Coronavirus

It's a PR masterstroke by our government. By keeping figures high (say 50k cases a day since July) they have created a situation where in theory we shouldn't see a surge in cases like in western Europe as we've had our surge as a high but flat level for the last 4 months.

Boris can say "look at the surging cases the EU is having" implying they are doing worse than us. It's also weird seeing Germany go into policy panic mode when their case rates are still less than ours have been for over 16 weeks.

As much as I hate to admit it, from a nearest neighbours perspective at least, two of our government scientists most controversial decisions seem to have paid off.

Namely, leaving that extended gap between 1st and 2nd dose vaccines (though mine was only 7 weeks) and then the decision to allow cases to rise throughout late summer early autumn to prevent a surge and higher peak/more hospital pressure in winter.

Edit - fucking crazy that the case rate in Austria is already 125% higher than our early Jan peak and still rising.

It's all right, the flu vaccine supercharges the 5G chips to stimulate you from the inside. Bill Gates' plan all along.

Our A&E / Ambulance services have been at failure point for months.  All we've done is basically guarantee we lose a whole bunch of staff to stress.

Completely and this is compounded massively by a decade+ of chronic underinvestment from the Tories. The NHS was almost (deliberately?) on its knees pre Covid. It still unfortunately comes back to permenant restrictions or sustained community transmission negated by vaccines. As we've chosen the latter it needs to be hand in hand with massive investment in our health services and the staff who work in them.

Hoping I can get my booster soon. 38 with second dose mid July. Are all boosters Pfizer and are we done with AZ now? I had Pfizer with no reaction other than a sore arm, so hoping for that one again.

My sister is saying she probably won’t get the booster, but her partner has been a covidiot right from the start so not really surprising.

Over 40s are only eligible from Monday, so you've still got a while before they roll it out to us younguns.

And yeah, seems to be Pfizer or nothing these days. Kind of glad that that's what I've already had two doses of!

I wouldn't speak too soon, UK is rising steadily , long time till spring.

I got a Pfizer (and flu) on Saturday. Was told if I wanted Moderna I had to go to the Mosque...not sure why he said that, it seems to be the one used in local centres. Maybe the Pfizer needle is lubed with bacon grease.

Was a bit shivery last night, even with 2 fleeces and a hat. Kids pointed out I should not have been drinking cold beer, got to keep hydrated.

Pretty reassuring that it's mainly people who only have themselves to blame suffering at this point.

Just back from the main vaccination centre in Stevenage. It was pretty busy and I had my booster (Moderna). Was hoping for Pfizer but no option to choose obv. She didn’t muck about sticking it in my arm either. Thought she was going to take a run up. 😁

Yep, that last line about if you're fit, healthy, with no underlying conditions and have been vaccinated, you might catch it, but you wont end up in ICU, needs to be rammed down some stupid people's throats. 

Co-worker's kid has covid but he is negative but feeling unwell as found out today. Annoying thing is he called me into the smaller meeting room on friday but was sitting across medium size table, so not like it was small table. Any face to face meetings are cancelled again