Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[RH33]

1 hour ago, Caledonian1 said:

He is referring to England (where golf courses remain closed)  Coincidentally my course has opened today for the first time since this lockdown started (26th December) but that has been  entirely down to ice and snow.  Currently two balls only but sure it will expand to 3 or 4balls soon enough (not that I play in the winter anyway but suely in time for the season )

Ah ok, wondered if my dad has been breaking the rules going out on his own!

[Paco]

Quite astonishing if that study is right that the AZ vaccine has a much bigger impact than the Pfizer if I'm reading it right. Wonder if that is to do with the volume of AZ vs Pfizer used or if it is because we're not using the Pfizer recommended dosing.

Most jabs up until last Sunday were still Pfizer, but only a 55%-45% split so not a great deal in it.

The dosing may be something to do with it. It may also simply be a time thing, the first month or so of vaccination was exclusively Pfizer so perhaps during the worst of the second peak we saw a few more vaccinated people hospitalised than we will moving forward, at least until next winter.

Supremely good news. We are now seeing very strong signs that the vaccines are a) very effective at stopping transmission and b) extremely effective at stopping hospitalisation.

These are pandemic-ending numbers.

[Detournement]

The strictest winter lockdown in the developed world. The biggest vaccine roll out. 

Yet apparently you still can't get a haircut or a work out until May. 

Edited February 22, 2021 by Detournement

[PWL]

26 minutes ago, Scosha said:

Jason will be raging at this news. He’ll soon be an irrelevance, along with that clown Devi. 

Or.........

[Wee Bully]

2 for me please pal. 2 all over. Pleased to see my local receive such an accolade also, well deserved.
Shortly thereafter though, it will be a train to Glasgow to catch up with my usual midweek drinking buddies who are all huge T fans also.

If you are going for a 2 all over (also my chosen “style”), could I recommend just getting a set of clippers. I bought some for less than £30 last April, and I can’t see me darkening the door of a barbers again.

[Detournement]

27 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:

Quite astonishing if that study is right that the AZ vaccine has a much bigger impact than the Pfizer if I'm reading it right. Wonder if that is to do with the volume of AZ vs Pfizer used or if it is because we're not using the Pfizer recommended dosing.

It looks like the Oxford academic team were more honest about their vaccine than the Big Pharma Yanks. 

 

[Marshmallo]

35 minutes ago, 101 said:

Now the good news is rolling, what the first thing you will be doing post LOCKDOWN?

Straight to the airport and getting the first available flight?

Straight to the station hotel in Larbet for P&Bs official best pint of T?

Straight round your neighbours for your hole?

I'm off round my pals house to get steaming I expect to be there for a few days.

Go and visit my grandparents. Aside from seeing them on Christmas day I had a window of about 8 weeks where I could see them in the last 12 months.

[vikingTON]

5 minutes ago, Paco said:

Supremely good news. We are now seeing very strong signs that the vaccines are a) very effective at stopping transmission and b) extremely effective at stopping hospitalisation.

These are pandemic-ending numbers.

 

Looking forward to their studies about the religious affiliation of the Pope and where bears really defaecate in the woods to clear up those last remaining mysteries while we're at it!

Months of pointless, wall to wall fear-mongering could have been avoided by simply applying our long established experience of how vaccines work, rather than pretending that Covid is some special case where the rules don't apply.

[ahemps]

6 minutes ago, Detournement said:

The strictest winter lockdown in the developed world. The biggest vaccine roll out. 

Yet apparently you still can't get a haircut or a work out until May. 

Tightest restrictions yet one of the highest rates, does that mean lockdowns work or not?????

[Sherrif John Bunnell]

Two world wars, one world cup and one vaccine. Dull yin for Herr's Pfizer and Biontech. [emoji636] [emoji636] [emoji636]

[Todd_is_God]

53 minutes ago, Wee Bully said:

I’m sure she will - it’s Public Health Scotland, and she has already alluded to it (or something very similar) in her daily briefings.

The numbers are staggering - and fantastic. 4 week time lag should mean that new hospitalisations are pretty much eliminated - very low - by the end of March as that will be more than 4 weeks after all the over 70’s got their first jab.

If NS has seen (or at least knew about) these results 4/5 days ago then it makes her utterly negative tone look even worse.

If the vaccine is producing those kind of reductions 4 weeks after first dose in the most vulnerable people, what's it going to do in those who were unlikely to get seriously ill in the first place?

[The Moonster]

41 minutes ago, 101 said:

Now the good news is rolling, what the first thing you will be doing post LOCKDOWN?

Aside from seeing family I'll be organising a proper send off for my best mate who died in October last year. He was far too young to go anyway but 20 of his family and friends stood for 15 minute at the graveside is no way to pay your respects. We'll be having a f**k off party that he'd have loved himself. 

[G51]

Seriously though, imagine being Emmanuel Macron, leading the developed worlds most anti-vax country and making the decision to absolutely slate the Oxford/AZ vaccine, only for it to turn out to be extremely effective actually.

Macron and Merkel have made such an enormous balls of this.

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

45 minutes ago, 101 said:

Now the good news is rolling, what the first thing you will be doing post LOCKDOWN?

Straight to the airport and getting the first available flight?

Straight to the station hotel in Larbet for P&Bs official best pint of T?

Straight round your neighbours for your hole?

I'm off round my pals house to get steaming I expect to be there for a few days.

My daughter lives in a different part of the world and we haven't see her in 13 months. 

I'll be straight there. 

Oh, and I'll get the painter and decorator back in to finish the half done job on my house. 

Edited February 22, 2021 by Bob Mahelp

[Michael W]

The data and news on the vaccines in the last few days has really cheered me up, I must say. 

The politicians are a different matter, right enough, but hopefully they can be brought around. That we have a Scottish study demonstrating how effective the vaccines have been is even better - that's can't possibly be ignored at Holyrood or Westminster. And if they do try to ignore, there's something tangible to use to apply the pressure. 

The end of this might well be coming. I'll try and overlook Johnson's kiss of death tonight! 

[Steven W]

8 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

If NS has seen (or at least knew about) these results 4/5 days ago then it makes her utterly negative tone look even worse.

If the vaccine is producing those kind of reductions 4 weeks after first dose in the most vulnerable people, what's it going to do in those who were unlikely to get seriously ill in the first place?

She simply has to change her tone today and tomorrow.

[G51]

9 minutes ago, Bob Mahelp said:

My daughter lives in a different part of the world and we haven't see her in 13 months. 

I'll be straight there. 

Oh, and I'll get the painter and decorator back in to finish the half done job on my house. 

Same - I haven't seen my parents, brother or sister since Christmas 2019.

[No_Problemo]

Bets that our pubs don’t open until after the Euro’s...

There is no justification whatsoever for our release being harsher than England’s - heads gone incoming if it is. 

Edited February 22, 2021 by No_Problemo

[Detournement]

21 minutes ago, ahemps said:

Tightest restrictions yet one of the highest rates, does that mean lockdowns work or not?????

A real lockdown where everyone stays home other than for emergencies for a couple of weeks would work. Like China. 

The farce that we have endured for the past two months has been utterly pointless. 

[101]

52 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

See how the night takes us...

51 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

2 for me please pal. 2 all over. Pleased to see my local receive such an accolade also, well deserved.

Shortly thereafter though, it will be a train to Glasgow to catch up with my usual midweek drinking buddies who are all huge T fans also.

I think post lockdown I'll cycle there and get the train back to have a thirst worth of a fine pinT.

51 minutes ago, Gaz said:

The Station Hotel is probably my local. Pint of the finest Vitamin T please

Never seen a bad pinT from there.

15 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

Aside from seeing family I'll be organising a proper send off for my best mate who died in October last year. He was far too young to go anyway but 20 of his family and friends stood for 15 minute at the graveside is no way to pay your respects. We'll be having a f**k off party that he'd have loved himself. 

Sounds lovely, I think there will be a lot of folk celebrating the life of those who have passed as like you say the sanitised affair we have had to make do with is no send off at all.

14 minutes ago, Bob Mahelp said:

My daughter lives in a different part of the world and we haven't see her in 13 months. 

I'll be straight there. 

Oh, and I'll get the painter and decorator back in to finish the half done job on my house. 

Painters in when you are off is perfect, nicely done house with not having to put up with the smell, perfect. Knicker drawer will get a good going over as well.