We will wind it up - approval next week, then a colossal, rapid vaccination programme. Articles in the news today clearly imply the venues have been sorted etc so there are some leaks going on.
If there’s no announcement by NYE I’ll be surprised and devastated.
Also remember once the...
I’m more optimistic....enormous logistical exercise to vaccinate as soon as the Oxford /AZ vaccine is approved (next week) with millions per week being done at thousands of locations. Huge % done by Easter and restrictions being eased.
Hang in there.
I know.....quite depressing. Facebook already flooded with ‘I don’t care, it’s Christmas’ type comments.
We’ve changed our plans.....Chrimbo will be our single household plus my elderly mother for a few days who has isolated in advance. We have a few risk areas (son and G/F with their jobs...
Sigh. The point is BJ has made the decision now that he should have made several days ago - and people made their plans on what he said then.
A moot point, however, is that anyone with a bit of a brain should have limited their planned mixing/contact anyway, not waited for anyone (especially...
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It will be fantastic if the Oxford vaccine is approved (seems to potentially be happening before the year end) and everything is thrown at rolling it out as fast as possible. This for me offers the only real route out in a reasonable timeframe.
17% increase in a week is enormous......you don’t think that’s rocketing ? Bed occupancy is currently around 90%.......how many weeks of 17% increase can we have before capacity is reached do you think ?
That’s also an average - it’s worse in the higher affected areas. Here’s the line for London.