The Third Wave - France, Germany, Croatia, Poland.

I was talking on Friday to a polish college who lives in Krakow and there is a bit of flouting of the lockdown rules. Restraunts and bars staying open and getting fined.
 
Hopefully as the R number is dropping over here & the vaccine is in full swing that we can start to open up slowly & carefully & then those countries will be able to follow our lead
 
Erimus74 said:
Hopefully as the R number is dropping over here & the vaccine is in full swing that we can start to open up slowly & carefully & then those countries will be able to follow our lead
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We can and should hope erimus. Not sure what the vaccination take up figures are but assuming similar to flu at 70% we may well still see a 3rd wave in the UK when we open up. Fingers crossed for a much better 2021.
 
Erimus74 said:
Norman was it you who posted your picture is of Andrew Wilson, which you found in your loft?

Great card & great goalscoring player for us
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My picture is of Andy Wilson and he is part of a collection of cigarette cards I had passed on to me by my grandad Billy. Billy was my mums stepdad and was a great influence on me before he died. He would sit for hours and talk football with me and we would both sit and listen to the Boro match together on the radio. I was one of nine grandkids and no one else was allowed in the room whilst the match was on.

The cards are kept in a 1930's Fry's Chocolate Cream cardboard box, in and envelope that is tucked into my first pair of football boots. There is also a picture of Jock Marshall who played right back for the Boro.
 
TheYorkshireTerrier said:
Was our increase over Christmas still classed as the second wave or third given we had a mini-lockdown and got the cases down again?
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I think it was the second wave but there is some hope our third won’t be bad. I think Europe is seeing a lot of the Kent variant which is a pretty bad spreader. That’s already the dominant variant in the U.K. so hopefully what they are seeing, we have already seen
 
Norman_Conquest said:
My picture is of Andy Wilson and he is part of a collection of cigarette cards I had passed on to me by my grandad Billy. Billy was my mums stepdad and was a great influence on me before he died. He would sit for hours and talk football with me and we would both sit and listen to the Boro match together on the radio. I was one of nine grandkids and no one else was allowed in the room whilst the match was on.

The cards are kept in a 1930's Fry's Chocolate Cream cardboard box, in and envelope that is tucked into my first pair of football boots. There is also a picture of Jock Marshall who played right back for the Boro.
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Andrew Wilson was a big name player for us, cracking striker
He fought in WW1 & suffered a hand injury we he carried through his football career

I ve posted the following before on here
His last game for the Boro was at home to Chelsea 1921 I think, he then signed for the Chelsea, whose next game was Chelsea away, Wilson didn't play
Both teams were relegated from the 1st that season & Wilson finished top scorer for both teams
 
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Laughing said:
We can and should hope erimus. Not sure what the vaccination take up figures are but assuming similar to flu at 70% we may well still see a 3rd wave in the UK when we open up. Fingers crossed for a much better 2021.
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And wave goodbye to a holiday abroad this year without major disruption if you are allowed to go!
 
We are running a highly successful vaccination program, they are not.

That’s the difference.

I didn’t vote for Brexit but I am now pleased we are not part of the EU.

Following their previous behaviour the likes of Merkel saying “vaccinate vaccinate vaccinate “

Fools. They have brought this on themselves.

Our R has gone up slightly, as you would expect with schools going back and lockdown compliance waining to some degree.

I now think we just need to start to take the hit with Covid ,once the vulnerable and the over 50s have been vaccinated.

Covid is never going to go away and I think it is a matter of assessing when our health system can deal with the reducing impact of Covid.

That is when we open up nationally.

Opening up internationally may well take longer due to the aforementioned.
 
Regardless of being top dog in the inoculation league I still feel we will fall foul due to our severe lack of policing our borders with regard to Covid and SELF isolation. As we have seen already the Government seem happy to receive lip service from certain people entering the Country as the recent Brazilian person hunt showed.
 
I thought we'd had our 3rd wave- 1st in March 2020, 2nd in September 2020, 3rd in January 2021
 
The third wave in Europe is largely being driven by the variant that is already dominant in the UK, and our vaccination rates are currently far higher than any other country in Europe, so hopefully it's less of an issue here.

It's still a worry either way.
 
Mwelolo said:
We are running a highly successful vaccination program, they are not.

That’s the difference.

I didn’t vote for Brexit but I am now pleased we are not part of the EU.

Following their previous behaviour the likes of Merkel saying “vaccinate vaccinate vaccinate “

Fools. They have brought this on themselves.
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What is that people don't understand about not having to follow the EU recommendation? The UK could have run the exact same program as part of the EU.
 
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