Good News part 11 - Picnics galore as we head into spring

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Hope no-one minds me starting this. Apologies if another has started too. Please can someone add the pretty pictures.

Useful links:

coronavirus.data.gov.uk

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

www.covidmessenger.com Thanks to LittleOwl for all her hard work!

ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk

NB Please don’t take this too seriously- it depends what vaccine delivery speed and uptake you estimate so it’s not written in stone.

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

I don't actually like jam so I just have clotted cream on its own like a weirdo.

Sorry to hear you are still feeling the effects Fuzzy.

Oh sorry you feel tired @FuzzyPuffling are you day +4 today? I hope this passes soon.

Shocked re squirty cream. I meant double extra thick, which is passable in absence of clotted imo

You get more cream if you go jam first surely? Which makes that the right way IMO!

How on earth do you get jam on top of cream? It would just be a thick lump of jelly squashing the cream😱

Oh, and it's pronounced to rhyme with 'gone'

@TheChineseChicken

Oh, and it's pronounced to rhyme with 'gone'

Agreed. I really want a cream tea now.

Jam on top of cream - you need a runny not set jam, a jam spoon and just gently spread on top of the cream (which should be clotted or thick, never squirty)
I am now imaging tequila infused cream though ...

I've just added scone ingredients plus clotted cream to my online shopping!

It rhymes with gone and the jam goes first.

This is amazing news. Flu h

^ Flu has disappeared from the UK, with not a single case detected www.independent.co.uk/news/health/flu-cases-covid-england-phe-latest-b1805124.html?utm_source=reddit.com
It looks as if the massive vaccination programme combined with social distancing paid off.

Have to say you're all wrong.

Scones (to rhyme with stones) are best hot from the oven with fresh, proper butter and a dollop of tart lemon curd.

@Reachersloveinterest

Have to say you're all wrong.

Scones (to rhyme with stones) are best hot from the oven with fresh, proper butter and a dollop of tart lemon curd.

Reported

First of all I really dont know to pronounce scone. I think I alternate, but it is jam first as that is easier to spread and squirty cream on a scone? That's all kinds of wrong.

Flu has disappeared? Forever or just this year?

You are (mostly) my people. Scone to rhyme with gone. Jam then clotted cream.

Might add some to my food shop too...
I'm trying to lose weight but have fallen so far off the wqgon these past two weeks.
My 5yo has had enough and my 5mo is crying all day long 🤪

@Treaclepie19 I’m trying to lose weight tooo - I’m having another decaf coffee to stem hunger pangs.

@InterfectoremVulpes I can quite see why you reported although I do like lemon curd.
Might have to try on a scone.

Positive cases 8,489
Deaths 548
Still dropping

Hospital admissions and patients in hospital still going down as well

Are we expecting the case rate to rise a bit when the schools go back? (Obvs cases don't equal deaths or hospital admissions) or are we expecting that the two week Easter holidays should provide a fire break?

Vaccinations very low numbers this week but Hancock has said it is just for this week. There will be a big bump up in March

@feelingverylazytoday

^ Flu has disappeared from the UK, with not a single case detected www.independent.co.uk/news/health/flu-cases-covid-england-phe-latest-b1805124.html?utm_source=reddit.com It looks as if the massive vaccination programme combined with social distancing paid off.

Yes, this is fascinating. Imagine if covid meant we eliminated flu? (I know that won't happen but would be mad if it did)

@Reachersloveinterest

Are we expecting the case rate to rise a bit when the schools go back? (Obvs cases don't equal deaths or hospital admissions) or are we expecting that the two week Easter holidays should provide a fire break?

Both I think

Sorry I mean a slight slowing or plateau of cases. At least in the short term. Then Easter used as a fire breaker to get cases to drop again.

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

Positive cases 8,489 Deaths 548 Still dropping

Hospital admissions and patients in hospital still going down as well

Oh, that's good, after yesterday's cases were a bit up

Would be slightly annoying if the Covid measures eliminating flu this year is used as an excuse to have restrictions every winter.

truly that's what I thought; Not a rise, just a levelling off for a couple of weeks.

My husband has had the text to book his jab

54 with no underlying health conditions

(Well he has a middle aged man belly but don't think the doctors has weighed him in years. So wouldn't know that)

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

My husband has had the text to book his jab

54 with no underlying health conditions

(Well he has a middle aged man belly but don't think the doctors has weighed him in years. So wouldn't know that)

Ooh that's good news.

How can we find out how different areas are progressing with vaccines? My DH is also 54 but I heard our county is a bit behind other areas.