1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
That's still fewer than the two million people eligible for booster jabs who have not yet been invited to make appointments.
That's a massive fucking problem. Something else my university friend pointed out was that 6 months is a long gap even for an early programme like ours. A gap of 4.5 months would work better for the UK as almost all 32m people in groups 1-9 become eligible by the end of November rather than by the end of December. The efficacy difference for that extra wait will be "tiny" based on the trial data and evidence from Israel vs our own data.
He also blames the JCVI for this, saying they've taken too lax an attitude to booster shots, especially for people aged 60+.
I liked his idea of making everyone eligible for a third dose and making three doses of vaccine a complete course.
Austria has a time limit of 270 days on vaccinations. What happens when someone under 50 wants to go on holiday there ? Perhaps there should be a private option for healthy non-eligible under 50s as there is for flu now.
Are you saying England do not issue letters and follow up texts
You are missing the point.
How can there be any follow up when the original invitation hasn't been sent, in any form?
Maybe you should go online
We have.
I mean I had my booster jab three weeks ago but I know people who are eligible for their jabs like now, they go online (or I on their behalf) and get told they aren't eligible then call 119 who are way too busy.
But you keep on defending this screw up.
I thought you said you had not had your booster and actually before my 82 year old wife and I
JCVI were wrong on their delayed advice and I do not come at this from an anti HMG stance
Big G the issue is that of the 7.5m eligible people for booster jabs only 5.5m have been added to the list. 2m people who are past their 6 months aren't able to book appointments because the government hasn't added their names to the list of people who can book. It's a big problem and I'm grateful that both of my parents were contacted but really worrying for those people who are still waiting and wondering whether they will get their chance.
I don't think it's an issue to acknowledge that this needs to be fixed ASAP so everyone can get their opportunity to be safe for the winter.
Do we know of any pattern of who has or hasn't been added? Geography, age, health records, etc?
No details, just that 2m people haven't been provisioned despite being eligible.
Lets hope so while there's still a country to save. If anyone can say that they've ever heard more concerted discontent with any government than they have with this one then they don't live in the UK.
Or they could live in one of the 28 European countries (including Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Greece) that rank lower down the "UN Happiness Index" than the UK:
Yes, but if you take countries with a population larger than 10 million and who don't have any territory in the Arctic circle, and who don't share a border with Belgium, then I think you'll find we're number 1.
Interesting chat with a colleague today which shines a light on the challenge Labour are facing. Proper lefty, young and urban based, avowed remainer, "woke" in the various ways the anti-woke would bristle at...but commented in a chat today that, and I quote, "I think Boris understands what the public wants, and Labour just seem to want to lock us down forever" (dear reader: neither is true, but it's easy to see why he gets this impression) and "at least you can rely on Boris to deliver on his promises" (what?? has he been watching these last 2 years?? It turns out this last comment is based on him having delivered Brexit, and acted on his promise to break international law).
Then on the flip side there are people like me who a. would answer that yes, I think things in Great Britain are moving in the right direction, and b. would not vote for that rabble who call themselves a government if you paid me.
I can understand the frustration amongst the young and woke with Labour under Starmer. At least under Corbyn there was some excitement, a sense of being in a radical moment and on the cusp of some sort of societal change.
Starmer is like this ultra sensible, boring adult; who wants to appeal to an imagined cohort of sensible adult voters, overlooking the fact that the same people recently elected a clown as prime minister, plunging the country in to chaos, and all the polls show that they want more of the same.
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
Brown is too low there. He should be top on this one. Look how he coordinated the global response to the bank crash. The GLOBAL response, note.
Hahahaha
HAHAHA
Did I put the 'joke' symbol on that post? No, I don't think I did. So ...
When the history of this era is written, I'm not sure that being associated with the decisions taken in 2008 (not to mention the regulatory framework in the preceding decade) will be seen as a positive.
No need to wait, the verdict is in. The financial sector lost its marbles and politicians, regulators and central banks on both sides of the Atlantic were fooled or colluded. The co-ordinated crisis response by governments (which Brown played a key role in formulating) is about the only thing that will emerge with any credit from the whole shitshow. It is utterly astonishing (and dispiriting) to me that a scandal of such magnitude caused primarily by unfettered greed and incompetence in uber capitalist institutions which then had to be bailed out with the bill foisted on ordinary people led to a shift right in politics not left. Grrrr.
Another issue I'm having with the booster jab (and so are a few other people I've spoken to), the booster jab isn't showing in our vaccine record in the NHS App.
We were told at the time of the booster jab it would show in the NHS App within a week.
It's supposed to take 48 hours perhaps 72 Max to update once on the system. At our Hospital Hub we aim to get it on the National database that same day so the app can update as quickly as possible. So it all depends on when it was put on and then how quickly the software communicates with each each other.
On a separate note I have a sore arm from my booster this morning. But it's a happy ache in my eyes, so relieved to finally get my booster.
Which bunch of clowns do you prefer is the main question. As I post this I'm listening to Javid. Not inspiring.
I guess he's not so bad, but he is worse than Hancock.
Labour would of course be far, far worse.
LD's, Greens - they just don't have the people. The only good LD MP is Weira Hobhouse.
Wera Hobhouse is a nutjob who thinks 5G might have some connection to Covid.
The only good LibDem MP is Alistair Carmichael, if only because he winds @malcolmg up rotten.
I was up in the Orkney islands this summer, (lovely place) which is Alister Carmichaels constituency, and by chance found myself standing outside of his constituency office, his name was in big letter, but id could not find a single bit that sead Labral Democrats anywhere. Nothing wrong with that, maybe sensible for him in that constancy, but I did think it was odd.
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
I do not know but that was the figure announced at the press conference
As they will have had both vaccines it seems reasonable to assume the letters were addressed correctly so either they are being ignored or people do not think the booster matters
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
I do not know but that was the figure announced at the press conference
As they will have had both vaccines it seems reasonable to assume the letters were addressed correctly so either they are being ignored or people do not think the booster matters
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
I do not know but that was the figure announced at the press conference
As they will have had both vaccines it seems reasonable to assume the letters were addressed correctly so either they are being ignored or people do not think the booster matters
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
I do not know but that was the figure announced at the press conference
As they will have had both vaccines it seems reasonable to assume the letters were addressed correctly so either they are being ignored or people do not think the booster matters
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
I do not know but that was the figure announced at the press conference
As they will have had both vaccines it seems reasonable to assume the letters were addressed correctly so either they are being ignored or people do not think the booster matters
Which bunch of clowns do you prefer is the main question. As I post this I'm listening to Javid. Not inspiring.
I guess he's not so bad, but he is worse than Hancock.
Labour would of course be far, far worse.
LD's, Greens - they just don't have the people. The only good LD MP is Weira Hobhouse.
Wera Hobhouse is a nutjob who thinks 5G might have some connection to Covid.
The only good LibDem MP is Alistair Carmichael, if only because he winds @malcolmg up rotten.
I was up in the Orkney islands this summer, (lovely place) which is Alister Carmichaels constituency, and by chance found myself standing outside of his constituency office, his name was in big letter, but id could not find a single bit that sead Labral Democrats anywhere. Nothing wrong with that, maybe sensible for him in that constancy, but I did think it was odd.
The explanation is simple, AIUI. In Scotland, Holyrood constituency offices are paid for by the Scottish Parliament, and the MP is not allowed to use them for parrty advertising - in this case Liam McArthur MSP shares his with his fellow LD Mr Carmichael.
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
I do not know but that was the figure announced at the press conference
As they will have had both vaccines it seems reasonable to assume the letters were addressed correctly so either they are being ignored or people do not think the booster matters
Oh my sweet summer child...
Is it not ?
No, it's not.
Why
Never assume. It makes an ass out of u and me.
Something could have gone wrong with the distribution of the letters. Something could be wrong with the database. Something could be wrong with the addresses on file.
Which bunch of clowns do you prefer is the main question. As I post this I'm listening to Javid. Not inspiring.
I guess he's not so bad, but he is worse than Hancock.
Labour would of course be far, far worse.
LD's, Greens - they just don't have the people. The only good LD MP is Weira Hobhouse.
Wera Hobhouse is a nutjob who thinks 5G might have some connection to Covid.
The only good LibDem MP is Alistair Carmichael, if only because he winds @malcolmg up rotten.
I was up in the Orkney islands this summer, (lovely place) which is Alister Carmichaels constituency, and by chance found myself standing outside of his constituency office, his name was in big letter, but id could not find a single bit that sead Labral Democrats anywhere. Nothing wrong with that, maybe sensible for him in that constancy, but I did think it was odd.
The explanation is simple, AIUI. In Scotland, Holyrood constituency offices are paid for by the Scottish Parliament, and the MP is not allowed to use them for parrty advertising - in this case Liam McArthur MSP shares his with his fellow LD Mr Carmichael.
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
I do not know but that was the figure announced at the press conference
As they will have had both vaccines it seems reasonable to assume the letters were addressed correctly so either they are being ignored or people do not think the booster matters
Oh my sweet summer child...
Is it not ?
No, it's not.
Why
Never assume. It makes an ass out of u and me.
Something could have gone wrong with the distribution of the letters. Something could be wrong with the database. Something could be wrong with the addresses on file.
Plenty of scope for things to go wrong.
Relying on mail for this isn't very good.
Fair comment and even email could default to junk but 1.5 million invites have not all gone astray by some distance and patient resistance must be a considerable factor
Don't know if its been commented on here before. but FWIW I think parents of kids should decide, and if if a parent feels they whish there kid to have it then they should regardless of age.
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
As I said in a previous thread I got both an invite via my GP and via NHS-Noreply. Now I've had an email invite as well despite having made my appointment via my GP survey. How the he'll do they know how many people have responded to which invite??
1.5 million who have been invited for their booster have not turned up
How many of that 1.5m have received the invitation but have not yet up for the jab... because the appointment is always going to be a week or two after the invite?
As I said in a previous thread I got both an invite via my GP and via NHS-Noreply. Now I've had an email invite as well despite having made my appointment via my GP survey. How the he'll do they know how many people have responded to which invite??
Another issue I'm having with the booster jab (and so are a few other people I've spoken to), the booster jab isn't showing in our vaccine record in the NHS App.
We were told at the time of the booster jab it would show in the NHS App within a week.
It's supposed to take 48 hours perhaps 72 Max to update once on the system. At our Hospital Hub we aim to get it on the National database that same day so the app can update as quickly as possible. So it all depends on when it was put on and then how quickly the software communicates with each each other.
On a separate note I have a sore arm from my booster this morning. But it's a happy ache in my eyes, so relieved to finally get my booster.
I had my booster more than 3 weeks ago and it doesn't show.
Newcastle should be relegated if their fans continue to engage in this shocking racism and bigotry.
Newcastle United have asked supporters to stop wearing tea towels and other home-made headdresses to matches as a way of celebrating the club’s takeover by the Saudi Arabian-funded consortium.
Hundreds of fans attended St James’ Park for Sunday’s defeat by Tottenham Hotspur dressed in fake Arabic-style clothing in what was the first match since the club were bought for £305 million by the Saudi Public Investment Fund.
The anti-racism group Kick It Out had planned talks with Newcastle after the decision of many fans to wear tea towels to mimmick the traditional keffiyeh headdress. The club has responded by urging supporters to refrain from dressing in “culturally inappropriate” clothes so not to cause offence.
“Newcastle United is kindly asking supporters to refrain from wearing traditional Arabic clothing or Middle East-inspired head coverings at matches if they would not ordinarily wear such attire,” the statement read.
Do Saudis or other Arabs take offence at seeing people where such things?
In my limited experience, living in the Midal East for 7 months, some of my fronds took to wearing the big wight garment, that many Arabs where (sorry cant remember the name) mostly because of the heat, and nobody seemed offended.
Do we get offended when Africans, Asians or Arabs wear business suits? No. But they are doing it to fit in, not to take the piss.
So I think context matters. In Yemen, I would often get home from the Embassy, take off my suit and dress shirt, and put on a futa (like a sarong) to wear around the house. Just because it was way more comfortable (and way less offensive to Yemenis than shorts).
If this has been mentioned already, apologies, but a number of polls from France are showing a Zemmour candidacy outpolling Marine Le Pen in the first round of voting.
This would be extraordinary if it happened - I've not seen any polling on a Macron-Zemmour runoff in round two. It seems to make little difference who the centre-right put up as a candidate - every option is behind Zemmour be it Pecresse, Barnier or Bertrand. The last named does the best at 14% in one poll, two points behind Le Pen and three points behind Zemmour.
Don't know if its been commented on here before. but FWIW I think parents of kids should decide, and if if a parent feels they whish there kid to have it then they should regardless of age.
Yes, with the proviso that it is tested safe for that age cohort and by 'regardless of age' we mean older than 6 months.
If this has been mentioned already, apologies, but a number of polls from France are showing a Zemmour candidacy outpolling Marine Le Pen in the first round of voting.
This would be extraordinary if it happened - I've not seen any polling on a Macron-Zemmour runoff in round two. It seems to make little difference who the centre-right put up as a candidate - every option is behind Zemmour be it Pecresse, Barnier or Bertrand. The last named does the best at 14% in one poll, two points behind Le Pen and three points behind Zemmour.
How many times has a governing party lost more than 50 seats at an election?
Since WWII.
2010, 1997, 1979, 1970, 1964, 1950, and 1945.
Edit - Honourable mention to the Lib Dems who lost 49 seats at the 2015 GE.
Looking at those dates... Have we been looking at it the wrong way?
The orthodoxy is that the Conservatives are safe until 2028ish, because whoever heard of a governing party losing lots of seats.
Maybe the issue is that it's hard for a government to change without a lot of seats shifting.
(And on current polling, not enough seats are shifting... Yet. I wonder what a 1977/8 Politicalbetting, run on postcards maybe, would have said, though?)
Zemmour is a bizarre phenomenon, but also explicable in the age of trump. A deliberate provocateur seeking to break every taboo ; a jewish man seeking to revive the myth of Dreyfus's guilt ; with the aim of reviving the most toxic form of early twentieth-century french nationalism and catholic reaction.
I pray France has a lucky escape, and it does look as if Macron would easily beat him - one hopes.
Interesting exchange at the end of this evening's press conference. Javid and the medics had repeatedly emphasised that government guidance was to continue wearing masks in busy, enclosed spaces - public transport and the like. He was asked why, in the HoC, those on the opposition benches were masked up, but those on the government benches weren't. To my surprise, he didn't shrug it off, but admitted that it was a fair point and that it didn't look good - he didn't quite say it was an example of 'do as I say, not as I do', but not far off.
Worth watching. It'll be interesting to see if an edict goes out to Tory MPs to mask up in the HoC in future.
Suggests the 'attack rate' amongst 5-14 year olds is about 76%. 76%! It can't be long until infections in that age group collapse.
I handed seen that report, but I did post something similar on the last thread. according to ONS servay data, in the week ending 9 October 8.1% of 10-14 Year olds tested positive, and its gone up since them. If 76% have already had it, then less than 3 weeks at this rate till they have all had it it.
The coterie of amateur epidemiologists, virologists and immunologists who inhabit this site re-assured me last evening there was nothing to worry about as even after six months the efficacy afforded by two AstraZeneca vaccinations is still going to be adequate.
As my six months isn't up until the end of next month, I won't worry too much at this stage.
I am told by Mrs Stodge Japan is doing very well in case of case numbers and deaths - are they further ahead of us in terms of vaccinations or is their mask wearing culture helping to reduce transmission?
Interesting to read Sajid Javid's comments - there's a strong element of throwing it back to the public in terms of getting booster vaccinations and mask wearing. Anecdotally, I hear of more mask wearing again on public transport so clearly a frisson of anxiety is out there. OTOH, the politics of curtailing Christmas in any way, shape or form probably isn't something Johnson wants to think about.
Don't know if its been commented on here before. but FWIW I think parents of kids should decide, and if if a parent feels they whish there kid to have it then they should regardless of age.
Yes, with the proviso that it is tested safe for that age cohort and by 'regardless of age' we mean older than 6 months.
I wonder if Valneva might be the best vaccine for kids ? It doesn't give the nABs that Pfizer or Moderna do but it is inactived virus so the antibodies produced would be across the whole viral spectrum - which is one argument I could think of against the sole spike vaccines being used in younger kids (Might be a good idea for their bodies to see the whole virus at a young age, Valneva solves that).
Where's the "What will daily cases peak at" thread we had a while back ?
As mich as I bag on Andrew "there's chance of a second wave in London" Lilco he's probably right that we are close to cases saturating kids and as a result case numbers stabalising.
The coterie of amateur epidemiologists, virologists and immunologists who inhabit this site re-assured me last evening there was nothing to worry about as even after six months the efficacy afforded by two AstraZeneca vaccinations is still going to be adequate.
As my six months isn't up until the end of next month, I won't worry too much at this stage.
I am told by Mrs Stodge Japan is doing very well in case of case numbers and deaths - are they further ahead of us in terms of vaccinations or is their mask wearing culture helping to reduce transmission?
Interesting to read Sajid Javid's comments - there's a strong element of throwing it back to the public in terms of getting booster vaccinations and mask wearing. Anecdotally, I hear of more mask wearing again on public transport so clearly a frisson of anxiety is out there. OTOH, the politics of curtailing Christmas in any way, shape or form probably isn't something Johnson wants to think about.
FFS. What sort of psychodrama is it where we have re-runs of "Boris fights to save Christmas" every year. Its even worse than "Love Actually".
Interesting exchange at the end of this evening's press conference. Javid and the medics had repeatedly emphasised that government guidance was to continue wearing masks in busy, enclosed spaces - public transport and the like. He was asked why, in the HoC, those on the opposition benches were masked up, but those on the government benches weren't. To my surprise, he didn't shrug it off, but admitted that it was a fair point and that it didn't look good - he didn't quite say it was an example of 'do as I say, not as I do', but not far off.
Worth watching. It'll be interesting to see if an edict goes out to Tory MPs to mask up in the HoC in future.
The Commons chamber is a fairly big and airy space. Not sure it counts as an enclosed space.
If this has been mentioned already, apologies, but a number of polls from France are showing a Zemmour candidacy outpolling Marine Le Pen in the first round of voting.
This would be extraordinary if it happened - I've not seen any polling on a Macron-Zemmour runoff in round two. It seems to make little difference who the centre-right put up as a candidate - every option is behind Zemmour be it Pecresse, Barnier or Bertrand. The last named does the best at 14% in one poll, two points behind Le Pen and three points behind Zemmour.
Macron seems a bit short (no pun intended )
In what way?
I've neither seen a single poll where any other candidate gets near him on the second round nor a poll where he isn't leading the first round.
He beats Le Pen on every run off poll and I suspect he would beat Zemmour by a larger margin. The only hope for those opposed to Macron is for Bertrand perhaps to get past the warring Zemmour and Le Pen candidacies and snatch second - it's feasible.
The coterie of amateur epidemiologists, virologists and immunologists who inhabit this site re-assured me last evening there was nothing to worry about as even after six months the efficacy afforded by two AstraZeneca vaccinations is still going to be adequate.
As my six months isn't up until the end of next month, I won't worry too much at this stage.
I am told by Mrs Stodge Japan is doing very well in case of case numbers and deaths - are they further ahead of us in terms of vaccinations or is their mask wearing culture helping to reduce transmission?
Interesting to read Sajid Javid's comments - there's a strong element of throwing it back to the public in terms of getting booster vaccinations and mask wearing. Anecdotally, I hear of more mask wearing again on public transport so clearly a frisson of anxiety is out there. OTOH, the politics of curtailing Christmas in any way, shape or form probably isn't something Johnson wants to think about.
FFS. What sort of psychodrama is it where we have re-runs of "Boris fights to save Christmas" every year. Its even worse than "Love Actually".
Quite so. Am I the only person in the country who finds all this talk of Christmas, starting in September, incredibly boring? It seems rather sad to spend months worrying about, or planning for, the big day, and Boris and the tabloids just fuel this. I don't have a problem with Christmas, but I don't really give it a thought until about 10 days before the big event (apart from ordering cases of wine for the grown-up kids, which takes about 10 minutes).
Zemmour is a bizarre phenomenon, but also explicable in the age of trump. A deliberate provocateur seeking to break every taboo ; a jewish man seeking to revive the myth of Dreyfus's guilt ; with the aim of reviving the most toxic form of early twentieth-century french nationalism and catholic reaction.
I pray France has a lucky escape, and it does look as if Macron would easily beat him - one hopes.
There are a couple of similarities to Trump's run during the primaries in that he has the ability to turn attacks to his advantage, and the media love to talk about him.
If this has been mentioned already, apologies, but a number of polls from France are showing a Zemmour candidacy outpolling Marine Le Pen in the first round of voting.
This would be extraordinary if it happened - I've not seen any polling on a Macron-Zemmour runoff in round two. It seems to make little difference who the centre-right put up as a candidate - every option is behind Zemmour be it Pecresse, Barnier or Bertrand. The last named does the best at 14% in one poll, two points behind Le Pen and three points behind Zemmour.
Macron seems a bit short (no pun intended )
In what way?
I've neither seen a single poll where any other candidate gets near him on the second round nor a poll where he isn't leading the first round.
He beats Le Pen on every run off poll and I suspect he would beat Zemmour by a larger margin. The only hope for those opposed to Macron is for Bertrand perhaps to get past the warring Zemmour and Le Pen candidacies and snatch second - it's feasible.
Interesting exchange at the end of this evening's press conference. Javid and the medics had repeatedly emphasised that government guidance was to continue wearing masks in busy, enclosed spaces - public transport and the like. He was asked why, in the HoC, those on the opposition benches were masked up, but those on the government benches weren't. To my surprise, he didn't shrug it off, but admitted that it was a fair point and that it didn't look good - he didn't quite say it was an example of 'do as I say, not as I do', but not far off.
Worth watching. It'll be interesting to see if an edict goes out to Tory MPs to mask up in the HoC in future.
The Commons chamber is a fairly big and airy space. Not sure it counts as an enclosed space.
Interesting exchange at the end of this evening's press conference. Javid and the medics had repeatedly emphasised that government guidance was to continue wearing masks in busy, enclosed spaces - public transport and the like. He was asked why, in the HoC, those on the opposition benches were masked up, but those on the government benches weren't. To my surprise, he didn't shrug it off, but admitted that it was a fair point and that it didn't look good - he didn't quite say it was an example of 'do as I say, not as I do', but not far off.
Worth watching. It'll be interesting to see if an edict goes out to Tory MPs to mask up in the HoC in future.
The Commons chamber is a fairly big and airy space. Not sure it counts as an enclosed space.
Well, it was absolutely heaving the other day for the tributes to David Amess (rightly so), and looked pretty enclosed to me.
If this has been mentioned already, apologies, but a number of polls from France are showing a Zemmour candidacy outpolling Marine Le Pen in the first round of voting.
This would be extraordinary if it happened - I've not seen any polling on a Macron-Zemmour runoff in round two. It seems to make little difference who the centre-right put up as a candidate - every option is behind Zemmour be it Pecresse, Barnier or Bertrand. The last named does the best at 14% in one poll, two points behind Le Pen and three points behind Zemmour.
As an aside, Ms Le Pen has rather brought this on herself. She has moved so far to the centre that it's pretty easy for her to be outflanked.
Wonder which Committee Chair McConnell has offered him ...
Manchin would go from the most powerful Senator in the Senate to an irrelevance overnight.
It would be a wild move from him.
I suspect that he has leached this, as a way of saying to fellow Dems, don't presser me to much or I might jump.
That is my read too but I have no special knowledge.
He's doing incredible damage to the reconcilliation bill, making it a total mess. However from a Dem point if view he is absolutely vital in voting through their judicial appointments
It is absolutely absurd masks are not being warn already by people on public transport and in shops. I continue to mask up.
What terrible luck that we have this shower as a Government and this disingenuous clown as PM. Of course and as ever we, the people, are the architects of this clusterf*ck!
If this has been mentioned already, apologies, but a number of polls from France are showing a Zemmour candidacy outpolling Marine Le Pen in the first round of voting.
This would be extraordinary if it happened - I've not seen any polling on a Macron-Zemmour runoff in round two. It seems to make little difference who the centre-right put up as a candidate - every option is behind Zemmour be it Pecresse, Barnier or Bertrand. The last named does the best at 14% in one poll, two points behind Le Pen and three points behind Zemmour.
As an aside, Ms Le Pen has rather brought this on herself. She has moved so far to the centre that it's pretty easy for her to be outflanked.
The fascinating thing is while Le Pen is down a little and Macron is stable at about 25%, the big victims of the rise of Zemmour have been LR and the Socialists. Bertrand is polling at 14% while Fillon got 20% in the first round last time and Pecresse and Barnier are polling at half and 40% of Fillon's numbers respectively.
Melanchon's numbers have slumped to 8.5% from 19.6% in 2017.
That "suggests" Zemmour isn't getting his support from Le Pen or perhaps that Le Pen has hoovered up some LR votes but not quite enough to compensate for those lost to Zemmour.
I read earlier this evening that the new variant is concentrated in parts of the S West. And then you see the extraordinarily high R rates in your table all clustered in the M5 corridor from Bristol upwards, far above those in the rest of the country. Clearly that's the focal point of the new variant for now, and those rates mean that it's going to spread out very rapidly to the rest of the country. The new variant is far more virulent than it is being given credit for.
Government inaction today is absolutely breathtaking. Exhortations dont work. These are pleas to idiots who don't give a damn that their failure to do the right thing is going to plunge everyone back into the abyss. For goodness sake, do something effective to get the vaccination programme going again, fast.
I read earlier this evening that the new variant is concentrated in parts of the S West. And then you see the extraordinarily high R rates in your table all clustered in the M5 corridor from Bristol upwards, far above those in the rest of the country. Clearly that's the focal point of the new variant for now, and those rates mean that it's going to spread out very rapidly to the rest of the country. The new variant is far more virulent than it is being given credit for.
Government inaction today is absolutely breathtaking. Exhortations dont work. These are pleas to idiots who don't give a damn that their failure to do the right thing is going to plunge everyone back into the abyss. For goodness sake, do something effective to get the vaccination programme going again, fast.
The rates in the south are not clear, due to the incorrect tests over the last 5 weeks. I think that a lot of people are getting retested and inflating the numbers, as those positives should have been picked up in the previous few weeks. We will see. It’s possible that the new variant is here too, but I think we need more data, and let the testing issue work it’s way through.
I read earlier this evening that the new variant is concentrated in parts of the S West. And then you see the extraordinarily high R rates in your table all clustered in the M5 corridor from Bristol upwards, far above those in the rest of the country. Clearly that's the focal point of the new variant for now, and those rates mean that it's going to spread out very rapidly to the rest of the country. The new variant is far more virulent than it is being given credit for.
Government inaction today is absolutely breathtaking. Exhortations dont work. These are pleas to idiots who don't give a damn that their failure to do the right thing is going to plunge everyone back into the abyss. For goodness sake, do something effective to get the vaccination programme going again, fast.
I read earlier this evening that the new variant is concentrated in parts of the S West. And then you see the extraordinarily high R rates in your table all clustered in the M5 corridor from Bristol upwards, far above those in the rest of the country. Clearly that's the focal point of the new variant for now, and those rates mean that it's going to spread out very rapidly to the rest of the country. The new variant is far more virulent than it is being given credit for.
Government inaction today is absolutely breathtaking. Exhortations dont work. These are pleas to idiots who don't give a damn that their failure to do the right thing is going to plunge everyone back into the abyss. For goodness sake, do something effective to get the vaccination programme going again, fast.
I still can’t fathom why the government didn’t put in place funding and up the numbers for places on nursing and other medical degrees in time for September. The nhs is fucked
Wonder which Committee Chair McConnell has offered him ...
Manchin would go from the most powerful Senator in the Senate to an irrelevance overnight.
It would be a wild move from him.
He'd definitely hold WV in the GOP though. Independent would be just daft for him as a career move.
What if he ran for President as an Indie
I would love to see him try. or almost anybody other than Biden and trump.
The normal rule that 3rd party's get nowhere in US politics has proved accurate for a long time, and it may still be accurate but maybe Trump/Biden have broken that?
If I was to speculate on who could win as a 3rd party candonids I would say Mitt Romeny with Kyrsten Sinema as his VP. but maybe Manchin could?
I still can’t fathom why the government didn’t put in place funding and up the numbers for places on nursing and other medical degrees in time for September. The nhs is fucked
Unless they did of course.
Medicine training places have increased a lot in recent years. It’s not entirely simple though as a lot of medical and indeed nursing training is on placement, and you need placements. And thus is made harder by Covid. We will have more doctors coming out of the factory in a few years time.
Negative PCR but feeling awful again. This illness is very annoying.
Google (or bing) "super cold". There's a lot of it about, as doctors say.
One of my colleagues who actually has Covid right now was coming into work blissfully unaware for about 3 days. I'd describe her symptoms as "light cold" at worst. She's eligible for the booster too, so should have mega-immunity to further infection from now on. Wasn't too popular, particularly with those who had booked holidays coming up..
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Perhaps there should be a private option for healthy non-eligible under 50s as there is for flu now.
https://twitter.com/MattCartoonist/status/1449406515027263490
I've also left the party, a couple of months ago, but for the moment at least all the other party's appear even worse.
Starmer is like this ultra sensible, boring adult; who wants to appeal to an imagined cohort of sensible adult voters, overlooking the fact that the same people recently elected a clown as prime minister, plunging the country in to chaos, and all the polls show that they want more of the same.
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1450872552914620424
On a separate note I have a sore arm from my booster this morning. But it's a happy ache in my eyes, so relieved to finally get my booster.
As they will have had both vaccines it seems reasonable to assume the letters were addressed correctly so either they are being ignored or people do not think the booster matters
Something could have gone wrong with the distribution of the letters. Something could be wrong with the database. Something could be wrong with the addresses on file.
Plenty of scope for things to go wrong.
Relying on mail for this isn't very good.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2021/10/20/white-house-rolls-out-plan-to-vaccinate-kids-ages-5-to-11-against-covid-n423631
Don't know if its been commented on here before. but FWIW I think parents of kids should decide, and if if a parent feels they whish there kid to have it then they should regardless of age.
Do you mind me asking, haw are they sorted? id does not appear to be ether by alphabetical name, or numeric values.
https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/now-casting/nowcasting-and-forecasting-20th-october-2021/
Suggests the 'attack rate' amongst 5-14 year olds is about 76%. 76%! It can't be long until infections in that age group collapse.
So I think context matters. In Yemen, I would often get home from the Embassy, take off my suit and dress shirt, and put on a futa (like a sarong) to wear around the house. Just because it was way more comfortable (and way less offensive to Yemenis than shorts).
If this has been mentioned already, apologies, but a number of polls from France are showing a Zemmour candidacy outpolling Marine Le Pen in the first round of voting.
This would be extraordinary if it happened - I've not seen any polling on a Macron-Zemmour runoff in round two. It seems to make little difference who the centre-right put up as a candidate - every option is behind Zemmour be it Pecresse, Barnier or Bertrand. The last named does the best at 14% in one poll, two points behind Le Pen and three points behind Zemmour.
https://twitter.com/SeanDefoe/status/1450843167020957703
When my 6 months has expired I will try the link again and see whether it will allow me to make a booking.
The orthodoxy is that the Conservatives are safe until 2028ish, because whoever heard of a governing party losing lots of seats.
Maybe the issue is that it's hard for a government to change without a lot of seats shifting.
(And on current polling, not enough seats are shifting... Yet. I wonder what a 1977/8 Politicalbetting, run on postcards maybe, would have said, though?)
I pray France has a lucky escape, and it does look as if Macron would easily beat him - one hopes.
Worth watching. It'll be interesting to see if an edict goes out to Tory MPs to mask up in the HoC in future.
As my six months isn't up until the end of next month, I won't worry too much at this stage.
I am told by Mrs Stodge Japan is doing very well in case of case numbers and deaths - are they further ahead of us in terms of vaccinations or is their mask wearing culture helping to reduce transmission?
Interesting to read Sajid Javid's comments - there's a strong element of throwing it back to the public in terms of getting booster vaccinations and mask wearing. Anecdotally, I hear of more mask wearing again on public transport so clearly a frisson of anxiety is out there. OTOH, the politics of curtailing Christmas in any way, shape or form probably isn't something Johnson wants to think about.
It doesn't give the nABs that Pfizer or Moderna do but it is inactived virus so the antibodies produced would be across the whole viral spectrum - which is one argument I could think of against the sole spike vaccines being used in younger kids (Might be a good idea for their bodies to see the whole virus at a young age, Valneva solves that).
It would be a wild move from him.
I've neither seen a single poll where any other candidate gets near him on the second round nor a poll where he isn't leading the first round.
He beats Le Pen on every run off poll and I suspect he would beat Zemmour by a larger margin. The only hope for those opposed to Macron is for Bertrand perhaps to get past the warring Zemmour and Le Pen candidacies and snatch second - it's feasible.
Macron is very lucky with his enemies.
It is absolutely absurd masks are not being warn already by people on public transport and in shops. I continue to mask up.
I'm claiming a moral victory if restrictions are brought in over winter.
He's doing incredible damage to the reconcilliation bill, making it a total mess. However from a Dem point if view he is absolutely vital in voting through their judicial appointments
https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1450884568744185866?s=21
Melanchon's numbers have slumped to 8.5% from 19.6% in 2017.
That "suggests" Zemmour isn't getting his support from Le Pen or perhaps that Le Pen has hoovered up some LR votes but not quite enough to compensate for those lost to Zemmour.
I read earlier this evening that the new variant is concentrated in parts of the S West. And then you see the extraordinarily high R rates in your table all clustered in the M5 corridor from Bristol upwards, far above those in the rest of the country. Clearly that's the focal point of the new variant for now, and those rates mean that it's going to spread out very rapidly to the rest of the country. The new variant is far more virulent than it is being given credit for.
Government inaction today is absolutely breathtaking. Exhortations dont work. These are pleas to idiots who don't give a damn that their failure to do the right thing is going to plunge everyone back into the abyss. For goodness sake, do something effective to get the vaccination programme going again, fast.
Dems would hate him for being a rat whilst the Trumpites would scold him for being a Dem his entire life.
It doesn't reflect the true progression of infection.
Onthread ...
It had to be bad for Ministers , it wouldn't have been thread had it been the other way round.
Unless they did of course.
The normal rule that 3rd party's get nowhere in US politics has proved accurate for a long time, and it may still be accurate but maybe Trump/Biden have broken that?
If I was to speculate on who could win as a 3rd party candonids I would say Mitt Romeny with Kyrsten Sinema as his VP. but maybe Manchin could?
https://twitter.com/cam_joseph/status/1450867237426978820
Wasn't too popular, particularly with those who had booked holidays coming up..
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2021/10/10/further-signs-that-the-gop-will-steal-the-2024-election/