O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[ramAnag]

https://www.politico.eu/article/vacc...ta-varian-who/

Forgot to add the provenance. I have no idea of the political bias or agendae of the source but it seems pretty factual and balanced.

All in all it looks like the world health organisation reckon the wealthy nations acting unfairly with 3rd. They have a point

As, I have to admit, do you. Good point, harshly made, though - as a POI - I’m actually not eligible for my third jab yet.

[Andy_Faber]

As, I have to admit, do you. Good point, harshly made, though - as a POI - I’m actually not eligible for my third jab yet.

If you are concerned (this is a public service post not a dig) there are a number of places you can walk in right on your six month date and get a jab, I think theres one at Forest Rec, and I believe that if you can prove 2 doses they might do it a bit early, my nhs buddy over there did so

[ramAnag]

If you are concerned (this is a public service post not a dig) there are a number of places you can walk in right on your six month date and get a jab, I think theres one at Forest Rec, and I believe that if you can prove 2 doses they might do it a bit early, my nhs buddy over there did so

Thanks, I’m not especially, although I am close to six months.

[ramAnag]

Returning to the topic, I don’t understand why - in the light of the current frankly scary figures - we aren’t following a ‘plan B’ at least as far as compulsory mask wearing indoors and on public transport is concerned.

Having been to three ‘events’ this week it just appears too random at the moment i.e. very crowded gig on Monday saw an estimated 5% of mask wearers, Pride Park on Tuesday...much the same, even in the concourses...and a theatre visit yesterday...about 5% in the bar and 85% in the auditorium.

You wouldn’t get away with that in Spain and their figures, despite the influx of summer tourists, are so much better than our horror show ones.

Every picture tells a story and this one includes a Government extraordinarily reluctant to do anything that isn’t populist or is likely to raise questions over the ‘success’ of their Covid strategy to date.