Over 1800 deaths yesterday

It isn't flu, EV. It's not correct to keep comparing it.

If we'd managed to contain and suppress the virus, as other countries have done, we wouldn't be having to think long term about coping with it.

1,800+ deaths reported in one day is heart breaking. The running total of deaths reported in the last 7 days is 8,500.

The government is still ignoring scientific advice, still only taking half measures; the very recently introduced border measures don't go far enough and the situation with schools is just crazy.
Now we have a directive to vaccination centres which prohibits them from giving the two dose vaccine at the correct dosage intervals, on pain of losing their licenses (which I hope will be ignored en masse), thus increasing the very real risk of the development of a vaccine resistant mutation (and god help us if that happens).

Well MissA we're going to have to get you a dose of optimism!

The rate of vaccinations went up again yesterday. I think that this is what we are going to see as time goes on, that some days will be slower than others but that overall the numbers are going up.

Attached from the Government website.

Vaccinations had slowed down, the last time I looked at info online.

Sorry; miserable cow, I am!

The figures last night were very sobering, but the rate of infections have been going down so that should be reflected in an improvement in the death rate before too long.

In addition the vaccination programme is going well so there is much to be optimistic about (for those of us who look for the positives)

Do we still go into lockdown over Spanish 'flu? No.

Will we continue to go into lockdown every winter for Covid, once we have been vaccinated, treatments become available and the prevalence of serious illness has decreased? No.

When you read about the Spanish 'flu, it never really " went away" and what we've seen over the years is that the virus has mutated to form various degrees of 'flu viruses to which each year the vaccine can't keep up with the particular type of virus that's going around at the time.

It's looking like each winter we're going to see a rise in cases of variants and to be in a lockdown kind of life will be the norm. The vaccine will give a certain amount of protection but not sufficient enough to completely ward off a particular mutation once travel begins.

Our death rate due to covid is the highest in the world

www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

Oh yes, pensionpat.
Thankfully the 5 day festivities were toned down!

A lot of people continued to isolate too but it seems that the virus managed to seed itself given optimum situations.

Thank goodness the Christmas easement was reduced to 1 day rather than 5.