Coronavirus II: the vaccine

I remember a white pudding supper from the chippy in Stirling when I lived there in 1988 🤪. 90p special on Fridays

Getting worked up by Gruinaud non-news is not good for your health WDB. That advice was given by the joint committee and fully backed by the BMA.

Wait for them to start trumpetting that vaccine priorities may have to change again. (Without mentioning that Pfizer have just slashed their global supply targets by 50%).

BTW,  it appears that they have a solution for the distribution problems.

Humph is further up the list than most of us — if you see what I mean. 😉

I imagine Sweden are hoping for a swift vaccine rollout.

www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2020/12/how-sweden-being-forced-abandon-its-failing-covid-19-strategy

I expect the Oxford vaccine will be licensed here soon and most of us will end up having that one.

Fair point. Not many places have covered themselves in glory over this, but at least we don't have to listen to calls for the Swedish way any more from "lockdown sceptics".

New Zealand, Australia maybe. Not quite as urgent due to their rational management of the disease.

Increased deaths, and closures of essential establishments like schools. Much sentimental talk of hugging grandparents. A fine thing in principle but probably more enjoyable for all if it isn’t contributing to more months of avoidable misery.

We’ve already had the talk with Boy1 that he won’t be visiting or hosting his girlfriend even during the Five Days. We went along with this during the summer but the stakes are higher — individually and for society — this time round. There’s still a chance Boy2 will get to do his A-levels, and that will evaporate with a new wave in the new year.

I like the non-Christmas idea. A generation ago, my dad acknowledged that we preferred to do the winter festival in our own home by inviting us to Alternative Christmas the weekend of the August bank holiday, which worked beautifully. Let’s have the national equivalent over a long weekend in June!

The vaccination programme will be in full swing by Easter, and the problem will be much reduced.

For this Christmas, I'm still planning to host my Mum and step father, from 24th - 27th. If the governments don't change the rules again and prevent it. We are starting a voluntary isolation at each end tomorrow, as the children's school term finishes. Nobody will leave the house other than for exercise, everything is already here for Christmas or will be delivered. I think that mitigates the risk far enough.