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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
(Gerald Weinberg)
Thenks Max for all you and your colleagues are doing, please know how much it is appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Max_Shah
I heard from a friend who works at the RIE this week, talking about his experience of working there has felt in these times and although we have been in touch relatively recently during the pandemic I found his most recent account stark and shocking. His words, like yours in their rawness, spell out clearly the greatly traumatic times that medical staff are enduring in current times. I've not been able to think about much else since reading them.
Those words will always be of more interest to me than debating why vaccinations aren't being rolled out quicker and the like, subtexts and all.
Please look after yourself as best you possibly can and THANK YOU so much.
I'm praying with you.
17% of all the private sector workforce are on Furlough. A ticking timebomb that’s going to explode into unemployment that the UK has never seen before.
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Originally Posted by PaulSmith
It's going to take a long time to recover economically.
If only there was a way to make use of the Billions of extra earnings by the likes of Amazon, and others, in the last year.... you know, like proper taxes on their income.
I know we're going to be on around 25,000 vaccinations a day until Monday, but does anyone know what the daily figure is likely to be from then?
I've heard 400,000* a day mentioned previously, does that start then?
EDIT - Should be 400,000 a week.
Not necessarily if tourism / hospitality in particular reopen before furlough ends.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulSmith
https://www.irishpost.com/news/irish...utm_medium=web
Could be a big deal.
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400,000 a week is it not? We'd have the entire adult population done in about 10 days otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikey
Don't want to downplay the economic impact of this but in terms of employment you'd have to be hopeful that a large chunk of that are in hospitality/tourism/entertainment/non-essential shops which hopefully aren't going to not return.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck Rhoades
Reopening is one thing but the demand wont be there, especially for businesses that rely on international tourism which will be essentially non existent in 2021.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck Rhoades
August and the festival is also huge for a lot of businesses, up until June I worked for a hospitality business and they took more in the month of August than the entire first 3 months of the year and a huge proportion of that is international tourists visiting for the festival. Even if the festival goes ahead which is unlikely I fear it will be tiny in comparison to normal for visitor numbers.
I don't think people realise the economic ****storm we are about to hit.
Sorry, yes, 400,000 a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
Almost a year of changed behaviours, high street shops closed by the hundreds, a migration to online, talk of quarantine for a week if you land ashore the UK, vaccination passports, pubs at reduced capacities, nightclubs and concerts not opening until the very last restriction.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
Sounds like a WEF dream to reset the economy.
The Tories have made a horse's arse of the pandemic so far, for many reasons, but mainly because they are ideologically opposed to the types of measures that have been necessary to tackle the pandemic throughout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
They'll likely still be around when the recovery starts and that will be another colossal test for them - whether or not they manage to put measures in place to stimulate an economy.
There is going to be a shock somewhere down the road and there is an awful lot of money that is going to have to be paid back somehow, but I don't buy that crippling pain is inevitable somewhere in the near future. It can be avoided.
Whether it will or not is a totally different story.
= Rip roaring pent up demand like you've never seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulSmith
Good for an economy when we do get back to something bordering on normal.
If your unemployed you've not many more demands than getting byQuote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/c...s-b908310.html
Sad set of circumstances and any thoughts of hell mend you disappeared while reading the tributes from family and friends coming to terms with their loss.
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But that surge in demand will create other opportunities.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
Same with the fact that foreign holidays and tourists may be missing...there will be a massive spike in staycations.
It’s impossible to tell if the ‘pent up demand’ will outbalance the inevitable impact that lockdowns will have had on so many businesses.
But all indicators last time lock down was lifted after the first wave was that people were falling over themselves to go out and spend as well as holiday at home.
https://www.cityam.com/novavax-covid...edium=referral
Woohoo brilliant should be approved next month and 60 million produced in teesside this year
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https://news.stv.tv/highlands-island...s-at-care-home
This will be interesting how it develops over the coming few days/weeks.
Hopefully the story will be a thing of the past in 3 weeksQuote:
Originally Posted by PaulSmith
Do we know if this is a one or two dose vaccine?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
I wonder how long ago they were vaccinated? It just says "earlier this month".Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulSmith
Two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikey
Cheers.
Yeah it’s hardly clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikey
There is also a good chance that the vaccine will still prevent serous illness / deaths even though they have been infected.
Good bit of background on this vaccine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
Another different approach and this one is stable for weeks at normal fridge temperatures.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...avirus-vaccine
The downside is that there is not a ready supply until June at the earliest but none then less the more vaccines that are available and approved the better it is for all.
You get the impression we're going to need re-vaccinating every 6-12 months or whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
With a reported sixty mlllion of this version on order it's good to know that this and the Livingston Vaccine :wink: are going to significantly add to reserves.
Daily update - no data updated for Scotland today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
First dose;
UK - 7,447,199 (14.2% of adult population)
England - 6,473,752 (14.7% of adult population)
Wales - 336,071 (13.4% of adult population)
Northern Ireland - 175,284 (12.5% of adult population)
Scotland - 462,092 (10.3% of adult population)
Second dose;
UK - 476,298 (0.9% of adult population)
Northern Ireland - 23,927 (1.7% of adult population)
England - 445,101 (1% of adult population)
Scotland - 6,596 (0.1% of adult population)
Wales - 674 (0.03% of adult population)
Breakdown of yesterday's cases by council area;
Glasgow - 184
North Lanarkshire - 143
South Lanarkshire - 90
Edinburgh - 66
Fife - 56
West Lothian - 51
Renfrewshire - 48
Falkirk - 47
Aberdeen - 40
East Renfrewshire - 36
West Dunbartonshire - 35
Highland - 34
East Dunbartonshire - 34
East Ayrshire - 29
Dumfries and Galloway - 29
Aberdeenshire - 28
Perth and Kinross - 27
Moray - 26
Dundee - 25
North Ayrshire - 24
Stirling - 21
Clackmannanshire - 21
Midlothian - 17
South Ayrshire - 15
East Lothian - 15
Inverclyde - 14
Angus - 12
Scottish Borders - 11
Argyll and Bute - 11
Na h-Eileanan Siar - 9
Orkney - 1