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I too was getting a bit more hopeful that we could make it further than November especially as September's hospital cases were around 8 times what they were 1 year previously and nothing happened. (Sept 2021 hospital cases dropped below Sept 2020 cases towards the end of Sept 2021). One of the...

It is just advisory - she said there wasn't a law being passed in 2021 for this part

I think there is a Plan C (oven ready I guess) and probably a Plan B+. From what I heard from the Scotland speech, physical distancing, and limiting household contact to 3 households. She also said that she would have gone further if she had the financial backing from Westminster. Scotland’s...

We seem to have been a day or so behind Scotland on many occasions (although passports and masks took a while longer). Scotland advising to reduce contact to three households

Yes it will overwhelm the NCVS (formerly NHS now National Covid Vaccination Service). And when Pfizer sell their 100 day omicron vaccine in April it will probably be the same again, Also having very long queues outside vaccine centres is one way of spreading covid quickly. The alternative of...

if we catch omicron then we could all die within 45 minutes

<< "A fortnight ago I said we would offer every eligible adult a booster by the end of January. Today, in light of this Omicron Emergency, I am bringing that target forward by a whole month. Everyone eligible aged 18 and over in England will have the chance to get their booster before the New...

The Stay Home message quoted was there from March 2020 onwards until around May 2020 it became Stay Alert > Control the Virus > Save lives

Trying to save a few pennies on NHS resilience, while costing the economy pounds type philiosophy

Fair point. But typing spi-m covid 5 year into any search engine brings up a few recent newspaper articles though I can't find it in a SPI-M document online Covid will pose threat to UK for next five years, experts warn | The Independent Covid could be around for another five years - experts...

Didn't Cromwell cancel Christmas 5 years in a row? Before my time but Neville Chamberlain is seen as an appeaser and this is how I see Johnson. He states that he is all for liberty etc and then cave in to the Scientists and the opposition state that he should go further. The only thing that...

So for those who had their second vaccine in October or November then they are basically not protected? This in itself contradicts the 12 week transmission message. It really is a worrying time where the remedy causes more damage than the disease And as mentioned in other posts today, the...

interesting post; They did close churches and places of worship in lockdown 1 assuming that people could worship online although I think this was slightly less strict in lockdowns 2 and 3. Re EM Forster he was probably referring to the Victorian / Edwardian mills, etc, and projected it forwards...

Re: work from home, yet still have your christmas party. This is a calculation to based on several things for example; 1. They don't have to financially support hospitality via furlough / VAT reductions etc 2. People can't complain about parties being cancelled two years in a row amongst the...

A side effect of any restrictions will reduce demand in some areas, for example a reduction in travel during lockdown 1 saw petrol fall to 99p per litre for a while as demand fell. This in turn helps to reduce inflationary pressures on interest rates, although this is short term and prices...

Different viruses have been around for centuries for example those behind the common cold and possibly the 1890 flu. Therefore it is likely that this virus will be with us forever. In the UK the booster requirement by the end of January followed by another for omicron in around 100 days. Then...

I think we all really really hope that the current (or fewer) measures are enough to keep the current steady slight decline in hospital cases going. Omicron has ?50? mutations, and I would think that this must have mutated over a few generations of transmission (each generation is around 7 to...

A variant with so many changes to its spike protein etc must have been in circulation for a while - possibly a few months. So given the number of flights from South Africa, Botswana etc all over the world then it is likely that it has made into community circulation already. It could be that the...

I wonder if there is enough money to support another 10 months of furlough with the recent increase in national insurance, reduction in universal credit, scaling down of HS2 etc. Dec 2020: alpha variant found July 2021: restrictions lifted Sept 2021: end of furlough Nov 2021: omicron variant...

The pm said that "this christmas is going to be better than last year" I hope so but part of me wonders about this given how many other u-turns have happened.