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Nick

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  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,491
fernandopartridge said:
And worth recalling Nick complaining about the pointlessness of the politics debates on here
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And? The Brexit one doesn't really have much of a point to it.

I haven't mentioned NHS staff welfare, just that the NHS will struggle due to so many isolating.
 

Sky Blue Harry H

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,492
Skybluefaz said:
I'm really confused about where we are with all this right now.
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If you are using this thread for guidance, I'm not fecking surprised.
 

Skybluefaz

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,493
Sky Blue Harry H said:
If you are using this thread for guidance, I'm not fecking surprised.
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Using skybluestalk.co.uk threads for guidance is not on my new years resolution list! The odd good resource is posted in here on occasion tbf.
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,494
skybluetony176 said:
Most contagious just means the point you’re most at risk of passing it on not that you’re no longer capable of passing it on.
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I know.

Hence the point about being at most risk of passing it on two days before symptoms and while LFTs return negative results.

I don't know how you could get confused by that.
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,495
Nick said:
And? The Brexit one doesn't really have much of a point to it.

I haven't mentioned NHS staff welfare, just that the NHS will struggle due to so many isolating.
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You've said it in other threads, now it effects you suddenly politics matters
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,496
fernandopartridge said:
You've said it in other threads, now it effects you suddenly politics matters
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I'm not being political, I'm not turning it into a right or left jumpathon.

I couldn't give a shit if it's tories, labour or lib dems. They are all pricks.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,497
SBT said:
What makes you say that? There are still plenty of policy levers to pull around the world and they’re having a positive impact on the number of people getting vaccinated, including the most vulnerable. For example, this chart of vaccinations for the over-70s in Hong Kong - see if you can spot when the new vaccine requirements came in!

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If I´m honest, I don´t really understand the graph and what the dates are supposed to be. Are you saying the uptake increased in July last year?

Sure, every time people´s liberties are threatened, some will get the jab, but there is a hardcore (if you want to call it that) which have ´resisted´ so far. I wouldn´t be expecting them to suddenly rock up and get the jab two years in.

I really think the idea that the remaining unvaccinated people will get it is a lost cause, and whilst the ´fully vaccinated´ changes to one booster, and then to another, more and more people will not rock up and get it. I think when policies are implemented that needs to be taken into account. The percentage of people fully vaccinated will not get a lot higher than it is now.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,498
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Went there in 2019, ridiculously expensive I found
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It is.

I am frequently finding bars (when they are open) charging 8 to 10 euros a pint. Of course, it depends where you go and if it is a tourist location etc.

I was in Oslo in 2019 and that was actually cheaper in a nightclub for a pint than it was in some bars here.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,499
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
If I´m honest, I don´t really understand the graph and what the dates are supposed to be. Are you saying the uptake increased in July last year?

Sure, every time people´s liberties are threatened, some will get the jab, but there is a hardcore (if you want to call it that) which have ´resisted´ so far. I wouldn´t be expecting them to suddenly rock up and get the jab two years in.

I really think the idea that the remaining unvaccinated people will get it is a lost cause, and whilst the ´fully vaccinated´ changes to one booster, and then to another, more and more people will not rock up and get it. I think when policies are implemented that needs to be taken into account. The percentage of people fully vaccinated will not get a lot higher than it is now.
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Well it would if people were given no option of negative tests as an alternate we will soon see if Macron gets his way - as he puts it to Piss off the anti vaxxers so there liberty is severely restricted to the extent they can do very little
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,500
Grendel said:
Well it would if people were given no option of negative tests as an alternate we will soon see if Macron gets his way - as he puts it to Piss off the anti vaxxers so there liberty is severely restricted to the extent they can do very little
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It is a bold move from him.

The French are one of few western societies where they might rebel against it en-masse or with violence. They love a protest.

Will be interesting to see how that unravels.
 
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SBT

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  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,501
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
If I´m honest, I don´t really understand the graph and what the dates are supposed to be. Are you saying the uptake increased in July last year?

Sure, every time people´s liberties are threatened, some will get the jab, but there is a hardcore (if you want to call it that) which have ´resisted´ so far. I wouldn´t be expecting them to suddenly rock up and get the jab two years in.

I really think the idea that the remaining unvaccinated people will get it is a lost cause, and whilst the ´fully vaccinated´ changes to one booster, and then to another, more and more people will not rock up and get it. I think when policies are implemented that needs to be taken into account. The percentage of people fully vaccinated will not get a lot higher than it is now.
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Here’s another version of a similar chart:



That’s a huge surge of old people deciding to get vaccinated in just the past week, after almost a year of holding out! All after the vaccine rules tightened up.

I’m not here to argue about whether vaccine requirements are designed to ‘threaten liberties’. But what is clear is that they can still jolt people - many of them vulnerable - into getting vaccinated, even after all this time. The idea that there aren’t more people left to persuade, or any more ways left to persuade them, doesn’t seem to be correct. We shouldn’t give up.
 

SBAndy

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,502
SBT said:
What makes you say that? There are still plenty of policy levers to pull around the world and they’re having a positive impact on the number of people getting vaccinated, including the most vulnerable. For example, this chart of vaccinations for the over-70s in Hong Kong - see if you can spot when the new vaccine requirements came in!

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I do think his comments were more to do with domestic vaccination levels rather than international.
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,503
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
It is a bold move from him.

The French are one of few western societies where they might rebel against it en-masse or with violence. They love a protest.

Will be interesting to see how that unravels.
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There is an alternative for people now. If negative testing was not valid I think people would surge to get the vaccine especially as it would restrict foreign travel and eating out etc.
 

SBAndy

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,504
SBT said:
Here’s another version of a similar chart:

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That’s a huge surge of old people deciding to get vaccinated in just the past week, after almost a year of holding out! All after the vaccine rules tightened up.

I’m not here to argue about whether vaccine requirements are designed to ‘threaten liberties’. But what is clear is that they can still jolt people - many of them vulnerable - into getting vaccinated, even after all this time. The idea that there aren’t more people left to persuade, or any more ways left to persuade them, doesn’t seem to be correct. We shouldn’t give up.
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That graph illustrates your point better. Fair enough.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,505
Grendel said:
There is an alternative for people now. If negative testing was not valid I think people would surge to get the vaccine especially as it would restrict foreign travel and eating out etc.
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How will that stop the spread of Omicron?
 

Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,506
I do sort of respect Macron choosing violence here even though I normally think he's a prick.

It scares the shit out of me that it's going to push more people towards Le Pen in April though.
 

Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,507
Nick said:
How will that stop the spread of Omicron?
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I think the point is that if everybody is vaccinated the threat of our health services is a lot lower and we don't need to introduce other restrictions.

At the moment it's only the selfish pricks that are clogging up ICU stopping hospitals doing the rest of their jobs.

If we have 100% vaccination then it's a much easier case to say we can carry on as normal.
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,508
Nick said:
How will that stop the spread of Omicron?
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Bear with me on this one. But if unvaccinated people get jabbed, or if unboosted people get the booster, it lowers your chances of getting and spreading Omicron.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,509
SBT said:
Here’s another version of a similar chart:

View attachment 23416

That’s a huge surge of old people deciding to get vaccinated in just the past week, after almost a year of holding out! All after the vaccine rules tightened up.

I’m not here to argue about whether vaccine requirements are designed to ‘threaten liberties’. But what is clear is that they can still jolt people - many of them vulnerable - into getting vaccinated, even after all this time. The idea that there aren’t more people left to persuade, or any more ways left to persuade them, doesn’t seem to be correct. We shouldn’t give up.
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I don´t disagree with you in that sense. The changing of rules does almost certainly correlate with an uptake, however; the uptake in the UK is already high and across different countries the ´taking away liberties´ rules are at different stages. Culturally people are different too. Here in the Netherlands if you do not have the jab you cannot go out to eat (when the restaurants are open). Sure, you can get a test but it is a massive effort and your QR code lasts only 2 days. Most people I know don´t bother. The rules are pretty much on top level tight. There is not a lot more that people can do tighten the rules which will jolt people into getting the jab. It looks like the rules are about as strict as they can be.

I get your point, and as I said, I don´t disagree with what you are saying. I just think there are a lot of different variables across the world from the Hong Kong model.
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,510
Liquid Gold said:
It scares the shit out of me that it's going to push more people towards Le Pen in April though.
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We do this every time with French elections - never happens.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,511
Liquid Gold said:
I think the point is that if everybody is vaccinated the threat of our health services is a lot lower and we don't need to introduce other restrictions.

At the moment it's only the selfish pricks that are clogging up ICU stopping hospitals doing the rest of their jobs.

If we have 100% vaccination then it's a much easier case to say we can carry on as normal.
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There would still be thousands of people isolating when they test positive. Hospitals are cancelling operations and stating that staff being off work is the reason rather than no ICU beds.

100% vaccination will never happen.

It's easier for Boris to start a war between vaccinated and unvaccinated though.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,512
Nick said:
100% vaccination will never happen.
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It would if you made it a rule to have it or you would not be allowed into your place of work
 

Frostie

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,513
SBT said:
Bear with me on this one. But if unvaccinated people get jabbed, or if unboosted people get the booster, it lowers your chances of getting and spreading Omicron.
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Somebody should have mentioned that before.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,514
Liquid Gold said:
I do sort of respect Macron choosing violence here even though I normally think he's a prick.

It scares the shit out of me that it's going to push more people towards Le Pen in April though.
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I think the problem is that Macron doesn´t really have any reasonable challenger. If he did there is no way he would have pulled this move.

They say 5 million people in France are unvaccinated, and he has just (in his own words) pissed them off.

I don´t really trust the polls, but if it has given Le Pen a chance then he really is an idiot.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,515
Nick said:
There would still be thousands of people isolating when they test positive. Hospitals are cancelling operations and stating that staff being off work is the reason rather than no ICU beds.

100% vaccination will never happen.

It's easier for Boris to start a war between vaccinated and unvaccinated though.
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That is kind of my point. There will always be a resistance for whatever reasons rightly or wrongly. 100% vaccinated and a sort of zero covid policy will not happen.

Either we can play that game for another year or two or we can work with what we have and try to get society back to a level and normal working order.
 

Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,516
Nick said:
There would still be thousands of people isolating when they test positive. Hospitals are cancelling operations and stating that staff being off work is the reason rather than no ICU beds.

100% vaccination will never happen.

It's easier for Boris to start a war between vaccinated and unvaccinated though.
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We could change the rules to stop positive tests isolating if everybody is vaccinated.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,517
Liquid Gold said:
We could change the rules to stop positive tests isolating if everybody is vaccinated.
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How would that work? People would still be dying with it and going into hospital with it.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,518
Nick said:
How would that work? People would still be dying with it and going into hospital with it.
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90% of ICU patients are not vaccinated
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,519
SBT said:
Bear with me on this one. But if unvaccinated people get jabbed, or if unboosted people get the booster, it lowers your chances of getting and spreading Omicron.
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It's another goalpost move as it was pushed as it stopping you from passing it onto others.

Then another one is needed after a few weeks, then another, then another.
 

ccfc92

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,520
Tested positive on a LF Monday and got a positive PCR test confirmed yesterday, most likely from the Millwall game.

Feel no worse than a cold/cough, n a bit feverish. I have had 2 jabs though, so not sure if that's helped or not.

I am finding that a strong couple of vodkas help
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,521
Grendel said:
90% of ICU patients are not vaccinated
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That isn´t true.
 

TomRad85

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,522
Booster done, felt like shite last night and this morning, feeling slightly better now. If we have to do this more than once a year going forward I'll be very disappointed. Not in a rush to do it again tbh.

Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,523
Grendel said:
90% of ICU patients are not vaccinated
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That's wrong as well.
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,524
Nick said:
It's another goalpost move as it was pushed as it stopping you from passing it onto others.
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It was “pushed” as lowering your chances of catching it, and thereby spreading it. And it still does!

 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • #56,525
SBT said:
It was “pushed” as lowering your chances of catching it, and thereby spreading it. And it still does!

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Nope, it has been said in the past it prevents you from passing it onto others.

Then it moves onto yeah you can spread it but just won't have bad symptoms if you do get it.
 
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