Same, same and same.
I am hoping there may be some relaxation on the ATF remote modules requirement to attend in uniform.
Its 4 months since my A/Sgt appointment and if, as the press reports suggest, we go into more stricter lockdown again in the next week or so then my parent station will again cancel my appointment for my initial issue 
Why? First day back after Christmas, and as CAC has previously stated, he was having a clean break over the Christmas period.
Personally, not expecting anything till mid-week at earliest. CAC will have to get agreement to push forward way of working in alignment with NYA and other CFs, so that will take a few days.
Saying that, this will all depend on HMG guidelines over CV-19, tiers, etc.
Scotland going into stricter lockdown, schools and nurseries shut until 1 Feb for now.
The statement to the Scottish parliament seems to indicate schools may remain closed until the teachers are vaccinated.
Also adults and 12-17 year olds are only to meet 2 people from 2 households outdoors at a time.
This is a big game changer if they close schools until all the teachers are vaccinated, it could be a significant time lag then before youth groups are open.
This is leadership. Saying you’re planning to make a decision, convening the team openly, then announcing the decision to act.
Meanwhile we have Boris prancing about Andrew Marr and wherever he is today with his sleeves rolled up hinting, nudging and winking about definitely tougher measures at some unforeseen point in the future, all while the case loads sky rocket, the hospitals are snowed under, and the kids are all able to mix again.
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Yeah but its easy for Sturgeon.
England is providing the vaccinne.
She has high approval ratings as she is ‘battling the evil Engs’ so can do as she pleases.
Scotland receives more money per head due Barnett formula. So again shes already on to a winner.
Meanwhile we have Boris.
But then again. All things being equal I cant name a single politician across the entire globe I would trust to get this 100% right.
And dont mention New Zealand as they ahave so many other factors playing into their hands that a likewise comparison is grossly inaccurate.
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Look I hate Nicola and would get front row seats to her and her cults hanging…
but can we stick to covid/ units reopening?
Boris on TV at 8… standby for you guys doing the same…
I honestly don’t see units reopening until the summer now.
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So everyone has just jumped through hoops writing their covid risk assessments, getting squadrons ready for regional authorisation etc etc… Just in time for the govt. to stipulate no F2F until the summer…
At which point we will (hopefully) be vaccinated and climbing down the tiers and relaxing social distancing etc etc etc…
(I know, I know - we’ll be living with this for a long time yet!)
I don’t need 100% right, I would settle for anything better than this idiot and his team of sycophantic idiots.
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They’ve updated the Omni calculator today, I’m now not being vaccinated until a suspected Jan - July 2022. Doesn’t bode well for the risk management approach the RAFAC takes and doing much activity in 2021.
Listening to the briefings and reading some of the statements by JVT, Chris Whitty et al I honestly think that unless your over 50 or qualify for the vaccine through an underlying condition its going to end up like the flu vaccine and if you want it you’re going to have to pay for it.
As I need to travel internationally for work I am already raising it with the company and highlighting that if they still require a test on arrival at usual place of work its going to cost around £150 a trip extra if they want me to attend the office.
Advanced mode and upping the vaccination rate to the 2m per week they expect to be at within a few weeks brings mine forward to July - October, still means its likely to be a quiet 2021.
Huh. Hadn’t seen this before. Neat!
Also, I’m still of the opinion that most people don’t need to be vaccinated for us to open up the country. Once all the elderly/high risk people have been vaccinated, then what’s stopping us opening up? The chance of dying if you catch it and are under 40 are so so so low. The exception being certain underlying health conditions, but those people will likely be high on the list for vaccination!
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I thought the issue was that it has the potential to be dangerous to all regardless of age, background etc. so I would disagree with you there.
I don’t think we’ll be doing anything face to face.Cadet wise for a while and then we’ve got the the challenge of staff and cadet interest to come back and getting re qualified and competent to practice again.
Ok so lockdown 3.0…
Please for the love of everything at least let one person go in and run the taps so we dont have to all be inspected again in 4 months time.
If you listen to the briefings and look at the priority list the over 50s plus those under with certain underlying conditions covers over 99% of those most at risk of death due to covid, hence why I don’t think everyone will get the vaccine for free.
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We are in an RFCA-managed building.
We are on a shared site with the ACF; RFCA CAA came in every week to run the taps and check on things.
Building still had to be tested #wasteoftaxpayermoney
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i would take their results with a (large) pinch of salt…
based on the numbers they quote me the basic maths simply doesn’t add up*, which to me gives me the impression they either don’t have a scooby-doo and this is just a tool to make the public feel better, or they really can’t forecast anything and not the right people for the task
*according the results from my given inputs
“here are between 28,049,905 and 38,844,493 people in front of you in the queue…”
ok i can’t dispute that so far
“… a vaccination rate of 1,000,000 a week…” - a target to aim for, i accept
you should expect to receive your vaccine between 01/02/2022 and 02/07/2022 .
taking the most pessimistic case, 39 million people are ahead of me:
if they all have the jab, and the rate is 1 million jabs a week - that is 39 weeks until i am at the front of the queue - week 39 is the end of September.
yet in the “worst case” situation with the longest queue it suggest the earliest will be end of January (3 months later) indicates that we either won’t be at the 1M jabs/week until April or that the 1M/week rate is not achievable.
Taking into account the 2 doses , those 39 million would take 78 weeks to work through which puts me at the front of the queue or end of April 2022 - which again is ~3 months prior to the longest wait.
my numbers above assume 100% uptake, but the Omni calculator indicates " an uptake of 70.6%" so should expect to be nearer the front of the queue sometime between Aug2021 - Jan 2022
I guess this all depends on the rate of jabs per week and how soon they can reach that target - but of course that 1M/week target is not quick enough The Independent - 2 million vaccinations required each week
this for me means a 28-38 week wait…ie sometime between July and September 2021, and this time the Omin calcuator is correct as is says July-October!
You rekon they will start charging…
To recoup £1bn on vaccines… after spending approaching £1tn thus far… dont think so.
i agree with paracetamol
financially it makes little sense.
from a “control” of the virus point of view, it also makes little sense. if people have to pay for it, that then doesn’t make it mandatory and so people will choose not to pay for it and instead go without. either because they can’t afford it, don’t want to pay for it/would rather that money goes towards their first pint at the bar, they could even choose not to due to the inconvenience of it (thinking of a self-employed tradesman who is given an appointment at 1130 at his local GP surgury, 2 miles across town, even though he works 30 miles away in the local big city - which requires a day off work and paying for the privilege??
if it isn’t free there will be people who just won’t have it, while on the other end there will be people paying over the odds to get it sooner
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