I guessed it meant the % of those two groups who had accepted an invitation to have the vaccination.
The adult population of the UK is c. 51 million. Around 44 million of these people identify themselves as white and 7 million as non-white. If 90% of the 44 million and 59% of the 7 million had been vaccinated that would mean 43.7 million people would have received their jabs. That’s not the case.
Thanks for the explanation BenCotto. I was just confused by the original post as to what anyone's colour had to do with having a vaccine.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
People find a driving licence or an ordinary passport acceptable so why not? In any case, if people want to holiday abroad, it will be just another form of paperwork they have to produce. It will be interesting to see how many people stick to their principles if it means they can't have a foreign holiday.
Many years ago you always had to have the paperwork to say you had been vaccinated against smallpox before you could leave the country (or, indeed, return). Only difference I can see is it will be more like tetanus where you need to get it renewed.
I seem to have been 'forced' to acquire quite a few plastic cards with my picture on, not sure one more will whittle away any more of my civil liberties.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I think they're a good idea if we're going to get the entertainment and hospitality businesses back working at anything like 'normal' ... I'll certainly be much more likely to go to restaurants, pubs, theatres, events etc if I know that everyone there has had their jabs. People can make a choice ... if they don't want to have the jab then they don't go to such places ... it's not as if restaurant dining or going to the cinema is a Human Right, let alone going abroad on holiday.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When I lived abroad, I got used to carrying an ID card and have never understood our fear of such things. I don,t get why it is an erosion of our civil liberties.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Kilo, you asked me what some ones colour had to do with the vaccine, apparently a lot of various ethnic minorities have refused the jab actors and public faces are doing an ad, trying to persuade them
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Thanks for the explanation BenCotto. I was just confused by the original post as to what anyone's colour had to do with having a vaccine.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
In any case, if people want to holiday abroad, it will be just another form of paperwork they have to produce.
It will be interesting to see how many people stick to their principles if it means they can't have a foreign holiday.
I seem to have been 'forced' to acquire quite a few plastic cards with my picture on, not sure one more will whittle away any more of my civil liberties.
I think they're a good idea if we're going to get the entertainment and hospitality businesses back working at anything like 'normal' ... I'll certainly be much more likely to go to restaurants, pubs, theatres, events etc if I know that everyone there has had their jabs. People can make a choice ... if they don't want to have the jab then they don't go to such places ... it's not as if restaurant dining or going to the cinema is a Human Right, let alone going abroad on holiday.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border