Jimmy_D

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.

I'm finally getting around to re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire (the Game of Thrones books). Got a feeling we might finally actually get Winds of Winter next year.

https://www.redcafe.net/matches/southampton-vs-manchester-united.359/ Has to be the least confident I've ever seen a Man Utd pre-match thread against us. There's good reason for that of course, difficult game to call, but we'll have a very good chance of the win as long as we don't have an off-day.

Could have gone either way, in the end went neither way. Easy to look at either the chances we missed or the chances Wolves missed and say either team should have won, point probably a fair result.

FFS. That was unlucky.

Walcott's first Premier League goal for us!

Feel like we'd probably be a goal or two up if Ings was playing. We're playing well enough to get three points here so hopefully it'll fall our way the second half.

Started well but there just seems to be a slight disconnect when we're in possession so far.

Whew. Justice there, Romeu got the ball.

Really promising, the numbers so far on the Oxford vaccine. 90% efficacy with a half dose followed by a full dose, instead of the two full does they were expecting to need, and NO serious cases in the whole trial is way better than they'd have hoped for. Similar caveats to the other vaccines in that these are still early results, and additionally to the caveats from the other trials, also the caveat that the 90% efficacy came from a relatively small subset of the full trial. Will be a real bonus if those numbers do play out on the wider scale though, only needing a half dose initially lets us treat 33% more people than we were expecting to if two doses were needed. Absolutely fantastic news for the UK if this one comes through, it's the one we've got most doses ordered already, as well as going further than expected, and on top of that, it's good news for everyone else too. Out of the vaccines that results have been shown to be effective so far, it's the cheapest, easiest to produce, fastest to produce, and easiest to store and transport.

I guess this is probably influenced more by his legendary status than his football ability, but I’d go for Benali

It’s not everything that’s going on there, but if they carry on at this rate, Sheffield United will be the picture they always use next to ‘Second Season Syndrome’. Looking like Derby’s points record is under threat.

It was a penalty under this season’s rules, and it should have been retaken with the keeper coming off his line like that, but it doesn’t feel like justice has been done there.