Steven W

Correct If that's the only long lasting restriction from all this, then that's something I'm sure we all could cope with

I can be arsed with talk of an acceptable risk which is where this has been heading from day one. But no, I can't be arsed with restrictions next winter

Daily updates on vaccinations in England from a week today. Your move Nicola

I'd guess they'll definitely be shut until the February long weekend (middle of the month)

Feels like it's gearing up for March 23rd 2021 to work out as an important (positive) date in all this

That being the case (and if I've got my numbers right - quite possibly not), so we're saying 900k come the end of this month. And 2m come May. So won't that represent a downward shift in pace?

900,000 vaccinations by the end of the month is a good thing but will take the drive and some 'blue sky thinking' to see it's carried out. The whole nation will be watching to see it is. 900,000 must represent roughly a sixth of the population? Surely we can we expect to see this make a dent in the numbers? Also teachers being prioritised is good news. Might finally put an end to everyone on this thread getting all fractious at the mere mention of 'schools'.

I know NS didn't specifically mention football, but she did say 'stay at home'. I tend to think this therefore passes the onus onto the SFA / JRG. I wouldn't think football going ahead regardless is necessarily a shoe in. They'll also need to act fast (by their standards) as two Scottish Cup games due on Wednesday.

I was wondering the same so done a wee Google search. More bad news! And you can be sure that strain will be here by now too. (Although didn't Pfizer say that they could tweak their vaccine in about six weeks if need be?)

Some people are so selfish. (Although I thought the virus had a 10 day incubation period?)

I think you'll find they're needing to vaccinate a few more people for this than the flu.

Oh FFS. Like I say, nothing gets you lot going more than Brewdog A plan on who, where and how should have been in place long before the vaccine was approved. Seemingly being in negotiations with an outfit who made their offer after the vaccine was approved is indicative of poor forward planning (in my opinion)

I know nothing gets P&B going like the mere mention of 'Brewdog', and whilst it's not exactly a done deal, it's interesting to note that they say they're now in talks with SG (and presumably UKG?) about using their pubs as vaccination centres. Given the offer from Brewdog was made not even a week ago, it does point to a lack of preparedness. These things should have been organised months ago.

Beggars belief on so many fronts

That batch of vaccines unquestionably should have begun to be administered today. But I understand that they don't grow on trees (all the more reason to have a cohesive plan in place that doesn't result in vaccines sitting in fridges for 24 hours)

I don't think anyone thinks that. But it does need to be ensured that absolutely everything in our capacity is done to ensure every possible vaccination takes place as early as it could.

Maybe I'm picking you up wrong, but we should be going flat out regardless. If each health board only gets say 3,000 vaccines then they should be powering through that in a day or two. Only getting 45,000 isn't a reason to take things easy. Anyway, my point remains that I find it galling that there's all these vaccines sitting in fridges in hospitals today rather than folks' arms. (All the while SG gearing up to dish yet more restrictions to life)

Given that vaccines were delivered to hospitals yesterday, yet the square root of f**k all are being administered today is the first warning sign of how this will pan out.

For someone who's supposedly 'scunnered' with all this, NS tone and use of language is remarkably different when it's bad news versus good news. A 5 post thread this morning on Twitter about impending restrictions preceded a re-tweet of a lengthy study on this new variant. Versus a solitary tweet about the AZ vaccine approval an hour and a half after the news broke. To me it sends out all the wrong signals. Granted things are a little bleak just now, but we really need to be hearing about vaccine progress as well as the all negative stuff. A good example being we get daily updates on deaths, hospitalisations, infections etc. But vaccination numbers are weekly.

Sturgeon also re-tweeting some stuff about this new variant. I've not any problem with furthering restrictions, but it needs to go in tandem with accelerating the vaccination programme. Quite fitting that on the day we begin the AZ vaccine scheme, SG will dishing out more restrictions on life.

Batches of Oxford vaccine have begun to arrive at hospitals according to Sky News. Begs the question why they're not starting the process tomorrow (or tonight even)?

Few post match thoughts of mine; We looked a lot better for the introduction of Powers. Or perhaps more accurately taking Pawlett out the side. Good point for United, but felt with a bit more desire we could even have sneaked the win. Finding myself getting infuriated at how slow we do things though. We do NOTHING quickly. The amount of opportunities we had to take a quick free kick and catch Aberdeen out. But no, every time we take nigh on a minute to take the kick and allow the opposition to get themselves wet up. Pisses me off. Appere's first appearance for a while and thought he acquitted himself well. Same goes for Neilson

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Whilst you're right that the effectiveness of the vaccine should be monitored, the vaccine has been approved for use in the UK. On the strength of that, at this particular juncture, it would seem perfectly reasonable to make some kind of plan / prediction for the months ahead. In every industry plans, timescales, deadlines, programmes etc are worked to - granted there's sometimes hiccups along the way. But I don't see why this should be any different really.

Correct. Think I read that Small Pox is the only disease that's ever been eradicated