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My wife is an NHS pharmaceuticals buyer who although working form home works long into the night (unpaid after 5pm) to ensure that everything needed is available where it needs to be and when. If she got ill (although not on the frontline) there'd be a big problem. She will get a jab early, and so she bloody should for all our benefits :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
Interesting debate and Im sure if your wife was ill it would have a knock on consequences, just as a teacher getting ill or a nurse...and I could go on. This is happening now through Covid infection directly, or through workmates or children catching it and forcing people to self isolate.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomcat
Then there are the hundreds of thousands being furloughed or made redundant through no fault of their own and the 'big problems' that causes them and their families.
The experts say vaccinate the elderly first. Why?...because they are the group that is causing the logjam in hospitals. They are the group that take up most of the critical care beds.They are the group where 90% of the deaths occur...and that too has extreme knock on consequences for their families.
Newspapers report that NHS England will vaccinate NHS staff first. Northern Ireland will vaccinate the elderly first. Wales has yet to show its hand, but as the health minister has announced that he's seeking the advice of the immunisation experts I believe Wales will go with a similar approach to Northern Ireland.
Good Christmas present for someone. It could be popular on here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bog-Standar.../dp/B07ZRWBPS5
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55136635
I hope they take his balls off him too. :angry:
Pfiizer vaccines to start in the UK next week;-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55145696
Normality by easter, or maybe earlier?Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
America has announced it will do health care workers firstQuote:
Originally Posted by lisvaneblue
Then care home residents.
Hasn't announced any further yet but on CNN it was suggesting they would do other emergency services next ( police firefighters etc) followed by those who were vulnerable ( including all over 65's)
BBC reports this morning that the Pfizer vaccine has been approved for use in UK. They say that elderly in care homes will get it first. Vaccination will be rolled out from next weekQuote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
Great news finally....hopefully most who need it will get it by EasterQuote:
Originally Posted by lisvaneblue
The amount purchased will protect about 10 million people.
Hopefully the Moderna and Oxford ones will get approved and that would give us more than enough to do the whole country.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
The actual number pre ordered from various pharmaceutical companies is huge. 100m of the Oxford vaccine alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
https://www.cityam.com/which-covid-v...nment-ordered/
Welsh figures are back up to pre Firebreak levels looking at these on the back of similar figures yesterday, I suppose it needs two or three more days like them to be sure it is as bad as it's beginning to look;-
https://public.tableau.com/profile/p...eadlinesummary
there is slightly.more testing being done now, but yeah it does t look goodQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Cardiff 899 today.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
345 more in about 10 days!!
I Might be wrong, but I think that 899 is higher than at any time before the Circuit/Fire Break/Lockdown
Is this because of the mass testing of students going on by the Uni ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
Some weeks ago I would have said yes as the student areas had higher incidence. Now the MSOA data shows that there are high number of cases in the areas like Butetown, Canton, Pontcanna, Tremorfa.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
I thought they were testing them en mass before they go home? It’s all set up outside by the uni/welsh officeQuote:
Originally Posted by lisvaneblue
That test centre has been up and running for weeks. It's a walk in centre so I believe anyone can go. It was put near the Uni to encourage the students to have a test but is not exclusively for the university.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
It will be open after the university closes for Christmas, including Christmas day.
The students are being tested en-masse but with the 20 minute flow test or whatever they call it. They have 2 about 4 days apart and if both are negative they can go home. They only have to attend the Test Centre if they have a positive test. Then need to have the normal more invasive test to confirm.
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Originally Posted by goats
Students are being tested en masse. The point is was trying to make is despite the student testing the areas of high incidence in Cardiff are not in the typical student areas like Cathay, Roath
GotchyaQuote:
Originally Posted by lisvaneblue
Congratulations to Pfizer for their new Covid-19 vaccine.
The same company which makes Viagra.
I have complete faith in the new vaccine.
If a company can raise the dead then surely they can cure the living,
From 'boner' to 'corona' they got you coveredQuote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
Over 1,900 new cases today with 400 plus in Blaenau Gwent and RCT and 300 plus in Cardiff and Swansea. I think that might be a highest yet for Wales, but the figure for tests of nearly 20,000 was as the ighest I've seen.
https://public.tableau.com/profile/p...eadlinesummary
Especially as there is such stiff opposition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
The Star Leisure centre and pentwyn leisure centre are being set up as mass vaccination centres in cardiff, according to the council.
I’m surprised they haven’t set up a massive tent on Castle Steet yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
I'll have a word..,....Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
I was hoping for a drive through here....just get the jab as you pass through. Bluetit would love this....Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Hope there’s a few more places around the city, splott and pentwyn, a bit Easterly isn’t it?
That's the hospitality quarter, not medicalQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
The buses are going through Castle Street again and picking up outside the Castle as usual. Have you seen the new set up? It's hilarious. The bus shelters on the pavement, then there's a six feet wide cycle lane, then there are bus stops in the middle of the road. They've put pedestrian crossings across the cycle lanes. I shit you not.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
Clearly you've never been hit by a bicycle going at full peltQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
I haven't, not yet, but it will be greatly amusing when somebody inevitably is. Not for those involved, obviously, but you know what I mean. A genuine accident waiting to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
What's the difference between a push bike and a motor vehicle? Apart from a few tonne and speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
You haven’t seen the new set-up, have you? Take a look. I’d be interested in your thoughts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
I will, I rarely go into the city centre, although I have to buy a few presents so I'll take a look when I go in. Bluetit can't even spy from the runner at the moment. #prayforbluetitQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Being hit by a fast ridden push bike can do a person serious damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
I once witnessed a woman hit by a cyclist on Station road/Bridge road near the school. He hit her full tilt and she was taken to hospital, broken arm split head and unconscious. It is not to be laughed at.
and I have seen cyclists ignoring pedestrian crossings. I saw one guy who fell (was pushed?) off his bike whilst weaving through people on a pelicon crossing, who jumped up and demanded to know why the had got in his way.
I gave my particulars to the police who attended and some time later his solicitor had the cheek to write to me asking if I'd make a statement to the effect that she was partly to blame by moving in front of him as he tried to pass her, completely ignoring the fact that she (and the cyclist) was on the pavement. And of course there was no insurance for her to claim off, as there should be!
The problem is that some cyclist ruin it for others (as in all things) because they think the rules of the road only apply to everyone else and not them.
In the correct order now :facepalm: :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Being hit by a fast ridden push bike can do a person serious damage.
I once witnessed a woman hit by a cyclist on Station road/Bridge road near the school. He hit her full tilt and she was taken to hospital, broken arm split head and unconscious. It is not to be laughed at. I gave my particulars to the police who attended and some time later his solicitor had the cheek to write to me asking if I'd make a statement to the effect that she was partly to blame by moving in front of him as he tried to pass her, completely ignoring the fact that she (and the cyclist) was on the pavement. And of course there was no insurance for her to claim off, as there should be!
and I have seen cyclists ignoring pedestrian crossings. I saw one guy who fell (was pushed?) off his bike whilst weaving through people on a pelicon crossing, who jumped up and demanded to know why the had got in his way.
The problem is that some cyclist ruin it for others (as in all things) because they think the rules of the road only apply to everyone else and not them.
I had to drive into Kingsway a couple of times last week on business and if you could see the works that have been done on the roads it would be quite clear to anyone that the Council never had any intention of allowing the road to revert to its former use at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Despite all their protestation of consulting people before making any decisions they made their collective mind up as soon as they saw an opportunity to close it.
There is no way that some of those works could ever have been described as temporary.
The whole thing was both premeditated and deceitful, almost blatently lying to the citizens who used it about their intentions.