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This is why the current approach and extending restrictions is so wrong. Based on all the data so far the vaccines work against all variants. There have been zero exceptions to this. why then is the starting point to shit the bed every time a new variant is announced? Based on the data the starting point should to say its extremely likely the vaccine will work so we’ll carry on easing, monitor the situation and only if something changes do we change path and think about pausing.

It’s a scam text mate. The vaccines don’t really exist.

Send it from Devithebam and sign it off accordingly. That’ll confuse him.

You shouldn’t be. The government are protecting you. This is all for your own (and everybodys) good.

I see we’ve just started trials of the Valneva vaccine. Is there any point in trialling it in the UK when prevalence and transmission are so low?

It’s probably a bit late for the media to be jumping up and down. They’ve been complicit in the government(s) actions every step of the way and their hysterical reporting has been fuelling the fear. one of the reasons the population are still supportive of these actions.

Strikes me as fear mongering by a WHO employee to highlight the catastrophic situation in India. In no way should it be in the thinking of policy makers here. A responsible media wouldn’t be giving it air time. We should be basing our decisions on what is happening here, not what might be happening in India.

No evidence to support anything. These are anecdotal claims coming out of India. Should we be basing policy based on the “scientific” evidence coming from India? The same India who said something along the lines of “we’ve nailed this in our country, epidemic over” a couple of months ago and wanted the WHO to applaud them for how well they’d done?

Based on there being zero examples of the government being in any rush to unlock restrictions.

Where is the evidence that supports this claim? Based on what? There is nothing the government have said or done during this pandemic that would make this a reasonable statement.

How deluded are you? They’ve totally shat the bed at the first hint of case numbers rising. Anyone could predict this would happen and there would be outbreaks like this. You don’t need to be a member of SAGE to know this. it is not a reasonable response to further trash businesses unless there is evidence this is having an impact on the NHS. Case numbers do not matter in the slightest at this point in time.

Leitch was on the news an hour or so ago and was asked this. We just don’t know.

Guessing most of the blazers live in Glasgow (and of course will be attending) and can’t be arsed trekking to Aberdeen or wherever.

So no attempt to move the game?

Which figures do you expect to get worse next week?

Boris has just been asked about that. No delay to the rest of the rollout according to Whitty. it was alleged there is a stockpile of 10m doses in the UK. Get them into arms FFS.

I’ve bribed Mrs. Back to give me a lift to the train station on Monday morning. Scotrail will then transport me to our nations capital. A gourmet breakfast (McDonalds) awaits before taking a leisurely stroll down to Easter Road to meet up with my mates on the stroke of the pubs opening their doors at 10am. Bring it on

More importantly it would have made f**k all difference to the election result.

Boris admitting there is no increased pressure on the NHS so battering on

Doesn’t take effect until Monday. We’re all in level 3 until then.

Reviewed in a week.

BBC speculating that Sturgeons announcement might cause Johnson to lock down Bolton. Can’t see that happening.

Exactly that. They just don’t know. They even admitted there was no reason to think this variant isn’t hammered by the vaccines. They only suspect the India variant as well. All total conjecture.

Are they not doing targeted testing in South Glasgow? That will always skew the test positivity as you’ll pick up asymptomatic infections. something else from that figure of 3.5%. SG trumpeted their latest levels system as being the gold standard of advice from the WHO. The WHO also say that if you have test positivity lower than 5% you have the virus under control. Happy to cherry-pick the stats that suit them.