Every day the vaccine rolls out

[Chick A Saw]

My point was there’s 1400 odd deaths by other means so overall it’s not a significant number and 23 deaths today so far in uk from covid.Just like to know what constitutes a pandemic as all this is as clear as mud

When talking figures, I can only talk about Scotland as thats frankly all i am interested in. So i start off with reports that we have reported 3 days without a death recorded here! Wow, Great, Lets get the pubs open!

Well no! I wish it were as simple as that, but we are still seeing a 7 day average of 530 new infections each day, and while the trend is down, all the virus needs to do is find a host that causes a mutation that Kents or Brazils it again, makes it more transmissible, or even worse, makes it more deadly to young age groups or hides the virus from the vaccinations and we are back to last March!

Lockdown has driven the daily infection figures down, the vaccination programme is stopping the most virus vulnerable from serious symptoms, and different drug treatments are helping the non-vaccinated if they end up in hospital. But that is only Scotland as part of the UK, and a few other countries who are ahead of us with their vaccination efforts.

However, as this is a Global Pandemic, it doesnt matter what happens here, and you only have to look at what is happening in Europe to see why, but it is only the WHO that can declare the pandemic as beaten!

[arab777]

My point was there’s 1400 odd deaths by other means so overall it’s not a significant number and 23 deaths today so far in uk from covid.Just like to know what constitutes a pandemic as all this is as clear as mud

Just because our numbers are low just now doesn't mean we are out of a pandemic. We are going in the right direction as large parts of the population are being vaccinated. It would be folly to open up too quickly especially as numbers are spiralling in rest of Europe. The gradualist approach is the right one, we could easily slip back in to another surge if we get it wrong.

[FTFun]

so, 19 reported deaths on the last day of lockdown. lets see where we are in 3 weeks.

[Chick A Saw]

The great effort continues, and the lockdown measures do seem to still be working, but reductions are slow week on week!

Dose 1 Vaccination progress by age group with Dose 2 reported as appropriate.
Over 80s, 97.8% – 28% (25.3)
75-79, 100%
70-74, 100%
65-69, 98%
60-64, 98.1% (97.8)
55-59, 78.4% (76.2)
50-54, 55.4% (53)
40-49, 30.7% (30.4)
30-39, 21.9% (21.6)
16-29, 13.9% (13.7)

[tHeArAb]

Its not a fair point at all,its the point of someone who is safe saying,"I could not give a flying phuck about some of the elderly dying just allow the rest of us to go back to the old normal.
Its been made perfectly clear to me that i'm not allowed to be political on this board but everyone reading this will know that troonarab is being political without nailing his colours to the mast.
If he and others carry on with their ultra right wing
views i am wading right in there against them.FACT.
When the phuck are some O these right wingers gonna engage with fellow Arabs and Scots on other threads?.Its like the Russian interference in the USA elections on here at times
What makes it FN worse is its not just them being accomodated on here but being supported to a certain extent by the MODS.

There are so called Arabs who have only appeared on here when i have backed the FM when she has been abused by Mods and other posters and that's a FACT.
Not FN one of them have appeared on SB 71's thread about their Arab history because they havnie FN got one,FACT.At some point the Mods on this board will need to decide if they are willing to allow a poster who is involved in almost every thread is to be banned for life when he only defend's his political beliefs against posters who could not give a flying phuck about DUFC.

No one is allowed to be political, not just you. It just so happens that you don't seem to be able to take this on board time & again despite knowing that kind of chat is banned on this here. Tbf to others, they have kept the political chat to a minimum after everyone was warned a few weeks ago and tbh, in moderation, I'm fine with a bit being discussed in the vaccine thread but not to the lengths of the other week.

I don't see any hidden political message in Troons post whatsoever. That's a ridiculous accusation.

If you keep 'wading' in on the defensive of your political views then there will only be one outcome. Again, to suggest Troons post contains ultra right wing views is completely absurd.

I haven't taken part in SB71s thread, what's the issue? Some of us don't feel the need to take part in posts like that when they've been done before. Does it mean we don't have an Arab history? Does it f*ck. The thread in question only asks where we were born and where we live now. What has that got to do with people having an Arab history?

Sorry mate but I'm getting bored of your constant ramblings like this. It's something I'd expect from a child not a grown adult.

[tHeArAb]

19 covid deaths in England yesterday is that really a pandemic when 1500 die every day?

128,242,601 covd deaths worldwide and rising by the second is a Pandemic. Just because we have ours somewhat under control thanks to strict measures and the vaccine doesn't mean we stop & go back to normal.

[tHeArAb]

Totally agree with this, it's bizarre thinking. But the case levels in Angus (for instance) really don't justify lock down and haven't really for weeks now.

Fair rise in Angus cases over the weekend unfortunately. Up from 23/100,000 to 34/100,000. Still low enough to not merit the tight restrictions we're in mind you, but its this type of rise that will have the government watching us very closely & subsequently reluctant to let us loose.

[Chick A Saw]

Fair rise in Angus cases over the weekend unfortunately. Up from 23/100,000 to 34/100,000. Still low enough to not merit the tight restrictions we're in mind you, but its this type of rise that will have the government watching us very closely & subsequently reluctant to let us loose.

Sorry to split hairs here, but the reported time frame for that is the 7 days up to the 25th, last Thursday. That figure is now 39/100k, up to Friday. May this have been something to do with cases at Monifieth High that were mentioned somewhere, although i cant remember seeing a news report on that.

[tHeArAb]

Sorry to split hairs here, but the reported time frame for that is the 7 days up to the 25th, last Thursday. That figure is now 39/100k, up to Friday. May this have been something to do with cases at Monifieth High that were mentioned somewhere, although i cant remember seeing a news report on that.

Crikey, the Covid polis are out early today. I'll try harder next time officer.

[JamesMcClean]

Crikey, the Covid polis are out early today. I'll try harder next time officer.

It's not case numbers per se that are the main issue now. It's how many are actually being hospitilised and the associated death rate that's now critical. If that remains low and under control then THAT is the barometer that should be being used to assess restrictions levels.