Next stage of easing restrictions in England

[SpiderChrist]

I mean they didn't want to come back at all, ever. Permanently working from home. Probably says as much about the atmosphere in our office as their fears of catching anything.

I know exactly how they feel. I considered going in just on Fridays (when the office eventually fully reopens) but only cos it's a shorter working day and I can go to the pub in Cambridge after work.

[Fambo Number Mive]

This article in the Guardian is scary:

...To get some idea of what a faster-spreading variant could mean for the months ahead, modelling teams that feed into Sage worked up different scenarios. Assuming the vaccines hold up, more people could be hospitalised than in the first wave – putting the NHS at risk – if the variant is much more than 30% more transmissible, University of Warwick models show. At 40% more transmissible, hospitalisations could reach 6,000 per day, far above the peak of the second wave, and 10,000 per day if the variant is 50% more transmissible.

That is if we do nothing. If step three easing of restrictions in England on Monday is cancelled, the third wave will be far more modest, reaching 300 hospitalisations per day, even if the virus spreads 50% more easily than the Kent version. Holding off on step four on 21 June may be less effective: under that scenario a variant little more than 40% more transmissible could trigger more daily hospitalisations than seen in either UK waves so far.

A third wave of the coronavirus will drive people into hospital despite the mass vaccination programme. While the vast majority of older and more vulnerable people have been inoculated, the vaccines are not 100% protective, and do not work in everyone. As a result, scientific advisers expect many of those hospitalised in the third wave to be vaccinated, just not well protected from their shots.

Millions more have not yet been called for their jabs. Among those will be people unaware they are clinically vulnerable. And so more deaths will duly follow. Modelling from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, seen by Sage on 5 May, found that a 50% more transmissible variant could trigger a third wave with deaths peaking at 1,000 per day in late July. We have not seen those kinds of numbers since February...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/14/india-covid-variant-could-lead-to-third-wave-uk

Meanwhile Johnson refuses to delay the Monday opening but says he can't say for certain the fourth stage will happen on 21st June.

No further restrictions for areas where there is a surge in cases of the Indian variant.

The PM says Colonel Russell Miller, commander army HQ north west, is being deployed to support local leaders in managing the response to the Indian variant on the ground.

The response will include surge testing, mobile tesing units and the army will be on the streets handing out tests.

There will be "targeted new activity" in Bolton and Blackburn to accelerate the vaccine take-up, including longer opening hours at vaccination sites.

"We are going to have to live with this new variant of the virus for some time," Johnson says.

[Cuellar]

"We won't be preventing businesses from reopening on Monday but we will be asking you do to your bit.

We won't be doing anything to prevent this but you'll have to do your bit too you know.

Rat cunts. How many times have we heard this shit. "Yes infections are surging but I see no reason to take any preventative measures"

[SpiderChrist]

Indian variant now in Cambridge. Oh joy.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

We won't be doing anything to prevent this but you'll have to do your bit too you know.

Rat cunts. How many times have we heard this shit. "Yes infections are surging but I see no reason to take any preventative measures"

It's absolutely awe-inspiring how many times this fails but each time they go back to the well to drink some more.

LISTEN YOU FUCKING BELLENDS - IF YOU LET PEOPLE DO THINGS AFTER A LONG TIME OF NOT BEING ABLE TO DO THEM THEY WILL PROBABLY DO THEM. IF YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO DO IT IT'S UP TO YOU TO STOP THEM

Hopefully some of the people monitoring this forum for antisemitism can relay that to the UK government.

[MrMrs]

what

[BlodwynPig]

It's absolutely awe-inspiring how many times this fails but each time they go back to the well to drink some more.

LISTEN YOU FUCKING BELLENDS - IF YOU LET PEOPLE DO THINGS AFTER A LONG TIME OF NOT BEING ABLE TO DO THEM THEY WILL PROBABLY DO THEM. IF YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO DO IT IT'S UP TO YOU TO STOP THEM

Hopefully some of the people monitoring this forum for antisemitism can relay that to the UK government.

I can give you an email if you wish

[Drygate]

Tbf, according the Guardian "Edward Argar says the variant could be more – or less – transmissible". So it's a 50 / 50 chance there might be a hiccup.

[Chedney Honks]

Who cares? I've had my vax. Young folk can fuck off back up the womb.

[Fambo Number Mive]

If the varient is more transmissible, what extra precautions should be taken? I'm already double masking when inside (apart from where I live).

[BlodwynPig]

If the varient is more transmissible, what extra precautions should be taken? I'm already double masking when inside (apart from where I live).

Don't breathe. No extra precautions aside from getting vaccinated and practicing good public health measures.

[mjwilson]

Tbf, according the Guardian "Edward Argar says the variant could be more – or less – transmissible". So it's a 50 / 50 chance there might be a hiccup.

This is not good maths.

[Chedney Honks]

Same probability as anything, either it happens or it doesn't. 50/50.

Will I wake up tomorrow? Fiddy.

Will I shit myself running up the stairs? Fiddy.

Click my fingers and get X-ray vision? Fiddy.

Survive a million metre drop? Fiddy.

Catch a dart in my urethra? Fiddy.

Turns out my grandad is alive? Fiddy.

[olliebean]

Add Chedney Honks to my Ignore List? Fiddy. But rising.

[BlodwynPig]

Die tomorrow? Fiddy
Die today? Chedney

[Chedney Honks]

I just shit myself running up the stairs :(

[BlodwynPig]

At least you don't have trouble ejecting waste from your body. Piddly

[Chedney Honks]

Thanks, mate. Always with the silver lining. While we're at it with the love-in, I should say I always feel guilty for shitting myself because I know it's raw honking data soaking into the stairs carpet or mattress.

[Icehaven]

At least you don't have trouble ejecting waste from your body. Piddly

He will do if he catches the dart in his urethra. Siddly.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

He will do if he catches the dart in his urethra. Siddly.

Or if he experiences impaired organ function. Kiddly.

[Icehaven]

Or if he experiences impaired organ function. Kiddly.

Or it turns out his grandad is alive. Biddly.

[BlodwynPig]

Worms. Wriddly

[SpiderChrist]

Got an email from a mate inviting me to go and see Snuff play in the cellar of a pub in August. Nope.

[Chedney Honks]

Film the gig you got a Snuff movie 😂😂😂

[imitationleather]

Anyone sat inside a pub yet?!

[shiftwork2]

Anyone popping out for an Indian?

[El Unicornio, mang]

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-revellers-enjoy-midnight-pints-20611024

I've been in that queue so many times at 3am when everywhere else is closed, and coming out at 5am in summer when it's fully light out and I know I'll be back at it sometime this year. Utter bleakness.

[Fambo Number Mive]

People should ignore Monday's easing of lockdown and avoid socialising indoors in pubs and restaurants to prevent the new Covid-19 variant first detected in India sparking a third wave of the disease, health experts say.

A former government chief scientific adviser, a leading public health specialist and the union representing Britain's doctors are urging the public to stick to meeting outdoors to reduce the risk of catching or spreading the variant.

Prof Sir Mark Walport, a former director of the Wellcome Trust and a chief scientific adviser until 2017, called on the public to be cautious. "My personal judgement is that I will do things outside as far as possible," he said. "My advice is that just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean you should."

Asked by Sophy Ridge on Sky News if that meant he would avoid going inside a pub, he replied: "For the moment, yes."

Martin McKee, a professor of public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, backed Walport. He said: "Based on the precautionary principle and on the experience in earlier waves, I am very concerned. Personally I will not be going indoors in bars or restaurants for some time."...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/16/ignore-lockdown-easing-to-curb-indian-covid-variant-health-experts-urge

[imitationleather]

coming out at 5am in summer when it's fully light out and I know I'll be back at it sometime this year. Utter bleakness.[/img]

Sounds great. See you there!

[El Unicornio, mang]

Cheap WKD, 90s chart anthems, and people dressed in leather dog outfits. You'll love it!