Laura Cuntsberg in an ominously lit room taking tragedy stories by Zoom to celebrate the 100K mark. It's what the dead would have wished for.
Some disgusting fat bitch in her death bed on the news (she died yesterday) sayin "just wash your hands and wear your mask, thats all they have to do" in a despairing tone. Bitch I've lost 1 year of my life because you couldn't resist the call of the local takeaway, get the fuck outta here.
And she did, although I'll admit that was a fairly banging doom and gloom effort from the News at 10 mob, 'Huw' saying 100,000 deaths today, erm, well, and then a segment on the 100,000 Deaths Economy which I can only assume was some sort of sub-headline 'error'. Unless Amal Rajan was actually doing a bit on the finances and logistics (who are the winners here?) of that many people dying, which I missed.
Today was particularly egregious on the doom and gloom in the news. Flicking through the radio when driving home this evening, and Radio 1 was treating the listeners to 15 minutes of interviews with grieving families, almost as a celebration of reaching the 100k mark.
What fucking good is this doing? I know shedloads of people have died, I know there's a fucking deadly virus going around, I know all this because I'm stuck doing fuck all and have been for a year.
They have to fill the news with something, or else it would just be half an hour of David Mitchell saying "Remain Indoors".
Up since 3 with a high temp so off to get a test later on. I'm sure I can count on TTH's thoughts and prayers.
He is a teacher though.
Our lockdown inducing cluster seems to be largely attributable to 'education settings' so maybe all their 'front line' bleating was legit.
Good Luck mo.
What is the hierarchy of 'good' on that front though?
1 - minor/trivial viral ailment
2 - covid
3 - ????
4 - a short illness
He’s high school though. Those kids are old enough to social distance.
Now I’m not accusing him of anything, but
I'm a twit
Thanks all. Weirdly don’t feel as bad now, but this happened yesterday; felt rough, tired, achey etc, then perked up after dinner, only to end up sweating profusely and unable to stop my teeth chattering in the night.
And while I do work in secondary (which by the way, you’re kidding yourselves if you think those kids socially distance) my wife is a primary TA and some little cunt was giving her grief, pulling on her lanyard and chucking chairs at her the other day, so if I’ve got it I’m blaming said cunt.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nfection-areas
Playing into the hands of the sorts who get tested.
Sister is having her first shot of the vaccine on Friday.
I should be having one not long after too as I'm one of her registered carers.
Wifes nan still in hospital. Not ventilated yet but extremely fast heart rate and low blood pressure. Also refusing water. She will be on one soon I reckon.
Her Grandad still has no symptoms but is refusing all treatment for his other conditions out of pure confusion.
This shit doesn't have a happy ending.
Starmer wanting to get 'key professions' vaccinated first is interesting, as is the (logical) response that by doing so you would effectively be choosing to kill around 100 vulnerable people per day.
Think he might be onto a loser on this one.
Never trust a man that uses Fish hair wax.
Chunky fall in hospitalisations today. Touch wood, we should now have seen our deadliest day too (suspect it will end up being around 18 January).
Cases have been lower than I expected this week too, wonder if we are at the very very start (not hugely confident about this but it's possible) of a vaccine effect.
I reckon we might be.
There are what, circa 20m people vulnerable to this and we've given a third of them their first shot. Must be having some sort of impact.
lol at the continuing European vaccine seethe.
https://www.researchprofessionalnews...ne-investment/
Speaking of the vaccine problems in Europe.
My 81 year old Grandma has a vaccine booked in Poland for the 18th March.
A pretty long wait for someone in a vulnerable age group.
I could accept putting the 60 year old teachers over other 60 year olds, but young teachers above people who might die of it?
What are the 'key professions'? I'd assume that they'd be vaccinating professions with a higher potential to spread it, thereby reducing the infection rate and overall case numbers by more than they would by only vaccinating the grandmas of the world. In which case it wouldn't exactly be choosing to off 100 people a day because less people are getting sick.
After the vulnerable lot I would go after anyone who works with fuckloads of people.
- Teachers
- Factory workers
- Warehouse staff
It becomes a numbers game once you have the at-risks dealt with. I'm looking at the regional breakdowns for death data just to see where most of them are coming from.
North East: 5001
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South West: 5062
East Midlands: 7834
Yorkshire: 9063
East: 10295
West Midlands: 10626
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London: 12905
South East: 13545
North West: 14535
I had to format it in a little best-to-worst tinpot league. That new variant turned it on its head, although the BBC love to pair us up with Yorkshire. Its obscene how prolonged the deaths have been coming for the south in this wave.
I live for Shinners' data analysis.
Negative. Result in 11 hrs is pretty good going too.
The fact that NHS admin staff, who are working from home, are all being vaccinated while school staff aren't is just dumbfuckery. The "but they might be required as hospital porters" is complete bullshit that nobody should be buying.
I'm a twit
Our Nightingale has been turned into a vaccination hub. Nice to see it finally get some use, I guess.
Probably appropriate that the Nightingales should be empty vessels taking credit for quite ordinary hard work by others.
They should rename them the NHS Binghams.
It truly is a blistering victory. And I've only just heard of the 8 March deadline being talked of as a possible date for easing the lockdown. 5 more weeks of this shit before we're done, I'm getting emotional and it's not even near.
That's check mate for me in confirming that leaving was absolutely the right thing to have done.
The European commission is rifling through customs records over fears vaccines made on EU territory have been shipped to the UK. “The customs data do not lie,” a senior EU official said. “You can be assured that we will find the information, that’s for sure.”
Kyriakides said: “No company should be under any illusion that we don’t have the means to understand what is happening.”
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The EU wants to ensure that doses made in AstraZeneca’s plants in Belgium and the Netherlands are not in future sent to the UK. There is also the risk that exports of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine from European plants could be blocked from reaching the UK, although the commission has sought to assuage those fears.
“People in the United Kingdom are vaccinated with a very good vaccine produced in Europe, supported by European money,” said Peter Liese, a German MEP in Angela Merkel’s CDU party, referring to the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine.
“If there is anyone thinking that European citizens would accept that we give this high quality vaccine to the United Kingdom and would accept to be treated as second class by a UK-based company, I think the only consequence can be to immediately stop the export of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. And then we are in the middle of a trade war. So the company and the UK better think twice.”
What is going on?
That is some of the most petty shit Ive read in quite some time.
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How will a trade war help them when we've got the easy to make/use one, and they're already moaning that we're making it all for ourselves?
Still think we're the problem @Giggles?
They should've drafted something up that allowed member states to chase their own deal, regulatory stuff and even gear up for manufacturing. If there's any time to play fast and loose with the EU beaurocracy, it's in the middle of a global pandemic.
Last edited by Giggles; 27-01-2021 at 11:50 PM.