Cannot fault the NHS in any way ,they are stars .
God bless each & everyone of them for helping us so much .
I was chatting to a friend in Turkey today. They are using a Chinese vaccine and 2 million of the older population have had their first dose.
COVID-19 vaccines will be available around Australia at more than twice as many locations than expected, with GP clinics and pharmacies rallying to help the nationwide inoculation program.
Around 1,000 GP clinics were expected to be part of the vaccine rollout, but more than 2,000 have successfully registered to take part.
Pharmacies will also dispense COVID-19 vaccines, with chemists asked to submit expressions of interests for taking part in the rollout from this weekend.
You guys are doing it at the best of times Bruce before you hit winter. For us approval came too late. But thank goodness we are doing so well in the UK with the rollout.
This is a really good video explaining how MRNA vaccines work : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=the81FQoAUI
Bad news for WA after many months with no community covid cases.
Perth and a large part of SW WA is now in 5 days lockdown after a hotel quarantine security guard tested positive for Covid 19. He has been in the community for several days, it is believed he has the UK strain of the virus.
WA pollies arriving in Canberra for next weekās sitting of federal parliament have been told to go straight to their accommodation, isolate and await further instructions.
The ābubbleā with NZ restarted after it became clear the Kiwis have the outbreak of Covid under control.
The SA, Qld, ACT and Victorian borders are now fully open to NSW, there are some restrictions on travel to the NT. NSW has had 14 days with no new Covid cases.
It seems like such a waste of vaccine in Australia because hardly anybody has the virus and no deaths have been recorded for ages. The strict measures imposed, and the efficiency of their track and trace is doing the job better than any vaccine couldā¦
I think even the countries with good track records need the population vaccinating. They canāt and probably donāt want to isolate themselves permanently. Sooner or later, the rest of the World will be let in with the risk of infection thatās going to carry. The population will need immunity.
Come onā¦ The reason we have hardly anybody with the virus and why deaths are so low is because the International borders are totally closed so no one can leave or enter the country (except returning residents) and the virus could break out of hotel quarantine at anytime and lead to lockdowns as is happening in WA at this moment.
This canāt go on for ever, these measures are only being imposed until a vaccine is available, life needs to get back to something resembling normal.
Our economy is recovering well but it will be hard work getting unemployment below the current 6+% and that will only happen when the country is opened up again to foreign visitors. The hospitality and travel industry is suffering badly the average international visitor spends four times what a domestic traveller does.
Do you think it will ever return to normal Bruce, especially in our lifetime.
We have seen what can happen when a virus runs wild, and already there are new mutations occurring, fortunately we are told that the present vaccines will still provide protection against these new strains, but how long before the vaccines donāt work anymore. The spread of viruses and damage to the economy is just one of unpleasant side effects of being āGlobalāā¦
No I donāt think it will return to exactly how it was before the pandemic but things will have to return over time and eventually Covid will become a seasonal illness that we all will cope with.
We know this from the 1918 pandemic, apparently that took about 5 years before things returned to a semblance of normal and it was the seasonal āfluā until 1958 when Asian flu took overā¦
Did we ever produce a vaccine for those early pandemics Bruce?
I think I read that the deaths caused by the spanish flu spurred scientists on to develop vaccines last century.
Thanks Annieā¦
Yes. Why?
Just wondered Bruceā¦
Found this:-
Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in the West in 1796, after he inoculated a 13 year-old-boy with vaccinia virus (cowpox), and demonstrated immunity to smallpox. In 1798, the first smallpox vaccine was developed.
One of my last personal projects at my Primary School was about Edward Jenner
A good topic to choose Bruce, you must have knownā¦:surprised:
Then why all this kerfuffle Brucy??
I donāt recall all this disruption during the Asian flu?
or the Spanish flu either?
I put it down to media dramatisation ?
And the fact that modern western people have never experienced
hardships or danger on the scale that previous generations have ??
Donkeyman!
Spot on Donkeymanā¦ Weāve never had it so good, or bad, depending on your point of viewā¦