10,500 tests is quite low compared to usual (thought we'd been at about 20k/day for a while), which I'm taking as an encouraging sign I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
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10,500 tests is quite low compared to usual (thought we'd been at about 20k/day for a while), which I'm taking as an encouraging sign I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
Just on that point, a friend's mother lives in a village five miles from Beauly in Inverness-shire. She is unable to leave her home to travel for her vaccine. A medic is being sent on a special journey out to vaccinate her which will take two hours of his/her time. How many people could that person vaccinate in a hub somewhere, what is it, one every fifteen minutes = Total 8 vaccinations? (I've no idea about that, just a pure guess).Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
England of course has it's own rural areas but it's easy to see how geography can make a significant difference.
Restrictions will be maintained until at least the middle of February - review due on 2nd February.
All restrictions extended to be reviewed 2nd Feb
Barra now into level 4
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Barra and Vatersay to be moved into level 4 - stay at home from midnight tonight.
Schools to remain closed until mid-February.
Review due on 2nd February.
I’ll attest to that. My wife’s Granny who lives in a Care Home (shelters accommodation I think) was due to get hers two weeks ago. Covid hit the home and the doctors refuse to go in to vaccinate.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
Not sure if I agree with that or not. Obvious risks to the medical staff, but at the expense of those who can least fight the disease.
Now have no idea when she is expected to get her jab.
This is in Hertfordshire BTW. So England’s statistical slow vaccination of the care home residents is backed up with my anecdotal evidence from my family.
J
School buildings remain closed until mid Feb
West Lothian Holidays 12th to 18th February
Reviewed again 2nd February with the hope to put a more robust timetable to how they will return
Open to a phased return
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That makes sense, I half expect schools to stay the same down here until the Easter holidays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
Johnson always copies Sturgeon anyway.
J
Over 90% of care home residents now vaccinated with first dose.
More than 90 percent of care home residents and 70pct of staff have received first dose of vaccine
70 percent of front line staff too
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Everyone in groups 1 and 2 will receive their first dose by start of February.
By early March over 65s will be vaccinated.
Over 3 million people to be vaccinated by early May.
Can see near enough everything back to normal by the end of this year after that news.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
Physical distancing, hand hygiene, face coverings and possibly travel restrictions to be in place for some time to come.
As soon as everyone is vaccinated they will find it harder and harder to justify that to the massesQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
In 3 months time things could feel alot different. Just in time for my birthday [emoji106]
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Sturgeon say that? Good luck getting people to adhere to that when almost everyone had had the vaccineQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
She did but said "sometime", not "after everyone has been vaccinated"Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoDoidge
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Originally Posted by Callum_62
Hate when they make these sort of statements.
How long is some time? 3 months? 6 months? A year?
She didn't say all of those things would be in place until the point when almost everyone's been vaccinated, to be fair to her.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoDoidge
*I'm away for a lie down. :greengrin
Sturgeon not missing the UK gov here on the "transparency" issue regarding vaccination supply
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She's not some kind of seer - too many variables to put a timeline to it, and let's be honest - putting a timeline to it and failing to hit that target is FAR more unwelcome than being deliberately vague at the outset.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoDoidge
Not surprised at the announcement today but equally not happy. Not at the FM, just the situation. She's called it right.
During a world wide pandemic I think looking that far ahead telling folk these things will go is dangerousQuote:
Originally Posted by DiscoDoidge
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It's what I'll be doing. The distancing thing is the only one I'd have an issue with but extra hand hygiene and possibly facemasks will become more normal. I'd even hazard a guess that track and trace info will be with us this time in a year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
Im sure i read a while back that distancing would end by october this year. Or did i just imagine that?
We were also told in March that we would stay at home for 2 weeks to flatten the curve...😉Quote:
Originally Posted by we are hibs
What do you want her to say?Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoDoidge
Government are guilty of setting overly ambitious timelines and having to then let people down by extending dates. They can't make time guarantees because they just don't know.
I don't know who would be qualified to make such a prediction and what information they would need to be in possession of to do so, unless it was a bit like football pundits saying who they think will win the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by we are hibs
It won't if cases go through the roof again. As I posted this am Israel has given the first vaccine to nearly all over 60's now. Cases are at a record high, as are admissions. They reckon normality won't come back until 60%+ have had their second dose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
So I see things slowly improving but it will be a gradual slow process with only slow easing of restrictions and opening of bars and restaurants as the year goes on. Can't see masks being got rid of for a year or so.