Been like that consistently throughout. With some pretty minor (admittedly) vandalism and littering. I don't want to go all "get off my lawn" or sound like Grandpa ffs, but I do find that behaviour somewhat intimidating. Always have. It's a shame because there are also a lot of kids (late teens at an absolute guess) who work at the local shop, and have done so throughout all credit to them.
The SAGE prediction was the end of Summer, back when people start moving indoors once again. I have no idea (which is what makes commenting such fun), but given the virus is going to be present in some form to some degree, seems unavoidable. We'll probably have a false sense of security conditioned into us over the Summer, along with the government exhorting everyone back to capitalist normality. Currently cases seem to be hovering between 2-3k a day. Deaths are, thankfully, right down. But covid ain't going away
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at this stage.
Entirely possible. I don't cope very well with change, being neuro diverse, so getting into lockdown was difficult (though the last lockdown was much worse because of the time of year), and now so is getting out. I guess we will only really know when it hits us, but the seeds have been sown. None of this is helped by having to deal with the DWP of course, which I mention because fuck the DWP
I don't know if they account for the vaccinations but I imagine they have....you'd hope! I guess it could be about variants and reduced efficacy vs reduced death toll. I mean to say that the government's approach is more about harm mitigation, easing the burden on the NHS, than actually achieving zero covid. So lots of pressure on the NHS because people get hospitalised but, having been vaccinated, are less likely to die.I haven't read those SAGE predictions and I should do I suppose, but I take it that they take fully into account how widespread vaccinations will have been in the UK, by the end of summer?
So even if vaccinated people still spread the virus (and how much is confidently known yet about that?) should at least mean that significantly fewer people might go into hospital, and lower death rates. What with so many of the elderly (most vulnerable) having been jabbed, just to give an example.
And no, I'm not saying "Rely on the vaccine and everything will be fine tra la!", just urging caution against ultra-pessimism
Continue to be careful;, but don't assume the worst, in short. I'm guessing just as much as you, but still.
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'A beacon of hope: the UK vaccine story' which was in the news a few months ago for being expensive glossy propaganda that they then didnt show, has finally been shown on youtube today. I'm not watching it, here is an earlier story about it instead.
Glitzy No 10 film about UK’s vaccination programme attacked as ‘expensive propaganda’
‘The government must come clean about how much taxpayers’ money was spent making this ‘documentary’’
I feel like that - although a couple of years in my case. I keep getting excited when I get a SMS (which is not all that often) as it might the vaccination booking!
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I think the concern is that, after we unlock fully (June), that's when the cases will spike again, probably when tht weather turns and folk go back indoors. Obviously vaccines are the key factor here, but we don't know how long the protection lasts
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