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At the some stages of the pandemic people got fined thousands for playing backyard cricket, so who knows.

Or doing learning driving outside of a 5km radius.

10653

But yeah I was more worried we’d have some snap lockdown for 5 days or so, I agree tbh no one would care if it was 15 or 20 people.

10654

Yeah. I have no-weekly conference calls with my mid-management in us and uk - and I do really have to be careful about answering questions like “how was your weekend?” And “how’s it all going down there?”

It’s one thing to answer honestly, but in essence I know people are struggling 20-fold in the uk/us.

We have it very lucky, but it is by design. Australia always seems to not get fucked by global events. Be it the GFC and now covid.

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10655

And I have no qualms about telling people to back off, politely of course.

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10657

This is absolutely huge. Every adult to have received their first dose by end of May if we can keep supply up.

Start investing in those airline and hotel shares boys and girls :rocket: :full_moon_with_face:

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10658

Just in the nick of time. Glad our government are so on the ball.

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10659

Basically even if do it correctly it means fuck all if the rest of the UK doesn’t bother ffs

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10660

Yeah mate but where still in our smug bubble of having vaccinated more people than in Europe.
Don’t piss on the parade now.
There was nothing in the film contagion about borders so why should we do this.

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10661

New variants are gonna come over and shit on all our efforts to vaccinate because these Tory cunts can’t protect it’s people properly. Disgusting the lot of them.

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10662

Finally, border restrictions along with mass vaccination should get us out of this situation.

It may have come late but I’m just begging for these measures to be put in place ASAP

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10663

I expect they’ll make this a priority and new measures should be in place in time for Easter.

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10664

:rofl:

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10665

Won’t happen, everything I’ve read so far points to May.

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10666

Selfishly that would be amazing for me as last May my birthday was spent in lockdown and I don’t want to do it twice :joy:

What better way to have a first pint since September than it being my birthday month lol

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10667

I was more laughing at the idea that pubs would reopen without being allowed to sell alcohol.

Pint of orange juice to celebrate you birthday sound good @Calum ?

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10668

Just the like and soda for me please

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10669

So my daughter and I are back to video calls only while shielding is in effect.

I do worry what the way out of this is for us because there are no plans to vaccinate clinically extremely vulnerable children, indeed so far as I know the vaccines have never been tested on children.

Yet clinically extremely vulnerable children can, have and do die of Covid. It’s rare but predominantly in children with complex interacting medical conditions, indeed in children who may be the only ones who have their exact mix of needs. That describes my daughter.

When this does end for most people and the social distancing and masks and all the rest of it end, and international travel is opened up (more so than it already is) and varients can be imported, I worry that there are going to be any number of ways she could catch it. This is a child who has been put in hospital by a bad cold in the past. Why is she, and others like her, being forgotten?

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10670

You might want to look if it’s possible to get a vaccine for her privately. Otherwise Vitamin D3 is supposed to aid the immune system significantly.

A complete fuck up that they aren’t prioritising at risk children.

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10671

That’s really shit, and I’m sorry to hear you’re family is going through this - it just be tremendously hard.

I realise you’re much more of an expert on the matter than I am but this exact question came up on one of the press conferences that BoJo held where a dad with a daughter in your situation asked the same thing and Jonathan Van Tam said that people in this situation should be ask their GP who can then look into getting an exemption for the child to get them to the front of the queue.

However as you say it’s not been tested on immune compromised people or children so there’s a degree of the unknown.

My girlfriends mum has rheumatoid arthritis and her stepmum is a leukaemia survivor and they’re not allowed to get the vaccine yet either as they don’t know the consequences since it wasn’t tested on immunocompromised people.