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!

Lowest cases since 2nd October. Halloween weekend, several weeks later, we visited my brother for a couple of days and went to restaurants etc. with them. Feels like a long time until we’ll be doing things like that again

♥️ Marzipan. What a beautiful little palo.
If possible, more pix please!

Not sure what the point of my post was as it’s not very good news-y!

Israel's stats are great but I need you lot to give my head a wobble. They did the recommended gap between dose one and two didn't they? I have creeping doubts about our 12 week plan, it's been proven to work for Oxford but as far as I know the jury is still out for Pfizer.

I don't suppose it's been long enough to get immunity stats from the first cohort yet. Anyone know of any data from other countries for Pfizer in terms of longer gaps?

I’m back from fighting doom muppets on the frontline - Make room on the picnic blanket please. I need cake!

Just plonking myself down on the picnic blanket next to all you lovely people. I’ve brought Irish coffee as a mid afternoon pick me up!

Lowest cases since 2nd October.

That's amazing, do you have your hands on a chart that says where we were at at the beginning of September TheChineseChicken?

@TheChineseChicken

Not sure what the point of my post was as it’s not very good news-y!

It is in a way. It goes with the following interesting post from the data thread: ‘interesting tweet from RP131 - 86% of the population is now at rates at or below what was previously classified as “tier 2” twitter.com/rp131/status/1361014559058911232?s=21’

It shows how far we have come and is reassuring in terms of how low numbers will be by the time we open up.

@Inastatus

I’m back from fighting doom muppets on the frontline - Make room on the picnic blanket please. I need cake!

Emergency cake and champagne coming right up.

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel - oh Champagne 😀 don’t mind if I do! Let’s toast @FuzzyPuffling’s great vaccine news 🥂

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

Cases below 10k !!!!!

Woop woop! DHs trust only had a handful of covid cases admitted while he was there yesterday and today! He is feeling really emotional about this bless him.

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MNHQ

the 7 day rate of case decline is speeding up too. 29% today, I think it was 28% yesterday and not long ago 22%.

Well that’s me told 😂

We're all for picnic blankets of hope and good company though : )

The thing about picnics is that you need to watch out for grass snakes, especially with all the day drinking.

@Frazzled2207

the 7 day rate of case decline is speeding up too. 29% today, I think it was 28% yesterday and not long ago 22%.

Also if you look at the reported cases every day, they seem to be currently at about 50% of the rate of exactly a week ago. In a few weeks at this rate we will be looking at really low levels. Vaccine won't help transmission rates much don't think but hopefully will make a massive difference to hospitalisations and deaths .

Excellent to hear your jab news @FuzzyPuffling! And about George of course!

Oi! I tried to click on alreadytaken's link on the previous thread expecting to see a hunky athlete being jabbed and it just said "error forbidden"!

@FourTeaFallOut

The thing about picnics is that you need to watch out for grass snakes, especially with all the day drinking.

Indeed.

Actually, at this risk of being contrary, I do think that the vaccinations may well have an effect on the case rates if only in terms of hospital transmission.

@FourTeaFallOut

Lowest cases since 2nd October.

That's amazing, do you have your hands on a chart that says where we were at at the beginning of September TheChineseChicken?

No, I just stole that fact from the BBC site

No worries, I was being lazy. I'll have a look for myself.

A snippet of good news from the BBC website: Covid-19: Vaccine as good in 'real world' as in trial in Israel "More data from Israel's vaccination programme is suggesting the Pfizer jab prevents 94% of symptomatic infections. This indicates the vaccine is performing just as well in a larger population as it did in the clinical trials."

What a shame this thread has reported when I’ve seen far worse on others. Fair idea where this stemmed from 🙁

Have a margarita @Inastatus

The briefing is quite cheerful. I do find Sir Simon quite cheering too 😳