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derbyskyblue

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,736
clint van damme said:
after a couple of months (mainly) out of work got offered a full time job today, now this, announce a Ricoh return and I might go a bit giddy!
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Congrats, well done !!
 
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clint van damme

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,737
skybluetony176 said:
I’ve always boycotted Wetherspoons tbf, even before I became aware what a total bellend owns them. Can’t stand it. Shit beer and shit atmosphere.
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to be honest I like the one near me, and I gave him a pass for using his pubs to push his leave agenda but when he started pontificating about Covid and telling his staff to go and work in Tecos enough was enough.
 
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derbyskyblue

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,738
shmmeee said:
We’ve already written off foreign holidays. Just gonna go around the U.K. to places we haven’t been. This country needs the tourism cash anyway.
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Yep me too ,Me and mrs dsb did have a cruise booked but thats sunk now. However i am going to visit barnard castle. Looks quite nice .
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,739
Is anyone else smiling for the first time in fucking ages?

I am
 
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Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,740
clint van damme said:
to be honest I like the one near me, and I gave him a pass for using his pubs to push his leave agenda but when he started pontificating about Covid and telling his staff to go and work in Tecos enough was enough.
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Same for me, nowhere else really where you can just go and get such a cheap pint and it's up to him to have his political opinions, I can just ignore them, but him trying to fuck his staff was too much. People now say "if you don't go to the pub the staff will have no jobs" as if different pubs getting more custom won't mean them needing more staff.

Gig tickets are for Lisbon not Germany as I first thought and for late June, just going to see how it goes.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,741
jordan210 said:
Spotted this what shows how bad it is.

If you in the 65-75 age band in France its between August 2021 and March 2022 before you will get the jab

At the current rate it will be 2026 before France achieves what Boris is saying we should have by July !
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Wow
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,742
Evo1883 said:
The government should be commended on the vaccine rollout, but people shouldn't forget the amount of unnecessary suffering caused by illogical decision making earlier on

I won't forget when I vote again
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Credit due also for the ordering of vaccines in the number and variety that they did. That was very wise indeed
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,743
chiefdave said:
Staggering the kids return would be sensible IMO. The holidays abroad one is the alarm bell for me after what happened last summer. If things continue the way they have been going people will be heading off to places that are way behind us with vaccinations. Surely not a great idea.
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Yep got to be
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,744
shmmeee said:
We’ve already written off foreign holidays. Just gonna go around the U.K. to places we haven’t been. This country needs the tourism cash anyway.
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Come to us come to us
 

Saddlebrains

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,745
I think the return of all schoolkids 8th March is a good acid test.

Cases will shoot up, think thats pretty clear. However if cases shoot up and 3 weeks later the hospitalisations are fuck all, due to the vaccine, which they should be, then hes proven right
 
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RegTheDonk

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,746
CCFCSteve said:
Absolute clowns. Macron in particular, saying the AZ jab was quasi ineffective, when by all accounts the French public is already very vaccine sceptic !

ps if rumours about the release of restrictions are correct I think there’s going to be some mistakes. Do the scientists/government want people to meet in controlled Covidsafe(r) environments ie a beer garden or even indoors in hospitality in limited groups/tables....or everyone piling round someone’s house, which I can guarantee will start to happen (if it’s not happening already). I hope Johnson has held back some more optimistic/positive news for his formal announcement
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The BBC journo at 7pm just before the press conference was laying it on thick, it's a massive slap to the French and Germans who virtually rubbished the Oxford jab's effects on the elderly.

No time though for points scoring and all that muck ... lets get back to normal asap and any surplus, spread the love. Feed the World so to speak.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,747
UK data shows 70% decline in infections after first Pfizer shot
England’s coronavirus vaccine campaign is significantly reducing cases of Covid-19, with a drop of around 70% in infections among healthcare workers who have had a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, British health officials said on Monday.
Reuters reports:
Data analysed by Public Health England (PHE) showed the Pfizer provided high levels of protection against infection and symptomatic disease from a single dose, and that hospitalisation and death from Covid-19 will be reduced by more 75% in elderly people who have had a first dose.
“Overall, we’re seeing a really strong effect to reducing any infection, asymptomatic and symptomatic,” PHE’s strategic response director Susan Hopkins told a media briefing.
PHE’s head of immunisation Mary Ramsay described the data as “strong evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is stopping people from getting infected, while also protecting cases against hospitalisation and death”.
“We should be very encouraged by these initial findings,” she said.
PHE’s findings came from two separate analyses - one is an ongoing study in healthcare workers, and the second is an assessment of testing data in people aged 80 and over.
Evidence from the elderly group showed that one dose of the Pfizer shot is 57% effective against symptomatic Covid-19 disease, PHE said, and early data suggest the second dose improves protection to more than 85%.
“Hospitalisation and deaths rates are falling in all age groups, but the oldest age groups are seeing the fastest decline since the peak in mid-January,” a PHE statement said.
The vaccine also provides protection against the so-called British variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, it added.
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Liquid Gold

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,748
I've processed it now and I'm buzzing. The spring is going to be so-so but all being well we can have the best summer of our lives with the euros going on. Jab, jab, jab and be good a bit longer.
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,749
derbyskyblue said:
Yep me too ,Me and mrs dsb did have a cruise booked but thats sunk now. However i am going to visit barnard castle. Looks quite nice .
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Insurance job was it?
 

Philosoraptor

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  • Feb 22, 2021
  • #42,750
I get my first jab on Wednesday.

I think transmission between people now is the next big thing when the most vulnerable of serious illness from this virus are protected.

If the jab leads to the virus being passed on less then there will be a point when enough people are vaccinated that transmitting the virus will become much harder.

I guess no one will really know for sure until the restrictions start to be relaxed.

Good news though all around.
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,751
Another slow day on the vaccine front (anticipated from what I’ve read/Shmmeee mentioned, expected to ramp up again in coming days). Around 200k yesterday

Good news on case numbers though, under 8.5k (off 670k tests). Keep it up UK !
 
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shmmeee

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,752
CCFCSteve said:
Another slow day on the vaccine front (anticipated from what I’ve read/Shmmeee mentioned, expected to ramp up again in coming days). Around 200k yesterday

Good news on case numbers though, under 8.5k (off 670k tests). Keep it up UK !
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8.5k on a weekday Is great. Might be around 5k when we open schools if we’re lucky.
 
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Macca

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,753
Anybody been invited to have their vaccine but doesn’t really know why? 47 good health not overweight
 

covcity4life

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,754
Macca said:
Anybody been invited to have their vaccine but doesn’t really know why? 47 good health not overweight
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I have my jab tommrow and I am in 30s

Assume it is due to asthma
 

hill83

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,755
covcity4life said:
I have my jab tommrow and I am in 30s

Assume it is due to asthma
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covcity4life

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,756
hill83 said:
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Meme for fucking everything isnt there
 
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Macca

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,757
covcity4life said:
I have my jab tommrow and I am in 30s

Assume it is due to asthma
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must be something on my records I don’t know about!
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,758
Im in my 30s, asthma and heart condition and I've neen told May ffs
 

covcity4life

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,759
Saddlebrains said:
Im in my 30s, asthma and heart condition and I've neen told May ffs
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They are prioritising human brains for now
 
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shmmeee

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,760
They’ve got an algorithm for the expanded vulnerable list that takes into account things like postcode I think. Ethnicity too. I wonder if that’s how they’re prioritising all under 50s.
 

Ian1779

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,761
Sounds like mandatory masks in school including lessons and social time for all. That is at least sensible.
Secondary that is...
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,762
My daughter has had a letter today to say continue to isolate until April.
 

Ian1779

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,763
Most schools will take the first week to test upon return. It’s only going to be 2 weeks of learning before Easter.
 
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Macca

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,764
shmmeee said:
They’ve got an algorithm for the expanded vulnerable list that takes into account things like postcode I think. Ethnicity too. I wonder if that’s how they’re prioritising all under 50s.
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Its a mystery to me. Not BAME, can’t imagine my postcode screams deprived area. Part of me not comfortable with it the other half says take it
 
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covcity4life

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,765
Macca said:
Its a mystery to me. Not BAME, can’t imagine my postcode screams deprived area. Part of me not comfortable with it the other half says take it
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Take it! One time govt doesn't Fuck you over. Wont happen again
 
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shmmeee

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  • Feb 23, 2021
  • #42,766
Macca said:
Its a mystery to me. Not BAME, can’t imagine my postcode screams deprived area. Part of me not comfortable with it the other half says take it
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At this point I’d say take it. The really vulnerable have all been done. All about coverage really now IMO
 
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Macca

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  • Feb 24, 2021
  • #42,767
shmmeee said:
At this point I’d say take it. The really vulnerable have all been done. All about coverage really now IMO
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cheers mate appreciate your opinion on it
 
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Macca

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  • Feb 24, 2021
  • #42,768
covcity4life said:
Take it! One time govt doesn't Fuck you over. Wont happen again
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when you put it like that Dr I’m in
 
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  • Feb 24, 2021
  • #42,769
Macca said:
cheers mate appreciate your opinion on it
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If you don't take it, the options are:

Somebody else takes it. Great, but they may not be uber vulnerable either;

Nobody takes it, and it's thrown away.
 
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Philosoraptor

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  • Feb 24, 2021
  • #42,770
Straight in and out today of one of the nightingale hospital.

They make you wait around for 15 minutes after you've had the jab to see if you have had any reaction.

10.00am and on the baileys with coffee. New record.
 
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