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Post by richard on Aug 3, 2021 1:08:54 GMT
But then most of it is transmitted by people within or breathing near your personal space. For example, people crammed in Trafalgar Square watching football match or riding on a packed Underground train. Agreed. It's not like it's on the handrails on the trains.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2021 5:24:06 GMT
"Vaccine bribes"? The young unwilling to be vaccinated? In actual fact 67% of young adults have received their first jab - which is the highest percentage amongst that age group in the world. The reason it is not higher is that the older and more clinically vulnerable were prioritised first and we are only now getting round to the young. Some are desperate to be fully vaccinated so they can see elderly and clinically vulnerable relatives for the first time in 16 months and are frantically searching for walk-in clinics where they can get a vaccine. many are being told they need to wait eight weeks between jabs, yet with the Pfizer vaccine that could be as little as 21 days. If you really want a scandal, the UK has purchased enough vaccine to fully vaccinate its own population four times over. Yet the amount it has made available to poorer nations - where we must expand our efforts if we are to get this world-wide pandemic under control - is just 5million doses. We could be getting vaccines into health workers in these countries so they can continue the fight against possible new variants - there is already a Lambda variant that has emerged in South America and is causing concern. Scandal, please? What even makes you think they want them. It is all well and good saying that, but some countries are in the same but where the governments has taken up many vacines but there is a high reluctance to take it and a lot in poorer nations. A lot of it has been down to anti vax people Ah yes I forgot about the anti vaxxers, whilst they make up a small minority, there are still people who are reluctant to get jabbed
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Post by LondonNorthern on Aug 3, 2021 6:30:12 GMT
"Vaccine bribes"? The young unwilling to be vaccinated? In actual fact 67% of young adults have received their first jab - which is the highest percentage amongst that age group in the world. The reason it is not higher is that the older and more clinically vulnerable were prioritised first and we are only now getting round to the young. Some are desperate to be fully vaccinated so they can see elderly and clinically vulnerable relatives for the first time in 16 months and are frantically searching for walk-in clinics where they can get a vaccine. many are being told they need to wait eight weeks between jabs, yet with the Pfizer vaccine that could be as little as 21 days. If you really want a scandal, the UK has purchased enough vaccine to fully vaccinate its own population four times over. Yet the amount it has made available to poorer nations - where we must expand our efforts if we are to get this world-wide pandemic under control - is just 5million doses. We could be getting vaccines into health workers in these countries so they can continue the fight against possible new variants - there is already a Lambda variant that has emerged in South America and is causing concern. Scandal, please? What even makes you think they want them. It is all well and good saying that, but some countries are in the same but where the governments has taken up many vacines but there is a high reluctance to take it and a lot in poorer nations. A lot of it has been down to anti vax people I would agree I'm glad the British Government was well prepared with spare vaccinations for booster jabs that could potentially be offered later on in the year.
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Post by wirewiper on Aug 3, 2021 8:03:14 GMT
Scandal, please? What even makes you think they want them. It is all well and good saying that, but some countries are in the same but where the governments has taken up many vacines but there is a high reluctance to take it and a lot in poorer nations. A lot of it has been down to anti vax people I would agree I'm glad the British Government was well prepared with spare vaccinations for booster jabs that could potentially be offered later on in the year. Can't argue with that, except the amount of spare vaccine ordered will enable everyone in the UK to have at least seven booster jabs. Much of that could be diverted to the COVAX scheme which is being co-ordinated by the World Health Organisation amongst others; without any risk whatsoever to the UK population. The UK can order more vaccine further down the line to cover future booster requirements, supplies are not going to run out. In poorer nations - in all nations for that matter - it is better to have people be offered jabs and some refuse, than people not be offered at all.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Aug 3, 2021 10:59:35 GMT
Scandal, please? What even makes you think they want them. It is all well and good saying that, but some countries are in the same but where the governments has taken up many vacines but there is a high reluctance to take it and a lot in poorer nations. A lot of it has been down to anti vax people Ah yes I forgot about the anti vaxxers, whilst they make up a small minority, there are still people who are reluctant to get jabbed In some other countries it is alarming how the anti-vaxers have made people hardly take it
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Post by LondonNorthern on Aug 3, 2021 17:18:28 GMT
I would agree I'm glad the British Government was well prepared with spare vaccinations for booster jabs that could potentially be offered later on in the year. Can't argue with that, except the amount of spare vaccine ordered will enable everyone in the UK to have at least seven booster jabs. Much of that could be diverted to the COVAX scheme which is being co-ordinated by the World Health Organisation amongst others; without any risk whatsoever to the UK population. The UK can order more vaccine further down the line to cover future booster requirements, supplies are not going to run out. In poorer nations - in all nations for that matter - it is better to have people be offered jabs and some refuse, than people not be offered at all. Given how the EU were very determined to block our supplies leaving Belgium I am extremely glad that we were prepared and also wouldn't be too surprised to see some sham like this happen again
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Aug 3, 2021 17:52:11 GMT
I would agree I'm glad the British Government was well prepared with spare vaccinations for booster jabs that could potentially be offered later on in the year. Can't argue with that, except the amount of spare vaccine ordered will enable everyone in the UK to have at least seven booster jabs. Much of that could be diverted to the COVAX scheme which is being co-ordinated by the World Health Organisation amongst others; without any risk whatsoever to the UK population. The UK can order more vaccine further down the line to cover future booster requirements, supplies are not going to run out. In poorer nations - in all nations for that matter - it is better to have people be offered jabs and some refuse, than people not be offered at all. The issue is in these poorer nations that the level of corruption is ridiculous, I know in India there was a case of people being injected with Saline instead of the vaccine. I'm sure the UK will donate all its spare vaccines soon, there's just physically no other reason to have that number of vaccines. It just makes sense to first sort your own country out before trying to go and help another.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2021 19:38:51 GMT
Can't argue with that, except the amount of spare vaccine ordered will enable everyone in the UK to have at least seven booster jabs. Much of that could be diverted to the COVAX scheme which is being co-ordinated by the World Health Organisation amongst others; without any risk whatsoever to the UK population. The UK can order more vaccine further down the line to cover future booster requirements, supplies are not going to run out. In poorer nations - in all nations for that matter - it is better to have people be offered jabs and some refuse, than people not be offered at all. The issue is in these poorer nations that the level of corruption is ridiculous, I know in India there was a case of people being injected with Saline instead of the vaccine. I'm sure the UK will donate all its spare vaccines soon, there's just physically no other reason to have that number of vaccines. It just makes sense to first sort your own country out before trying to go and help another. Bit behind the times, the UK already sent 9 million vaccines last week split amongst Jamaica, Kenya, Indonesia and other countries. All mentioned in the below www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-begins-donating-millions-of-covid-19-vaccines-overseas
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Post by LondonNorthern on Aug 4, 2021 16:15:55 GMT
Social distancing ceases to exist on the 112/183.
The 112 is busy almost all it's route so no surprise but the 183 I used from Golders Green was absolutely jam packed.
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Post by WH241 on Aug 7, 2021 16:41:31 GMT
Was out and about on the tube and DLR today and would say facemask usage is at about 50%
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2021 17:42:23 GMT
Was out and about on the tube and DLR today and would say facemask usage is at about 50% For me it was near 100% on Monday, which seems odd but it was only 1 day
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Post by WH241 on Aug 7, 2021 17:43:41 GMT
Was out and about on the tube and DLR today and would say facemask usage is at about 50% For me it was near 100% on Monday, which seems odd but it was only 1 day I find the DLR the worse on my limited weekend experience.
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Post by SILENCED on Aug 11, 2021 12:47:23 GMT
Interesting to read that Google in the US is cutting the pay of those that has elected to work from home permanently.
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Post by lundnah on Aug 11, 2021 13:44:11 GMT
Interesting to read that Google in the US is cutting the pay of those that has elected to work from home permanently. Might be cutting the pay of some employees.
Less interesting.
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Post by greenboy on Aug 11, 2021 16:38:27 GMT
Interesting to read that Google in the US is cutting the pay of those that has elected to work from home permanently. Isn't a pay cut of some sort normally part of the deal anyway? No travel time and costs.
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