romavillan Posted July 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2021 3 hours ago, sharkyvilla said: Do you mean the whole population or the adult population? Two-thirds of the adult population have been double-dosed. 52% of whole population, from what has been seen in Brazil, if you get to 75% then the infections spiral down and down and down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sharkyvilla Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 12 minutes ago, romavillan said: 52% of whole population, from what has been seen in Brazil, if you get to 75% then the infections spiral down and down and down. The thing is 75% of the UK's entire population double-dosed would require 100 million jabs and we are currently at 81 million. That's not to mention with the waiting period needed for the second jab you would still need several more million first doses on top of the 100m. I think that would have been impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2021 14 minutes ago, romavillan said: The world can learn to live with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 No one likes us, no one likes us no one likes us, we don’t care We are Inglund, super Inglund Super Inglund, from UK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2021 14 hours ago, Genie said: Link Unless he’s just arrived in the country he will know that many people will do anything but “act with caution”. Cases are going to go through the roof, that much is certain. Hospitalisations and deaths will shoot up. This will be a major test of Boris and co’s resolve. Will they/we be able to ride it out or will we see a return of restrictions in Autumn? Time will tell. A lot of reports I've seen suggest it will peak mid August before falling back again. I've a feeling herd immunity will kick in by September, and we're getting booster jabs then. I guess this is the real experiment. How far does herd immunity stamp it down, or does it keep coming back in strong waves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Nice, a new category for all you Covid-travel-restrictions-spotters out there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 At least it shows we're taking our carbon neutral targets seriously, there'll be no **** alive by 2050 at this rate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 2 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: At least it shows we're taking our carbon neutral targets seriously, there'll be no **** alive by 2050 at this rate Silver lining to every cloud I guess. Time for us to step aside, we’ve fecked everything up anyway with our collective arrogance and greed, time to let something else have a go at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2021 8 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: Pretty much similar here. Still a few masks about but it feels back to normal. And the world didn't end. 8 hours ago, LondonLax said: It’s so weird seeing you guys in a panic about it all. Here in Sweden no one wears a mask anymore and hasn’t for a while now. No check ins at stores. No social distancing anymore etc etc So why isn't Covid ripping through your countries like it is in The UK. I would imagine you have lower vaccination rates? If it's all so relaxed and has been for a while what's going on. Have you not got Delta there yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2021 5 hours ago, romavillan said: not prioritised getting first doses so that they could plaster loads of headlines about being ahead of the evil EU and get good press, and actually methodically vaccinated the population. After being so far 'ahead' the UK only has 50% of the population fully vaccinated, it's unforgivable, the UK could have been 75% double dosed by now. This post could possibly be more wrong, but I'm not sure exactly how. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 16, 2021 Moderator Share Posted July 16, 2021 1 hour ago, romavillan said: 52% of the UK population is fully vaccinated so not really that wrong? 66% of the adult population is fully vaccinated. Very few countries are currently vaccinating under 18s so a figure of the whole population is totally misleading 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2021 31 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: At least it shows we're taking our carbon neutral targets seriously, there'll be no **** alive by 2050 at this rate And those that are will be free of a bunch of knobs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2021 So I'm really confused. Most people from overseas seem to be a lot less locked down than we've been and think we're all panicking because we've been brainwashed into thinking we have to be locked does. Others think the Government have already been criminally negligent and opening up more is madness. There is a circle that can't be squared here. Then you have countries who have barely locked down seemingly have far better coronavirus outcomes. My brain hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 21 minutes ago, sidcow said: So I'm really confused. Most people from overseas seem to be a lot less locked down than we've been and think we're all panicking because we've been brainwashed into thinking we have to be locked does. Others think the Government have already been criminally negligent and opening up more is madness. There is a circle that can't be squared here. Then you have countries who have barely locked down seemingly have far better coronavirus outcomes. My brain hurts. It's because we're comparing or using very unbalanced data. We test - A LOT so those with a sniffle are being recorded as positive where they wouldn't even be tested elsewhere. It leads to much clearer data, but also means as Covid19 changes and mutates, we have new sets of data, showing the effect of new strands, which again, other nations aren't. No two countries are really testing this and reporting figures the same as what we are and that's because it's largely been politicised and govs are reporting what they want, essentially. That's why a lot of people are rightly looking at hospitals and deaths coming right down saying "right, let's get going then! Normality is upon us!" But another section is rightly saying "woah, the new strands ripping through us way faster! This isn't the time to open the place up!" The facts are, we still know little about it, especially the long term effects on humans, but by the same token hospitalisations are coming down so if we don't have a bit of faith now, when will we? There's so many factors in the spread of this and we're not doing a good job of communicating whatever message is being put out, which apparently is "no social distancing now" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted July 17, 2021 8 hours ago, lapal_fan said: token hospitalisations are coming down so if we don't have a bit of faith now, when will we? They’re going up, not down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Tokyo Olympics off to a great start with Covid cases already in the Olympic village, a athlete from Uganda who's defected and gone missing, the city under pretty harsh restriction and even thou there will be no fans at the games almost 80.000 people are going to show up to compete, or assist the athletes. Games still a week away... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 9 hours ago, lapal_fan said: At least it shows we're taking our carbon neutral targets seriously, there'll be no **** alive by 2050 at this rate You won't have a car. You won't go on holiday. You will own nothing and you will be happy, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 11 minutes ago, Xela said: You won't have a car. You won't go on holiday. You will own nothing and you will be happy, Sounds like a blues fan apart from the happy bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Looks like it's unvaccinated 30+s in the ICU COVID wards. There's a huge amount of young people vaccine resistance because they've been told over and over that it's an old person disease. I think the gov / news channels need to start filming these unvaccinated 35 year olds on ventilators and broadcasting it out to arrest that narrative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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