Press Conference today Friday 15th Jan

[SophieB100]

The main man will be on stage around 5 pm.
Backing vocals provided by Whitty and Valance!

Enjoy

@SophieB100

Did anyone else pick up on the emphasis Boris made (twice) about touching items that have Covid on them? I wonder if they know something about the new variant, that they're finding it lingers more on surfaces?

I thought he said it so he could reiterate 'wash your hands' as maybe people are a bit lax with that now, he said about hand washing afterwards

I especially thought the points BJ made about touching surfaces was quite unusual based on how the government/PHE etc have previously very much down-played the risk of touching post/shopping/parcels/deliveries etc.

The police can enter a building if they think a crime is in progress

They've got to work out what actually constitutes a crime first, and looking at what happened in Derbyshire I wouldn't be too confident

As for "why bother over-much with outdoor meet ups", I guess it's a day out for them if it's somewhere nice - or rather it would be, if the weather wasn't so crap

Buttery perhaps intervene on noise level and fine if you don’t comply? Not sure though, will leave to someone who knows more!

However I felt they glossed over the question from the young journalist who asked about the plan/ expectations for what would happen for the younger groups once all the most vulnerable had been vaccinated

Yes - Seb from the FT. Made a very good point about once the over50s are vaccinated will everyone else be expected to return to normal and isn't that putting the working population at risk?

Question was totally ignored...

I do worry about that since many of those in critical care right now (not to mention less severely ill in hospital) are not the priority lists for the vaccinations.

That question gave me the rage as I felt it implied under 50s are only working age population !

@Puzzledandpissedoff

The police can enter a building if they think a crime is in progress

They've got to work out what actually constitutes a crime first, and looking at what happened in Derbyshire I wouldn't be too confident

As for "why bother over-much with outdoor meet ups", I guess it's a day out for them if it's somewhere nice - or rather it would be, if the weather wasn't so crap

I hate to say it, but it's easy policing. People literally drive straight into the fine if the police set up a road block or drive into a car park. It is the saddest aspect of this lockdown for me, as a very law-abiding authority-respecting person.

Yes, I thought that. Recently on Sky I watched a Q&A with a scientist, and they asked about cleaning shopping, and he almost dismissed it as unnecessary and over the top. Yes, they do need to emphasise hand hygiene, but most people have got into good habits with that, so I found it a bit odd.
All in all, I think they are cautiously optimistic that the current measures are enough to flatten this, until enough are vaccinated.

@tootyfruitypickle

That question gave me the rage as I felt it implied under 50s are only working age population !

I think the implication was that they were the only part of the working age population that will not receive the vaccination on the current priority list (apart from ECV and frontliners)

Looking at message from Wales, they’ve clearly got firm evidence on supermarkets driving the spread. So I imagine re touching surfaces they mean trolleys, screens etc. Which are mank anyway !

@flamboyanttip

However I felt they glossed over the question from the young journalist who asked about the plan/ expectations for what would happen for the younger groups once all the most vulnerable had been vaccinated

Yes - Seb from the FT. Made a very good point about once the over50s are vaccinated will everyone else be expected to return to normal and isn't that putting the working population at risk?

Question was totally ignored...

I do worry about that since many of those in critical care right now (not to mention less severely ill in hospital) are not the priority lists for the vaccinations.

Yes, they said the other day that 25% of people in hospital are under 55, many of them previously healthy. I’m tired of them dodging this question.

@Calmandmeasured1

Pfizer have announced possible delays to vaccine manufacturing could affect EU countries. I hope this doesn't affect us, as a non-EU country, too.

The report from what I gathered was regarding European countries, not EU countries. We are included being part of Europe.

If you are over 50 you will receive the vaccination before we are all expected to get back to normal (I think the government have pretty much suggested that once the priority list is cleared by spring, everyone will be expected to 'leave home' like in June/July, save pret etc).

yes i agree not so bothered about whose meeting outside perosnally its indoors

my neighbour has people in and out all day-no i wont phone the police i just wont go near them i just dont understand why people dont get it still

I’m under 50 and will be avoiding office until I’m vaccinated - but I tend to avoid it anyway tbh !! I’m one of the odd balls that prefer wfh

@tootyfruitypickle

Looking at message from Wales, they’ve clearly got firm evidence on supermarkets driving the spread. So I imagine re touching surfaces they mean trolleys, screens etc. Which are mank anyway !

Tooty is there a link to a study?

so all of us under 50 just have t o risk it once everyone else has ben vaccinnated?

@MarshaBradyo have just heard on radio a message from Mark Drakeford about supermarkets . Cant be a coincidence ?

@tootyfruitypickle

Looking at message from Wales, they’ve clearly got firm evidence on supermarkets driving the spread. So I imagine re touching surfaces they mean trolleys, screens etc. Which are mank anyway !

Interesting - what is the message from Wales?

There is research about where the virus is picked up (proper research, not anecdotal) and supermarkets/shops and workplaces are major locations for virus transmissions.

That might be the airborne droplets present or many surfaces that people touch.

Plus there is a law on face coverings indoors...

@GabsAlot

so all of us under 50 just have t o risk it once everyone else has ben vaccinnated?

Yes, seems so. Cue the virus spreading like wildfire through the under 50s and the hospitals filling up again (but less deaths, thankfully).

I think they will keep measures. They just don’t want to say it yet. Absolutely sure masks etc here until vaccination of all is done?

[quote tootyfruitypickle]@MarshaBradyo have just heard on radio a message from Mark Drakeford about supermarkets . Cant be a coincidence ?[/quote]
Toot what did he say?

I’m missing all this

If people pick it up at ours it’s not due to lack of SD or masks

@GabsAlot

so all of us under 50 just have t o risk it once everyone else has ben vaccinnated?

Exactly! no thanks.

I think certain groups that are well-represented such as teachers and police will get it before schools go back, but that does leave all unvaccinated parents at risk still. Plus the non-CV population under 50 who are still managing to find themselves hospitalised in large numbers at the moment.

Whitty was emphasising coming out of lockdown slowly, one step at a time, felt there was a message for Johnson there.

Did Johnson say we have more vaccine than any other country in the world? I'm not sure that is true. I thought the USA had lots, I imagine Russia has alot of the sputnik one, isn't India producing loads of the Oxford vaccine. Would be impressive if we really do have more than anyone else. I suppose he could mean in proportion to the size of the population.

ITV report :

Restrictions in supermarkets will be tightened as the Welsh Government announced a toughening up the current rules.

What was once guidelines will now be put into law. This means it will be illegal for supermarkets to not have things like social distancing signs and a system in place to limit the number of people in the shop at any one time.

And was clip from Drakeford I heard saying they know supermarkets are a problem