Gazcw
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School shutdowns I bet.Boris going to make an announcement later today at 8pm.
Parliament has been recalled too for Wednesday sessions.
Total lockdown? Again?
School shutdowns I bet.Boris going to make an announcement later today at 8pm.
Parliament has been recalled too for Wednesday sessions.
Total lockdown? Again?
I have not doubt that GP's will organise well, but surely it would have been beneficial to organise mass vaccination sites and use armed forces/St John's etc to give jabs. Leaving medical practitioners to get on with the day to day issues. Also give it to the teens to 25 Yr old that are incapable of wearing masks or SD because they think they are immune! To my simple mind, that would drastically reduce the spread.The Oxford jab approval should make a big difference to the speed of roll out of the vaccination programme, as long as the manufacturing capacity is there - not just for the medication but also for the ancillaries such as vials, needles and syringes etc. The key difference is the ease of storage; it’s just the same as for flu shots and GP practices have a wealth of experience of organising these local campaigns successfully over the years.
From a purely public health p.o.v. (i.e. greatest good for the greatest number of people), the decision to delay second jabs seems justified. I know, explicit trial evidence for this is lacking, but basic immunological principles established with other vaccines suggest that a late 2nd jab should work.
The great fear about just shielding the vulnerable and letting Covid rip through the rest of the population is that it is now so infectious that the eventually huge number of ill people will prevent the delivery of even the most basic of community services. There could well be too few workers left on their feet to stock supermarket shelves, run water treatment plants, keep power stations going, police the streets etc. This may sound alarmist, but you only have to look at the nearly exponential rate of rise of case numbers in London to see that it’s a real risk.
I don’t often say it, but I’m with the powers that be on this one.
School shutdowns I bet.
The Oxford jab approval should make a big difference to the speed of roll out of the vaccination programme, as long as the manufacturing capacity is there - not just for the medication but also for the ancillaries such as vials, needles and syringes etc. The key difference is the ease of storage; it’s just the same as for flu shots and GP practices have a wealth of experience of organising these local campaigns successfully over the years.
From a purely public health p.o.v. (i.e. greatest good for the greatest number of people), the decision to delay second jabs seems justified. I know, explicit trial evidence for this is lacking, but basic immunological principles established with other vaccines suggest that a late 2nd jab should work.
The great fear about just shielding the vulnerable and letting Covid rip through the rest of the population is that it is now so infectious that the eventually huge number of ill people will prevent the delivery of even the most basic of community services. There could well be too few workers left on their feet to stock supermarket shelves, run water treatment plants, keep power stations going, police the streets etc. This may sound alarmist, but you only have to look at the nearly exponential rate of rise of case numbers in London to see that it’s a real risk.
I don’t often say it, but I’m with the powers that be on this one.
There is nothing else left.
Been doing that for months here in France apart from the Christmas exemptions allowing us a bit of freedom but it was for one day only.Extension of T4 areas
Further limits on how many can be in your bubbles
Close all gyms
Not permitted to more than x miles from home
Evening curfews
There is lots that could be done... but will the covidiots follow the rules?
I have not doubt that GP's will organise well, but surely it would have been beneficial to organise mass vaccination sites and use armed forces/St John's etc to give jabs. Leaving medical practitioners to get on with the day to day issues. Also give it to the teens to 25 Yr old that are incapable of wearing masks or SD because they think they are immune! To my simple mind, that would drastically reduce the spread.
Been doing that for months here in France apart from the Christmas exemptions allowing us a bit of freedom but it was for one day only.
Waiting for today's numbers as I type.
Hasn't happened yet.Shoot on sight out of order I suppose?
Back to square one.
Only if you have a 4 year old in the backIs it okay to drive to Barnard Castle ?