The General Covid19 Thread

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LT42

Homegrove which is what I alluded to about healthworkers and the strain on hospitals last week but it fell on death ears. Its ok though have you seen the percentages yet? Lol

Homegrove

I meant also outside of health workers. Not everyone can work from home with SNIFFLES.

LT42

Homegrove of course, I hear ya. Goes without saying really barring one or two birdbrains.

alistair

Interesting reading from ONS

vinnyt77

alistair So basically, if you’re a young person of colour, living in a city and from an economically deprived background, you’re an Omicron hotbed?

Jules72

Hursty End January… I’d say more like mid January… the coalface beckons lads

Hursty

Jules72 Tropple quad vaxxed and ready for the next Fabric gig front and centre 🤟

alistair

vinnyt77 what struck me was how booster resistant the omicron variant appears to be so far (but then they do take time to kick in)

Old-Dutch

Yer ma’s an anti-vaxxer and calls herself Mrs. Doubtpfizer

vinnyt77

Old-Dutch Mrs. Doubtpfizer

😆

Solid work 👍️

Dan

Old-Dutch Your finest hour

zackster

alistair ah hem

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/health/moderna-booster-omicron-bn/index.html

vinnyt77

alistair Yeah - think there was a disclaimer on timing / efficacy of boosters towards the bottom of the summary. Might be an artefact of the double vax + booster combo being so powerful against Delta, that Omicron is the only variant of note/risk?

RichM

Booster jab done this morning. Really hope no side effects as I got to do the Xmas dinner tomorrow lunchtime.

vinnyt77

RichM I had the Pfizer vaccine for my booster. Dead arm for a coupla days, and had a really weird fever/shakes episode in the middle of the night - about 15 hours after I had the jab. Lasted 4-5 hours, then was fine again. First two jabs were AZ… 👍️

Jules72

Got to say I have an issue using boosters that were designed for the original strain… there is clearly a big drop in efficacy and boosters apparently will only last 2-3 months before protection drops off substantially… we can take these vaccines every month at an extreme but that of course is unlikely to be healthy… much better to get these vaccines modified for the current strains so we only have to take them once a year

vinnyt77

Jules72 Yes and no IMO. If they provide some short term protection against this variant that we all hope is gonna be the last major variant of the pandemic, then have at it.

Not long-term sustainable/sensible though…

Along_the_Wire

Jules72 two AZ and a Pfizer is 70% and you’re highly protected against serious illness. More than happy with that for now.

RichM

vinnyt77 I had Pfizer fir my first 2, this one Moderna. Hoping a dead arm is all I will get. Don’t want anything to get in the way of early morning boozing tmrw

Funky

I got slaughtered on here for mentioning the 3 months efficacy, Israel already have the 4th booster lined up now. My hope is for Omicron to be the journey to the end of all this we have so many anti viral drugs coming and potentially a single dose vaccine, which i would be more than happy to take instead of 3 or 4 a year.

Along_the_Wire

Funky My hope is for Omicron to be the journey to the end of all this we have so many anti viral drugs coming and potentially a single dose vaccine

Until then, I’m happy with jabs. Why wouldn’t you be?

Smallman1

I’d take a jab a month if it meant I could continue to ledge it al the coalface.

Jules72

vinnyt77 yeah agreed - if this is the last one…

Interesting question though is who decides the new modified boosters should be produced? It won’t be the pharmas because they stand to make more money from vaccines that are used as regularly as possible… so I guess governments would have to tell them they won’t purchase their vaccine unless they’re modified

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