Wow… I thought it was common place…
Tasty though.
First I’ve heard, and it frightened me a little bit!
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good cheese. My mam bought me no less than 10 cheeses for Xmas and a new cheeseboard!
Not a huge fan of red wine. I’m more a cider drinker and spirits (except rum), the pirates can keep that.
Why are pirates called pirates?
‘Cause they Arrrrrrrr!
Enough red wine for me then…
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That the plan has been confirmed every UK adult will now get vaccinated, don’t think it will happen by the autumn but welcome news and hopefully mean the next return to F2F will be sustainable 
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was this ever in doubt?
perhaps naively i thought it was going to be offered to everyone so not sure why this was news this morning? (other than the target date)
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I think it was, every briefing before the news today had highlighted that the groups identified as priority by the JVCI accounted for 99% of deaths and hospitalizations. It then unfortunately comes down to columns on a spreadsheet and would the cost of vaccinating the rest of the population outweigh the cost to the health service of treating them. Maybe its now taking into account more data that make it more worthwhile.
That’s why it made me happy at least
You have ignored the big cost, the political cost.
Can you imagine if they didn’t offer it to everyone? The opposition would be able to lay every death of a non-vaccinated person at the Governments door at the next election, even Labour couldn’t mess that up.
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Also hasn’t the government ordered something like 300 million doses. Enough to cover every human, cow, sheep & dog in the UK twice.
Be a bit difficult to not offer it when most of them will need to be used before they go off or are ineffective against a new strain.
That’s of several potential vaccine candidates not approved, they were hedging their bets.
I honestly believed, based on the constant reinforcement of the messaging around 99% that it was going to be like the annual flu vaccines and those under 50 without a targeted underlying condition were going to be asked to pay if they wanted the vaccine.
I never saw that as a politically acceptable option, now next year when the new Covid Variant is out I can see it going that way.
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I’m for and against this, because yes it means we make some money back off buying the vaccines and stuff like that, but depending on the price, people aren’t likely to get it even though heard immunities what we need. I think it’s fine as long as those frontline workers that aren’t actually included in the roll out won’t be made to pay for it either. I know in my job, interacting with the public on a near daily basis apart from when I’m on rest days means I’m coming into contact with it and also at risk of spreading it. I personally wiped my entire team out 2 weeks before Christmas and was completely asymptomatic, it was only because my partner had symptoms and I had a track and trace notification that shows I came into contact with it on shift about a week earlier. In that time I had been in peoples houses, interacted with so many members of the public and that’s a dangerous game to play in my eyes. If we have to pay for it, people aren’t as likely to get it and we’re still at risk of passing it between people, especially as now most of us in my team have had it. What’s interesting to see is some county forces have been giving it out to their officers and some of us aren’t getting it until next year at this rate if we don’t have to pay for it.
but is the first one (pfizer) or the Oxford one, they ordered 100 million…with a population ~65million that is a vast portion of the population getting two jabs
This.
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Our local Morries has been pretty good - I haven’t seen what I would call major breaches (especially with masks), although as with many supermarkets / shops, sometimes that staff get a bit forgetful about distancing with each other.
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From Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.
At £200 a time why not just put a copper on the door and not offer people masks, it’s hardly a new thing is it!
Yeah why not they only have 490 stores nationwide, assuming we only stitched up probationers with the job that would be £171,000 per day, thanks I’ll take a cheque.
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What this really means is they’ll ban the ones who don’t have enough brain power to claim medical exemption when they aren’t exempt. Unless they’re taking doctors notes at the door…
I thought there was a whole ho-ha about this exactly and that they can’t ask for proof? If someone says they’re exempt then that’s it. Only a constable can ask for proof? (Not even PCSOs?)
The guidance is that even PC’s don’t ask for proof, they aren’t Doctors. They are however more likely to be a tad more inquisitive as to why you are exempt.
Most people who are genuinely exempt appear to have gotten themselves the sunflower lanyards.
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