Off Topic Coronavirus

They haven't cleared all the evidence yet.

 

In a world of melancholy that really made me laugh out loud

 

Glad you're on the mend at least. Could you sneak us all some of that pain medication before the Luton and Wycombe games?

 

I don’t think they will be taken up on the offer. The representatives of 11,400 high street pharmacies, which are used to doing vaccinations and could deliver up to 1m a week, have offered their services to the Department of Health. They have had no response. I am going to interpret this really generously by assuming that the vaccine task force planning is spot on and they are completely certain that they don’t need any non NHS capacity.

The government is releasing the 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine that were meant for the second jab for the very elderly and vulnerable for first jabs. I hope we get more from Pfizer in time for my Mum to get her second jab. Meanwhile 3.5 million doses of the AZ jab are awaiting checking by the MHRA, while another 15 million doses have been made but haven’t been put into vials yet, I’m not sure why they decided to make the vaccine in 3 different sites (2 in U.K. one in Holland) and then transport it to North Wales for putting in vials. But at least the stuff is out there. MHRA promising to streamline its batch checking. Again something I would have thought they have had months to prepare for.

 

Heard Ellers on the radio this morning....

 

Heard that the other day - brilliant

 

Ah bless listen to Mr 'It ain't over yet' still banging on about Brexit...

 

Come on Ellers, where's your sense of humour

 

Wheres their's?

 

Over 1,000 deaths and 62,000 new cases...

 

Yep and around our way the traffic around 8am and 5pm yesterday and today was as busy as any other non school day.
Last April, the roads were relatively deserted.
I presume that, round our way at least, businesses aren't using the furlough scheme this time, or people just don't give a **** and aren't going to conform any more.

 

Yes, seems to me the only change from Tier 4 is no school run traffic. I was surprised at the 'essential' shops that were open, many more than the 1st lockdown...

 

Hilarious

 

It’s getting quite scary now. Only way is up as Christmas and New Year mixing are factored in over the next ten days.

Traffic seems busy again after a bit of a lull yesterday. Where are all these people going? I am lucky in that I can work 100% from home and do not have school age children, and as a result apart from a weekly trip to the supermarket I can count on the fingers of two hands the number of times I have driven since last March. Perhaps I didn’t get the ‘this doesn’t apply to you’ memo.

 

Where are people going? I’d happily go somewhere if there was anywhere to ****ing go.

 

Exactly. I feel like yelling ‘it’s ****ing closed’ as they drive past. Likewise I stroll with the dog between two parks at the bottom of Leamington’s main shopping street The Parade. Apart from the M&S food hall, a Tesco metro, Boots, Superdrug and two hardware shops, it’s closed. Yet it seems as busy with pedestrians as when we were in tier 3. But they are not queuing to get into the open shops, just hanging around. It’s genuinely weird, almost zombie like. Even if we can’t shop we are compelled to go to the shops. It’s like something from a JG Ballard short story.

Weird scenes inside the goldmine.

 

It seems people aren't going to adhere to this lockdown, judging by the traffic around here.

 

****ing hell another bumper day for deaths.

No supplies of vaccines delivered to Birmingham, apparently, local MPs including the Tories, hopping mad.

Some branches of Boots and Superdrug to deliver jabs, so their offer has been taken up, doubtless this was part of the plan all along and they just forgot they had already been asked......

My mother in laws GP have said **** the man and given her the second jab 3 weeks after the first. Wish my mums surgery had done the same. GP neighbour says none of her colleagues are comfortable with this wait 3 months approach.

 

Another briefing now. I hope it’s good news.