8th Dec 6pm press conference

[PurpleDaisies]

Whitty
Vallance
Johnson

I wonder what they’ll say.

@Dreamstate

For the first time im absolutely raging, almost in tears the government can fuck off.

Let us life our lives.

But it's not much different to now is it? What aspect is making you so cross?

@whynotwhatknot

They need to update the official symptoms on nhs site its ridiculous it still only lists sense of smell/taste cough and high temp

What are the other indiacators? Cold symptoms?

Because it impacts on my job, this coukd devastate my company with less people travelling.

@Dreamstate

For the first time im absolutely raging, almost in tears the government can fuck off.

Let us life our lives.

I know it is very hard but we - meaning as a country - do have to be careful

God I hate WFH and DH WFH so much. I might bury him under the patio.

But no option but to suck it up.

@Abraxan wfh I imagine. Kills all the businesses supporting those at work. Is miserable for those who don't have the space/environment to wfh.

@Undisclosedlocation

Hmmm ‘alas, alack ,plan B, waffle, lies and half truths’ would be my guess.

Basically he will say anything and everything he can to get tomorrows headlines off of party shenanigans last year. The b*stard is playing us as per usual

He just can’t answer a question can he. No one pulls him up on it either. It’s so frustrating.

Has there been any mention or questions about a review date?

Does that mean xmas events will be canx?

@Dreamstate

Because it impacts on my job, this coukd devastate my company with less people travelling.

That’s so rubbish. It’s bloody hard at the moment with all the uncertainty

@Dreamstate

Because it impacts on my job, this coukd devastate my company with less people travelling.

Sorry to hear that. It's a shame people who claim to "care about others" don't care about those who could lose their livelihoods.

• Yes so it ends because there's NO POINT IN IT

strewth*

Huh? You can’t include boosters in the Covid pass when under 40s haven’t been invited yet. You can’t say 6 months from last vaccination as some under 40s are already past this and still not eligible. You can’t say 40+ have to have had 3 jabs as some might only have just had their second, if they’d delayed.

If boosters become part of the Covid past and fully vaccinated = 3 jabs (which I believe it will) everyone needs to have been offered them first. Surely this is just common sense.

It doesn’t make the booster programme redundant as a) they will probably be necessary for Covid pass purposes by end of Jan and b) it helps .. you know … protect those at risk from serious illness and death, which is kind of the point.

@Dreamstate

Because it impacts on my job, this coukd devastate my company with less people travelling.

I'm sorry.

The gushing tribute to Allegra was both a signal to Those Who Matter that "she was only the fall guy, and please give her a great new well paid job"...and also a sop to any powerful friends she has who might take against Boris for the scapegoating of their friend.

Back, meet scratch.

Nothing about children, and schools. Almost no-one wearing a mask in the big secondary I work in.

What’s the point of lockdowns? We’ve done that. I think we are just going to have to crawl through this, and just accept that people will succumb to covid (including me, whaddayado) and get the Nightingale hospitals going again. Possibly there will have to be age triage in hospitals and indeed the unvaccinated (adults) at the back of the queue if their outcomes are likely to be worse than a vaccinated patient.

Such is the seeding and transmission rate of this variant that only a months-long worldwide simultaneous lockdown would work (and no fuel, no food, no medical assistance during this time) which is clearly ludicrous - so we are stuck with where we are.

Ive read its mainly colds and headaches with some people getting extreme fatigue

So zero incentive to get vaccinated
No change to the insanity that is current household isolation guidelines
Covid passports can be circumvented by any random LFT
No reference to schools transmission, lack of mitigating measures
WFH but go to the pub or whatever
Have we learned nothing????
This is so senseless I really hope we don't end up in lockdown again

I think agree with these new measures - I didn't agree with any lockdown - up and until we have followed all the regulations and not broken them once despite not agreeing with them. However, now I will not follow the regulations if they do fit in with the my actions - no point.

STILL praising Allegra! He can't read the room.

@viques Surely Not? Our lovely leader?

Baldrick: I've got a plan!
Blackadder: And is it a cunning one Baldrick?

Wtf you’d think Allegra had been promoted! And he hasn’t listened to what she said anyway.

It's going to go through the population whatever we do so any restrictions are totally pointless

Precisely

And because Covid's going nowhere there'll be another variant next year, and the one after that, and the one after that ad infinitum, and they'll probably go through much of the population too ... which all makes me wonder just how long folk will keep getting themselves into a state over whatever the latest scare tactic is

@whynotwhatknot

Ive read its mainly colds and headaches with some people getting extreme fatigue

I have it at the moment. First sign was waking with a banging headache. Then I noticed I'd lost all my sense of smell/taste about 4 hours later. Also have had cold symptoms.