How many have been vaccinated so far?

[turbobloke]

rover 623gsi said:

https://covidvax.live/

Good to see the UK continues to do well.

[HappyMidget]

warch said:

HappyMidget said:

21st Century Man said:

Where'd the vaccine thread go?

Down the sthole every other good thread goes down unfortunately. Was enjoying a non political thread until these buggers turned up and ruined it.

What you meant pages and pages of boring old farts telling how their vaccinations went. Thoughts and prayers etc

Actually good to see the different demographics and circumstances for people getting jabbed IMO. Especially on a thread specifically about numbers. Not fking WW2

[turbobloke]

Ntv said:

I would challenge lower levels of opportunity in particular among your list.

Couldn't possibly agree with that.

Back in the day of those infamous pythonesque Yorkshiremen, you went into t'mill or down t'pit. Or sold stuff in the local market, sat at a checkout (till) etc.

One of mine is now a VP, with global digital flavours, for an investment bank in an EEA country, after working in two EU states (apart from the UK). They could just as easily go back to those EU states as they're demonstrably employable on the digital side and speak three languages fluently..Getting a decent free education in a mix of subjects wasn't common previously when students were typically labelled 'arts' or 'sciences' if they were heading towards HE...and that would be 15% or less of them not 50% as now.

School-leavers rarely considered working abroad in decades past, now brexit or no brexit it's commonplace.

[HappyMidget]

Seriously TB, please just stop. Please?

[basherX]

turbobloke said:

basherX said:

warch said:

What you meant pages and pages of boring old farts telling how their vaccinations went. Thoughts and prayers etc

That's pretty fking entitled, isn't it? No one compels you to read it and the answer to "I don't like something other people are doing" isn't "let's ruin it". Unless you're a child.

Thank goodness you didn't mention being self-entitled oh hang on, you did

We can use demented, if that's more to your taste.

[Borghetto]

warch said:

What you meant pages and pages of boring old farts telling how their vaccinations went. Thoughts and prayers etc

I hope you are a bit more respectful to your parents and grandparents, or do you resent them as well for achieving more than you.

[anonymous-user]

Ntv said:

Very very few (if any?) countries have inflicted more economic self-harm than the UK. Can you name any/

UK has a heavy service sector and consumerism led economy, we have been hit hard during lockdowns because of this.

[don'tbesilly]

Disappointing numbers from yesterday.

[PeteinSQ]

lowdrag said:

I suppose you are right, of course. I suppose living in cardboard city in London was a part of my education, as was becoming a milkman getting up at 4.30am, and freezing my hands delivering milk. But I started my own business, worked at one time 80 hours a week, weekends included, I took the rough with the smooth, built it up, designed and self-built a house, and built a car that hadn't existed for 60 years. Life has just been a bowl of cherries.

And guess what - there are homeless people right now who are young.

This generalising across generations isn't terribly helpful but what he said is statistically true. The relationship between house prices and earnings gets ever wider and this alone is a huge problem for the young.

Of course plenty of the baby boomer generation had it tough but on average they had an easier ride than those leaving school now for all of the reasons that were stated above.

[Leicester Loyal]

It's slowed right down recently, I thought it was meant to pick up this week? Hopefully it will by Friday.

[omniflow]

PeteinSQ said:

lowdrag said:

I suppose you are right, of course. I suppose living in cardboard city in London was a part of my education, as was becoming a milkman getting up at 4.30am, and freezing my hands delivering milk. But I started my own business, worked at one time 80 hours a week, weekends included, I took the rough with the smooth, built it up, designed and self-built a house, and built a car that hadn't existed for 60 years. Life has just been a bowl of cherries.

And guess what - there are homeless people right now who are young.

This generalising across generations isn't terribly helpful but what he said is statistically true. The relationship between house prices and earnings gets ever wider and this alone is a huge problem for the young.

Of course plenty of the baby boomer generation had it tough but on average they had an easier ride than those leaving school now for all of the reasons that were stated above.

Please both - can you PLEASE take this debate / argument / conversation elsewhere and leave this thread for things related to the title. Many Thanks.

[PeteinSQ]

omniflow said:

Please both - can you PLEASE take this debate / argument / conversation elsewhere and leave this thread for things related to the title. Many Thanks.

Apologies - I'm like a moth to a flame.

Back on topic, hopefully we should see the numbers of vaccinations increase significantly this week.

[spikeyhead]

203k first doses, and 28k second doses, that's about 20k more than the same day last week.

We're continuing in a good direction.

[Muddle238]

Leicester Loyal said:

It's slowed right down recently, I thought it was meant to pick up this week? Hopefully it will by Friday.

There’s supposedly a planned shortage filtering through at the moment, I think it was Pfizer who is re-jigging their plant in order to eventually increase output. As the month goes on we should hopefully see a dramatic increase in daily doses, but right now at the beginning of the month the numbers will be temporarily low.

[Terminator X]

Leicester Loyal said:

It's slowed right down recently, I thought it was meant to pick up this week? Hopefully it will by Friday.

Does it NEED to continue at the same pace once the old and/or vulnerable are dealt with which should be the case by now given 20m vaccinated?

TX.

[Vasco]

Terminator X said:

Leicester Loyal said:

It's slowed right down recently, I thought it was meant to pick up this week? Hopefully it will by Friday.

Does it NEED to continue at the same pace once the old and/or vulnerable are dealt with which should be the case by now given 20m vaccinated?

TX.

Most of them still need the 2nd jab.

[BoRED S2upid]

Terminator X said:

Does it NEED to continue at the same pace once the old and/or vulnerable are dealt with which should be the case by now given 20m vaccinated?

TX.

Yes to allow us to fully reopen the economy.

[HappyMidget]

2nd doses are going well, pretty standard monday numbers, looking forward to a large uplift later in the week hopefully.

[MG CHRIS]

Been looking at the figures for Wales and it looks like a change of direction on concentrating on 2nd doses seem to be 50%of the total vaccine per day being the 2nd dose see if that trend continues this week.

[spikeyhead]

Terminator X said:

Leicester Loyal said:

It's slowed right down recently, I thought it was meant to pick up this week? Hopefully it will by Friday.

Does it NEED to continue at the same pace once the old and/or vulnerable are dealt with which should be the case by now given 20m vaccinated?

TX.

From my crude modelling, if we don't vaccinate any under 55s and remove all restrictions, then we'll end up with more people in hospital that at the peak. We might, just might avoid that if the seasonal reduction kicks in, but that's dependent on good weather. The quicker we jab, the quicker I can get back to crowded gigs in small venues, trying to pretend I'm not 55 whilst in a mosh pit.