Good News Thread - part 2

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Thank you to those who have contributed to the good news thread over the past few weeks. We are at 40 pages so here is a new one to continue sharing good news stories :)

@CornishYarg

All those "There's never going to be a vaccine. Sorry" from random internet 'experts'.

I definitely won't miss those posts. "Sorry, but my sister's neighbour's son's dog's previous owner works in this area and she said there's no way a successful vaccine can be developed, I'm afraid. Or if it can, it will take at least 10 years. Sorry."

needs at least one ‘sadly’ and a ‘people need to accept’ in there.

The ‘sorry’ is very dishonest. They should say, ‘It gives me great pleasure to inform you’ since it clearly does.

This thread has been a bit of a sanity saver

Definitely. The data thread for factual discussion and this thread for cautious optimism, as a previous pp described it, have been my go-to threads to lurk on.

needs at least one ‘sadly’ and a ‘people need to accept’ in there.

Very true, it's way too positive a comment without those!

As Countess says, the sorry is extremely fake.

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

The ‘sorry’ is very dishonest. They should say, ‘It gives me great pleasure to inform you’ since it clearly does.

This is true

I haven’t noticed many moving here but a lot of building work going on

Oh man wrong thread 😂

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

The ‘sorry’ is very dishonest. They should say, ‘It gives me great pleasure to inform you’ since it clearly does.

Ain't that the truth!

"I'm afraid". No you're not you're absolutely thrilled!

Yep agree with all this

Many people are arses

On here

There's been a lot of arses on Mumsnet since March

Since March 2003 you mean?

Joking aside, I get you. And I agree completely.

I am generally a pessimist, ( I prefer realist) and DH is an optimist.
I felt really buoyed by last Mondays vaccine and he really burst my bubble by saying how impractical it was (the storage at -80) and it would take ages etc etc.
Now more good news.im hoping for a triple whammy next Monday with the Oxford AZ one!

@MarshaBradyo

I haven’t noticed many moving here but a lot of building work going on

Was there confused there for a minute Marsha

@IcedPurple

There's been a lot of arses on Mumsnet since March

Since March 2003 you mean?

Joking aside, I get you. And I agree completely.

Should have written "extra arses"!

• Was very confused nb to self must proof read better

Granted, being blindly optimistic is silly

Blind optimism has kept me sane I think!!
I don't mean I run round licking the walls and hoping I'll be ok, but I was absolutely certain that there wouldn't be a second wave and even though I was wrong in the end, I don't for one second regret being optimistic and having a bit of hope in the short term,

checking into the thread of loveliness!

Thank you so much for keeping this thread going, a much needed contrast to some of the others.

@MarshaBradyo

Yep. So many posts saying we’ve never made a vaccine for a coronavirus

Thank god they were wrong, I can say I did feel quite positive when listening to scientists throughout. Still feeling pressure re Oxford one so want it to get good results.

It's not just the UK. I beieve India are relying very heavily on the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine being sucessful. I really want it to work for them as much as us.

All eyes are on oxford now, I feel like I’m literally holding my breath!
Hope we don’t have to wait till next Monday...!

Does anyone know how many doses of the oxford one we have preordered?

I think 30 million but only 4 million ready before new year @TeaInTheGarden ?

Interesting that some scientific commentators have previously said they'd expect treatments to be available before vaccines.

Makes me wonder if some further treatment news is coming soon (greedy of me). Got lost as to where regeneron and eli Lilly are....

Elly Lilly has emergency authorisation for its antibody drug which is also fab news. But I think doesn’t seem to be a headline grabber that vaccines are so it’s not been talked about too much.

@tobee

I think 30 million but only 4 million ready before new year *@TeaInTheGarden* ?

Interesting that some scientific commentators have previously said they'd expect treatments to be available before vaccines.

Makes me wonder if some further treatment news is coming soon (greedy of me). Got lost as to where regeneron and eli Lilly are....

I thought it was 100 million doses of the Ox/AZ one.

Interesting to listen to R4 vaccine programme and protests around small pox vaccine. People thought it would turn children into a cow. (Cowpox was used). Liberty loss and government control. Some similarities even now.