SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

Pubs, restaurants. Buy a pint, they put it in a plastic glass and you take it away.

Not always a plastic glass, most I saw would put the beer into containers (think milk cartons) so you could take it home, or where ever you were going.
 
That is just insane.

My family who live in the urban areas of NC have been pretty happy with Cooper, but the rural areas are another matter. My cousin is a PA in a rural hospital in NC and they have a tent city in their parking lot. He has had number of patients who got angry at him because they are in the COVID area and "COIVD doesn't exist". How is your state government handling this (outside your idiot superintendent)?
Our governor is an even bigger idiot, is big buddies with Trump, wants schools fully open, and doesn’t want to mandate anything... and he has also tested positive for Covid after attending an awards presentation at a church where nobody was wearing masks.

Oh - and the Governor’s Mansion has been closed to all tourists since March. But everything should be open.
 
So what's the bottleneck right now in the vaccine rollout? Is it a lack of trained staff? Lack of vaccines? Or a combination of the two?

Zahawi is saying 14 million will be vaccinated by the end of the lockdown, but I trust the Tories as far as I can throw em, especially after the track and trace, PPE and testing debacles.

Matt Hancock is personally placing a Union Jack sticker on every single hypodermic needle.
 
So what's the bottleneck right now in the vaccine rollout? Is it a lack of trained staff? Lack of vaccines? Or a combination of the two?

Production, only approved late December and AZ only produced the 530k prior to approvals.
 
This seems like a watered down version of the lockdown in March. They haven't even updated this advice on social distancing.

"space–stay 2 metres apart from people you do not live with where possible, or 1 metre with extra precautions in place (such as wearing face coverings) "

All this with a variant that is 50% more transmissible. The 1 metre guideline was a revision from the 2 metre rule and I was never convinced that was the right thing to do. Reducing risk by wearing a mask and then partially reducing the protection seems completely cock eyed.
 


The circumstances are exceptional but be in no doubt, there buffoons have made it ten times worse.
 
Anyone know why nurseries are allowed to open to more than key workers? That seems strange if schools are closing.
Because some workplaces are still forcing people to go to work. Those people need somebody to look after their kids.
 
Read up, keep up.
Come on F-Red you've embarrassed yourself here

The prime minister announced on Monday evening that there would be a third national lockdown in England. The regulations will be laid before parliament on Tuesday, will be subject to a vote on Wednesday and are expected to remain in place until the middle of February.

Downing Street said people would be urged to start following the new rules from Monday evening and not wait for them to become law. The new measures will apply across the whole of England and no exception will be made for those who have been vaccinated. The main changes are:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/04/lockdown-no-3-what-are-the-new-restrictions

I think you owe @UnrelatedPsuedo a pint to be bought once the last COVID mask has been removed in Britain
 
Read up, keep up.

Don’t be snarky. You’re wrong and advising people incorrectly.

Measures are adopted tonight. They become legal on Wednesday.

Apologies if I’m misunderstanding you. But I think you’re suggesting it’s law from midnight tonight. It’s not.
 
I appreciate that but surely the virus can spread in nurseries as well. People with kids in school age in similar situations won’t be able to go.
Yeah, they need to enforce the working from home unless it’s physically impossible.
 
Don’t be snarky. You’re wrong and advising people incorrectly.

Measures are adopted tonight. They become legal on Wednesday.

Apologies if I’m misunderstanding you. But I think you’re suggesting it’s law from midnight tonight. It’s not.
I think his point is that he's already said he was wrong and apologised and people who can't be arsed to read half a page after the bit they're quoting are being annoying.
 


The school thing was so fecking obvious to everyone that they should not open, yet the PR machine was out yesterday trying to convince people everything is fine. His comment last week that ‘schools are safe but people mixing inside schools isn’t safe’ - wtf does that even mean?!

They’ve been so reactionary to everything, wasted billions on their pathetic test & trace system, confused everyone with their constant U-turn policies, stood by Cummings when he broke the law which eroded public trust & clearly are not following the science in a timely manner. It’s not just incompetence, it’s dangerous incompetence. They are in a position of power & have a duty to protect the public which they are failing time & again by dithering on decisions.

In the future they may announce an inquiry into how the pandemic was handled by the govt but that’s pointless after the fact, that’s not going to bring back the thousands of people who have died.
 
@DOTA apologies - I stand corrected!

Come on F-Red you've embarrassed yourself here

Don’t be snarky. You’re wrong and advising people incorrectly.

Measures are adopted tonight. They become legal on Wednesday.

Apologies if I’m misunderstanding you. But I think you’re suggesting it’s law from midnight tonight. It’s not.

I've literally held my hands up about two pages ago, what did you guys miss?
 
Some data from today's figures, regional case rates:

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