Good News - Thread 13. 40/30s and onwards to the roaring 20s.

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New thread 😊

I would imagine AZ numbers will go up to near parity with Pfizer as have so far with other cases. Also, despite what the doomsters were saying, real world percentages have seemingly gone up compared to trials. Not the other way around

There are some threads to avoid....

We’ve been to rugby& Wagamama’s, was so nice.

762k jabs yesterday.

@EasterIssland I am feeling so much more optimistic about travel. Have you had both doses ?

@FreyaFolkvangr yes there is some weird satisfaction, disappointing. You’re London day sounded lovely.

@PomRuns yes i did have my second on wednesday, husband is not having his til july so we've flights booked to spain end of july. however, spain is allowing anyone to fly from tomorrow on pcr free. part of me wishes easy jet would cancel the flights in july and i'd get a flight now and go and see my family, tho i doubt my company would allow me to do this as they're reliant on me atm. 2 months seems so far away to have a hug from my mum... specially when you read some threads.... i just feels i won't managed to see them again ever if it was for those threads...

Apologies if I missed your post about your 2nd dose. I think we will be able to travel, we could travel last year and didn’t even have vaccines at that stage. Must be so hard, really hope things work out for you.
Think we get a travel update this week ?

@EasterIssland

So happy about Hugo’s update

686,264 vaccinations in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 yesterday - 178,251 1st doses, 508,013 2nd doses

Other nations still to come but clear this is an enormous day. 1 in 3 people in UK have now had both doses.

Reckon this will probably turn out to be the 2nd biggest day since the start of the rollout.

In other numbers - over SIXTY MILLION vaccination doses!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57221506

Can anyone see a pattern each time with AZ trial data or variant data. Then once we have the complete real world data they are on equal terms to Pfizer.

This has got so boring now. We all know AZ takes longer to build up antibodies. We all know Pfizer was rolled out a month or whatever before AZ. So the data for Pfizer looks initially better. Yet we go through this circus again and again.

We have real world evidence from India and other places now. They are both amazing vaccines and work brilliantly in the real world. Data backs that up again and again.

The government have only released this latest information to make sure people get their second dose and to stop people putting it off etc. The message is very clear one dose is not enough but two work great.

Oh I am really low at the moment. Apparently some local to me and some in the media don't know the difference between Israel and Jewish people in general.

It is pigging tiring and upsetting to constantly have to deal with racist idiots. The majority of jews in this country do not support Israel. I don't have any family in Israel and have never been there. My father was part of Jews for justice. Which is pro Palestine. Yet we have idiots that are verbally abusive and violent to anyone Jewish at the moment.

My local labour Facebook group seem to avoid this truth and are actively victim blaming. A Jewish rabbi got beaten up in Chigwell and these liberal progressives are acting like this is a inter faith issue. It is nothing of the sort. An attack like that is the same as a Muslim person getting assaulted for a terrorist attack or because something happened in Syria.

I am really tired of all this and have just arranged for my security cameras to be updated. That is how bad this is getting. The last few years things have go harder in the UK for Jewish families anyway ☹

I am so sorry @TruelyStruttingHotpants how utterly miserable ❤️

I'm so sorry @TruelyStruttingHotpants 💐

So sorry Truely. People just stuck sometimes

Suck

Anti semitism is despicable.

I'm sorry stupid nasty people made you feel unsafe @TruelyStruttingHotpants. I hope they all get the shits tonight.

This is awful @TruelyStruttingHotpants. I just can’t understand behaviour like that

Thank you everyone ❤ MRex that made me laugh.

Just feeling a bit sorry for myself and others at the moment. I have left the Facebook group in question. Only on it because I joined all the local groups during first lockdown. A bid to get as much local news as possible. I don't normally get involved in politics really.

Anyway back to all things covid but mainly how wonderful the vaccines roll out is going ❤

This is good❤

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-londons-vaxi-taxi-scheme-is-driving-vulnerable-people-to-get-their-jabs-12315281

Well there’s an example of how wonderful people can be!

Breath tests for covid have been developed and are in trials in Singapore, much nicer than the alternatives!
m.timesofindia.com/world/south-asia/singapore-approves-covid-breath-test-that-gives-immediate-result/articleshow/82900727.cms

www.nme.com/news/music/only-15-positive-covid-19-tests-after-trial-mass-gatherings-at-brits-liverpools-circus-club-and-beyond-2945227?amp

They were talking on the news about the amazing covid spotting dogs being 94% accurate, the same as a lateral flow test!

I have visions on people being sniffed out in a queue, like at a festival, then being bundled off in a van to go and isolate for 10 days

I came to add that too :)

BBC News - Covid: Sniffer dogs could bolster screening at airports
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57200863

We went out in a hailstorm to a dry ski slope to celebrate my son's birthday yesterday. He and his best friend were dead set on keeping to this plan, even though 45 mph winds and torrential rain were forecast.

It let up, fortunately, long enough for the kids to have a good time, and some nice food outside. in the ahem Alpine Bistro. It was the closest we have come to a meal out for over a year.

Our waiter was terribly sympathetic to our request to serve up birthday cake, surprisingly so, and then we realised that there were birthday parties all around us. And also, that any child whose birthday was being celebrated yesterday, probably had a birthday in lockdown without their friends last year.

How nice it was to have a celebration, albeit windswept.

Well there’s an example of how wonderful people can be!

I was volunteering at a vaccination centre last week. For some reason we got behind so I ran out to the enormous queue to apologise to people waiting, explain the delay and make sure everyone in the with-appointments queue had an appointment. It was pouring with rain - the hard sort that hurts your head - hailing, there was thunder and lightening.

Did people moan and grumble when they heard their long wait was extended? No. They wanted reassurance that they would get their jab eventually, said the wait wasn't a problem and thanked me for coming out.

And a couple of hundred people without appointments waited up to four hours in the rain on the off-chance of getting a leftover jab.

I wanted to hug the lot of them! (I didn't, of course.)