Announcement tonight. Lockdown.
Announcement tonight. Lockdown.
Scotland announcement or UK announcement?
UK.Originally Posted by niko_cee
Alert level has also been pushed up to 4.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59629916
He is expected to provide an update on the booster programme. The BBC has been told there will not be any more new rules announced.
He has probably seen data pointing towards the booster killing this (definitely looks that way based on the age splits I've seen) so should open up boosters to all 18+ to get some more cross-age group immunity.
8pm on a Sunday? Leave it out.
Look how excited you are. 🤤Announcement tonight. Lockdown.
Not as excited as I am to come down with symptoms.
So ... they want every adult boostered by the end of this month? Optimistic.
Last edited by Shindig; 12-12-2021 at 08:19 PM.
Going with the aqua themed scare mongering again.
That was 10% about urging people to get boosted and 90% about being seen to be taking this seriously whilst also avoiding having to take questions about the parties last year.
If they had a brain they would just get the likes of Kate Garraway to promote the vaccine. Nobody that isn't jabbed is going to do so because Boris Johnson asked them nicely after Strictly.
That wouldn't work either, no one at this stage is going to get a vaccine who doesn't want one and the danger they're also facing now due to the increasingly chronic mishandling of this (from both a general Boris and a science messaging perspective) is that the booster uptake is going to be dogshit compared to the original vaccination one. If we genuinely do all need a booster to protect us, we're fucked.
I bet his heart's fucked.
Another win for vaccine passports there.
And it won’t harm him at all.
Lots of screenshots surfacing of social media DMs (not PMs) along the lines of "we've got the same name, can you send me your proof of vaccine please?"
I'm a twit
Surely in this day and age kids can change the name easy enough.
Kids like me and you could but spackers with a Google Pixel seemingly cannot
I'm a twit
Meetings with customers etc starting to get cancelled now. Pure joke.
Wish mine would.
I agree if it was anything but sales.
Would have been a waste of time anyway then regardless.
I think what's happening is that even people who aren't that bothered about catching COVID are bothered (or their wives are) about missing out on the Christmas family tour over Christmas Day and Boxing Day due to having to isolate.
To be fair we had Norovirus over Christmas 2018 and Flu (maybe FauxVid) over Christmas 2019. I wouldn't be putting myself AT RISK by exposing myself to some dodgy Scotch WiFi Salesman right now.
You don't have to expose yourself, unless you're both into that sort of thing I suppose.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to flashers? They were all the rage when we were growing up, but you never hear of them anymore.
There was an article on the Beeb over the weekend suggesting theyve moved online now.
There was a prolific flasher round my way a few years ago. Hid on the riverbank and whipped it out for dog walkers. Finally got hauled in after about a year.
Fuck sake Walley became Fifa, Man Hunt became COD and now even sex crimes are committed via DM.
and with that we circle back neatly onto why Internet dealers like Magic are to be avoided.
100%, which is presumably why they are sacking off the isolation rule for contacts.
Someone has died from Omicron apparently.
No they've died WITH it. No explanation that it was probably some fat old dud at deaths fucking door anyway.
Thanks for providing a captioned version of that meme. Wasn’t sure what it was getting at.
I'm a twit
Another full-on proper lockdown, done with harsher enforcement, would be great. Weed out the mentally weak and make the traffic class - win win.
He and presumably Whitty and Valance are now actually asking people to set aside the science.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59639007
Outstanding from all concerned."So I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus, I think that's something we need to set on one side and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population."
The weird thing is, based on my observations to date, I'm not sure the frozen dinners brigade / Facebook mums are going with him this time, at least not en masse like they did with previous waves.
Caution for caution's sake yet again.
What observations have you seen? My Sister is basically in the Mrs 45 Mum's circle (ironically probably spreading COVID at their coffee mornings) and others within it are still TERRIFIED (one keeps trying to convince her that she really should get her kids vaxxed, despite them both recently having had COVID), leading me to believe we might need another round or two of bullshit to start to see them turn.
Outside of those people, I'd be surprised if this isn't doing huge damage to faith in science and vaccines. Will be very interesting to see the numbers on the boosters vs. the latter.
Essentially we're watching the Boy Who Cried Wolf play out on a national and global scale.
Derp.
Desperate for it to be a young, healthy person. Sad.
It's just been announced it's a South African that died in a car crash.
Truly terrifying.
Tragic is on the way down to point and laugh at the wreckage.
Seriously.
No not seriously you fucking sperg.
Seriously.
He'll still tell people that's what happened though.
You fucks have crashed websites in your scramble for boosters and LFTs, I don't think we're short of reasons to lol.
already tweeted it under my account 'the secret tther'
To be fair on the LFT's, the English public has proven time and time again that if something is in any danger whatsoever of going into short supply they'll have it, whether they need it or not.
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