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!

@OrangeBananaFish
oh that sounds like a pretty good afternoon!

7434 cases and 290 deaths. That's all going in the right direction.

And over half a million (first) vaccinations!

I make that a 35% fall in deaths and 29% in cases.

Drop in deaths is really accelerating

Good to see cases dropping like that again.

By way of comparison on Saturday 30 January cases were 23,275 and deaths were 1,200

Numbers really tumbling now

I have also booked a trip to Wales in May with our caravan. Can't wait!

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

I make that a 35% fall in deaths and 29% in cases.

If you look at seven days up to and including today which is more accurate IMO Cases are down 17.5% Deaths down 32% Admissions down 22%

It is but the momentum in the fall is cases rates began to lose speed. 17.5% reduction is a good increase on a WoW basis.

It seemed like the fall in cases lost a bit of momentum in the last week or so but in the last few days has picked up again. Hospitalizations and deaths seem to be falling as well as ever.

@starfish88
indeed it looked like things were flattening a week or so again but now it appears they are going properly down again. If can keep the decrease WoW at 15%+ I think that's promising but just hope it's broadly across the board. In Greater Manchester things have been worryingly flat but numbers today are heading down again.

Amused about your Frankenstein pizzas @FourTeaFallOut!

20 million is fantastic - brilliant effort.

You'll be unsurprised to learn that amalgamating the remnants of the fridge and dumping them on top of an impoverished pizza base was not a culinery eureka moment but it filled a gap and now, courtesy of the Tesco van, we are awash with food and so the rapid decline from bounty to vegetable remnants begins again.

I’d love some cake and I’ve not even completed 2 weeks of Lent. Are we in extenuating circumstances??

I should probably add, we just actually do a terrible job of organising the food and then defending it for the meal it was originally intended in a house with three boys with hollow legs and free and easy access to the kitchen - rather than an issue with the volume of food. It's easy to assume that everyone is in the same boat as you are and that this is just funny and forget that food is an actual problem that other people have to manage. Sorry

Sorry for the radio silence from me - trying to home school, work from home and recover from covid has somewhat kicked my ass the last couple of days. Thursday was a good day and then yesterday felt like I’d been hit like a bus, today somewhere in the middle. I guess it’ll be like that for a couple of weeks.

Came on to comment on today’s amazing case figures - today was the first day in a while I haven’t been hitting refresh at 4pm to find out the data...I’m taking that as a good sign that I’m less obsessed because everything is heading so much in the right direction.

@FourTeaFallOut

You'll be unsurprised to learn that amalgamating the remnants of the fridge and dumping them on top of an impoverished pizza base was not a culinery eureka moment but it filled a gap and now, courtesy of the Tesco van, we are awash with food and so the rapid decline from bounty to vegetable remnants begins again.

Ha! This is our week too - Sunday DH goes to the supermarket and buys loads of lovely stuff. By Thursday we’re eating scraps

@louisejxxx

Sorry for the radio silence from me - trying to home school, work from home and recover from covid has somewhat kicked my ass the last couple of days. Thursday was a good day and then yesterday felt like I’d been hit like a bus, today somewhere in the middle. I guess it’ll be like that for a couple of weeks.

Came on to comment on today’s amazing case figures - today was the first day in a while I haven’t been hitting refresh at 4pm to find out the data...I’m taking that as a good sign that I’m less obsessed because everything is heading so much in the right direction.

Sounds like a tough week. Hope your lingering covid symptoms get better quickly

My local daily figures are getting pretty amazing. All of February we have had drops of 40% or more a week for cases and deaths. Hospital admissions has been dropping at 30% or more.

This week our covid hospital admissions are now into single figures each day. That is the figures for a large London health trust made up of 5 hospitals.

@FourTeaFallOut

You'll be unsurprised to learn that amalgamating the remnants of the fridge and dumping them on top of an impoverished pizza base was not a culinery eureka moment but it filled a gap and now, courtesy of the Tesco van, we are awash with food and so the rapid decline from bounty to vegetable remnants begins again.

Yes this just about sums up food in the tobee household for the last year. 😏

Omg cake!

Heloooooo! I lost you all.

Had a great walk today, quite a long one and door to door.

I’m in for the picnic of joy. But I put cream on first. scone rhymes with gone.

Fuzzy how are you and tell me how George is too.

Is the way scone pronounced regional? I think I rhyme with cone but sometimes with gone!