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Good News Part 10 - the picnic blanket of hope and good company

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InterfectoremVulpes · 15/02/2021 11:31

Welcome to the new thread! I will copy over links from the previous thread soon.

Please note, this is a thread to share good news and for wobblers to be reassured. Doomploppers will be met with scorn and derision!

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Emlemily · 19/02/2021 18:37

Those figures are really good. I know people have already and still are dying and that's really sad, but deaths have practically halved in two weeks. Hopefully that's more to do with vaccines than lockdown.

AlexandraEiffel · 19/02/2021 18:51

@Gratefulrunner

I’m not sure how true this is but I happened to see the Daily Mail announcing all over 40s to be vaccinated by end of March. That would include me (only just I should add!). Albeit i would quite like key workers to get it too regardless of age
On the one hand I'm sceptical. But on the other I've seen data that says at current trajectory 1-9 would be done by 24/3. Over 40s are the next category. And there's discussion of the mass centres not yet being at capacity. And of low take up on some groups. So it then doesn't seem quite as unlikely as it sounds. I've also seen very specific numbers for where I live, which it would also tally with. It still seems too remarkable to be true, but then so has much of the vaccine roll out for me
OliveTree75 · 19/02/2021 18:56

@Blerg

Hi all, thanks for all the optimism. I’m group 6 and have been called - going in next week. Really surprised it was so soon.
Great news😁My DM got a text this morning to say she could book. She rang and they said come at 6.20 so she's just had it. She is 58 and has high blood pressure and a heart murmur but she thought she would have to wait until the over 55s were done, so it was a lovely surprise! I cried when she rang me. I didn't realise how worried i was about her!
TJ17 · 19/02/2021 18:57

I really don't think all over 40s by end of March is that unreasonable!

This would be good:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/revealed-nhs-could-offer-covid-vaccine-to-32m-in-priority-groups-by-easter

TJ17 · 19/02/2021 18:59

Good enough for me I mean!

Oldtimer2020 · 19/02/2021 19:09

Just thought I’d add to the vaccination good news. DH, mid 40s but CV, had his shot yesterday. A complete surprise (we didn’t know he was classified as CV!), but very welcome. And no side effects at all.

Also, determined to think positively, I’ve just ordered the kids new school shoes ready for March 8... 😃😃

Shehz21 · 19/02/2021 19:10

Not sure whether this has been posted but snippets of an article I was just reading ..

Good News Part 10 - the picnic blanket of hope and good company
Inastatus · 19/02/2021 19:14

@Shehz21 - Good article. I like his style!

TheChineseChicken · 19/02/2021 19:30

@Oldtimer2020

Just thought I’d add to the vaccination good news. DH, mid 40s but CV, had his shot yesterday. A complete surprise (we didn’t know he was classified as CV!), but very welcome. And no side effects at all.

Also, determined to think positively, I’ve just ordered the kids new school shoes ready for March 8... 😃😃

I need to do this but wasn’t sure how brave I was to do it before Monday!
TheChineseChicken · 19/02/2021 19:30

@Shehz21

Not sure whether this has been posted but snippets of an article I was just reading ..
Thanks, that made me smile
Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 19/02/2021 19:34

Yep I like his style too

Shehz21 · 19/02/2021 19:48

@Pomegranatespompom

Lots of threads to avoid today 🙄

Sorry to hear about struggles, very happy to see all the vaccine news.

Yup.

We have another episode of "I like to repeat myself".

Pomegranatespompom · 19/02/2021 19:54

I’m not saying there are any on this site but you could could speculate that there are people who are paid to post on the same themes. The timing is quite predictable.

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 19/02/2021 19:56

Pom wants to be deleted again 😁

mrshonda · 19/02/2021 19:57

Don't go looking on those other threads tonight. I just ran back here for shelter. There are some wackadoodle people out tonight.

MarshaBradyo · 19/02/2021 19:57

I know. How are people so into this.

MarshaBradyo · 19/02/2021 19:59

Lockdown that is. Still calls for ‘proper lockdown’.

Shehz21 · 19/02/2021 20:01

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Shehz21 · 19/02/2021 20:02

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

Pom wants to be deleted again 😁
I actually missed out on why you got deleted yesterday Truely...
Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 19/02/2021 20:11

@MarshaBradyo

Lockdown that is. Still calls for ‘proper lockdown’.
Well people just are not suffering enough are they

We should all be nailed into are homes. That will teach us.

Fancy the figures dropping it must be a mistake or a government conspiracy to get the economy going

No we must lockdown for at least 10 years because the vaccines are never going to work. I know this because my husband/best friend/next door neighbor is a sage scientist and he swore me to secret.

😉😂

louisejxxx · 19/02/2021 20:13

@MarshaBradyo

Lockdown that is. Still calls for ‘proper lockdown’.
That’s insane. How can some people be so deluded to think this isn’t working? And we still have over 2 weeks to go too! I think because the cases are starting to show signs of a slowing rate of decrease (NOT levelling off) that is going to start a lot of the naysayers off. prepares to be thrown out
MarshaBradyo · 19/02/2021 20:14

I think they’re sad they never got the full cahooney!

They like to imagine we went China style and have fomo

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 19/02/2021 20:16

@mrshonda

Don't go looking on those other threads tonight. I just ran back here for shelter. There are some wackadoodle people out tonight.
I am keeping my head down tonight too. It is actually getting really boring now. The same old arguement. No need the nastiness either.

(Not saying I won't get sucked in later mind 😂)

DuchessofHastings1 · 19/02/2021 20:18

*Well people just are not suffering enough are they

We should all be nailed into are homes. That will teach us.

Fancy the figures dropping it must be a mistake or a government conspiracy to get the economy going

No we must lockdown for at least 10 years because the vaccines are never going to work. I know this because my husband/best friend/next door neighbor is a sage scientist and he swore me to secret.*

This level of sarcasm always sits well with me Grin

I've been a poster on this topic for a few weeks now and I genuinely think they are some who relish in the doom and gloom. 'Variants, deadlier, resistant to vaccine' bla bla.
I think they would be almost disappointed if the vaccines are effective against the variants (which they are) and we were to come out of lockdown.

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 19/02/2021 20:20

Well there are 4996 less patients in hospital compared with last week

501 less people on ventilators compared with last week

So if people think things are not working out now. Well I haven't got a clue what they are looking at!

(Actually I do anything that has even a slight possibility of gloom 🤦‍♀️)