Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #64

[JLXRD]

I am absolutely thrilled about the vaccine news!

However it is a bit bittersweet this morning as we found out my nans best friend whom she had known for over 40 years lost her battle with cancer this morning.

My Nan is absolutely heart broken, as she was in a care home my Nan hadn’t seen her properly at all this year so feels like she wasn’t able to say good bye. She had been given days to live back in 2015 and recovered so she was hoping she would again. Thankfully they called her son and he was able to be with her when she passed.

So I’m happy about the vaccine, but sad that it can’t give people their time back there are a lot of people who have lost a lot of things they can’t get back this year.

keeping everything crossed for a a better 2021 x

 

[Stimpii]

I'm not sending them in and if they try to fine me then I'll fight it to the very end. They want to be thankful that I've even sent the kids back at all given the circumstances

I don’t blame you!

Thing is you could have easily lied and said someone had symptoms/was positive to keep them off. At least you were honest with them! I think a lot of people will be doing the same as you.

 

[Tublet83]

Wouldn't the best places to start vaccinating be the hot spots such as Leicester, and fully and thoroughy vaccinate every person there, especially everybody working in the Boohoo fast fashion sweatshops that we saw earlier in the year? After all nothing else seems to be working in these areas so why not give the vaccine a good go there? What better extended testing ground is there than a city that cannot shake it off?

You could argue that, given how easily spread we keep being told Covid is, any NHS and other health care workers that haven't managed to catch it by now, probably aren't ever going to, or somehow already have some sort of immunity built up, so what is the point of using up precious early vaccines on them.

I completely agree on prioritising northern cities where they have been more hit, help them get on their feet faster and get the economy moving and loosen restrictions.

I would also be prioritising teachers like they are in other countries

 

[monga]

Briefing about to start ..,vaccine roll out

 

[Chablis1]

I would be speaking to my local MP about this. Absolutely raging for you x

This is really good advice.

 

[Stimpii]

I’m happy about the vaccine news but I really wouldn’t want to be one of the first to have it/let my children have it. I’m not an anti vaxxer by any means, just a bit hesitant.

 

[kev1974]

Did the doctor lady on the press conference swallow Matt Hancock's buzzword bingo book for breakfast? May just be her manner of speaking but every answer she gives comes over as extremely pre-rehearsed and carefully worded.

 

[monga]

Did the doctor lady on the press conference swallow Matt Hancock's buzzword bingo book for breakfast? May just be her manner of speaking but very answer she gives comes over as extremely pre-rehearsed and carefully worded.

Was just thinking is she computer generated she’s like something from Westworld

 

[Web30]

I thought children weren’t being vaccinated? Over 18s only at the moment

I read the same, i think im having it but wouldnt want my 6 year old to. By the time shes old enough we will have a lot more info on any side effects.

 

[kev1974]

Wish one of the reporters would ask the simple question of why they think we need a vaccine when China doesn't.

 

[Tippingpoint23]

Wish one of the reporters would ask the simple question of why they think we need a vaccine when China doesn't.

Someone did I think on GMB - wasn’t paying full attention but Morgan was talking about track and trace!
Edit to add I have no idea who they asked or if it was just in discussion but it was mentioned I just heard the tail end of it.

 

[monga]

Wish one of the reporters would ask the simple question of why they think we need a vaccine when China doesn't.

China have already started vaccinating people I wanted to know have they figured out if people are still infectious after receiving it?https://www.12ft.io/https://www.the...eople-experimental-covid-vaccine-says-company

 

[Yel]

I think it says something that the posts here about the vaccine approval don't have many likes and the thread isn't that busy.

I wonder if most people are either; bored of covid, worried about the vaccine, worried about the recession that's baked in or something else?

It doesn't feel like a crack open a bottle of bubbly moment

 

[kev1974]

I think it says something that the posts here about the vaccine approval don't have many likes and the thread isn't that busy.

I wonder if most people are either; bored of covid, worried about the vaccine, worried about the recession that's baked in or something else?

It doesn't feel like a crack open a bottle of bubbly moment

They're all out at the Debenhams fire sale!

 

[monga]

I think it says something that the posts here about the vaccine approval don't have many likes and the thread isn't that busy.

I wonder if most people are either; bored of covid, worried about the vaccine, worried about the recession that's baked in or something else?

It doesn't feel like a crack open a bottle of bubbly moment

Still too many unanswered questions I think! Like someone said it feels like an experiment instead of a breakthrough

 

[Yel]

it feels like an experiment instead of a breakthrough

It sure is, at least the stakes aren't that high

I wonder how long Australia will wait and watch other nations mass test the rollout before starting it themselves? Some of their experts have been quite smug about the position they're in, but really they can't wait that long

I'm surprised twitter are letting Thalidomide trend right below the vaccine

 

[Meangirl815]

'The UK is the first country in the world...'

No good can come from a sentence that starts like that imo

 

[Olive40]

So if you’re under 50 with no health issues you aren’t in the vaccine roll out? Yet it can kill people without health conditions. It’ll still spread amongst schools too.

 

[monga]

It sure is, at least the stakes aren't that high

I wonder how long Australia will wait and watch other nations mass test the rollout before starting it themselves? Some of their experts have been quite smug about the position they're in, but really they can't wait that long

I'm surprised twitter are letting Thalidomide trend right below the vaccine

I honestly thought American would have rolled it out first .I’m really surprise that the UK has been left “centre stage “ I thought they would have monitored another country’s medical data first...fingers crossed everything works out.

 

[Yel]

So if you’re under 50 with no health issues you aren’t in the vaccine roll out? Yet it can kill people without health conditions. It’ll still spread amongst schools too.

They're not in the first phase. With the number of vaccines there's no point publishing plans of phase two that won't start for many months.

The average age of someone dying from it is 82. So it's right to prioritize on age. There's way more chance of people not on phase 1 being run over than dying from it.