Coronavirus - is enough being done to contain it?

^Much sympathy to you and your mates' family

The EU commissioner Ursula von der Leyen is self isolating after coming into contact with someone with Covid.

Bars and restuarants in Paris are to close

One of six vaccine options, each comprising 2 shots, will start being dished out to less half the UK population (only those most vunerable and in appropriate occupations) between the end of the year and ca.October 2021: https://www.ft.com/content/d2e00128-7889...e51355a751
It will likely only be as effective as the flu jab.

the vaccine update 11 now in final testing

the biggest surprise is how many are already in stage 3 testing before they have finised stage 1 and 2 to make sure its safe for stage 3

which one is likely to be approved first?

Looks like I was right all along and am in very good company:

https://gbdeclaration.org

The government plan to lockdown the bars and restuarants next week which hasn't pleased local businesses and politicians.

Andy Burnham's threatening to take court action to stop it.

Andy Burnham. King of the North is trending

Despite Eat out to Help Out during August economic growth slowed 2.1 % during August which experts say is 9.2% lower than the start of pandemic and experts say it is likely that growth may not return to pre - pandemic levels until late next year.

(09-10-2020 10:32 )Charlemagne Wrote:  The government plan to lockdown the bars and restuarants next week which hasn't pleased local businesses and politicians.

Andy Burnham's threatening to take court action to stop it.

Andy Burnham. King of the North is trending

Andy Burnham is a waste of space had the mis- fortune to meet and speak to him a couple of times and the huge.... the North is being hard done to chip he has on his shoulder was even palpable then. I live in Manchester we are not following the rules as we have them now and the Mayor has no answer to why our area is recording such high numbers......saying the public is confused beggers belief and asking for ever more and more cash from the Government in Westminster to prop things up while at the same time not following rules or even threatening court action sullies the Mayoral office. They have chosen it make everything political now, check out the councils who are following the same route, Mcr, Liverpool, Nottm, Middlesbrough...its getting so bad now even the BBC have to put on their captions that the council are Labour run and controlled...

(09-10-2020 10:32 )Charlemagne Wrote:  The government plan to lockdown the bars and restuarants next week which hasn't pleased local businesses and politicians.

Andy Burnham's threatening to take court action to stop it.

Andy Burnham. King of the North is trending

Manchester is the fucking Midlands as far as i'm concerned

Burnham is not my "King".