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@rcs1000 please note
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10358451/Police-hunt-woman-anti-vaxxers-stole-test-kits-dumped-bin.html
2021 showing 2022 around
Happy New Year folks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurcwV-3zNc
I hope 2022 is much better than the last two years, to the extent I spend far less time here
Edited after I realised I'd quoted the picture and therefore made it worse!
Omicron spread + wuhan lethality + no pre warning + no mitigation means everyone gets it, masses die.
And it has been a grim slog ever since to the point where you concluded on the previous thread that there is minimal evidence that even 3 vaccines stops you from being infected with this wretched virus and even if you were unlikely to be seriously ill you can still pass it on. Hopefully anti-virials will prove a better way out of this mess.
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1476902667913863169?s=20
So far the 20s have not exactly rocked
The lowlight of 2021 - the absolute nadir - was the winter lockdown. On my own. I particularly remember one day going to meet a friend and we had thermoses of mulled wine and we walked along the Thames on a freezing day and we weren’t even allowed to sit on a bench and chat - and then it began to sleet. Jesus fucking Christ on a tricycle
The highlight of 2021 - probably the apex - was taking ayahuasca in a billionaire’s temple in the Balearics. Absolutely sublime. And that was just a couple of weeks ago. So at least the gradient is up and the year ends on a mind-bending note. Here’s to 2022
If you keep track Mike, it's PP transaction id 20882277245826060
Thanks for keeping PB going!
I think you should reanalyse the situation, would you be worried about catching one of the other four coronaviruses that are related to the common cold? I doubt it. That's the stage we're at with COVID for the triple jabbed or previously infected. So it doesn't matter that vaccine protection against infection is not very high, we're never going to be in a position where we can prevent infection from COVID, only minimise the symptoms to an extent that it doesn't cause mass hospitalisation and death. Looking at the stats coming from NHS England and the ONS, it seems as though we're already there.
2 players so far scored in EPL this season and in 2005-6.
CR7 and Aaron Lennon!
But my summary was: "Overall 2021 will not be the tonic of a year people are hoping for. The struggle against the virus will consume most of it."
I have a very chill manager, so adventure awaits. Aus, Nepal, Africa, India, the Hebrides, NZ, Canada.
And we still have 5m or so numpties who are not so vaccinated. And they are going to keep filling up our hospitals for much of the coming year unless the anti-virials work their magic. And many other people, including the vaccinated, will suffer as a result. It's bloody annoying tbh.
Though I've been a bit poorly this year, chatting sh*t or even just reading it does help me get through these dark times.
I am very very very very very very cautiously optimistic that 2022 will be better. For us both? HNY!
Or maybe you just thought of it while you were pundering on how to respond.
People may have fooled themselves into believing that COVID could be eradicated but it has always been impossible, simply there are billions of wild and domesticated animals that have it.
So basically the 2020s are going to be a repeat of the 1920s. As they were experienced in Germany.
Brilliant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsJXJBcGi5c
also most antivaxxers are younger anyway and less vulnerable
Where's Isam when you need him?
And I had Moderna for my third dose. Not Pfizer as I thought.
(Not that I was terribly exercised either way but it's good to have the mix and match for the better protection.)
(Actually it's probably more like a factor of four, but that's still covered by 'more than.')
2020 at least had a glorious summer. After maybe two weeks, that original lockdown was easy - long walks (that 1 hr rule was never in the statutes and local police took it with a light touch), patio beers on warm nights, every unexpected chat or meeting cherished.
2021. Slog.
One dose of any vaccine was associated with a 35 per cent reduced risk of hospitalisation among symptomatic cases with the Omicron variant.
Two doses with a 67 per cent reduction up to 24 weeks after the second dose and a 51 per cent reduced risk 25 or more weeks after the second dose.
Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation was estimated as 52 per cent after one dose, 72 per cent two to 24 weeks after dose two, 52 per cent 25+ weeks after dose 2 and 88 per cent two weeks after a booster dose.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/17186659/covid-boosters-88-effective-hospitalisation/
GET F##KING BOOSTERED....
I see them as a statistic - and one that are knowingly jeopardising our freedom too.
Buy gold if you want something real.
Almost perfect* inverse ratio to triple vaccination rates
*Edit: save 0-5 age cohort, which is probably a non-independent variable as they belong with parents (i.e. they are accompanied by parents wherever they go and so their exposure level mirrors that of their parents')
When I open my NHS App it says;
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View your GP health records
Oder a prescription
Ladies and Gentlemen, I've done something I've never done before !!
No, I have in fact travelled on a Thames Clipper from Battersea Power Station (one modern soulless dump) to Canary Wharf (ditto).
I'm sure @Leon, who seems to have been everywhere, would agree some of the finest views of London are from the river and it's a glorious journey downstream through the capital.
The trouble with the Thames Clipper is, to use another aquatic analogy, it's neither fish nor fowl. As a tourist attraction, it has to compete with all the cruise boats which ply their trade up and down the river ranging from the conventional boats to the speedier and perhaps less comfortable boats.
If it were to be a serious commuter option, there would have to be a lot of changes. First, the speed limit through central London is, I believe, just 12 mph on the water which is fine if you want to admire the view and take photos but not much cop if you want to get somewhere.
Second, there are a lot of stops - if you want to go on something that stops a lot, the Underground will offer that and do it quicker. The third problem is it's fine if you want to go to Battersea Power Station but there's not much service beyond that - there are a few morning and evening peak services to Putney after which there's a gap before another service from Kew to Hampton Court.
Some high-speed limited stop services from east and west into London would help the morning and evening peak journeys leaving off-peak and weekend services for the more leisurely traveller.
To be fair, the boats are lovely and the staff excellent and they do their best - the other thing that struck me on the journey there were plenty of boats from Vauxhall to Tower Bridge but almost nothing east of Tower Bridge - the blocks of flats in the old wharves along Limehouse for example hardly seem to be aware of the river at all which seems odd.
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londoneye said:
"no if i was an animal i would be a bear roaming the rockies"
I think I'd be a giant panda: I could be fat and lazy, everyone would still think I'm cute.
@DPJHodges
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Sage, 18 December. "To prevent such a wave of hospitalisations, [minimum of 3,000 a day] more stringent measures would need to be implemented before 202". They weren't. So that's it. According to SAGE there is now no way of stopping that wave. It's locked in.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says London's "spectacular" fireworks display will "show the defining moments of 2021 and showcase some of the best things to come next year".
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1476936661896466464?s=20
A mate lived in Greenwich and he used to use it irregularly - apparently, the boats used to have a bar or at least turned a blind eye to a can or bottle - and he said it was great seeing in a weekend that way. Just watch the world float by.
Week 52 Admission Projection: 7620 (down 5.5%)
Week 52 Deaths Projection: 703 (up 19%)
Currently Ventilated: 3.3%
Currently Oxygentated: 15.2%