Good News Part 5. For science, positivity, puffins and daffodils. For anyone who isn't coping with gloom and doom.All aboard Boaty McBoatface!

[FuzzyPuffling]

New thread for the positive crew. Oldies, lurkers and newbies all welcome. Keep the science and positivity coming.

Other than the kids going back to school. The thing I am most looking forwards to is the forest not being like Trafalgar square all day long.

I live in a London borough that is lucky enough to have a large forest bordering it. Since first lockdown people it is so busy. I don't even feel confident letting the poor dog off the lead. She is over friendly

So everyone going back to work, school and their normal social activities would be great. I miss my peaceful daily walks.

@Florelei

Does this mean I need to lose my lockdown weight?! I might need that summer body after all!

This is supposed to be a positive thread @Florelei. You make a good point though

I think most of us (including me) will come out of this far more thankful and appreciative of things which I think is a positive. I certainly took too much for granted before. Bring on the roaring 20’s!

@FuzzyPuffling

Oh maaaan.... I'd be able to go into a supermarket again! 😮 I will have forgotten what to do, and will rush round like a mad thing yelling, "WHERE'S THE BUTTER?" and then dither with my card at the till and have a lot of trouble packing. Bet you can't wait to be stuck behind me! 😁😁

With you there @FuzzyPuffling! I'm so over online delivery orders. I need to look at the actual food and choose for myself. Last time Dh & I stepped in a shop was the Tesco petrol station shop last March!!!

Going to my local co op which is 1/2 a mile away sounds like an exotic adventure to me!

Let's have the roaring 20s! But I hope we don't get the Great Depression afterwards!!

I’m definitely up for roaring 20s.

Just had a look on Covid Messenger and whilst my area is still red, lots of areas in the county we are on the border of (including where my kids go to school and where I work) are mostly green

Folks - I have added a big "barometer" chart in the middle of the www.covidmessenger.com homepage that clearly shows the number of councils with rising versus falling cases w-o-w.

I wanted to add this so people get a clear snapshot of the rather positive news we have at the moment - that lockdown is starting to work and we are see a reduction in cases in most councils (albeit from high levels).

It has certainly cheered me up of late so I wanted to put it front and centre for everyone to see as soon as they visit the site.

I hope you like it!

The usual table is below as always.

@littleowl1 the barometer looks really good, a nice addition. Thanks for running the site, I’ve been checking it since the start.

Found this vaccine stats for the UK site: vaccinestats.co.uk/

[quote Blerg]Found this vaccine stats for the UK site: vaccinestats.co.uk/[/quote]
That's brilliant thanks.

It’s a good one isn’t it @BBCONEANDTWO Nice and straightforward.

It is just England though, not UK?

Oh yes - good point. I think they’ve possibly labelled it incorrectly. The figures look like the UK ones to me. 🤔

Just sent them a question.

Dashboard shows 1st dose 3,234,946 for UK as at 14 Jan. In the counting of vaccines, I like bigger numbers!

Vaccinations that should say, not vaccines!

The coronavirus uk subreddit has som

Oops - clicked go far too soon!

Has someone who calculates the date that we will reach the government's target of the first 15m vaccinated, based on the daily figures. If we continued at yesterday's rate, we would reach that target on the 19th feb.

Does anyone happen to know of something similar to the covidmessenger page that includes Wales please? I can seem to find our figures nearly as easily.

Woke up feeling low this morning and so clicked on here to cheer my day - thank you for all of the positivity posts!

On last nights last leg Adam Hills had his Positivity Pants on and it was very upbeat!

The thought that the whole of the UK could be vaccinated by mid July is phenomenal! Bring on the roaring 2020’s!

www.travellingtabby.com/uk-coronavirus-tracker/

The travelling tabby is excellent for stars. Apparently he's a young student... needs an award for his work. Although it's Scotland based, there is a good section on UK as a whole and he compares the different regions of UK. Did I read that right that over 6% of the adult population in Northern Ireland have been vaccinated with their first dose?

Good morning.

Made a few flower purchases this morning - so cheery !

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@boxingdayclearout

https://www.travellingtabby.com/uk-coronavirus-tracker/

The travelling tabby is excellent for stars. Apparently he's a young student... needs an award for his work. Although it's Scotland based, there is a good section on UK as a whole and he compares the different regions of UK. Did I read that right that over 6% of the adult population in Northern Ireland have been vaccinated with their first dose?

7.9% of Northern Ireland 6.3% in England 5.1% in Scotland and 5% in Wales

Yes - it's amazing