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  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    2.000 killed during an uprising in India during their fight for independence.
    BBC headline, 2 English, (probably Scots or Irish), soldiers killed in local disturbance.
    Sunny Dundee
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    LG_ said:
    A follow-up:
    https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2021/01/why-isn-t-uk-government-talking-about-airborne-transmission-covid-19

    "As compliance drops and risky behaviour continues despite the rules, it won’t be because people want to let the new strain spread. It will simply be that they think they are being responsible, operating in ways the government once told them were safe. And the consequences of that behavioural trend will not be the fault of those taking risks, but of a government that failed to inform them that it was a risk at all."
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    2.000 killed during an uprising in India during their fight for independence.
    BBC headline, 2 English, (probably Scots or Irish), soldiers killed in local disturbance.
    Possibly I’m being dim here but are you jokingly saying this is how the BBC might have reported the 1857 Cawnpore massacre?

    Your case is not strengthened.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Why can they not see that their own hypocrisy is why so many people will not adhere to the rules 

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rees-mogg-covid-rules-church-latin-mass-b1783280.html

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I suspect a Latin mass is almost guaranteed not to exceed the recommended maximum number of attendees but now that lockdown restrictions are legally enforceable I hope he's arrested and prosecuted.   Trouble is, if he's confessed and been absolved he's free to sin and confess again isn't he?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Sorry to break the news but you could still get COVID even after the vaccine(s) have taken effect. The idea is that your illness will be much less likely to make you seriously unwell. I know someone who had the vaccine in the Summer (trial) and was positive, with a mild illness, the other week. 

    https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/coronavirus-vaccine/
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • What if the vaccines don't work against any new varient like the South African one?what's the point in having it if it doesn't work against them?and I'm not saying this as an anti Vaxer I fully support vaccinations and will have mine as soon as I'm asked.it just worries me and it doesn't seem to have been answered properly??
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    There is no way of knowing whether any vaccine will work against any mutation of a virus in advance.
    The current known mutation is very similar to the original virus, so it is likely the vaccine will work.
    However viruses can mutate very quickly, and no one knows what will happen with future mutations, so new vaccines may have to be made.
    It is like the flu vaccine, which changes every year, depending on what mutations of the virus are found.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    edited January 2021
    I heard that they don’t know yet, but the mutation is said to be concerning as antibodies may not be so effective. Give us a break COVID! 
    Meanwhile, we have to crack on with the plan and hope the vaccinations can be done ASAP. 

    Keep stong and safe all. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They’re talking about mixing vaccines,  waiting 12 weeks instead of 4,  I think they are in panic mode now.
    I'm definitely not an anti vac  but seriously thinking of leaving this one for while.
    I don’t go out, don’t see anyone, avoided it so far,  so I will wait until they’ve got themselves sorted out a bit. 
    As I said before, this is going to lead people into a false sense of security.
    I’ll wait for 6 or 8 months and see the outcome of this lot. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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