Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[Boudicca]

I quite fancy Israel this year...

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

tbf the British coast is massively underrated

Its summer climate, less so.

 

[maomao]

Am I alone in finding the lack of opportunities for foreign summer holidays one of the smallest tragedies of this whole thing?

 

[Artaxerxes]

Its summer climate, less so.

Thanks to climate change the days of risking sitting in a damp caravan in Wales should be minimal now.

Am I alone in finding the lack of opportunities for foreign summer holidays one of the smallest tragedies of this whole thing?

Its a nice to have, the determination for people to go abroad otherwise summer would be RUINED RUINED! was fucking weird last year and absolutely fucking appalling during a global pandemic.

 

[Cloo]

I quite fancy Israel this year...

It's fucking roasting in summer though!

 

[elbows]

Everything to deflect from their own fuck ups.
You can't go on holiday cos Johnny foreigner doesn't have a world beating vaccination program. Cunts.

And our vaccination programme is world-beating because Hancock watched Contagion

Covid: Contagion film shows lessons around vaccine supply - Hancock

The 2011 Hollywood movie looks at what would happen in the event of a virus spreading around the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[existentialist]

Everything to deflect from their own fuck ups.
You can't go on holiday cos Johnny foreigner doesn't have a world beating vaccination program. Cunts.

They're so fucking predictable and transparent...

 

[StoneRoad]

elbows

please take care of you - your greatly appreciated input to this tread has really helped my understanding of the pandemic at the national scale as my focus has been far more into developments in my local area.

 

[IC3D]

And our vaccination programme is world-beating because Hancock watched Contagion

Covid: Contagion film shows lessons around vaccine supply - Hancock

The 2011 Hollywood movie looks at what would happen in the event of a virus spreading around the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

Article also states he ordered 400 million doses, um, sure someone will explain this but it looks like panic buying/hoarding no wonder Europeans are throwing shade atm.

 

[prunus]

Today MPs observed slightly over half a millisecond of silence for each person killed by Covid in th UK. So that's alright then.

 

[teqniq]

Dido Harding was appearing before a commons select committee today and she said this:



Just WTF

 

[BigMoaner]

Today's reported figures -

New cases - 16,840, the lowest since early Dec.

Patients in hospital have dropped to 35,466, as of Sun 31/1.

1st dose vaccinations - 9,646,715

New deaths - 1,449 down 182 on last Tuesday's 1,631, bringing the 7-day average down to 1,122, a drop of 9.7% in a week.

Long way to go, but at least we've seen the deaths declining for about a week or so.

appreciate your daily briefings cupid!

 

[Mation]

Dido Harding was appearing before a commons select commitee today and she said this:



Just WTF

Completely true, if "publicly" and "still plunder the country" are missing from that transcript.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Dido Harding was appearing before a commons select commitee today and she said this:



Just WTF

"I do not know how viruses work" says leading person in charge of pandemic response.

 

[TopCat]

All done, all good.

Ha! My nurse partner says I and the hospital fucked up possibly. She said it’s three weeks between jabs not two and they probably thought I was due the first. Did I tell them I had had the first? No.

 

[TopCat]

And our vaccination programme is world-beating because Hancock watched Contagion

Covid: Contagion film shows lessons around vaccine supply - Hancock

The 2011 Hollywood movie looks at what would happen in the event of a virus spreading around the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

Was that the movie when Gwenneth Paltrow died in the first ten mins? If so it was fab, really uplifting.

 

[planetgeli]

Dido Harding was appearing before a commons select commitee today and she said this:



Just WTF

We were warned. This should be no surprise.

When TalkTalk suffered a cyber attack in 2015 she was asked if her customer's data was encrypted. Her reply?

"The awful truth is I don't know"

Which led to Marketing Magazine running an article under the headline

"Dido Harding's utter ignorance is a lesson to us all".

Nothing has changed. This is what you get from a PPE degree at Magdalen College, Oxford.

 

[souljacker]

I didn't get why we were having a Boris Propaganda show this evening but it seems we've passed 10 million vaccinations so I suspect he wants the glory for that. Unless he's actually going to witter on for an hour so he can do his clapping thing at 6. I won't be as it clashes with House of Games on bbc2.

 

[TopCat]

I didn't get why we were having a Boris Propaganda show this evening but it seems we've passed 10 million vaccinations so I suspect he wants the glory for that. Unless he's actually going to witter on for an hour so he can do his clapping thing at 6. I won't be as it clashes with House of Games on bbc2.

It’s a rare success in the last year. Any politician would want to focus on that.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Today's reported daily figures.

First dose vaccinations just over 10m people now.

New cases, another 'fairly low' figure, at 19,202, down 25.1% in 7 days.

New deaths - 1,322 down a decent 403 on last Wednesday's 1,725, a drop of 13.4% in 7 days, the 7 day average daily deaths is now down to 1,090 from the peak of 1,248 on 23rd Jan.

 

[teuchter]

the 7 day average daily deaths is now down to 1,090 from the peak of 1,248 on 23rd Jan.

20th Jan.

 

[souljacker]

We seem to be getting quite close to the sort of case rates that we were seeing in November. The last time Reading had the figures we are seeing now, we were in Tier 2.

 

[Supine]

Covid and brexit stupidity combined in one tweet

 

[TopCat]

It’s encouraging.

 

[Pickman's model]

Today's reported daily figures.

First dose vaccinations just over 10m people now.

New cases, another 'fairly low' figure, at 19,202, down 25.1% in 7 days.

New deaths - 1,322 down a decent 403 on last Wednesday's 1,725, a drop of 13.4% in 7 days, the 7 day average daily deaths is now down to 1,090 from the peak of 1,248 on 23rd Jan.

ah - that's deaths by date reported as opposed to deaths by date of death, which latter peaked on 18 january

Official UK Coronavirus Dashboard

GOV.UK Coronavirus dashboard

coronavirus.data.gov.uk

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Covid and brexit stupidity combined in one tweet

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Oh for fucks sake

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh for fucks sake

 

[2hats]

Everyone 18 and older in the UK will most definitely not receive two doses by the end of May. From the current rate of progress alone, but also not least because for reasons of policy, medical history, production, political, distribution, vaccine hesitancy, anti-vax.

I see Whitty was gently starting to hint at the reality of this in today's press conference (just over 28 minutes in). Aside from supply issues mentioned that they will have to start administering the second dose in March and this will also slow the [currently realised] rate of progress, of course.

 

[Cloo]

I'm not expecting it until latter half year - especially over summer months, priority can and should be ensuring 2nd doses for the most vulnerable.

 

[TopCat]

Article also states he ordered 400 million doses, um, sure someone will explain this but it looks like panic buying/hoarding no wonder Europeans are throwing shade atm.

The extra is contingency and the Covax programme no?