revolution saint

I see New York City is now offering $100 dollars to anyone getting a booster shot. Not sure how I feel about that - it's basically rewarding bad behaviour. Surely it'll have a detrimental effect for any future vaccination drives - how many people are going to wait to get a jab until the money is right? I can see conspiracy theorists lapping it up as well.

It's interesting that our % of positive tests remains pretty low in comparison to many other countries. Up to 17th December we were knocking around 4.5% and Germany were nearly 20% so it's pretty clear that Germany have a lot of cases that don't go detected. South Africa is even worse at over 30% and makes comparisons really hard. I think Tim Spector estimates that we're probably getting around 200, 000 cases a day (including those that are reported) so those other countries are probably getting far more than that. I suspect this week will be particularly difficult to draw many conclusions from as people will drastically alter their behaviour to avoid spoiling Christmas + lots simply won't take a test to avoid isolating.

Anyone watched Dr. John Campbell on The YouTube? Stumbled across it a few days ago - seems to delve into the data a bit more than you get with most of the news programmes. As far as I can see he doesn't go in for all the conspiracy theories just a bit of useful detail.

Seems like the older you are the less side effects you get. I guess they figure old age will take care of you lot without any need for a push over the line.

I got mine on Thursday. The centre is a few mins walk from home so decided to just walk up and chance it. No problems at all getting the jab and all very efficient and quick. Arm seemed to hurt more than AZ jabs but nothing too bad and glad I’m doing what Boris said and protecting our way of life……

It's not really madness though, is it? It's potentially saving lives. Seems to me to be perfect sense to take some precautionary measures until we know whether this strain is as dangerous (or more) than delta. There isn't enough data yet to know whether it is or not but there is enough data to suggest it's more transmissible. Really depends on what restrictions they impose, for how long and what they hope to achieve by them. Hopefully it is mild, or less severe but we haven't had it around long enough to know yet - something like only 6% of South Africa is over 65 so you wouldn't necessarily expect to see much severe disease over there anyway because of their age profile.

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Pretty simple really - this variant has much more chance of escaping the protection of the vaccines and also be more transmissible. Doesn't mean it will be, just that it looks like there's more probability of it happening.

Absolutely but all it'll do is possibly delay the spread (if) Omicron is more infectious than Delta.

Yeah, hopefully this isn't as bad. To be honest, whilst I'm glad that we've reacted quite quickly, I'm not sure it's going to matter much. If it's already in Belgium than chances are it's already here and if it isn't then it soon will be.

Jeez, all you have to do is find an example of people criticising you simply because you said it was underwhelming. If it was that common place then it should be easy. Frankly unless you can come up with that then I'm out. Let's be honest you made the claim and I called you on it. If you can back it up then fine but you've had ample opportunity and have failed.

No, it wasn't. We could do this all day and if feeding a little persecution complex is your thing then crack on. Doesn't make it true.

I don't think that happened. You've got the opportunity to prove me wrong though.

Well that was a quick scrap. I normally win most fights by at least 50 metres. To be honest if you look at my posts I've never claimed that Lyanco is the second coming and I don't think anyone has. Some people did write him off and a few (me included) just said it needs a bit of time before making a judgement. I think saying underwhelming is fair enough - no problem with that. Only problem I have is creating a little persecution complex where people think they were criticised for that when they actually weren't.

All I'm doing is refuting a claim that people were criticised for simply saying they were underwhelmed. Never happened.

Unfortunately I can't quote back the post I made where I showed those comments that wrote him off. It was in the Summer transfer window thread on 21st August - have a look at the posts I quoted and come back after you've read them. Edit: And I've said before no one criticised anyone for saying they were simply underwhelmed. That didn't happen but you're welcome to prove me wrong.

You seem to be imagining something that simply hasn't happened. There were plenty of examples of people saying Lyanco was shit, useless etc etc - I listed them for you. That's writing a player off. Saying your underwhelmed - nah, no one said a thing. You can give me an example though to prove me wrong. I'm not sure what you're expecting a reaction to saying you're underwhelmed to be though? Did you expect fanfares and hordes of crowds bowing down to your self acknowledged lack of first hand experience? Bizarre.

I don’t think anyone says you can’t give an opinion, just that you look a bit of a tit if you write them off before even seeing them play. This is a forum though, bit odd to think anyone is saying you can’t have an opinion.

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Yeah, the annoying thing is I've got rid of most of my CDs too. Music Magpie has loads for peanuts though.

Funnily enough I plan to buy a jukebox soon - it's one of those new ones that holds 80 cds and has bluetooth but has the styling of the Wurlitzer bubbler 1015. Totally unjustifiable pricetag but looks the absolute business. Anyway, I've been debating which CDs it'll hold. Fairly eclectic mix with lots of compilations and Best ofs but The Smiths, Blondie, REM and Radiohead all made the cut. Probably leaning more on 90s stuff but trying to cover most bases.

I'm not making any opinion on anything except that it seems strange to list a reason why you don't like something because it's similar to something you do like. I can understand it if you didn't like it as much, thought it was maybe a bit derivative stuff like that. To come out and actively dislike something, as I say, it's just a bit weird. I can actually understand the innovative/fresh argument - that's fair enough although, again, I probably wouldn't dislike it if it was a bit formulaic. You seem quite worked up today LD - give yourself a break and take it easy.

Have you heard "Last Day on Earth" by Beabadoobee? Got a very Sundays feel to it.

Don't be stupid - of course it's a genuine question. Why would you dislike something because it sounds like something you do like? Sounds like a bit of an old fart everything modern is rubbish and I don't need to give any reasons why argument but enlighten me.

I couldn't understand this argument at the time and I still don't. Presumably you liked Revolver? So why would you hate something that copied it in your opinion?