that none of us can influence, so I'll leave that to the other thread
Brighton Sky Blue
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Sounds like literally all bets are off in terms of previous restrictions/tier plans. Even talk of schools being closed for January as they think it ‘might’ transmit more easily between kids compared to previous strains/variants. Guess they’ll know more following further research now they know what they’re looking for/at.
By all accounts we might have shot ourselves in the foot a bit by actually having very good genomic surveillance/kind of testing that can spotted the sequencing changes (all above my GCSE science knowledge maybe BSB or other science bods will know more ?). Apparently we do way more Genomic surveillance than most/all other countries. Could’ve even started elsewhere but nobody else has spotted it til now.
Let’s hope it’s not as bad as first feared and transmission isn’t as rapid as they have modelled. As BSB mentioned and by all accounts it’s no more dangerous. Makes the AZ/Oxford vaccine sign off even more important though....let’s all hope this happens in coming days !
Ps should've kept our heads down China style, waited for it to be common everywhere then flagged it - kidding obviously !
Sequencing the genome of a virus is quite easy to do these days, but you would need to co-ordinate samples being sequenced from the overall test pool, which is how they are even able to pinpoint where the mutation first arose. We should still of course be cautious awaiting the tests on the lethality of this new strain compared to the vanilla one, but I am quietly optimistic that it will be no worse.
For those concerned about it cheating the vaccine, the yearly flu shot is also changed every year because influenza also takes on different strains regularly enough. The government's focus must remain on rolling out the vaccine to the most vulnerable in the shortest time.
shmmeee
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Blair makes some good points in his article. We should be using the first doses as they come in rather than holding half back for the second dose and looking at targeting spreaders as well as the vulnerable. It’s clear it’s impossible to throw too much resource at the vaccination program considering the ongoing economic cost of the pandemic. There really should be no reason not to get this done.
Bugsy
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really?
NHS leaders raise concerns over pace of Covid vaccine rollout
Exclusive: more than half of hospital trusts in England yet to receive supplies as variant spreadswww.theguardian.com
No David not really hence the weird emoji face
Kidding or not , it's actually taken 3 months Steve so guess it reflects the reality of concluding on what is actually happening.Sounds like literally all bets are off in terms of previous restrictions/tier plans. Even talk of schools being closed for January as they think it ‘might’ transmit more easily between kids compared to previous strains/variants. Guess they’ll know more following further research now they know what they’re looking for/at.
By all accounts we might have shot ourselves in the foot a bit by actually having very good genomic surveillance/kind of testing that can spotted the sequencing changes (all above my GCSE science knowledge maybe BSB or other science bods will know more ?). Apparently we do way more Genomic surveillance than most/all other countries. Could’ve even started elsewhere but nobody else has spotted it til now.
Let’s hope it’s not as bad as first feared and transmission isn’t as rapid as they have modelled. As BSB mentioned and by all accounts it’s no more dangerous. Makes the AZ/Oxford vaccine sign off even more important though....let’s all hope this happens in coming days !
Ps should've kept our heads down China style, waited for it to be common everywhere then flagged it - kidding obviously !
jimmyhillsfanclub
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Some front line nhs staff up here have already had the jab but it rolls out officially on 4th Jan.....let's hope they dont delay it with more admin fuck ups as were gonna need them all at work to fight this 3rd wave.....just hope they (and our condemned hospital) can cope....