Politics Coronavirus

Scouse

Scouse

Giant Thundercunt
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
37,525
Yoni said:
Yes and there are still concerns...
Click to expand...
There always will be.

But not enough to halt a likely very safe rollout that is going to save tens of thousands of lives and return life to normality, instead of the shitshow it is now.

I feel your concerns are outsize when compared to the risks involved.

That's zero comfort to you, of course, but there we have it.
 
Gwadien

Gwadien

Uneducated Northern Cretin
Joined
Jul 15, 2006
Messages
20,135
Scouse said:
Or because the majority of NHS staff are younger than the highest risk groups?

Care home staff and care home residents are the top priority. Followed by the public population over 80.

Not "public servants" - like teachers who really want the vaccine because they're asthmatic and scared rather than actually being high risk.

NHS staff as soon as practical.


I guess I'm dismissive of people's concerns about rollouts and why those decisions get taken. But then, risk-weighted rollouts of multimillion pound remedial programmes is part of day-to-day job - so it all seems simple and obvious to me.

I could be more sympathetic I guess. Part of the new mr nice scouse I promised @Jupitus I'd be ;)
Click to expand...

For the record, I'm not really bothered, que sera.

I thought vaccination of glorified baby sitters and NHS frontline staff would have been at the highest priorities, as they're the most exposed and knocking out half a dozen teachers in a school would easily shut the school and resulting in up to 3k (more in places) parents per school being out of work. Equally so for the NHS, because you know, we kind of need them right now :p

On another note, I'm finding more bizarre cases of teachers working from home (Teams lessons etc) when they have another illness. I wonder if this will become the new norm.
 
Scouse

Scouse

Giant Thundercunt
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
37,525
Aoami said:
Imad Wasim the Pakistani cricketer is a Jack. What colour is he Scouse? Hmm thought so. Check and mate. Goodnight.
Click to expand...
I don't actually understand this post. Been drinking? :)

What's a "Jack"?
 
Scouse

Scouse

Giant Thundercunt
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
37,525
Aoami said:
Imad Wasim the Pakistani cricketer is a Jack. What colour is he Scouse? Hmm thought so. Check and mate. Goodnight.
Click to expand...
Ah. He's from Swansea. Geddit. But still, Jack?

The Swansea Bay area comprises a lot of the south wales areas - neath port talbot, for example, which is 98%+ white.

Job's contention has been that it's predominantly brown people spreading coronavirus the fastest. The welsh wards a very white.

Swansea itself is 94% white. But @Job'll probably complain the fact that only a couple of decades ago it too was 2% non-white and whine about that, instead of saying "oh look, it's nothing to do with the colour of your skin".
 
Scouse

Scouse

Giant Thundercunt
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
37,525
Aoami said:
Someone from Swansea! Gotta brush up on your Welsh lingo!
Click to expand...
My o/h went to uni there and I've never heard her use the term! Will ask her on the morrow :)


Plus. South Wales is a shithole ;)
 
Scouse

Scouse

Giant Thundercunt
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
37,525
From that article's comments::

"Back in the 1950s my mother was an anti-vaxxer avant la lettre, and successfully demanded exemptions from things like the BCG anti-TB vaccination for myself and my sister claiming all manner of esoteric allergies, her motivation being that "we're not like other people". But even she was sufficient frightened by the polio epidemic of 1958 to have us both given the jab: the sight of a child of one of her friends confined to a wheelchair was sufficiently horrifying for her to swallow her natural exceptionalism and be like everyone else. However, by the time of the 1961 smallpox epidemic in South Wales where we lived, which killed thirty-four people, she was back to her old ways and neither of us received the vaccination which other people were mobbing the doctors' surgeries to be given.

The highest rate of vaccine uptake is in the countries of tropical Africa where it's about 97%. You don't need to persuade parents in Ghana why their children need protection, because they see the living - or often dead - evidence around them every day. In the developed world vaccination has been the victim of its own success in that people have forgotten what a really lethal epidemic looks like."
...
 
georgie

georgie

FH is my second home
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
2,293
Scouse said:
Ah. He's from Swansea. Geddit. But still, Jack?
Click to expand...

https://www.swanseacity.com/where-did-jack-come said:
There are various theories about where the Jack nickname came from.

...the most popular explanation is that people from Swansea are named after Jack the dog, a black retriever who lived in the city’s docks in the 1930s.
Jack would respond to cries for help from the water, and is said to have saved no fewer than 27 people who had got in difficulty.
There is a monument to Jack on Swansea promenade
Click to expand...
 
Aoami

Aoami

I am a FH squatter
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
11,223
I thought Jack was really well known. The Swansea fans are always called The Jacks as well. My dad is from South Wales though so maybe that's why I know it.
 
Moriath

Moriath

I am a FH squatter
Joined
Dec 23, 2003
Messages
16,209
Scouse said:
Pembrokeshire's too remote. It is tho.

North Wales has just as beautiful a coastline, with mountains in the background ;)
Click to expand...
Went on hols there was nice . cornwall without the crowds :). Worth the distance imo.
 
Aoami

Aoami

I am a FH squatter
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
11,223
Yes it's very nice. Used to go on a lot of hols there when I was a kid. Did Snowdon with my dad a couple of years ago and stayed in Caernarfon, lovely little town.
 
Scouse

Scouse

Giant Thundercunt
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
37,525
Moriath said:
Went on hols there was nice . cornwall without the crowds :). Worth the distance imo.
Click to expand...
Cornwall where you can actually walk places - I like Cornwall very much but I feel like the only place you can go is a small strip of land between sea and private farmland.
 
Gwadien

Gwadien

Uneducated Northern Cretin
Joined
Jul 15, 2006
Messages
20,135
Scouse said:
Cornwall where you can actually walk places - I like Cornwall very much but I feel like the only place you can go is a small strip of land between sea and private farmland.
Click to expand...

I also get quite a strong 'Hot Fuzz' vibe from Cornwall, come here and spend your money as tourists, but fuck off too please.
 
Aoami

Aoami

I am a FH squatter
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
11,223
Gwadien said:
I also get quite a strong 'Hot Fuzz' vibe from Cornwall, come here and spend your money as tourists, but fuck off too please.
Click to expand...
100%. Went to Bude a few years ago and it felt very yokel.
 
Bodhi

Bodhi

Once agreed with Scouse and a LibDem at same time
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
9,386
Scouse said:
Pembrokeshire's too remote. It is tho.

North Wales has just as beautiful a coastline, with mountains in the background ;)
Click to expand...

North Wales has much nicer golf courses as well. Conwy is one of the best I've played in the UK, and Nefyn is just hilarious if you play the old back 9 on the peninsula.
 
Scouse

Scouse

Giant Thundercunt
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
37,525
Bodhi

Bodhi

Once agreed with Scouse and a LibDem at same time
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
9,386
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 6 (members: 0, guests: 6)
Top Bottom