Good News Thread Part 3

[FuzzyPuffling]

New thread as I got worried the old one was going to run out of space!

PR!

Oh god ATTENBOROUGH

Her Maj can wait but Attenborough must be saved!

So do we have Moderna vaccines ordered, does anyone know?

VACCINE BINGO! Prize for the first person to collect a full house of "slebs having jabs".

I thought we had 5m Modernas on order, to arrive in the Spring. (nicely vague there)

So much better than we had Covid bingo!

Remember early days Tom Hanks / Idris Elba etc all fine!

Oh yes and Prince Charles and Boris. Now we know Prince William had it then too do we think the Westminster abbey service in March was the super spreader event for all 3 of them to catch it? Seems likely?

Palace officials must have been losing their mind, heirs1 and 2 both with an unknown virus causing people to drop dead in the streets in China, heirs 3,4 and 5 all children under 7 and heir 8 just buggered off to LA it’s an American divorcee. Bet they had a few sleepless nights!

Heir 6 not 8. That would be Eugenie. Wonder if Beatrice and eugenie were aware of it all. They might have been needed

this is a lovely thread to find, posting so I can check back quickly.

I've been very depressed lately and lost my best friend in lockdown 1 so it's great to see some positivity. I was almost in tears today thinking about mutation so it is so good to see so much happiness/positivity. I just want this virus to go away soon.

@theotherfossilsister so sorry to hear about your friend

This is a great uplifting thread. I panicked about the mutation yesterday but everything I’ve seen about it is quite reassuring.

I like this thread (and the other two!) because it is positive - but not stupid. We are able to find good news backed by science and reporting and not make up shizz.

Long may it reign. (Until we are rid of this pesky virus - even functionally rid would be ok!)

Positive People on the Internet

A rare breed

Oh man I needed to come back and look on here this evening after reading a WhatsApp thread from the local school mum’s catastrophising about the new strain of Covid which is completely resistant to the vaccine apparently (How do they know??? Are they virologists???)

On the earlier theme of celeb’s having the jab:
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-55315802

Hi everyone lovely thread

I've just booked mine for Monday.
I'm on the covid wards NHS

Love hearing from you guys who have already had it.

What will be the difference between all the vaccines?
My colleague said oh I'm waiting for the Oxford one?!
What will be the difference between that and the one I'm having on Monday?
Just need a bit of reassurance.

I have had mine last Friday.
Was phoned last minute and drove 1h 20 mins Friday evening to get it. Was very excited! Work all over hospital including red and amber zones.
No ill effects except a sore arm and maybe a headache......

A selfish request from me...please don't fill the thread with "I've had my vaccine". I know, I know how excited you are ( and I would be too) but it just makes me so very sad. From a purely selfish perspective, CEV DH and CV me are so far away from having ours, and we've scarcely been out ( and not seen family) since February. We're expecting it to be another 3 or 4 months until we're released from house arrest.

I'm almost inclined to hang about outside a hospital just in case they have a spare dose!

Ok, grumpy post over! As you were.

oh @FuzzyPuffling I'm sorry. If it makes you feel better, we are beginning IVF next year and even though I have an autoimmune disease I cannot have it because we wouldn't be allowed IVF if I did. It's a bugger isn't it?

I think PIL will be getting it though, FIL is first intake because of chemotherapy (I think that's how it works??)

How is everyone today?

Thank you fossilsister ( Posy?) for not flaming me! I also have autoimmune conditions which put me at greater risk of covid-badness ( hence hiding away) but at least I'm not going for IVF. Huge good luck to you for that. My fingers are firmly crossed for you. 🤞🤞🤞

@theotherfossilsister

oh *@FuzzyPuffling* I'm sorry. If it makes you feel better, we are beginning IVF next year and even though I have an autoimmune disease I cannot have it because we wouldn't be allowed IVF if I did. It's a bugger isn't it?

I think PIL will be getting it though, FIL is first intake because of chemotherapy (I think that's how it works??)

How is everyone today?

Good luck with Ivf I had my second child through that

And fuzzy your post did make me laugh

As you were

I saw on bbc news that (I think - of course I cant find the article now) that 170,000 people had had the vaccine in the first week.
I cant be bothered to work out how long it means it would take to do everyone, and I'm sure a lot of doom mongers will poo poo it but I thought that sounded like an impressive start.
V grateful to all the scientists, logistics crew and HCPs that are making this happen.
We had (before yday)decided not to see elderly relatives over xmas but hopeful we might be able to have a delayed xmas in spring if they can have the vaccine. (They're all over 80)

And that 170,000 was using very limited channels of distribution - things are already ramping up. BTW don’t do the maths with the figures as they are as it looks bad

That’s fantastic Fiz

How about doing the maths with these figures? One of our local gps reckons they are going to get through their 975 doses over 2 days. That doesn’t sound implausible given they did hundreds on each flu jab day in the autumn. The bbc says over 1000 gp hubs will be getting vaccines next week.
If they were all working at that speed that would be nearly 50 million doses in 100 days, ie 25 million people. Of course they won’t be but then there are also going to be massive centres and all the hospital hubs.
Dependent on supply it all seems perfectly doable. Enormous but implausible.

NOT implausible! Doh!

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

How about doing the maths with these figures? One of our local gps reckons they are going to get through their 975 doses over 2 days. That doesn’t sound implausible given they did hundreds on each flu jab day in the autumn. The bbc says over 1000 gp hubs will be getting vaccines next week. If they were all working at that speed that would be nearly 50 million doses in 100 days, ie 25 million people. Of course they won’t be but then there are also going to be massive centres and all the hospital hubs. Dependent on supply it all seems perfectly doable. Enormous but implausible.

Yes, the flu vaccine gets done in no time at all. If we had an endless supply of vaccine I’m sure we would get through everyone very quickly - particularly with a vaccine that doesn’t have to be kept at -80 so could be distributed via all sorts of locations