Jimmy_D

Just giving up a bit too much space at the moment...

Promising so far, need to keep this level up and hope we don't get caught by a sucker punch...

Feels like we've got a team and tactics, as well as form and confidence, that are capable of beating anyone in the league this season. Right now we're almost a third of the way through the season and actually still in the title fight. I'm looking for the teams at the top to drop points every game at the moment, and I'm going to enjoy being in the title fight until we're not! Who knows, might even be able to keep enjoying that to the end of the season?

With that Chelsea result, we've got a fantastic chance to consolidate our top four position tomorrow. Have to be careful though, relegation battling teams are always a potential banana skin...

Unfortunately it's a common feature of coronaviruses in general that they mutate, regardless of how they first came about. With COVID 19 there have literally been thousands of variants already identified. The vast majority of mutations will immediately kill the virus it occurs in, the vast majority of those remaining won't really have an effect, and some, like this one, will make it more survivable in some way. In this case it's more contagious. Once that happens it'll generally end up being the dominant strain.

I just wish Markus Liebherr was still around to see us playing like this, and doing this well in the league. After he'd set us on the path towards it, would have been fantastic to see his reaction to us going top for a while!

Up to third, Ings gets 90 minutes, Redmond gets off the mark, clean sheet, and all in front of the fans

Ings sounds like he's had more media training than the pundits

Sign of title winning teams is to win when not playing well

Jeez, can tell this ref isn't used to being in front of a crowd.

Oh that should help our shape! If he's retained any of his form we should go on and win now

Poor showing from both teams tonight, neither team deserved to be in front, but did look like we were finding our feet in the last 10-15 minutes. Need to come out in the second half and build on that now.

Uh Ref... that was our throw?

GERRRRRRIN!

Jeez Crab Lungs, sounds like you've been through the wringer, glad to hear you're on the mend. Well done on documenting it, first hand accounts that were actually documented at the time will be far and few between, that information is invaluable.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-pfizer-vaccine-nhs-hospitals-b1765222.html Must have imagined reading this then. I don't get what you're trying to argue now. Do you think that they shouldn't be doing a vaccine programme for a virus that causing a worldwide pandemic and causing unprecedented pressure on the NHS because the vaccine programme will put pressure on the NHS?

So basically they're already solving the logistical problems.

I'd assume they'll be using the staff that were encouraged back out of retirement at the start of this pandemic as part of the Nightingale effort, as well as offering overtime and extra shifts to get this to happen. You sound like the NHS always has staff running at 100% of capacity, and that it can't handle any extra load for a relatively short time when the need arises. This vaccination programme is going to be rolled out as fast as possible, that would be true regardless of the particular vaccine being used.

You're assuming they can't assign the paperwork to other staff and let nurses go far faster than you've assumed. Also that they won't be dragging in every nurse with the authority to administer injections to staff this. Just yesterday, COVID 19 killed more people in a day in the USA than the September 11th attacks. This vaccine isn't the easiest logistically, but those logistic problems are solvable, and it's available now to start saving lives.

Why would they only use one or two nurses at a dedicated vaccine centre while it's being rolled out!? As for it being hardly used in a year's time, I'd hope the vaccine rollout programme won't take anywhere near that long, all of them will be hardly used in a year's time.

I realise that you might be nervous of the Pfizer vaccine because it's a 'new' technology, but your body is constantly creating and breaking down mRNA. The vaccine only hangs around in your body long enough for the body to respond to it and build up an immune response that will also react to COVID 19, before it'll be broken down in the exact same way. There's absolutely nothing to suggest it's got any ability to cause any long term effects itself, beyond triggering your immune system to do what it does with any other foreign presence in your system.

https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSKBN27R1F5 Gives some insight into government involvement in development financing.

I guess it's possible? I've got absolutely no idea whether that's actually happened though.

Hell of a financial risk the vaccine companies have taken, basically running all stages of vaccine development as much in parallel as possible, including wide scale production, basically piling all the financial risks of R&D onto the early stages when there's still the most risk of it not paying off. They were up against other companies that were willing to take the same risks of course, but even so, it would have been a massive call to do that. Utterly amazing that those risks look like they're paying off better than anyone dared hope, I'm grateful that they were willing to take those risks.

Not our best performance but we've put ourselves in a fantastic position thanks to JWP. We've done well to control the game since going 2-0 up, need to be prepared for a surge from Utd at the start of the second half now.