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Erm...best not tell the anti-vaxxers about this... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-57234741

An ‘interesting’ article here discussing various lockdown easing models: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/easing-of-england-lockdown-next-week-highly-unlikely-to-overwhelm-nhs The common thread seems to be an almost inevitable third wave, with high levels of death (though perhaps...

Can someone please explain to me how this guy isn’t speaking out of his arse? https://news.sky.com/video/covid-19-why-new-modelling-from-university-of-warwick-says-vaccinations-may-not-be-enough-12250811 His basic suggestion seems to be that vaccines will never bring the R number below one...

Appreciate the sentiments, thanks gents. Was wrestling a bit there with my sense of fairness and morality, but that seems a sensible way of looking at it. Muchas gracias! :)

So, given the apparent forthcoming slowdown in rollout, I gave my doctor’s surgery a ring this morning as it occurred to me that although I had my first Pfizer dose four weeks ago, I hadn’t actually been given a date for my second one. Anyway, after much umming and ah-ing the lady on reception...

This feels slightly different though, in that we’ve shut down travel effectively from any country with the remotest of links to Brazil. We’re certainly not fúcking about this time. Hopefully it’s just a case of credit where it’s due.

Interesting that we seem to be taking very firm and very broad steps in relation to this latest, Brazilian variant - banning all travel from the whole of South America and Portugal. Rather uncharacteristic from this government. I’m hoping that this is because, for once, they’re taking a...

The eyes of the world are on Israel. It will be absolutely fascinating to see what happens to their cases and deaths over the next six to eight weeks.

Seriously, the rate things are going here in the UK we should have hit herd immunity in about three and a half weeks (and I'm not talking about our #worldbeating vaccination program). Shame about all the dead people, mind.

Pfizer vaccine now approved in the US. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-pfizer-vaccine-recommended-for-approval-by-us-government-advisory-panel-12157588 Edit: misread it slightly; it’s been ‘recommended for approval’ with official approval expected to follow.

Oddly, I'm the complete opposite in that I feel adamant that I haven't had it. I haven't had so much of a sniffle this year (touch wood!), which I put down to the usual coughs and colds that would be flying around having also been repressed by social distancing. If I've had it, then I've had it...

Don't get me wrong, I understand why the elderly are being prioritised here. It's just that the first recipient of the vaccine is symbolic and their identity will be remembered. Choosing someone who has a significantly higher risk of death by natural causes at any given moment than a much...

Just to throw something out there; did anyone else think it was a slightly odd choice to have a 90 year old as the first and therefore most high profile recipient of the vaccine? At that age, particularly as we head into winter, I imagine the chances of this dear old lady passing due to natural...

Ok, you’re probably right in that not everyone has the word ‘dystopia’ in their lexicon (to prove that point I just asked my missus if she knew what it meant and I just got a blank stare, bless her). But I guess it’s a word that before this year, most people would have only encountered in the...

Realistically, we've been there since March. The one saving grace, I guess, of how this pandemic has played out is that we've had chance to adjust. We're the frog cold water, gradually brought up to the boil. The shit show that persists around us has become an accepted if temporary normality...

Thanks for that. Personally, I don't see any vaccine for Covid-19 becoming mandatory, at least in the sense that unwilling participants could be dragged kicking and screaming and injected with it. Ever so slightly more likely, but still unlikely in my opinion, is the scenario that restrictions...

I'll be honest, my position on the vaccine is very much at the opposite end of the spectrum to the likes of Albion Dan et al, however I've learned over the years that it's important to be able to see things through the eyes of others and entertain their ideas, even if they are at odds with...

Here’s the thing; the average person on the street (myself very much included) knows next to nothing about vaccines or medicines. You either trust the vaccine or you don’t, but for most of us whatever conclusion we arrive at, it’s not really based on anything at all really. People need arming...

It can’t, in reality. In fairness, Hancock was asked whether he would rule out making any vaccine mandatory, and he essentially said that there were absolutely no plans to do so but that he could never completely rule anything out. I really would like to see some proper nationwide polling done...

I'm very much pro-vaccine, but I don't like the idea of this becoming 'mandatory'. I'm about to find myself guilty of using one of 2020's buzzwords, but that kind of draconian enforcement really doesn't suit Western societies. I've been surprised by how many people I've spoken to have said they...