Given the evidence for vaccination is currently a card with a sticker on it, I see a roaring trade in counterfeit vaccination cards. (There is a QR code on the sticker, but I doubt venues like sports or festivals will be verifying the code.)
Given the evidence for vaccination is currently a card with a sticker on it, I see a roaring trade in counterfeit vaccination cards. (There is a QR code on the sticker, but I doubt venues like sports or festivals will be verifying the code.)
You are probably right, but I guess given we have vaccinated over 50% of adults already (albeit only one dose in the majority of cases) there is likely to be enough immunity by that time for events to not be as stringent over such matters.
Before we get to that point the Government has to decide, actually collectivelly the Governments around the world need to come together to determine what is suitable. Personally it should be like a driving license with a QR code on and photo
The old and now rebranded remain campaign organisation just launched their drive for Proportional Representation.
Good luck to them.
Good luck to them.
It's going to be a long time before PR comes to the UK. 2028 seems pretty unrealistic, but here's hoping.
The EU "passport" is supposed to also allow you to move as long as you have had a negative test in a set amount of time, so I suspect UK will follow a similar model.It seems Latitude is taking the approach I suggested earlier
Latitude Festival in Suffolk will run at 'full capacity'
People who have not been vaccinated for Covid will have to take a test before they enter.www.bbc.co.uk
Vaccinated people straight in and then tests on the door for everyone else.
PR will never happen unless the entire political system is torn down. Neither Labour or the Tories want PR to happen.
It wasn't PR, it was AV.
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When you say reopening, do you mean the June date of social distancing etc being removed or do you mean the first step of early April for rule of 6 outdoors etc?
I already forsee the June date being pushed back slightly, but everything else I feel will hit its target despite the April vaccine delays. 50% of the population are vaccinated with a first dose, cases are down (although they may be levelling off slightly that's due to the huge amounts of extra tests) and deaths are bouncing between the low 100's and double digits.
They need to start opening gradually, especially for peoples businesses, mental health, and general morale of the country.
Definite uptick in COVID hospitalisations in Wales over the last few days. Not anything to be concerned about yet, but odd all the same.
All of it. I could see April being pushed back and whatever the new June date is.
I'd be pretty shocked if April was pushed back, I think if something was going to cause that to happen we'd be seeing more evidence of it by now.
The others are harder to tell, but I would say since we made the roadmap not only have we been able to vaccinate faster than we expected, but the evidence that's coming in suggests that the vaccines are considerably more effective than people assumed at the time the roadmap was made.
The others are harder to tell, but I would say since we made the roadmap not only have we been able to vaccinate faster than we expected, but the evidence that's coming in suggests that the vaccines are considerably more effective than people assumed at the time the roadmap was made.
When I see the daily infections graph on the BBC we are still at the same level we were this time last year when lockdown 1 started. Yes, we have vaccines, but I think the numbers have gone down because of vaccines AND lockdown. I also think a large number of people will not get the vaccine, so that population will continue to suffer from the virus. And the vaccines as a whole are probably on average 75 - 8o% effective, so some of theose vaccinated could still get really sick. Whether this is enough for delayed lifting of restrictions or another lockdown, who knows.
on the same day they announce half the adult population has had a vaccine you've got these fucking idiots doing an "anti-lockdown protest"
It is all about the numbers. Unless we get to a point where hospitals can't cope, we will be opening up the economy as society can't continue in lockdown indefinitely. Infections will never go away and people will continue to die unfortunately, but life will go on.
On what basis though? Schools have opened and most stats are still decreasing in terms of deaths, hospitalisations, and total cases whilst vaccines still go up?
Again, thats because of the massive increase in testing so of course the numbers are going to still be high because we are testing at such a higher rate especially compared to last year even with a more infectious strain.
Also nothing has indicated that a 'large number' of people will not get the vaccine, the current percentages are very high and I imagine the final uptake will level out even in the high 80%. The vaccine prevents transmission, prevents getting the disease in the first place, the need for hospitalisation, and also death so even though some may still get the virus, most wont be hospitalised or die and wont all be in the priority group age to be massively effected.
I understand that the news off the vaccine supply being limited is a downer, but the doom posting is really not helping and not really based on anything.
As long as hospitalisations stay low and continue to go down, deaths stay in the low 100's/double digits, vaccines continue to go up, and the number of cases doesn't spiral out of control, the country will continue (and needs to) open up and some point. We can't just stay like this indefinitely.
Could be related to the cluster areas? I'm really hoping that's the case, the Welsh government seem to be indicating them being the issue right now, at least with the uptick in cases.
The anti-lockdowners doth protest too much, methinks.
We're coming out of the lockdown when we're ready to do so. This potentially makes us less ready to do so. It shouldn't be hard to grasp.
We're coming out of the lockdown when we're ready to do so. This potentially makes us less ready to do so. It shouldn't be hard to grasp.
Nice! I'll be going on the first night (6th August).
I've wanted to see him perform for a very long time, so it's great he's finally playing in the UK.
I got the exact same thing tonight.
I didn't watch all of it of course, but it was a 4 min advert.
Pure idiocy.
This is definitely the way to go.It seems Latitude is taking the approach I suggested earlier
Latitude Festival in Suffolk will run at 'full capacity'
People who have not been vaccinated for Covid will have to take a test before they enter.www.bbc.co.uk
Vaccinated people straight in and then tests on the door for everyone else.
I do wonder if only one dose would count as being vaccinated though, otherwise pretty much everyone would have to be tested.
I don't know what to expect. My wife has a habit of going to sleep to Ghibli tunes (with overlaid background noise like cicadas or rain). But she's a 'concert' person and I'm wondering if it'll be full of anime fans
This is disingenuous, the vaccine significantly reduces the chance of these factors, but isn't 100% foolproof.
Mainly this past year having conditioned us all to expect the worst.
Mad times near my parents- some bright spark posted the online booking link to a local vaccination centre on Facebook yesterday, and for some unknown reason they just started vaccinating anyone who turned up with an appointment, regardless of whether they had been recommended by a doctor or had been prioritised. Needless to say, the centre got a bollocking from on high, and they turned away people who didn't have a doctor's note from today, but plenty of people got to jump the queue.
I don't really blame the people who chanced their arm- you miss every shot you don't take, and the centre was obviously fucking up.
I don't really blame the people who chanced their arm- you miss every shot you don't take, and the centre was obviously fucking up.
That's a good point.
I imagine the audience will be incredibly varied given the wide reach of Ghibli though, but I could be wrong.
I didn't say it was foolproof, I just meant it helps with these factors.
But sure let's keeps doomposting
Please do provide sources of your 'substantial' claim? as far i have seen they reduce transmission between 60-80% depending on which Vaccine candidate.
This is absolutely in-correct, the vaccines do not completely stop transmission or the disease - they are not a 'cure'
The vaccines reduce transmission and reduce severe to moderate disease - but not for everyone.
You're not wrong, but it's also worth remembering that these are concurrent forces. So yes, the vaccines may not prevent severe disease in a person, but the fact that the people around them are vaccinated reduces the risk of the virus finding its way to that individual for whom the vaccine did not provide adequate protection.
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This is just being pedantic. No it won't stop transmission for everyone, but if it does for 80% of the population then that reduces the R number to the point the virus can't survive in those that are still vulnerable.
makes no sense...the virus cant survive in people that are still vulnerable? ......
That is substantial though. Plus the AZ initial stuff from the NHS 'Siren' survey only cover the 1st dose not the complete course.
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If 80% of the people around them aren't then who are they catching it from? Who are they passing it to? That's the whole point of R as a metric, over time the virus is being passed between less and less people and dies out.
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Yes.
Definitely.
GBeebies will be too focused on a Naga Munchetty special 'woke watch' with Andrew Neil to worry about some silly pandemic.GB News have been granted a licence to broadcast by Ofcom. I wonder how they'll cover the pandemic.
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Ok hear me out a second, hypothetically your saying that 80% of the population receives a vaccination? not all of that 80% are 100% immune/resistant due to vaccines not having 100% efficacy.
Also By your logic you are assuming that coronavirus will eventually be wiped out because of R rates? Nope it's here to stay, just like the flu. We will have breakouts/mass testing etc for a long time.
By definition that's exactly what that means, key word being 'eventually' though. R being below 1 means that on average every person who catches the virus is transmitting it to fewer than 1 other person. Remaining below 1 means it's eventually incapable of reproducing within a population.
You have to keep it below 1 though, and for a long time. It will go above 1 as soon as you encourage more social contact. It wouldn't surprise me if it happens in the next few weeks as schools have been back for a few weeks now.
Every time I hear about this channel I laugh. A specialist TV channel in 2021. These people are so stuck in the past it's to their own detriment.GB News have been granted a licence to broadcast by Ofcom. I wonder how they'll cover the pandemic.
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"Licensee: All Perspectives Limited" (lol)GB News have been granted a licence to broadcast by Ofcom. I wonder how they'll cover the pandemic.
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EDIT: Forgot to mention that that's the same Liberty that owns F1...
Sadly I think the channel will do insanely well, especially given how things are at the moment. All they pretty much have to say is "We're against Political Correctness" and that's potentially 10s of millions of dedicated viewers right off the bat. It's goal is to shift the Overton Window further to the Right more than anything else.
But I'll be pleasantly surprised if the channel does fail.
10s of millions is highly unlikely for a dedicated news channel.
Yeah, exaggeration on my part. :)
I just expect it to cultivate a large audience based on Sod's Law.
I dunno, I think there's a good chance it's fucked from the off. Are there any existing independent news channels that aren't part of a bigger network?