The good news is that new cases are −7% week-on-week (with sustained falls in the SE where cases previously were growing at an alarming rate) so we should begin to see deaths begin to drop off soon, but utterly dreadful figures all the same. : (

 

Soon? There’s still 46k cases today and that won’t fall to 4 figures for at least a month, so there’s plenty more pain to come imo

Well cases peaked on 9th... from the previous peak it was about 10 days after this before deaths peaked, which would make it 19th January. I'd agree the tail will be tortuously long though- most epidemiologist predictions expect it to be below ~500/day by mid February.

Being under 500 a day shows how awful this has been though!

Unfortunately my uncle passed away due to COVID yesterday. :( Having a loved one suffer and die due to COVID isn't something I would wish on anyone.

 

I do hope cases and deaths will dramatically fall over the coming weeks with lockdown + mass vaccination.

Sorry to hear that! I hope he had a good life & you have cherished memories.

Unfortunately my uncle passed away due to COVID yesterday. :( Having a loved one suffer and die due to COVID isn't something I would wish on anyone.

 

I do hope cases and deaths will dramatically fall over the coming weeks with lockdown + mass vaccination.

Sending metaphorical hugs :(

Unfortunately my uncle passed away due to COVID yesterday. :( Having a loved one suffer and die due to COVID isn't something I would wish on anyone.

 

I do hope cases and deaths will dramatically fall over the coming weeks with lockdown + mass vaccination.

Sorry to hear. I do wish people would stop saying it’s a lie

Unfortunately my uncle passed away due to COVID yesterday. :( Having a loved one suffer and die due to COVID isn't something I would wish on anyone.

 

 

 

Very sorry to hear that. :(

Unfortunately my uncle passed away due to COVID yesterday. :( Having a loved one suffer and die due to COVID isn't something I would wish on anyone.

 

I do hope cases and deaths will dramatically fall over the coming weeks with lockdown + mass vaccination.

 

That's awful. Sorry to hear that. : (

 

Some much needed positive news from Israel where the vaccine rollout has been equally good.

 

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And now a plumbing company are making a rule that all their staff must get vaccinated in order to keep their jobs.

 

Pubs and cinemas next?

And now a plumbing company are making a rule that all their staff must get vaccinated in order to keep their jobs.

 

Pubs and cinemas next?

 

That wouldn't be legal under UK employment law, so no.

 

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Toby 'Prediction of 2020' Young was privately educated. Just let that sink in for a second.

And now a plumbing company are making a rule that all their staff must get vaccinated in order to keep their jobs.

 

 

They can't surely if they're not due a jab yet.

I mean even if you had two doses of the vaccine though it is still unwise to go and have parties with others who have been vaccinated, who knows yet how far the South African variant that is believed to possibly be resistant to the vaccine will spread in the UK from those two cases that were discovered in the UK (and probably other undiscovered cases).

Do you have a source for this?

 

Why would our government secure 20 million vaccines if the strain here is believed to be resistant?

 

Unfortunately my uncle passed away due to COVID yesterday. :( Having a loved one suffer and die due to COVID isn't something I would wish on anyone.

 

I do hope cases and deaths will dramatically fall over the coming weeks with lockdown + mass vaccination.

 

Sorry for your loss :(

They’re on about categorising these so called anti-lockdown activists/anti-vaccine movement/covid deniers as terrorists

Edited January 14, 20214 yr by Hadji

The situation in Brazil, especially Manaus, is said to be terrible as they run out of oxygen.

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-91...amp;si=23290293

 

 

 

Brazil's new strain of coronavirus is ripping through the Amazon where tearful locals wait desperately for dwindling oxygen supplies to keep their relatives alive and doctors face the wretched task of deciding who can breathe.

 

At one hospital in Manaus, a despairing relative carried an oxygen tank for his own mother-in-law just to help her breathe for another two hours - with one expert describing the city as a 'suffocation chamber'.

 

Healthcare services have 'collapsed' in the Amazon's largest city, where hundreds of patients are being airlifted to other states while non-Covid sufferers are evicted from their beds to make way for those in greater need.

 

But with nearly 500 people still waiting for beds in Manaus, some elderly virus sufferers are being left to die at home.

 

 

Edited January 15, 20214 yr by common sense

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700,000 from London alone. Intrigued to see what happens now with the housing market and workforce in London.

 

Post-Brexit, how many of those workers won't be coming back?

I know a load of people across Europe who have no plans to return to London.

It may get that employers can't get people to do some jobs that EU people do, such as waiting tables, cooking, fruit-picking, cleaning etc etc.

It may get that employers can't get people to do some jobs that EU people do, such as waiting tables, cooking, fruit-picking, cleaning etc etc.

It's almost as if those of us who said people were coming here from abroad to do the jobs British people didn't want to do were telling the truth.