Coronavirus outbreak

[Vapin' Joe]

"Fark off and stick your Olympics, nobhead", would be my answer to this clown -

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/...mpics-can-go-ahead-says-games-official-487385

 

[classic33]

Seriously ?

Everyone over 50 has been offered the flu vaccine. That and the social distancing/masks/precautions surely explains the low flu rate.

There's said to have been an increase in the number of people actually having the flu jab last year. May have played some part in the figures being lower.

 

[bitsandbobs]

"Fark off and stick your Olympics, nobhead", would be my answer to this clown -

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/...mpics-can-go-ahead-says-games-official-487385

Why a Spanish athlete in the picture I wonder? The Spanish have their own olympics issues with an outside chance they might not be allowed to compete depending on the outcome of their biological passport courtcase pantomime.

 

[matticus]

“Conspiracy mode on “ was listening to 5 Live this morning driving into work, a guy getting interviewed , data analyst type. Anyway he was going on about how Flu was down this year due to restrictions in place. He didn’t say zero but it was close to minimal. So what’s going wrong here with Covid then ?? Maybe we got the wrong end of the stick ! All a bit strange really ? Restrictions working for Flu but not COVID

Get in the sea pal!

Load of tosh, try ringing 5Live!

 

[PK99]

Doubtful. According to my parents practice website, the vaccinations are being given at Epsom Racecourse (couple of miles away), not at the practice. I assume that’ll be the same with AZ / Oxford vaccine

I understand that the Nelson Health Centre is opening as a local vaccination hub next week

 

[vickster]

I understand that the Nelson Health Centre is opening as a local vaccination hub next week

A friend of mine is marshalling at a Twickenham practice tomorrow which has become a site too.
Probably only works with big buildings...my parents practice is small (essentially a converted house)

 

[vickster]

Indeed, Epsom Downs has been named as one of seven mass vaccination centres

Robertson House, Stevenage
Excel Centre (Nightingale), London
Centre for Life, Newcastle
Etihad Tennis and Football Centre, Manchester
Epsom Downs racecourse, Surrey
Ashton Gate Stadium, Bristol
Millennium Point, Birmingham

the dad of a friend of mine is being jabbed at Adams Park on Friday (Wycombe Wanderers ground)

 

[midlife]

BBC reports over 1000 deaths today. If memory serves there were 22 consecutive days over 1000 in the first lockdown.

Our local rate now over 1000 per 100,000.

Wonder if we will return to the even tighter lockdown 1 regime ?

 

[Wobblers]

Flu infections may not be down by as much as you think.

Don't forget that anyone killed by flu who has had a positive Covid test in the previous 28 days gets classed as a Covid death, not a flu one.

Except that Australia, which never had such high CV19 infection rates and thus far, far fewer deaths also saw a significant fall in flu infections (n.b. not just deaths!) during their winter flu season. In fact they effectively didn't have a winter flu season. Social distancing, avoiding crowds, wearing masks, all seem to reduce the spread of respiratory diseases.

 

[mjr]

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Wonder if we will return to the even tighter lockdown 1 regime ?

Tighter in some ways. Not in others. It disappoints me that no useless restrictions have been discarded and seemingly no useful measures from other countries adopted.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

BBC reports over 1000 deaths today. If memory serves there were 22 consecutive days over 1000 in the first lockdown.

Our local rate now over 1000 per 100,000.

Wonder if we will return to the even tighter lockdown 1 regime ?

The Guardian says that there were a total of 9 days that the numbers exceeded 1,000. https://www.theguardian.com/politic...n-parliament-vote-new-lockdown-latest-updates at 16:22

 

[MrGrumpy]

Get in the sea pal!

Load of tosh, try ringing 5Live!

Read Julia’s post further up !

 

[PK99]

BBC reports over 1000 deaths today. If memory serves there were 22 consecutive days over 1000 in the first lockdown.

Our local rate now over 1000 per 100,000.

Wonder if we will return to the even tighter lockdown 1 regime ?

 

[Yellow Fang]

Seriously ?

Everyone over 50 has been offered the flu vaccine. That and the social distancing/masks/precautions surely explains the low flu rate.

I haven't been offered one.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Seriously ?

Everyone over 50 has been offered the flu vaccine. That and the social distancing/masks/precautions surely explains the low flu rate.

Yes seriously I was just asking the question based on what I had heard on the radio , but Julia’s post further up explained a bit more about some differences.
Btw I could have got the flu vaccine through work , no chance of that though as the roll out in my area was shocking to say the least . I also thought it best to go to vulnerable folk rather than me .