We may not have the data on the current virus, but do have data on SARS where the immunity resulting from infection lasts at least two years and for some as long as 6 years.
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That data does go into the “hope” category.
It is a promise we hope becomes fact.
Making decisions about a tour company’s future in these times we simply have to work with facts and have an awareness to exploit longer term opportunities.
One example.
Tours are a gig economy, salaries are low. There is no sick pay. Vaccines reduce hospitalization but you get sick.
Do we increase costs to cover sick pay? Would clients pay that?
The same " concern" includes mutations impacts.
BUT at least we have the hope now
Some lovely countryside in Essex, Maldon, West Mersea island, Posh Osea Island, around Crouch river and Dengie Reserve. When we used to leave London for walks in the countryside/rives we’d head that way. Steer clear of South End on sea. Went there once. Depressing place however, most of my colleagues love it.
So Roadmap. Data not dates lasted a long time. Anyone think it will happened as planned? Sorry may have missed this in going through threads.
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It’s a virus. It does virus things, not what an msm editor wants it to do
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I reckon the roadmap will last until around 2 weeks after the schools open.
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1 in 4 NHS workers in London have refused the jab
This has to be a condition of employment if you haven’t got medical grounds not to take it. They are working with the most vulnerable (who probably are unable to take the jab themselves) They are endangering the very people they are supposed to be protecting.
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So, Germany is a mess out of control virus etc.
So how the hell did my youngest (ex pat in Munich) fly to Tenerife for 2 weeks vacation on Saturday?
I guess it begs the question of why are so many people travelling? Are all trips genuinely necessary?
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Austria and Denmark , chafing at the slow rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in the European Unio n , have broken ranks with Brussels to form an alliance with Israel to produce second-generation vaccines against mutations of the coronavirus, Reuters reports.
The move by the two EU member states comes amid rising anger over delays in ordering, approving and distributing vaccines that have left the 27-member bloc trailing far behind Israel’s world-beating vaccination campaign.
Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz said while the principle that the EU procures vaccines for member states was correct, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) had been too slow to approve them and lambasted pharmaceutical companies’ supply bottlenecks.
“We must therefore prepare for further mutations and should no longer be dependent only on the EU for the production of second-generation vaccines,” the conservative chancellor said in a statement today.
Danish prime minister Danish Mette Frederiksen was also critical of the EU’s vaccine programme.
“I don’t think it can stand alone, because we need to increase capacity. That is why we are now fortunate to start a partnership with Israel,” she told reporters yesterday.
When asked if Denmark and Austria wanted to take unilateral action in obtaining vaccines, Frederiksen said: “You can call it that.” Kurz and Frederiksen are due to travel to Israel this week to see Israel’s rapid vaccine roll-out up close.
More good news on the efficacy of both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca…
Bugger - Portsmouth has gone blue on the COVID map before us - and they were having so many more cases.
More vaccinations per head due to more people having underlying health conditions such as scurvy or gills
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In North Carolina anyone who has smoked 5 packs of cigarettes in their lifetime are being bumped to the top of the queue for a jab
People are threatening to take up smoking for the first time and chain smoke their way to the front 
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BCP is blue as well, much like the hair rinses of the majority of the residents
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