[Boiler]

World-beating.

The NHS Covid Pass has crashed hours after the prime minister said it would become mandatory for some venues in England from next week.

Users reported being unable to download their domestic or travel passes from the NHS app and website following Boris Johnson's announcement.

People trying to access their pass on the app were met with a message asking them to try again later.

[Bones McCoy]

World-beating.

The NHS Covid Pass has crashed hours after the prime minister said it would become mandatory for some venues in England from next week.

Users reported being unable to download their domestic or travel passes from the NHS app and website following Boris Johnson's announcement.

People trying to access their pass on the app were met with a message asking them to try again later.

Haaaaaaaarding!!

[Cyclist]

Covid-19 should have learned about social distancing. Now it's contracted both Domoronic Scaab and Grunt Shapps.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/domin ... it-1343712

I almost feel sorry for the virus.

[Boiler]

Covid-19 should have learned about social distancing. Now it's contracted both Domoronic Scaab and Grunt Shapps.

What does The Victorian Haunted Pencil and members of the Tory Cunt Recognition Group make of all this, I wonder?

[Nigredo]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... p-ceo-says

Cautious optimism still simmering.

[Boiler]

COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago

[Boiler]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... p-ceo-says

Cautious optimism still simmering.

From that article:

Of the four deaths ascribed to Covid during this time, all had “significant co-morbidities” and were between 58 and 91 years old.

There's that phrase again - "significant co-morbidities". To me that always has a whiff of "useless eater, would have died anyway".

[Bones McCoy]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... p-ceo-says

Cautious optimism still simmering.

From that article:

Of the four deaths ascribed to Covid during this time, all had “significant co-morbidities” and were between 58 and 91 years old.

There's that phrase again - "significant co-morbidities". To me that always has a whiff of "useless eater, would have died anyway".

The Co-morbitity thing is bullshit from the deniers.
They like to conjure the image of patients in iron lungs or on life support.
It includes a host of conditions like asthma, diabetes and heart arrhythmia which can be medically controlled and only life-changing in their most extreme manifestations.

[Boiler]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... p-ceo-says

Cautious optimism still simmering.

From that article:

Of the four deaths ascribed to Covid during this time, all had “significant co-morbidities” and were between 58 and 91 years old.

There's that phrase again - "significant co-morbidities". To me that always has a whiff of "useless eater, would have died anyway".

The Co-morbitity thing is bullshit from the deniers.
They like to conjure the image of patients in iron lungs or on life support.
It includes a host of conditions like asthma, diabetes and heart arrhythmia which can be medically controlled and only life-changing in their most extreme manifestations.

As a type II diabetic (with added hypertension and morbid obesity) I hope you'll understand that I wouldn't like my likely demise were I to contract Covid to be written off as "ah, he'd have died anyway"...

[Boiler]

In other news, Public Health Scotland is now advising people to cancel their Christmas parties.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59599552

[Cyclist]

And I'm not looking forward to my last day of the working year tomorrow as everybody pissed off at lunchtime today to go to the Christmas party. In a pub. No masks required.

I'm not looking forward to phoning my mum to cancel Christmas either. No, still haven't done that, but I've made up my mind now.

(The last time I went to a work Christmas do was my first Christmas at work - 1984. I had such a wonderful time I swore I'd never attend another, no matter who I was working for or with)

[Tubby Isaacs]

Lots of Christmas parties apparently being cancelled. The venues are getting zero help from the government.

[Boiler]

And I'm not looking forward to my last day of the working year tomorrow as everybody pissed off at lunchtime today to go to the Christmas party. In a pub. No masks required.

Since learning that two of my colleagues tested +ve last week, I've been testing daily so gagging and sneezing are becoming commonplace here.

There was a works reunion today; given that (a) it's in London and (b) if I'm honest, there's only really a couple of people who attend whom I'd be happy to keep contact with, I chose to save money, time and avoid risk and stay at home. Got the Christmas wreathes sorted out instead.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Fizz has the 'rona. Her school has been hit hard and has gone on to 'amber alert' with cases in every class. Infants, so no vaccinations and precious few mitigations.

I hope she'll be OK, she has asthma. At the moment she just has a cough and sore throat.

Mrs A and I and her father and partner have all tested negative, as has Spike.

Worrying.

[MisterMuncher]

Lots of Christmas parties apparently being cancelled. The venues are getting zero help from the government.

It's fucking tough at the minute: We're scraping by and breaking even or a little better at present (buoyed up by the owners having three chippies that consistently make good coin), but there's just not the crowds needed to get anywhere. January and February are generally lean months (and a big percentage is already banked money in the form of xmas present vouchers coming back) and there's going to be plenty of places going to the wall.

[Cyclist]

The Professor of Epidemiology at Edinburgh University has just been on Sky News. He said (I'm paraphrasing cos I can't remember the exact words) " We have no idea what effect the mixing of different age-groups might have (on Christmas get-togethers), how this new variant is going to pan out, and any measures to protect ourselves we implement now will only make things better in the long run".

Johnson, Scaab et al say "Yay! Christmas. Go out and par-tay!"

Who am I going to listen to? A man who has spent his life studying a subject and has become such an expert that he's got a Professorship at one of the world's top medical schools, or a bunch of intellectually shallow lying grifters?

Hmmm. Difficult one, that.

[Boiler]

The worrying thing is how so many will ignore the expert...

[The All New KevS]

Of course they will.

Doesn't matter that today's figures elicited a big oof and yikes from those of us with half a brain, they'll just carry on as normal.

[The All New KevS]

Uh oh

[Nigredo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59615005

They've changed the headline but it used to say that English testing indicates boosters are 75% effective against Omicron.