[Cyclist]

Four weeks after having my booster, I have just received a text from the NHS telling me to "Get boostered now".

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The people sending the messages don't have fullaccess to your records, just your name. I was messaged four or five times until I called them, and nothing since.

[Boiler]

Four weeks after having my booster, I have just received a text from the NHS telling me to "Get boostered now".

Yeah, I had one of those too this afternoon!

[Watchman]

Me too, and Mrs Watch

[mattomac]

Yeah me and my mum got it, dad didn’t though.

[Nigredo]

I received that text today though I did get boosted well ahead of schedule.

[Dalem Lake]

I got one and I only got my first vaccine jab at the beginning of December

[mattomac]

Suppose the data dump tomorrow is going be grim.

Seeing as it’s been 2 days

[Boiler]

Suppose the data dump tomorrow is going be grim.

Seeing as it’s been 2 days

As long as that is borne in mind. I'm still waiting to see more data on how Omicron behaves in those aged over fifty with and without additional complications - if the anecdotal evidence of my colleagues (sample size = two) is anything to go by, it's just like a really bad cold; but they're both normal, healthy individuals.

Here in Boiler World, Covid remains a touchy subject and does seem to have caused a family rift.

[The All New KevS]

This is the problem. It's going to be probably Jan 4 before the figures are accurate again. I would hope though that the Government have access to more up to date figures.

[Cyclist]

I would hope though that the Government have access to more up to date figures.

They do. The worrying thing is what they're doing with those figures.

You can have the most accurate data and the most expert advice in the world, but if you're an irresponsible twat all that data and advice counts for nothing. Add in a braying pack of lunatic headbangers who are threatening to remove you from the job you *know* you were born to... Well, let's just say the immediate future doesn't look particularly rosy.

[The All New KevS]

On one hand, if nothing is done, and it goes berserk, we're fucked.

On the other, if it doesn't, we'll get the twats claiming that Johnson was right not to do anything, he'll get the poll bounce, and we're fucked.

Happy days.

[mattomac]

I doubt he gets much poll bounce of this to be honest.

[Boiler]

Meanwhile...

No new Covid rules to be announced in England on Monday

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being briefed on the latest Covid data during the afternoon, after two days without published figures.

Ministers are expected to continue regular meetings with scientists, and keep the data under review.

Meanwhile, Scotland and Northern Ireland have tightened rules for a second day.

[Dalem Lake]

One thing that is baffling me is why you have to wear masks in supermarkets, where you can be in and out within a relatively short period of time, yet you don't have to in other places like pubs, restaurants, etc, where you could be there for a good couple of hours? For example, I've seen video of people crammed into a theatre with no masks on to watch a panto! I don't see the logic

[The All New KevS]

No new restrictions before New Year.

Are we to believe that they're not looking around the world and seeing many, many countries with lower case loads than us, not to mention the three devolved nations, all bringing in further precautions, and not think to themselves "Wonder if we've got this one wrong, lads?"

Coward. And if anyone is still thinking he's doing his best, then I don't know what to say.

[kreuzberger]

Scrape me off the ceiling, why dontcha?

"No new health protection measures before New Year, despite 115,000 new reported infections".

That's the headline.

[Boiler]

However... looking at numbers:

Change in cases over last week: +30.7%
Change in hospitalisations over last week: +8.2%
Change in deaths over last week: -5.6%

(figures from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/)

Okay, that last one can easily be skewed by not being able to register deaths these last few days but Omicron has been around long enough now to have at least had an impact on admissions - and the rate of increase in infections is seemingly not matched by a corresponding increase in admissions.

I think more data is required which I assume will come over the next couple of weeks.

Still shit-scared though and staying indoors where possible. In the words of Vila Restal:

"I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going."

[Boiler]

The one thing I find encouraging (FSVO) is that Omicron has spurred some people into getting vaccinated.

[Nigredo]

This is the problem. It's going to be probably Jan 4 before the figures are accurate again. I would hope though that the Government have access to more up to date figures.

BBC News was able to quote case numbers from Christmas Day so I would expect the government to have the same data, if not a better set.