Covid-19 Virus

Glastonbury sadly had no choice but to pull the plug, it’s the biggest greenfield festival in the world and takes significantly more, and significantly longer to put everything in place compared to any other festival. They couldn’t risk spending loads of money like they did last year, planning and getting everything in place, without cast iron certainties that it could definitely go ahead. Even now with the roadmap there are no guarantees, it would’ve started on 26th June and the provisional date for festivals is 21st June, far too tight to gamble millions on.

Every other festival by comparison can be slung together in a fraction of the time.

 

Having my jab tomorrow

 

Agreed. As soon as Reading mentioned they would be on this Summer my youngest daughter and all of her friends got weekend tickets.

 

New cases are still coming down but not as fast now, whereas deaths are dropping like a stone. That's the future.

In other news, I read today that not a single case of flu has been recorded this year. That can't be right can it?

 

Epidemiologically, no. Flu is no doubt still circulating in the community but lockdown measures, masks etc will have suppressed it big time. But it's not being detected because it's not popping up in the usual places where they test - ICUs, care homes etc - and I also read Public Health England have naturally had to redirect some testing and surveillance capacity for Covid.

 

All done next one already booked in.

 

First one done as well. If what I witnessed in the waiting room is representative of my age/health group then I seriously despair .

 

Going to be interesting to see whether mask wearing during peak seasons for illnesses with significant community spread becomes a thing in the future.

 

Deaths are at 300 a day after 2 months of a hard lockdown - they are way higher than I would have predicted at this point a month or two ago.

 

Still a bit of a lag of course.

 

How so?

 

Imagine a waiting room full of the walking dead, then the jab by a lovely nurse, then another waiting room, (as you have to wait 15 minutes afterwards), full of the same people. I expected a bit of a jovial upbeat atmosphere but **** me was I wrong. It was oppressive.

 

There was a covid programme on earlier, I don’t know if anyone saw it but it gave an interesting example for how new variants emerge. They gave an example of someone in hospital with Covid who’d also been receiving chemo. They were in hospital for three months battling Covid (they eventually died) as they had a very weak immune system. In an effort to save them, they injected them with the antibody plasma stuff, because they had such a weak immune system instead the virus just kept replicating and learned to work round the antibodies and mutated significantly within this one individual.

That’s probably quite an obvious thing regarding how viruses work, it was just interesting how by trying to save this person it actually just helped the virus adapt.

 

Maybe their teams haven’t just won 4 in a row ? You were probably irritatingly cheerful.

 

I posted this on Clive”s “Caring” thread too.

 

Laurence Fox tweeted about this and revealed the thoughts of the anti-vaxxers amongst his supporters.

Quite revealing as to what some people "believe" (reinforced by social media bubbles):

https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1365061101034029061?s=19

 

I don't know why I clicked on that link, I knew it would anger me, but I did.

Laurence Fox is a 24 carat c**t so his followers were always going to be f***ing idiots, but it's amazing just what a bunch of self-important, attention-seeking, desperate to be different bunch the anti vaccine brigade are. Full of smugness that they are in on something that most people aren't, despite it being based on total sh*t.

 

I know some people have side effects but I feel absolutely fine after my pfizer jab yesterday.

 

You'll be fine until the Windows updates start coming out on Tuesday.

 

Would you include front care workers who refuse to take the vaccination because they don't trust the government in that category?

 

Give it about 10 hours

 

Yes Laurence, I would.

 

I think your description fits all conspiracy theorists well

 

Eh?

 

Yes, it's interchangeable.

I bet they'd be screaming for a vaccine if it was announced that there was one, but only a select few could have it.

 

While I had no hesitation in getting pricked (oh, matron) this week, I don't see why anyone should be forced to undergo a medical procedure that they're not comfortable with - no matter how misguided their reasons might appear to be. If people don't want to be vaccinated that's their free choice.

 

That's a fine view if it had absolutely no bearing on the rest of us. However...

 

I think attempting to force those who choose not to be vaccinated to undergo the process against their will would have a far more damaging 'bearing on the rest of us'.

 

We have 'forced' people to stay at home against their will during lockdown...