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When they were asked in the press conference if they’d be doing boosters over christmas/boxing day and the bank holidays, as far as I can tell they made up the plan that second. None of my GP friends had heard anything about it prior.
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yeah thats what we heard from the community vaccination centre, coincidentally as they were making up their own plan that second which turned out to be wrong
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Communist Thoughts posted:Its funny that the UK gov announced under 40s boosters without telling anyone or having planned anything but also sturgeon did her typical thing of announcing UK policy like 6 hours earlier to pretend the scottish government is real but also hadn't planned anything Did you try just booking an appointment through the NHS Scotland site. My partner is booked one yesterday for this Saturday, she said the website was lagging a bit but it seemed to work apart from that.
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Juche Couture posted:When they were asked in the press conference if they’d be doing boosters over christmas/boxing day and the bank holidays, as far as I can tell they made up the plan that second. None of my GP friends had heard anything about it prior. The only question is how much of this panic is background-radiation incompetence, how much distraction from all the party stuff, and how much genuine concern about Omicron? I have a horrible suspicion that it's mostly the latter, with the scandals just penning in the ability of the government to impose NPIs.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The only question is how much of this panic is background-radiation incompetence, how much distraction from all the party stuff, and how much genuine concern about Omicron? I have a horrible suspicion that it's mostly the latter, with the scandals just penning in the ability of the government to impose NPIs. Based on how Norway and Denmark reacted to Omicron, I think it's probably the latter sadly.
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Dec 14, 2021 10:42
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I glanced at the news this morning and I saw... quote:"govt looking to overturn the human rights act to counter political correctness and 'wokeism' " And... quote:"Elon Musk named person of the year" Kill me now please.
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Lungboy posted:https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1470506750193422339 If they do delete it that's spoliation. Literally the worst thing you can do even if the evidence paints you in a bad light.
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Dec 14, 2021 10:52
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That's why you always blame the work experience lad
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That's why Johnson has a dozen kids, just tumbling out of control through the upper atmosphere burning off an ablative layer of spaff.
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Tesseraction posted:If they do delete it that's spoliation. Literally the worst thing you can do even if the evidence paints you in a bad light. You're talking about a workplace where all emails get irrecoverably deleted after 3 months as policy.
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Dec 14, 2021 11:40
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I do not believe the people who breached covid lockdown guidelines to have multiple parties also followed the rules of only using their in-house email for planning this stuff.
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peanut- posted:You're talking about a workplace where all emails get irrecoverably deleted after 3 months as policy. If Iraq had happened now it would literally be "Yes Saddam has WMDs, I received an email confirming it. No the email has now been deleted. Sorry."
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I don't care about that dickhead's documentary but this is illuminating to say the least: https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1470668406865207298?t=sAzvuX5azNxye1pmEVwaWQ&s=19
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https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1470668693583667200 "Ironic pedophiles" is like "ironic nazis", you get enough of them in one place and suddenly it turns out that half of them aren't ironic.
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He was a horrible oval office in the 90s and he still is except now somehow respected as a serious big brain lib.
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keep punching joe posted:Did you try just booking an appointment through the NHS Scotland site. My partner is booked one yesterday for this Saturday, she said the website was lagging a bit but it seemed to work apart from that. no appointments available anywhere near edinburgh according to the site
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keep punching joe posted:He was a horrible oval office in the 90s and he still is except now somehow respected as a serious big brain lib. https://twitter.com/CeilNoyle/status/1470706136441663493 Sexually transgressive alt-humour was a welcome break from Whitehouse style moral puritanism, and a key part of boundary breaking in third-wave feminism, but when it becomes just a bunch of lads lads lads joking about their knobs and not actually examining any of the social baggage around it or anything else then that's not actually progressive and it's no surprise what some of them age into.
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Finally got my booster. I had to drive about 45 mins and queue for another 45 or so but at least it's all done now. I had mine in a massive church which was actually a good spot.
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My Dad emailed me yesterday to brag about not getting any vaccination for covid or for flu and that he caught covid and it wasn't that bad. I just want to email back 'you are a oval office' 10,000 times then log off but I realise this is a waste of my time and energy.
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You laugh but we're about a month away from some beetroot faced oaf ramming a dinghy in his weekend leisure craft and saying he was protecting his country and getting a slap on the wrist which will still generate a daily express crusade
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The only question is how much of this panic is background-radiation incompetence, how much distraction from all the party stuff, and how much genuine concern about Omicron? I have a horrible suspicion that it's mostly the latter, with the scandals just penning in the ability of the government to impose NPIs. 🤷♂️ The hospitalisation numbers at the moment are obviously bad but they’re not really that much worse than how it’s been sitting for the last few months - which is unforgivable but makes the sudden media pivot to “the NHS is on its knees” very obviously the result of briefing from No 10. I probably shouldn’t say exactly where I work but our numbers in Covid ICU are down significantly compared to a month ago. SAGE’s modelling predicts things are going to get worse soon. But that would require the govt to be actually planning in advance for what might be coming, which would be seriously out of character. I think at least part of it is that it helps to divert attention from the rapidly ballooning waiting lists for everything else (private companies are licking their lips at the thought of outsourcing for ‘waiting list reduction’, so it’s in their interests to make things worse). I’m not a virologist or an epidemiologist. The 2 recent papers in the NEJM on booster vaccines are reason for optimism. I think the most important thing we could do right now is vaccinate the whole drat planet to reduce the rate of dangerous mutation to as low as is feasible.
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Adolf Glitter posted:I glanced at the news this morning and I saw... The world is mind poison atm Stop watching the news unless local Make your world smaller
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SpicePro posted:My Dad emailed me yesterday to brag about not getting any vaccination for covid or for flu and that he caught covid and it wasn't that bad. Solidarity fellow insane toxic shithead dad haver
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I read the news today - oh boy David Baddiel "I briefly thought about being a comedian but realised I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids"
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If you are looking for an excuse to get a PCR, a friend has just pointed out to me that today is the last day to test positive and be out of quarantine in time for Christmas. I felt it a sage thought worth sharing.
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Juche Couture posted:(private companies are licking their lips at the thought of outsourcing for ‘waiting list reduction’, so it’s in their interests to make things worse). The private companies are also by and large drawing from the same staffing pool as the NHS - doctor wise especially so I doubt they're going to be able to make bank since their staff are going to get conscripted if things go to poo poo again. We should vaccinate everyone and anyone who is "voluntarily unvaccinated" should have that fact tattooed on their foreheads like the Nazis from Inglorious Basterds.
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Juche Couture posted:🤷♂️ The hospitalisation numbers at the moment are obviously bad but they’re not really that much worse than how it’s been sitting for the last few months - which is unforgivable but makes the sudden media pivot to “the NHS is on its knees” very obviously the result of briefing from No 10. I probably shouldn’t say exactly where I work but our numbers in Covid ICU are down significantly compared to a month ago. SAGE’s modelling predicts things are going to get worse soon. Well this is it, the numbers say that with boosting the hospitalisation and death rate will be lower for Omicron than for Delta in an unboosted population. The problem is that it's more transmissable so even if it were half as dangerous as Delta (which is optimistic) if we end up with 4 times as many cases a week (which is within the range of predictions at the moment) then we still end up with twice as many hospitalisations and deaths. Slightly more optimistically, there's increasing (but still not definitive) evidence that 2xAZ plus mRNA booster gives the very best protection against Omicron of any of the common vaccine schedules and as that's what most of our most-vulnerable population and most of the NHS got we might somehow just have managed to fall arse-backwards into the best scenario yet again. (Well maybe not the best scenario for this thread as it's also the schedule I got so you still have to put up with my poo poo)
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Zalakwe posted:If you are looking for an excuse to get a PCR, a friend has just pointed out to me that today is the last day to test positive and be out of quarantine in time for Christmas. I felt it a sage thought worth sharing. Yeah, about that… https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1470729620794261506?s=20
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An acquaintance of mine has been in an (NHS) hospital for two weeks now while they fix the complete gently caress-up a private hospital made of his gall bladder removal. It's cool that the privatised side of our health system gets to just wash its hands of all its mistakes and difficult treatments and let the NHS deal with it.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:why are there suddenly no tests? Because everyone is worried and demand has gone nuts, presumably. Just got Pfizer'd, so that's Px3 for me. Not going to be literally irl bulletproof like GT but I'll take what I can get
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stev posted:I don't care about that dickhead's documentary but this is illuminating to say the least: This quote from the FT is pretty telling: The FT posted:
https://www.ft.com/content/c80cc221-d61a-40dd-b2ca-5a51f16c7608 He's A-Ok with all the hordes of people falling over themselves to tell him how funny and brilliant he is; the people who say that his jokes suck and he's an idiot though, well...
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Pistol_Pete posted:vituperative Thats a new word for me, going to try to be a bit more vituperative from now on.
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It's a nice contrast between the lockdown sceptic MPs whining about having the carry a bit of paper, and everyone else I know rolling their sleeves up for this. Had pfizer on top of 2xAZ yesterday. Last night's dreams were full blue-veined stilton grade.
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Communist Thoughts posted:no appointments available anywhere near edinburgh according to the site Edinburgh seems really booked up, best I could get is the middle of january.
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