Well, wish it was this strict here in India. Plenty wear masks on their chins here, without covering their mouth and nose. Crazy situation. There was this guy in below pic found in our intracity train a while back making some innovative use of the mask 
Btw, I got tested positive myself last week with typical symptoms of high temperature and sore throat. Recovered now thankfully.
A disgusting example of police making matters worse instead of better. And then they wonder why a part of people don’t want to put up with this shite anymore…
80.100 new vaccinations registered in The Netherlands the day before yesterday.
And 85.6611 new vaccinations registered in The Netherlands yesterday. We have passed the 5 million mark.
Heartbreaking pictures coming out of India. I don’t want to post it here. Take care everyone over there.
I see the nice weather brought the dickheads out in London again today. Yet another demonstration by the virus deniers and anti Vaxers.
Right. I posted before that i did get infected.
I’m okay fwiw. No symptoms at all… And am clear from not needing remdesvir at all
Yeah the situation in india is fucked… It is what it is…
And 88.782 new vaccinations registered in The Netherlands yesterday.
So the US hasnt agreed to release its stock of the AZ vaccine to india despite them not using the vaccine at all.
America first as they say… Wasnt started by Trump but continued by Biden.
Hopefully this gives the indian govt a reality check on who they want to have positive relationships with.
Everyone expected India to be hit badly. High population, and poverty meant it the impact was forecast to be devastating.
I was surprised when India and many African countries seemly escaped the worst of it (for most of the last year). I figured an association with warmer climate.
Sadly the forecasts are now proving to be true. Does anyone have a sense why this is occurring now ? Is it a relaxing of behaviour/ poor government control or more likely due to it being a new variant, one likely to be devastating if it reaches Africa ?
it’s the relaxing of the behaviour. The incumbent modi govt has seen it fit to organize election rallies , do kumbh melas etc. People are idiots, they are gonna follow the guidelines given… This shit is purely to do with the govt imo…
It has come to the scene of the emperor has no clothes , and that’s what modi has proven himself to be.
With all the vaccination that happened in the UK, why are the stadions not open to the fans just like a few month’s back?
Let’s be honest: the opening of the stadiums a few months back was just one in a line of bad decisions made by the government that led to the second wave. Vaccinations don’t eliminate transmission. With vaccines not responding as well to the variants introduced recently into the UK due to the abysmally reactive ‘red list’ quarantining rules, the last thing we want to do is spread these variants around.
We may be easing the restrictions, but we certainly aren’t at a point yet of introducing 10,000 people into a confined space and have them scream and sing their microscopic spittle 15 rows down. Football grounds really are a SARS-CoV-2’s wet dream.
I don’t know if that is true, have they done research on the subject?
Overhere with only 5M jabs on a population of 17M this weekend where 7.500 fans at Ajax-AZ allowed as a government trail.
It’s not true.
Which part are you suggesting isn’t true? That outdoor football crowds don’t increase the spread of the virus? I mean, apart from almost every country around the world stopping outdoor gatherings because of the risk, there is also this bit of research: The spread of Covid-19 and attending football matches in England | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal (voxeu.org)
Of are you questioning that football crowds were part of a long list of mistakes that the government made that resulted in the second wave?
He might question the idea that vaccination does nothing to stop transmission?