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Max B Gold wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:57 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:46 pm

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:31 pm

This is correct but relax. We are all in it together.

Except for Boris's dad who jumped the queue for vaccination because he has a house viewing in La Rochelle on Sunday where he has applied for citizenship.

Nice place - you can go on a boat ride to Fort Boyard and the Moules et Frites are magnifique.

Only the bourgeois live in La Rochelle. Perpinyà is where it's really at.

Sí camarada. Un dia Catalunya serà gratuïta

Dunners wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:37 am I go for a long walk once a day, usually around noon. The streets around here are as busy as they were before Christmas. Last March it was like a ghost town, but this time you'd be hard pressed to notice much difference from Tier 3. People are not taking this seriously and, if infections and hospitalisation continues to increase, it only makes more drastic intervention likely.

Dunners wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:37 am I go for a long walk once a day, usually around noon. The streets around here are as busy as they were before Christmas. Last March it was like a ghost town, but this time you'd be hard pressed to notice much difference from Tier 3. People are not taking this seriously and, if infections and hospitalisation continues to increase, it only makes more drastic intervention likely.

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 12:50 pm Highest deaths for this wave so far is 4th Jan - 703

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:13 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:37 am I go for a long walk once a day, usually around noon. The streets around here are as busy as they were before Christmas. Last March it was like a ghost town, but this time you'd be hard pressed to notice much difference from Tier 3. People are not taking this seriously and, if infections and hospitalisation continues to increase, it only makes more drastic intervention likely.

To be fair to the behavioural psychologists who everyone shat on in the first wave, they said this would happen - compliance was only going to last so long. Think government communication and decision making has eroded it massively, but people throwing in the towel is a feature of all pandemics. Covid is in this weird middle ground where it's deadly, but to a small enough subsection of society that is generally quite hidden from society that people don't feel the fear.

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:39 pm What's concerning is the news yesterday that pfizer said the South African strain is not covered by their vaccine. So you can bet your bottom dollar that strain will head our way.

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:39 pm What's concerning is the news yesterday that pfizer said the South African strain is not covered by their vaccine. So you can bet your bottom dollar that strain will head our way.

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:25 pm

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:39 pm What's concerning is the news yesterday that pfizer said the South African strain is not covered by their vaccine. So you can bet your bottom dollar that strain will head our way.

No they didn't. A quick Google says they have found the opposite but need to do more testing.

And I thought you were anti Vax anyway. Stop posting such a relentless stream of bollox.

faldO wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:25 pm

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:39 pm What's concerning is the news yesterday that pfizer said the South African strain is not covered by their vaccine. So you can bet your bottom dollar that strain will head our way.

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I thought they said the opposite, at least from some preliminary research pending further investigation and peer review?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pfize ... 1610108542

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:13 pm

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:25 pm

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:39 pm What's concerning is the news yesterday that pfizer said the South African strain is not covered by their vaccine. So you can bet your bottom dollar that strain will head our way.

No they didn't. A quick Google says they have found the opposite but need to do more testing.

And I thought you were anti Vax anyway. Stop posting such a relentless stream of bollox.

So why did grant shapps say this then?

Amid international fears about the South African strain, thought to be at least 60 per cent more infectious than regular Covid, the UK has made it compulsory for travellers to test negative when they arrive in the country.

Mr Shapps told Sky News: 'This is an extra check and we're doing this now because there are these variants that we're very keen to keep out of the country, like the South African variant, for example.

'There are the concerns about the South African one in particular about how effective the vaccine would be against it so we simply cannot take chances. So today because of that variant it has become much more urgent.'

Now I heard him say that so how am I talking bollox? Numpty.

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:39 pm What's concerning is the news yesterday that pfizer said the South African strain is not covered by their vaccine. So you can bet your bottom dollar that strain will head our way.

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:28 pm Maybe your right bonehead and I wouldn't argue against your point, but he said it and he is in government so you'd hope they speak with a bit of knowledge and authority.

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:33 pm

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:39 pm What's concerning is the news yesterday that pfizer said the South African strain is not covered by their vaccine. So you can bet your bottom dollar that strain will head our way.

I don't believe you're this thick and so assume you're on a wind up. Unless Grant Schapps other alter ego is actually the entire corporate entity of Pfizer and when he says 'we don't know if it covers against this new variant', he means 'we now know it's not covered by my vaccine'.

Stop posting bollox.

BoniO wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:35 pm

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:33 pm

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:39 pm What's concerning is the news yesterday that pfizer said the South African strain is not covered by their vaccine. So you can bet your bottom dollar that strain will head our way.

I don't believe you're this thick and so assume you're on a wind up. Unless Grant Schapps other alter ego is actually the entire corporate entity of Pfizer and when he says 'we don't know if it covers against this new variant', he means 'we now know it's not covered by my vaccine'.

Stop posting bollox.

Mostly agree, but I think he may well be this thick.

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:46 pm

BoniO wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:35 pm

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:33 pm

I don't believe you're this thick and so assume you're on a wind up. Unless Grant Schapps other alter ego is actually the entire corporate entity of Pfizer and when he says 'we don't know if it covers against this new variant', he means 'we now know it's not covered by my vaccine'.

Stop posting bollox.

Mostly agree, but I think he may well be this thick.

Yep I must be thick, cos the brains inside my skull allowed me to retire mid 40's yep you must be right.

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:46 pm

BoniO wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:35 pm

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:33 pm

I don't believe you're this thick and so assume you're on a wind up. Unless Grant Schapps other alter ego is actually the entire corporate entity of Pfizer and when he says 'we don't know if it covers against this new variant', he means 'we now know it's not covered by my vaccine'.

Stop posting bollox.

Mostly agree, but I think he may well be this thick.

Yep I must be thick, cos the brains inside my skull allowed me to retire mid 40's yep you must be right.

Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:49 pm

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:46 pm

BoniO wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:35 pm

Mostly agree, but I think he may well be this thick.

Yep I must be thick, cos the brains inside my skull allowed me to retire mid 40's yep you must be right.

Were you and tuffers buddies during your Mensa days?

BoniO wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:58 pm

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:46 pm

BoniO wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:35 pm

Mostly agree, but I think he may well be this thick.

Yep I must be thick, cos the brains inside my skull allowed me to retire mid 40's yep you must be right.

The ability to make money isn't linked in any way to intelligence, and the fact I need to explain that kind of proves the point.

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 7:01 pm

BoniO wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:58 pm

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:46 pm

Yep I must be thick, cos the brains inside my skull allowed me to retire mid 40's yep you must be right.

The ability to make money isn't linked in any way to intelligence, and the fact I need to explain that kind of proves the point.

Err id day it is as how can you forfil a role if your not clever enough?

For example i fancy being a molecular scientist, in fact ill go and get a job doing that on Monday. Oh hang on, actually I am probably not clever enough to do that. So yes intelligence is linked to ability to do a job.