Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Wee Bully]

Tomas Masaryk dismantled the Habsburg Empire and ran central Europe's only surviving interwar democracy as a professor of philosophy, so it would be worth a shot. Richard Finlay as President for Life of an independent Scotland would get my vote every day of the week.
But by all means continue reifying your beloved lawyer/career politician ruling class like the gormless simp that you are. 

The people you mention probably have some talent.

I see you didn’t put yourself forward, but that’s probably for the best. I can’t imagine you have ever done a days work in your life, nor had any type of responsibility.

[Todd_is_God]

11 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:

27 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

I find it slightly disappointing that the SG will be lauded for "hitting its (revised) target" of 560k by the end of the month when it's crystal clear that, with better planning, they could have done much, much more.
I'm going to assume they will continue at the current rate of ~26.5k per day until Sunday, which will leave them roughly 540k (or 38.5k per day) to do in 14 days to meet their target for groups 1-4 by mid February.

EIC and P&J mass centres due to open tomorrow I think she said, so would hope they'd be able to add a good few thousand per day on top of the high level mark of 26 so it may not be as unreachable as it looks.

I don't doubt it's reachable, but we should have achieved more by now that's all i'm saying.

[ICTChris]

Johnson and Johnson vaccine has an efficacy rate of 66%.

[MP_MFC]

I don't doubt it's reachable, but we should have achieved more by now that's all i'm saying.

Agreed.

[MP_MFC]

Johnson and Johnson vaccine has an efficacy rate of 66%.

Not great, but good enough as a single shot for the wider public once the priority groups have been given the higher efficacy double shot efforts.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/29/health/johnson-coronavirus-vaccine-results/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

More info there.

[dirty dingus]

4 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

Johnson and Johnson vaccine has an efficacy rate of 66%.

Will we all just be popping down to the vaccine centres every couple o weeks  for different jags till we get a combined 175% efficient from a mixture of the different ones.

[Sergeant Wilson]

5 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

Johnson and Johnson vaccine has an efficacy rate of 66%.

Do you inject it or rub it in?

Edited January 29, 2021 by Sergeant Wilson

[Steven W]

1 minute ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Do you inject it or rub it in?

Its mixed in with the weans' shampoo

[madwullie]

Article on the J&J vaccine. Not sure if this has been posted, not kept up. The single dose fucker that doesn't need stored at ridiculous temperatures 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/29/covid-vaccine-johnson-and-johnson/

Edit: ah literally the post above mine  

Edited January 29, 2021 by madwullie

[Steven W]

4 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:

Not great, but good enough as a single shot for the wider public once the priority groups have been given the higher efficacy double shot efforts.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/29/health/johnson-coronavirus-vaccine-results/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

More info there.

Yeah, probably best aimed at the under 50 group

[vikingTON]

16 minutes ago, Wee Bully said:

The people you mention probably have some talent.

As opposed to clowns like Freeman, who do not. Perhaps Kate Forbes can go back and finally upgrade her MSc in Diaspora and Migration History to reach the 'properly qualified historian' status needed to best run the country then.

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I see you didn’t put yourself forward, but that’s probably for the best. I can’t imagine you have ever done a days work in your life, nor had any type of responsibility.

You imagine wrongly as usual. Though safe to say that I wouldn't waste my time and energy patronising the views of confirmed morons like yourself through the democratic process. 

Edited January 29, 2021 by vikingTON

[Ron Aldo]

66% is still decent. As a comparison, I came across this showing the effectiveness of the flu vaccine over the last few years.

[MP_MFC]

Yeah, probably best aimed at the under 50 group

Definitely.

When I say not great 66-85% is still fucking good especially if it prevents severe disease which it does at the higher end, if they can get the supply there and its on shot they can really motor ahead with the rollout but I'm not sure when we would be looking at delivery considering it was about 4 months from moderna approval to delivery.

[Jacksgranda]

55 minutes ago, Michael W said:

Drakeford is an absolute divot. 

March in England now, which is probably right. Hopefully Wales doesn't cause a backlash and a famous Boris u-turn. 

Supposed to be March here, too. Although 2 of the grandchildren are in primary school 2 days a week, so not sure what the sp is.

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

14 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

Johnson and Johnson vaccine has an efficacy rate of 66%.

 

10 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:

Not great, but good enough as a single shot for the wider public once the priority groups have been given the higher efficacy double shot efforts.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/29/health/johnson-coronavirus-vaccine-results/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

More info there.

Some of the data apparently points to a stronger immune response as time goes by. Which for a single vaccine is very positive. Get it fired into every fucker.

[superbigal]

Scathing report on healthcare workers regarding Care Homes in the 1st wave in Belgium

The coordinating physicians of the homes were faced with the decision by many visiting doctors to stay away, according to Sandra De Breucker, head of the geriatrics department of the Erasmus hospital in Brussels.

“I won’t mince my words: I have had coordinating physicians weeping to me when they could no longer bear the burden of care because their colleagues had decided not to come and help them for fear of Covid,” she said.

“That’s a human response, but sometimes it’s simply a matter of dereliction of duty.”

The result, according to Guy Lebeer: “Decisions were taken when there was no longer any medical expertise on site.”

Too many sick residents were unable to access the hospital care they needed. Residents were held prisoner by structures lacking crucial resources: material, staff, in particular adequately trained staff, a global infection plan or a testing policy

[Dunning1874]

2 hours ago, virginton said:

If only their CEOs could develop a cure for having their head lopped off then.

This, but pharmaceutical CEOs instead of landlords.

[Steven W]

3 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

 

Some of the data apparently points to a stronger immune response as time goes by. Which for a single vaccine is very positive. Get it fired into every fucker.

So long as its not Boris Johnson & Stanley Johnson

[NotThePars]

38 minutes ago, virginton said:

Tomas Masaryk dismantled the Habsburg Empire and ran central Europe's only surviving interwar democracy as a professor of philosophy, so it would be worth a shot. Richard Finlay as President for Life of an independent Scotland would get my vote every day of the week.

But by all means continue reifying your beloved lawyer/career politician ruling class like the gormless simp that you are. 

That's why it's a philosopher-king and not a lawyer-king BITCH

[harlowspider]

I would be interested to know if anyone else has received a letter from their GP surgery similar to the one I just got.

I’ve been receiving letters and texts since last March advising me that I’m clinically vulnerable and should shield.

Today’s letter informs me that I am no longer considered to be clinically vulnerable and therefore no longer need to shield.

My underlying conditions have not changed.

This effectively moves me down from group 4 to group 7, so I won’t be getting the jab within the next 2 weeks as I had expected.

To me it just looks like they are reclassifying people so they can achieve the mid Feb target. Obviously they can’t change your age, so they just redefine clinically vulnerable.