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

[InterfectoremVulpes]

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!

Yes very good news.

Congratulations to all those that have got their vaccination 🥳

Hugs to those feeling a bit crappy at the moment ❤

I am very jealous of all the people volunteering. Would love to be able to do that myself. So well done we all appreciate it 🥰

Fairly reassuring set of figures today!
Congratulations to everyone who has had their jab.

Some decent drops in all the daily figures again

Plus hospital admissions and patients in hospital still going down nicely

An example of this is my own local health care trust. It consists of five large London hospitals. The trust this week is down to single figures for hospital admissions. It now only has between the five hospitals around 360 patients in hospital with covid. If you take into account some of these patients will be in for other reasons and just happen to test positive for covid. Well we are getting there.

I am so hopeful deaths are going to absolutely plummet over the next few weeks.
The deaths being sadly announced now, will be from people who have been ill for a few weeks. They would have needed to be vaccinated 2-3 weeks before that to not have got infected.
So that takes us back 5/6 weeks- at that point we had only vaccinated around 3 million people....
Combined with the huge reduction in cases in the last 5/6 weeks due to lockdown.... we should see deaths massively drop very soon, and hopefully never get anywhere near as high ever again!

Agree it is about those deaths. Which are still going down nicely but plummeting sounds much better.

Which is why I am watching hospitals to see if less people are getting seriously ill That won't show what is happening in care homes etc mind.

Does anyone have any experience with how long it normally takes results from the home testing kits to come back? Sent off my 2nd one yday just to make sure I am negative...

Whoop whoop fantastic news Fuzzy! Hurrah.

@louisejxxx on the tests - we have done many now! They vary quite a bit (7 days in the last wave). Most recent one was about 36 hrs.

@louisejxxx a family member did a home test on 17th Jan (posted on 18th) and had result 20th

I've got a spot of "jabflu"! Fell asleep this afternoon, now a bit achy, sleepy and have a slight temperature. But I've had a paracetamol and I really am ok. And I have a very over reactive immune system.

And I didn't get a sticker. Swizz!

@FuzzyPuffling

I've got a spot of "jabflu"! Fell asleep this afternoon, now a bit achy, sleepy and have a slight temperature. But I've had a paracetamol and I really am ok. And I have a very over reactive immune system.

So pleased you got your jab❤ Hopefully the side effects will be gone by morning 🐧

@FuzzyPuffling

And I didn't get a sticker. Swizz!

For you😊

Yay a sticker! Thank you truely

Truly Madly Deeply is my favourite film. That and Muppet Christmas Carol.

Boris just announced all overs 50s to be vaccinated (first dose) by 15th April and all adults by end of July!

Congrats @FuzzyPuffling hope you feel better soon. X

@chri55ie

Boris just announced all overs 50s to be vaccinated (first dose) by 15th April and all adults by end of July!

Would love a link to this if you’ve seen one @chri55ie, it’s send to the people told me they would never believe it today..

Hopefully that works!

And BBC reporting it:

Covid vaccine: All UK adults to be offered jab by 31 July - PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56141867

Thanks so much both - this unsupervised helpful to counteract some significant doom I couldn’t escape today

Super helpful, not unsupervised...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56143126

Would it be poking the doomers too much to make some predictions for Monday? I don't want to start a bun-fight so I'll see what others think first.