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

[OrangeBananaFish]

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!

@tobee - not surprised you feel down, don’t think anyone I know would be chipper with toothache. Hope they’re able to fix it for you soon. Haven’t watched much tv lately, so can’t think of anything to recommend, but I can usually find any excuse for not doing housework!

Loving schitts creek on Netflix at the moment.
Silly light hearted escapism, just what the doctor ordered!

@tobee hope tooth gets sorted easily.
Just started watching bloodlands bbc 1 and unforgotten itv.
Agatha raisin is light and fun.

Cheers for the tv recs and the kind thoughts.

I saw Parasite last night. I fancy a house like that. And servants to do the housework

That sage modeling seems to assume faster unlocking than Boris announced so potentially we can see deaths fall even faster.

Good news for US staff that diplomats are sticking up for them:-

Do you think that some of the persistent doom mongers on the board are frustrated Labour supporters aghast at the Conservative rise in the polls achieved on the back of the success of the vaccine roll out and an ambitious unlocking plan?

I suppose the insult to injury is that this is all in the run up to local and mayoral elections in May and that there is no way they should be trailing so badly after a year like 2020.

It is only reason why I can think why anyone would be so vehemently outraged by the optimism of other people. This idea that they are aggressively trying to save people from their own hopefulness and potential disappointment just doesn't ring true to me and not does the idea that they'd do it just for kicks.

The sun is shining here today... that's good news in itself. Apart from being a great covid-killer.
Tobee how are you doing?

Morning everyone. It’s a beautiful Friday morning here and DH is getting his vaccine today!
@TeaInTheGarden - we love Schitts Creek too. Also watching Outlander on Amazon.
@tobee - toothache is horrible. You have my sympathies and hope it’s sorted soon.
@FourTeaFallOut - I think you are right. My far leftie friend is running out of negative things to say so is focussing on the fact that all teachers won’t have been vaccinated before schools return. It’s not even worth trying to argue!

It's a beautiful day today and I am going to the office! I am allowed to leave the house!!!!!

Yeah, I have been accused of being a BoJo supporter off the back of being optimistic about the future one too many times for it to be coincidence.

I've all the thousands and thousands of posts on this thread, I can't think of one link that derives a biggest of hope off a BoJo soundbite.

As a lifelong Labour voter, it's a bit odd to be tagged as a closet Tory because I have some faith in the vaccines and summer weather.

Biggest = nugget

We have frost on the ground but the sun is up, I think we are going to have a good day. I'm off for a lateral flow today because I have a endoscopy on Monday. I'm so chuffed I'll be four weeks post-vaccine by then, it feels much less worrying.

@starfish88

That sage modeling seems to assume faster unlocking than Boris announced so potentially we can see deaths fall even faster.

Well most of mumsnet has always predicted cases rising or falling, issues with tiers, etc before Boris. So that would be consistent At least it would be in a positive way this time

@FourTeaFallOut - definitely the scientists who are pulling us through - not the politicians! Wouldn’t trust any of them.!!

@tobee

Good news for US staff that diplomats are sticking up for them:-

Was that a pun 😂

Seriously something wrong with whoever invented the anal swap. I mean why not ask for a stool sample if that is more accurate.

Maybe.

I felt loads better after getting my misery off my chest. And thanks, guys, for the kind comments.

Agree never trust a politician!

Yes their are definitely some people so political they actually want the vaccine or the plan to fail. So they can slag off the government. Well probably not fail but have large hiccups.

Also definitely some European posters (They have started on previous threads where they are from) that have large chip on their shoulder about the government. Even though they claim to live in the UK.

Just remember they are only so angry now because the government is managing to pull things off. Plus all their predictions of doom have been wrong so far

@FourTeaFallOut definitely and there quite a lot of glee at the suggestion nhs pay will be frozen and pensions targeted again.
I know we have to pay for this but I’d just like to clarify I don’t have a million pension fund 🙄 must avoid those threads in future - I’ve already 1 foot out of the door and they push me a bit further.

Morning all. Lovely sunny day here! I'm stuck at my desk sadly but at least can see it out the window.

I think we've reached the point where reductions in deaths and hospitalisations are going to accelerate due to the vaccine, haven't we? We can already see it in the last couple of days' data

Morning all, the sun is shining here on the south coast.

Your countdown @OrangeBananaFish has cheered me up no end. I met my partner last summer and since we've been together we haven't been able to have a 'normal' relationship! I can't wait til we can actually go out for a meal or cinema together or go away for a weekend and won't have to constantly go for walks and cycle rides (darn my daughter moving back home in January and popping my 'bubble' with him! - hmm, that's a weird expression I wouldn't have thought existed a year ago!)

@tobee hope your toothache is better today.

@TheChineseChicken I was thinking exactly the same regarding the reduction in deaths and hospitalisations - here's hoping

The vaccine hub where I'm working is changing it's way of working soon, we're going full throttle and planning on doing all the first jabs we've been doing during the week into two days and then all the second jabs are hopefully being done on a separate day. Plus, I've my second jab booked now!

re people wanting the vaccine plan to fail so they can revel in it, I have a friend who is the same about Brexit. I voted 'remain' too, as did he, but I would also be delighted in the, admittedly unlikely, event that it was a roaring success after all. I also do genuinely think the vaccine side has been, even if nothing else does turn out to be. Selfishly, vaccines at the moment are also very important indeed.

He, however, said that he wants it to be a disaster regardless to 'show the petty minded arseholes what they voted for.'

Personally I think that's ridiculous.

This is intended to be a positive thread - and therefore should be politics free. But since it has been raised - the success of the vaccine rollout is down to the NHS pumping it into arms rapidly, Doris's only role was to supply it. That does not outweigh the incompetence of locking down too late - more than once - and therefore killing tens of thousands of people. Nor does it mitigate running down the NHS for years so that it has struggled to cope, failing to stockpile PPE so that we are all going to be paying far more for this pandemic than was necessary or contracts given to incompetent cronies - and again costing more than was necessary. Now those paying for it will not be those who have profited from the pandemic.

To return to being positive - Johnson and Johnson's vaccine is looking better than was first thought. "Overall, the vaccine that Johnson & Johnson developed with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was 72 percent effective at preventing moderate to severe disease in the United States and 66 percent of such cases globally, according to the latest data. Across all regions, it was 85 percent effective at preventing severe illness and 100 percent effective at preventing coronavirus-related hospitalization and death."

This also tends to reinforce the belief that other vaccines may be more effective at preventing hospitalisation and death than at preventing infection.

Morning everyone (totally ignoring that its nearly afternoon)

It's a lovely day here too. It was freezing this morning. Popped to the supermarket for the weekly food shop and had to de-ice the car. I like to leave and get back ASAP so went first thing. The temp in the car said -2. When I came out of Asda the temp said 7. I was only in an hour!!!!

Got a run to get in soon, but I'm far too happy just sat here doing nothing. Then again I'll feel rubbish if I don't go especially with the sun being out.

Covid news in our house is that DS is going into school next week twice for 2 lateral flow tests. Really hoping that they come back negative. We have no reason to believe they might be positive, but you never know. Still waiting to hear from DD1s school (2 different secondaries), but it is sooo much bigger so can understand why we haven't heard much.

Also waiting on parkrun news. They said earlier in the week that they would publish a UK specific position on Friday this week. I am prepared for June, but secretly hoping it will be sooner. It's outside so very unlikely to create a big spike in cases, but as its a hobby and nothing too urgent I can totally understand why it needs to hold off. There are far more things that are important to get restarted.

Sorry about the toothache tobee I had it bad back in April. I was nearly in tears everytime I ate something so I've been there. Its horrible.

@FuzzyPuffling Apologies if you've mentioned and I've missed it, but how are you? Are you starting to feel better?

What about you @louisejxxx How are your Covid symptoms?

Hope everyone else is well and managing to enjoy the glorious weather.

@FourTeaFallOut

Do you think that some of the persistent doom mongers on the board are frustrated Labour supporters aghast at the Conservative rise in the polls achieved on the back of the success of the vaccine roll out and an ambitious unlocking plan?

I suppose the insult to injury is that this is all in the run up to local and mayoral elections in May and that there is no way they should be trailing so badly after a year like 2020.

It is only reason why I can think why anyone would be so vehemently outraged by the optimism of other people. This idea that they are aggressively trying to save people from their own hopefulness and potential disappointment just doesn't ring true to me and not does the idea that they'd do it just for kicks.

Yes I think it’s drag from a vocal place attacking from sidelines. Same position as The Guardian really. After the landslide it’s been their moment to kick back.

I’m a floating voter btw

The sun is shining, I’m actually reclining in the garden not too bad!