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The holiday hopes of thousands get dashed as Shapps moves Portugal back to the Amber list – politica
The holiday hopes of thousands get dashed as Shapps moves Portugal back to the Amber list – politicalbetting.com
The government’s move this afternoon to change the status of Portugal is a massive blow to tens of thousands of people who had booked because until today this was the one big tourist area where travel was allowed with no reqirement to self isolate on return.
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Fuck, fuck, fuck...
Oliver Johnson
@BristOliver
Oh. That's not good.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/991268/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_14.pdf
It'll be alright.
https://twitter.com/RobParsonsYP/status/1400473989189885956
I shall say no more but as I'd encouraged his trip it amused me.
I too shall travel and will tell the UK Government through my actions to go fuck themselves.
But equally, as a back up keeper he's more than capable. I would say he's a better keeper than Buttler, or Bairstow, or for that matter Prior. He's not quite in the class of Read or Foster. But then, few are.
Where he's really shone is as a top order batsman when the pressure is on. He's scored big runs in chases were you would have sworn his side were dead and buried.
That's I think why England are keen on him. He gives them cover in the top order and behind the stumps.
I would say his weakness is he loses concentration too often when set. But then, so did Trescothick in first class cricket.
Oh dear.
The virus’s mutations are trying to run up a down escalator in the face of the vaccine rollout. Increased transmissibility is being pushed back by ever-increasing herd immunity (short of the herd immunity threshold, yes, but still acting like a relentlessly climbing damper). Increased hospitalisation is then trying to wrestle with increased and prepared immune systems.
Yes: More evidence of his complete lack of proper executive leadership skills. Not fit for office.
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: "Children's wards are not seeing a rise in cases with Covid. Parents shouldn't worry."
Statement comes after Scotland's Health Secretary @HumzaYousaf said that 10 children aged 0-9 were in hospital last week "because of Covid"
https://twitter.com/ChrisMusson/status/1400471932508770306?s=20
Oh, and the Daily Malicious this morning was claiming that some lady died after receiving the AZN jab.
She "had no underlying health conditions" the caption ran beneath a picture of the 20-stone lady.
The government messaging on this has totally gone by the wayside.
Maybe on this you not quite right
At the moment, there aren't lots of good wicketkeeping options around. Foakes is in a different league. Brown at Sussex and Rossington at Northants are both capable. Davies has faded somewhat. And then, ummm...
I can see why Bracey is so far into the frame, especially as he's so young. He wasn't however Gloucestershire's first choice keeper in red ball cricket until last year (when he didn't play much due to being in the Test bubble) and he is therefore inexperienced. He may improve - equally, he clearly wants to be seen as a batsman.
"One shining light however is that vaccination still appears to be making an impact on spread
73% of Delta cases are in unvaccinated people
Only 3.7% Delta cases are in people who’ve had both doses"
https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1400492226099167235
It indicates they still feel they are a 'big' party and that they respect democracy.
I sent a short email to the Conservative candidate in my seat back in November 2019 wishing him well despite knowing he'd get absolutely thrased (And he did). And I've wished the Green candidate the same in 2017 when she was leafletting in Bootle New Strand. She got wiped out too......
Most of the rise over the last 2 weeks has come in Scotland,
Could we, and by that I mean should we, get ever adult in Scotland a first jab, ASAP
By my back of an envelope calculations Scotland needs another 700,000 jabs to get to 90% of adults, they are doing 20,000 a day at the moment, so if we diverted another 80,000 a day for a week we would be there.
Apart form demonstrating the value of the Union to Scotland, this would presumably be the best way to reduce cases overall, therefore shut up the ZEROCOVID extremists, and let us all see what happens to the R number with 90% vaccinated.
I don't know how long this would take to divert, as many appointments are booked days in advance, or weather Scotland has enough people to do that many jabs, but I think we should try.
I predict a slump in support for the tories after today's fiasco and yet more doom mongering which I guarantee, absolutely guarantee, a month from now will be shown to have been wildly exaggerated.
But by then you won't be listening because you'll be expected to be wetting your pants over the latest Tonga variant.
Seemed like a nice, sensible, well balanced young man.
Agree about Bracey, though.
But in principle I don't disagree that it might make sense to prioritise the locations where the spread is the greatest, Though there may be reasons why this would not be effective.
It will be a constant battle between the covid and the vaccines. But nothing to stop us going back to normal, or the new normal.
I have global insurance so I'm not really sure what point you're making. I don't plan my travel around my insurance needs. Never have, never will. Until the past 12 months I spent much of my life travelling the globe.
All life contains risk. And we will all, without exception, die one day.
You only get one of these things and it should be enjoyed.
Fuck the Government.
Usual caveats apply, and I have only looked at this very quickly and am not an epidemiologist and may have f**cked up the maffs! Please correct me if I am wrong.
Eh? This is Shapps, not Boris, annoucing the countries on the Green List in the first place:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57026936
Seems entirely consistent that he should annouce changes to it.
I don't normally frequent this site later in the day but came on here to express my anger. And this is from someone who voted 2 x Conservative last month.
The more TSE does a Davey boy Cameron and tells me to 'calm down dear' the less likely it is that I will ever vote Conservative again.
We have a stellar vaccination programme. We HAVE to get on and live our lives. Yes, some may die because of the easing. It's a price we have to pay.
https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-party-fined-10-000-for-sending-emails-to-people-who-did-not-want-to-get-them-12323911
Travel insurance only becomes an issue when the unexpected happens and that has happened to us on occasions, and then the small print takes over, global insurance or not, and insurers will always use it to get out of claims, sometimes for thousands of pounds or more
"I think it is disgraceful the way the government are handling international travel, portugal being put on the amber list at short notice is unacceptable. The government are riding rough shot over people.they have messed up the travel industry, fouled peoples' holidays up. They are a disgrace."
I bid you goodnight but the tories will take a hit in the polls over this.
https://twitter.com/ShibaniMahtani/status/1400396453848231937
Wix has reinstated HK Charter's website, saying it was "removed by mistake."
"We have reviewed our initial screening and have realized that the website never should have been removed and we would like to apologize."
https://twitter.com/ShibaniMahtani/status/1400448015953891330
Had a couple of occasions when I needed to return in a hurry so I ... bought a plane ticket.
Best advice is to make sure you have some financial back up. Don't just rely on insurance.
The fundamental problem is with the variants. A new strain of the Indian variant has been mentioned as one of the justifications for downgrading Portugal, whilst a number of other countries have deployed a similar excuse for cancelling or delaying opening back up to travellers from here, too.
It's very easy to imagine that, the more effective a job the Government does in easing the burden of Covid in the UK, the greater the pressure to prevent reimportation from abroad. The end point could well be a Fortress Britain, not unlike Australia or New Zealand, where tourism and family visits in and out of the country are either banned outright or rendered impractical and ruinously expensive by regulation.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3443568/ukip-fight-hartlepool-paul-nuttall-campaign/
I understand 3 coaches of Chelsea fans have tested for covid (I have only heard that second hand) on returning from Portugal and to be honest we just have to protect the borders if we are to open on the 21st June
It also goes without saying vaccinating is the most important endeavour now
I was introduced to things like the aisle of shite.
I haven't been that scared since that time in 2002 I was nearly kidnapped by gunmen affiliated to Hezbollah.
9,427 Delta Cases. Of these, just 267 had received both doses. (And bear in mind, this isn't "two weeks post second dose", it's simply "received both doses".)
That implies to me that the vaccine is pretty bloody effective, especially given that it is the most vulnerable 50% of adults who have received both doses.
Now, the efficacy for one dose doesn't look that great. *BUT* a lot of those first dose people will have been historic AZ people, where the efficacy builds over about 12 weeks. And we've moved to most new doses being Pfizer/Moderna now, so that's going to be much less of an issue.
That said, a CFR of 0.2% for Delta isn’t really standing out to me as being of noticeably increased deadliness, anyway. I may well have missed something significant, though.
>> Well handled <<
An upstanding effort
The consensus on Keir Starmer's recent appearance on Piers Morgan's Life Stories seems to be fairly positive; that the risk paid off and Starmer came across as broadly human. But a much more glowing endorsement of Starmer's interview technique came from the Garrick Theatre, where he did a live Q&A last week with Matt Forde.
About 3/4 of the way through Starmer's segment, someone in the audience sounded as if they were getting a real kick out of his stories. Not by laughing. Nor with applause. From the back rows came the suspicious sounds of someone receiving a handjob.
And there are going to be fewer and fewer vulnerable individuals every single week, as more and more people get vaccinated.
'I wonder if Trump was in town and Piers Morgan was in attendance, researching for his own interview.'
This has caused some problems for some of my friends who have young children.
In fact, the graphic of the geographical spread quite late in the document stood out to me as saying that Delta was being incredibly slow to get traction as an outbreak. And the numbers, as you refer to, didn’t look alarming to me. They were shouting “vax everyone and this bastard will disappear down the escalator with a despairing wail”.
Plus the more people that get that first dose, the less likely you are to catch it from someone.
You are worrying unduly. The Southern US has completely opened up (and did so when not as jabbed as Spain is now) and has managed it without issue. Places like Vegas, Orlando and Miami are now booming, and yet case numbers continue to relentlessly fall.
I thought Wan-Bissaka was talking about switching allegiances?
For those that are interested, the CFR is the total number of deaths divided by the total number of people that have the disease’s symptoms. In contrast, the IFR is the total number of deaths divided by the total number of people that carry the infection. If the numbers I used are actually CFR then this would be very different to the IFR number I quoted for flu. Therefore if the CFR for Covid Delta is 0.18%, we can assume the IFR is much lower as a percentage as it does not include non-hospitalised cases . I think!
Should be open to all over 18
Cases, yes, but we don’t really know the number of infections of it.
A Case Fatality Rate of only 0.18% is, as you say, encouraging.