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Its all about proximity and duration . Getting onto the beach is wonderful.. and most times here the sand or mud stretch out 4km , but while I am just 300metres from it, the person coming from inland is an hour away, and then needs a coffee and a toilet ..

There was an interesting article about Kerbela , a province in India, fairly early on... probably 8 months ago. Despite it being a very poor area, they had enforced proper quarantine very early on, and have exemplary figures

Not keen on Oysters (sorry) but I really enjoy mussels. The French restaurant chain Flunch, typically have an all you can eat menus . I think 9 euro , during the summer, so one can get multiple tubs one after another... The local bay north of here ..Carlingford which is on the border...

JHC. The games still in play. That 60% of the UK population have had a jab, is excellent, that 7% have been vaccinated is great. However that lead of fully vaccinated is only about 1% to 1.5% higher than the EU average. I reiterate yet again that the UK has done this on the backs of the EU. The...

"The vaccine greatly reduces the effects of an infection, no hospitalisation etc, so being fully vaccinated is wise protection against the effects of any SARS2 reinfection." Indeed ,as flecc say. All the current vaccines work by targeting the corona spike , so even if the newer variants are...

We don't know that yet. What is known is that the double jab increases protection particularly for the Pfizer which starts to wane after 3 weeks. The objective is to reduce the pool

"One swallow does not a spring provide" and all that, but one of the few Irish redtops has an interesting snippet. An Irish sufferer of Long Covid claims immediate relief ..well within a day or so, after getting the AZ vaccine. It will be interesting to see if this is replicated

It is FOR ME, it is for my brother at 75 and heart surgery and diabetes, it is for my sister being treated for lung cancer who got the AZ last week, it is for my Son,who got the AZ last weekend . AZ MIGHT not be for my Daughter. You are being grossly simplistic.

We were not in full disagreement. I remember the days of having to que and then only getting a few gallons. The problem was very acute for my father, who as a GP needed mobility. I would occasionally sit in the que for him, while he did surgery.

Point 2 has some validity... Point 3. is adequately addressed in my post, and point 1 was completely covered by flecc.

Flecc, You are overegging the pudding on this one. I know your knowledge and interest of mechanical engineering is greater than mine. It is true that the speed limits were reduced in the Western world following the first oil crisis, but not as an economic measure, but for rationing and fuel...

And a 20 year old and a 25 year old or in my case a 30 year old ?. Yes the risk is age related.. 40 is middle aged!. . I choose not to query why the UKs rates of reported blood clots is significantly and statistically lower than EU rates. It could be different data sets or it could be...

What Zatlan /Susan and JHC both ignore is the huge difference between public health and private risk. Everything seems to indicate that public health is served by giving the vaccines, and if there is some collateral damage, it is manageable ..from a public health perspective. To the private...

I am not a Tory or a Labour supporter .. obviously . And the UK did very poorly because of its leadership. Italy got snookered in February, France and Spain in the same cycle. The UK has a minimum of an extra momonth. It blew it. .. The records are all there in the posting s of a year ago...

You don't need to test if you use quarantine effectively from the get go. You don't need to lockdown without cases. That is the evidence from everywhere. The world has known this for at least 1500 years. The irony of this is that this was the first positive outcome from Brexit. The UK COULD...

Not exactly... In the EU a policy decision was made to allocate any centrally purchased vaccine s on a per capita basis so for instance with any shipment Ireland would get 5/450 of the supply. That is centralised. How and where this quota gets distributed then becomes the property of the...

.. talk about hoisting petards, .. it is precisely because the UK population listened to their elected Government ,,that the disaster built up in the UK. . OGs argument , because he is too self effacing to make it himself is that Japan, which incidentally is a island or a collection of Islands...

Well I applaud your common sense,in that instance, but if you don't think that Government taxation, grants , opinion does not sway public behaviour, that common sense does not go far.

I am not going to refer to the political message, but the Eurofins operation is basically an international franchise. With at least another 20 plus labs in the UK alone, so a single lab losing accreditation for any reason is not very important ..in the great scheme of things

Flecc, I cannot see anything intrinsically wrong with having an Identity Card. It wasn't a requirement when the peasants lived their entire lives within a single valley and were known to their lords and masters and everyone else in the village. As an OAP I now have one, and it covers travel...