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!

Loving the weather today. Everything is so much brighter when the sun shines. And I've been and had a takeout lunch and sat in the tearoom to eat it and actually chatted, face to face (from a safe distance and behind a mask, baby steps!) with some colleagues and I feel great, almost normal. Yay for normal.

That's amazing Level, 75% transmission drop with a single dose? That'll do nicely.

Sunny and lovely in the SW today. Crocuses and daffodils out in the park. It feels hopeful. Some new shops are looking to open, a new cafe near me. Looking forward to trying that out soon. Just a week till the DC go back to school.

Never been and don't intend to go but this is still good news

www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/witcombe-cider-festival-organisers-give-5049132?fbclid=IwAR33gpFdVNx2SVKDy-Xy2Eva7TOp3FUNlL9l0A6YwxOTVoysjA3Xw9gXBaM

Hi All. Positive news for me today....I have been allowed by my manager to go back into the office 3 days a week from the 8th March.

I had been going in previously as my mental health had been declining due to not only being in the house all day by myself, but the extent to which this had led to my work life take over my home life, it really isnt sustainable. But then when this lockdown hit he decided I should be at home.

Organisational policy says that I could work in the office as I was, but he said that we should be reducing contacts and so this meant staying at home. I was vaccinated in mid Jan and so he has now said that as I am vaccinated I can go back in, providing I LFT twice a week. Its over and above what the organisation want, and it makes two of my days in quite disruptive, but hey ho.

Parkrun in England returning in June. I am actually in Scotland but I'll take this as good news that it will hopefully return here too soon. Have really missed it.

blog.parkrun.com/uk/2021/02/26/restarting-parkrun-in-england/

[quote Ifyourefeelingsinister]Parkrun in England returning in June. I am actually in Scotland but I'll take this as good news that it will hopefully return here too soon. Have really missed it.

blog.parkrun.com/uk/2021/02/26/restarting-parkrun-in-england/[/quote]
I have set a countdown on my watch for it. 14 weeks to go.

I wonder if that is one of the reasons why they have held off until June (as it says on the blog technically they can start in April, but for various sensible reasons they are waiting longer). They hope other nations of the UK will be able to start either the same weekend or not long after.

Cases 8532 (last Fri 12027) - 30% drop
Deaths 345 (last Fri 533) - 35% drop
Hospital admissions (latest data from Monday 22 Feb) 1117 (last Monday 1502) - 26% drop

Looking good

Does anyone know how you can find out which group or age range your local vaccination centre are on?

Canada have just approved the Oxford/AZ vaccine!

Thank you for asking OrangeBananaFish. I am definitely improving, in that I am pottering in the garden. Still tired and still getting dizzy phases and weird drops in blood pressure (abnormal for me). But things are looking up, in that I am no longer needing naps and as long as I go to bed at 8pm I can manage the day!

@Welikebeingcosy our local GPs have a collective Facebook page with info like that, have a look and see if yours is on FB?

@TheChineseChicken

Cases 8532 (last Fri 12027) - 30% drop Deaths 345 (last Fri 533) - 35% drop Hospital admissions (latest data from Monday 22 Feb) 1117 (last Monday 1502) - 26% drop

Looking good

Not sure if I'm correct, but please let me know if not. I believe that the 7 day rolling average of cases is now less than 10,000. According to my spreadsheet anyway.

I checked my doctors webpage. Firstly they don't seem to have a facebook, but their webpage says they are getting ready to vaccinate the over 80s when they receive the vaccines next week. It's been saying this for at least a month now. I think that the webpage is not being updated in all honesty.

That's good fuzzy Better than catching Covid I would (hopefully not wrongly) assume

@TheChineseChicken

Cases 8532 (last Fri 12027) - 30% drop Deaths 345 (last Fri 533) - 35% drop Hospital admissions (latest data from Monday 22 Feb) 1117 (last Monday 1502) - 26% drop

Looking good

Yay🥳

Rolling average for cases is under 10k finally 🥳

I have decided that as we now have are lowest ever R rate and the figures are dropping so well. It provides schools were never the transmission problem.

It was germ spreading old people

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum - lowest ever R rate! I must have missed that - bloody brilliant 😀

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

I have decided that as we now have are lowest ever R rate and the figures are dropping so well. It provides schools were never the transmission problem.

It was germ spreading old people

🤯😁

I keep thinking how the deaths we're getting now are from people who were infected 3-6 weeks (overall, I appreciate some cases will be more recent than that). It's lovely - we still have more drops to come as the vaccine really kicks in and the weather warms up.

If this is true it’s seriously impressive...!

@ACovidofWitches I know- I think deaths are about to drop drastically, thank goodness!!

@TeaInTheGarden

If this is true it’s seriously impressive...!

Some calculations were going around like that said a few weeks ago. It does seem totally doable capacity wise. Even with second doses.

It is all about supply as they keep saying. One thing Hancock did say in an interview this morning is March will be a bumper month. So that sounds hopeful for some big vaccination figures.

@TeaInTheGarden

If this is true it’s seriously impressive...!

hope so

Eek!

March is looking very interesting. Deaths hopefully plummeting, vaccines possibly going through the roof. Let's hope it comes off.

A thought has just occurred. So reports suggest everyone could be vaccinated by may. 3 weeks later is 21st June, the suggested day of opening. Has this been a plan previously, but the government dont want to over promise?

This thread has been a lifeline for me during these dark days. I don't post often but am a long time lurker and you have all kept my hopes up during some anxious times

I know we have a bit of a way to go still but is anyone else, like me, thinking we really are on our way out of this nightmare? Vaccines are proving to be better than we could have hoped for, preventing a significant amount of transmission as well as severe illness and for the first time in a long time I'm looking to the future and thinking we have got this! I really think normal, maybe an even better normal, is in sight.

I struggle with anxiety and have always been a worrier but I can finally believe we are close to getting our lives back! I can't wait to see and hug all my friend and family (this has been a tough time for us huggers!) and for my kids to be able to get back to school and college and to socialise with their sports clubs and friend properly again.

Thank goodness for our utterly amazing scientists!!

Not sure what the trigger was but feeling much lighter and brighter