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Total UK vaccinations heading for 10m – politicalbetting.com
Total UK vaccinations heading for 10m – politicalbetting.com
#COVID19 VACCINE UPDATE: Daily figures on the number of people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine in the UK.As of 1 February, 9,296,367 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination.Visit the @PHE_uk dashboard for more info:???https://t.co/cQkuLQglz1 pic.twitter.com/SsBb6G0t0s
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Because if we can, we turn CV19 into the flu.
I'm not a scientist. I'm not a scientist. I'm not a scientist.
But f*ck it I'm going to say this anyway. In both the UK and South Africa significantly more trasmissible variants have smashed their way through the population and now, in both countries, the rate of new cases is dropping at the same rate as they went up - in fact in SA the average number of cases has dropped by an eyewatering 44% compared to a week ago. Deaths in both countries are, so far as I can see, levelling off or dropping. In South Africa they only got their first vaccine deliveries yesterday. So why? Here's one answer -
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-south-africas-covid-lockdown-may-have-created-herd-immunity-12116494
A literally life and death statistic like this that is in the media every day, nearly every hour.
How dare you not give me my rightful first post.
Plus the deaths would be coming down fast even without the vaccines, as a result of the current lockdown already reducing infection numbers. So, unless something goes wrong (always possible in this matter, especially with mutant variants popping up), we should be seeing a really quite dramatic fall in deaths over the next four weeks or so. Fingers crossed.
Hospitalisations should also fall, but somewhat less quickly because we won't have vaccinated the younger cohorts yet (50-65, and even younger). They account for quite a lot of the hospitalisations but fewer of the deaths.
This contract will be governed by the laws of The Federated States of Micronesia.
FPT and Off-topic (Not letting all this work go)
Who pays for flat insulation repairs? Don't get me into Dinner On The Brain - I have to learn how to fillet a (small, but whole) Tilapia some time this week. Bought on a whim at Morrisons. Several of its former friends have tried to eat Jeremy Wade !
Agree on the cost, but what of the remedy? Who to pay, and how? At the moment it is being driven by a group of populist (?) MPs trying to save their constituents from paying.
UK Govt as some sort of 'community' cover?
Why socialise the cost - we others have done nothing wrong. And many of us paid the extra for a house, as we know flats are risky.
Insulation Product companies?
AIUI there are 2 groups of manufacturers who make this stuff - Celotex (now part of St Gobain - roots back to 1665, French and a conglomerate owning eg Jewson, Benchmark, International Timber etc - turnover 180bn, 180k employees), and Kingspan (Irish, entrpreneurial, 15k empoyees, £5bn turnover).
Kingspan could be taken down by it. St Gobain hurt.
Freehold owners?
Unlikely to be enough money in it, as these are worth a few k per flat. Say 12x ground rent on a 8.5%. yield. £500 ground rent -> £6k ish.
Why should freeholders be any more liable than owner, as they aere no more insulation material experts.
Leaseholders?
Currently the law seems to leave them holding the baby.
Building Regulators?
They and companies (depending on verdict - to cover OGH's backside) are perhaps the obvious ones who may have done something wrong - certified it and allowed others to use it. Subject to possible deception by insulation companies.
Some sort of insurance?
Developers?
Are they not covered by using approved materials - if they have. Though arguably they should know better than most.
Perhaps the way is for Govt to cover, then go after whoever the enquiry fingers afterwards.
Christ on a bike, the champagnes they were ordering cost more than a week in a cottage in The Cotswolds.
http://www.robeywarshaw.com/
Shrug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu3LIulwaw
A lot of cooking is just trying it for the first or second time till you cotton on. And you eat thje evidence anyway.
I mean, how could anything be worse than that?
https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1356266539931095046?s=20
Discretion is key in that sector.
It’s all very strange.
(Dear RobeyWarshaw, the preceding statement was made in jest, and in no way should be construed as an accusation of legal or financial impropriety on behalf of RobeyWarshaw, its employees or any of its clients)
https://twitter.com/conor_matchett/status/1356299488512659456?s=20
They do work in mergers and acquisitions, if any of that leaked, it would move markets, and probably trigger all sorts of insider trader investigations.
What do Anheuser-Busch InBev £79 billion ($104.3 billion) takeover of SABMiller, Royal Dutch Shell’s £35 billion ($46.2 billion) merger with BG Group, and Softbank’s £24.3 billion ($32 billion) acquisition of Arm Holdings all have in common? The boutique London M&A firm Robey Warshaw had a hand in all of them.
https://www.firmex.com/resources/blog/meet-boutique-london-firm-besting-goldman-sachs-bank-america-deutsche-bank-uk-ma-market/
(Obviously because he's a former journalist.)
They need to decide who is paying and make it happen. Perhaps it should be split several ways across the different groups, including the government, leaseholders, freeholders, builders and insurers. Suddenly each is dealing with 20% of the cost and it starts to be more achievable.
They make Boris and Hancock look like statesmen
Great to hear about new vaccine manufacturing facilities opening up across the U.K.
Well done George.
Allegedly.
I was the last year to get my university fees paid for by the taxpayer.
My father said me going to university saved him so much money because he was no longer paying private school fees.
I wonder what these coppers used to do before they wore bodycameras if this is what they do with them.
Let's hear it for Covid 19....
Surcharge on developers?
(Can anyone place that quotation? It is quite an obscure one.)
Explaining that concept to my sixth-form students is something I reserve for moments when I need cheering up.
A reminder to others. GP's don't necessarily, magically know your occupation. If you are a designated priority worker they want to know.
Even if their website asks you not to contact them about your vaccine.
Tell your friends to call or email them with proof.
https://twitter.com/BrunoBrussels/status/1356306495978221571?s=20
https://twitter.com/BrunoBrussels/status/1356306498146742283?s=20
But going forwards yes vaccinations should help protect the vaccinated individual against death, but they should also help build an element of herd immunity towards reducing the spread of the virus.
I suspect we're already seeing a factor of that with the vaccination of care and NHS workers who were unwitting superspreaders of the virus.
If the vaccine protects the vaccinated against death and protects others against spread then R should come down sustainably below 1.
So long as everyone gets their vaccine - and so long as we don't import a vaccine-resistant variant, which is why it should be mandatory hotel quarantines from now until when we can declare the pandemic over. Once lifted, never again for this pandemic should we have domestic restrictions as opposed to international ones.
I have right on my side.
2020 was the first half.
Feels rough and sleeping a great deal. So we hang on for better days.
Brother is getting his first jab next week.
He's younger than me!
But am pleased for him.
Despite that, if I had taken out a tuition fee loan it would have doubled my liability to the SLC (which is why I didn't, given Kevin O'Connor and I were in an increasingly acrimonious correspondence over his inability to read a calendar, do basic maths or write simple sentences).
No grant for you but a full one for ME.
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I also got some kind of travel grant to cover my placement travel costs from the council. And a tax rebate. Great days.