ahemps Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 13 minutes ago, Elixir said: Is she back to pretending immunity through natural infection and vaccination won't exist and help reduce transmission to a steady state from now on? What is this fucking nonsense rhetoric from her and her advisers that we'll be in a never-ending pandemic? Surely there is some amount of herd immunity by now??? We are testing far more now so identifying more cases but how many people have had it that weren't a statistic. At the start if you showed symptoms you weren't to get tested but to isolate. A friend of mine who's wife tested positive didn't get tested but felt he had it as he had a few of the symptoms and felt terrible for a couple of days. Do people who have had it have some level of resistance? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Elixir said: Are we forgetting that immunity from natural infection exists? The EU vaccine rollout is slow right now, but it will pick up and by the end of summer, when transmission and deaths will be minimal anyway, so by the onset of autumn there will easily be 60-70%+ immunity in the northern hemisphere. That will stop 'worst pandemic in a century' pressures on health care systems. This is correct but broadly Europe is in lockdown similar to us so immunity from natural infection is not exactly ripping through the population, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superbigal Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Stormont the 1st home nation to break ranks. Lockdown extended till April at least. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Just now, Left Back said: This is correct but broadly Europe is in lockdown similar to us so immunity from natural infection is not exactly ripping through the population, Countries who escaped the worst of the first wave, i.e. central and eastern Europe, got absolutely battered this winter. SAGE already estimate 1 in 3 in the UK have now had it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 8 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: 13 minutes ago, ayrmad said: Classier junkies that introduce themselves before emptying your pockets. I was in Ayr this morning. Along Main street over the bridge up the High Street to the station. With so few folk about the Junkies stand out more than usual. They must be Covid proof as there were a good few absolute Zombies about. It really is a shitehole around there and the locals add to that impression, why the f**k Whitletts Rd is rammed with Glaswegians every time the sun appears I'll never know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, superbigal said: Stormont the 1st home nation to break ranks. Lockdown extended till April at least. f**k sake. Sturgeon won't have us out until after them, then. Probably not till after the election. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, Elixir said: Another one who thinks immunity from natural infection won't play a part. Deary me. Problem is we don't know to what extent people have natural immunity just now a well educated guess and I don't think governments will be prepared to release on that basis. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Was there a reason why 19 were on the committee for this zero covid bollocks? Is some wanky nod to it being covid 19 so we therefore need to continue with the 19 theme 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 minute ago, 101 said: Problem is we don't know to what extent people have natural immunity just now a well educated guess and I don't think governments will be prepared to release on that basis. Well, SAGE certainly estimate it is around a third in the UK. Chuck in vaccination rates of 80%+, and higher in the vulnerable, and I think we can draw some quite clear conclusions from that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 4 minutes ago, Elixir said: f**k sake. Sturgeon won't have us out until after them, then. Probably not till after the election. If the benchmarks for exit are vaccinated population and hospital numbers, then it's unlikely much will change in terms of restrictions over the next 4 to 6 weeks anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Elixir said: Well, SAGE certainly estimate it is around a third in the UK. Chuck in vaccination rates of 80%+, and higher in the vulnerable, and I think we can draw some quite clear conclusions from that. Fingers crossed! And to ask a stupid question once you have been infected do we know how long that lasts? Because obviously the vaccine trains the immune system to do something to the virus itself, immunity from infection won't achieve that, right? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Taxpayer money well spent 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbionMan Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 9 minutes ago, Elixir said: f**k sake. Sturgeon won't have us out until after them, then. Probably not till after the election. For heavens sake just tell her to shelve the election, her current arguments indicate it will be a major risk in spreading of the disease. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Just now, AlbionMan said: For heavens sake just tell her to shelve the election, her current arguments indicate it will be a major risk in spreading of the disease. Not sure @Elixir has a hotline to the First Minister's office tbh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 This chap not quite getting the hotel quarantine !Traveller staying in quarantine hotel complains it is 'worst experience of my life' Anthony Pium, who returned from Brazil yesterday, claimed he is being "held against his will" .1 day in...aye just feel free to check out whenever you want Tony ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 7 minutes ago, Snafu said: For a comparison I've not heard anything about whether those people who caught the SARS-COV-1 virus still have an immune system memory of this virus? From my own back of a fag packet knowledge the immune system doesn't forget in a hurry. Those experts should not underestimate the strength of the human immune system. You would hope that those who caught it do like you say my basic knowledge is that the immune system is amazingly resilient and even if it's reduced the risk of death after catching it a second time it would still be worth noting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Billy Jean King said: This chap not quite getting the hotel quarantine ! Traveller staying in quarantine hotel complains it is 'worst experience of my life' Anthony Pium, who returned from Brazil yesterday, claimed he is being "held against his will" . 1 day in...aye just feel free to check out whenever you want Tony ! Did you say the boy who was videoing the hotel room as if it was anything other than a normal hotel room. It was brilliant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerthewitness Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 14 minutes ago, 101 said: Taxpayer money well spent "Trainspotting? It's all in Scotch, innit." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distant Doonhamer Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 The pandemic will essentially be over in the northern hemisphere come August. There is no justification of social distancing restrictions being in law at that point.What you mean it wasn’t over last August? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 36 minutes ago, renton said: Not sure @Elixir has a hotline to the First Minister's office tbh firstminister@gov.scot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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