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!

I hope that when other countries see our falling death/ hospitalisation/ infection rates they'll review their ideas.

@FourTeaFallOut - thanks for that summary. Fascinating about the whole ‘nocebo’ effect! Those countries have their work cut out trying to convince people and increase take-up.

I hope that when other countries see our falling death/ hospitalisation/ infection rates they'll review their ideas.

I’m in ROI and we’re mostly pissed that our supply of AZ hasn’t come through. But then we are much more tuned into U.K. media than the rest of Europe.

Well, I hope Macron, von der Leyen et al are proud of themselves

On a more practical note, let’s hope they get plenty of the other vaccines so it’s not a massive problem. Do they have the same issues with the Janssen vaccine, since it’s the same technology as AZ?

J&J is being trumpeted as the big hope here in Ireland.

I admit I like the idea of a one dose wonder.

It’s March next week!

@TheKeatingFive

J&J is being trumpeted as the big hope here in Ireland.

I admit I like the idea of a one dose wonder.

Although I think they’re looking into giving two doses to boost efficacy, aren’t they?

Although I think they’re looking into giving two doses to boost efficacy, aren’t they?

I didn’t hear that

Just to say I cannot thank all the contributors to this thread enough. The rest of the threads can feel like a vortex of catastrophe that sucks you under but this one boosts us all up when we need it.

Placemarking

Marking my spot - the sun is shining here, I’ve finished work and I’m going to go for a run before picking up the dc’s from school.

Will be watching boris with interest later.....

I’ve found my happy place again! Thanks for the new thread. I too nearly got sucked into the gloom and doom whirlpool of some other threads.

@Pearl97 - yes, best news is a week today we’re in March!

The days are getting longer, daffodils are starting to show and the light at the end of the tunnel is shining a bit brighter!

The days are getting longer, daffodils are starting to show and the light at the end of the tunnel is shining a bit brighter!

If nothing else goes right then this is going to be true no matter what. After a dreary morning here we have now got the sun out so it feels like spring again.

Thanks for the new thread 😊

Just checking in to the best thread on my watch list!
Spring is on the way, vaccine rollout is going well... my T1 Diabetic husband getting his vaccine invite would just finish off the list for me!

@TheKeatingFive

Although I think they’re looking into giving two doses to boost efficacy, aren’t they?

I didn’t hear that

I could well be wrong so don’t quote me on it!

Signing in for new thread - thank you!

mobile.twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1363791672887435265

Not good news as such, but I thought it was interesting. Yet there are still lots of comments on other threads about the UK "not being in a proper lockdown", whatever that means.

Oh, that is very interesting. From everything I have seen recently about other countries I THOUGHT our lockdown seemed to be stricter than anywhere else at the moment so it is interesting to have it confirmed.
The ‘not a proper lockdown’ people enrage me. I can’t work out whether they are just reverse nationalists who think whatever we are doing must be more ineffective than the rest of the world, just because, or they are illogical masochists who want us to do the weird pointless things some other countries have done like locking up all the kids or making you take a piece of paper with you whenever you leave the house.
It’s not like they ever give any examples of things that other countries do that would make our lockdown more effective.

I'm pretty sure some people are still clinging to the hope that we'll start bleaching the pavements.

Oh I know we’ve had the not a proper lockdown in UK crowd for ages

Some desire for patrols / paperwork etc

Palcemarking so I can keep creeping. I don't post much in these threads but have a good read when I need to.

Thanks everyone.

Yeah, I find it totally bizarre that some people can look at a policy like Spain not letting children go outside for weeks, have no idea whether it had any meaningful impact (or indeed any impact at all) on controlling their infection rate but know for certain that the impact on physical and mental health was damaging...and still think, yep, that's what we need here.

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

Oh, that is very interesting. From everything I have seen recently about other countries I THOUGHT our lockdown seemed to be stricter than anywhere else at the moment so it is interesting to have it confirmed. The ‘not a proper lockdown’ people enrage me. I can’t work out whether they are just reverse nationalists who think whatever we are doing must be more ineffective than the rest of the world, just because, or they are illogical masochists who want us to do the weird pointless things some other countries have done like locking up all the kids or making you take a piece of paper with you whenever you leave the house. It’s not like they ever give any examples of things that other countries do that would make our lockdown more effective.

The 'not a proper lockdown' lot give me the rage. I'm sure none of them would be happy unless we were all confined to our homes for 18 hours a day, with food delivered and everything shut.

In France people are allowed to travel between regions and stay overnight. Here, you dare to set foot outside your local area for a change of scenery and the lockdown fanatics are all over you like a rash.