That article does not say that nor does the Minister...but I think you know that.

so he says end of January which is the same as February

:doze:

ultimately this is the only way to deal with this pandemic and anti-vaxxers

Door-to-door Covid jabs as Boris considers New Year restrictions TOMORROW but vows to keep schools open: SAGE warns new Omicron wave hospitalisations could be higher than last winter

• Ministers are planning to send teams armed with Covid vaccines to the homes of unvaccinated Britons
• Discussions between the Department of Health, NHS England and No 10 have looked at a nationwide drive

By ANNA MIKHAILOVA and BRENDAN CARLIN FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

PUBLISHED: 09:01 AEDT, 26 December 2021 | UPDATED: 20:38 AEDT, 26 December 2021

Door-to-door teams armed with Covid jabs will be sent to the homes of unvaccinated Britons in plans being considered by Ministers to reach the estimated five million people yet to be inoculated.

Discussions between the Department of Health, NHS England and No 10 over the past week have looked at a nationwide drive to send vaccine teams to areas with low uptake rates as a crucial way to avoid lockdown and other restrictions.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10344567/Door-door-Covid-jab-teams-sent-homes-five-million-unvaccinated-Britons.html

@sudneyfc RE you’re comment before about people who default to left v right blanket statements. 

I read a really interesting article years about it by psychologists and it goes back to child-like thinking of cowboys and indians and cops and robbers. 

It’s why it’s so easy for them to sell unjust war after war to their public. They only see things in a basic interpretation. Just make the others the bad guys and boom!

In relation to this, big pharma can be bad guys but could still have something of great benefit to us all. So it just makes them the murky guys. Which is basically where any adult can understand here everything in life generally lays. 

*’where’ everything in life, not ‘here’. 

100%

In the UK atm but when I come back, unless a member of staff explicitly asks me (I have nothing but respect for retail workers) I'm not going to be arsed wearing the face tampon which does zero to "stop the spread".

If some people want to keep clutching their blankets, good for them- but other people shouldn't have to continue doing so just to make hypochondriacs feel safer.

Surgeons need to stop wearing them too!

are you going to stop wearing your seatbelt too?

If you actually had respect for them you'd just chuck the mask on so they don't have to come within proximity to you which may just be what is required for the virus to spread from them to you or vice versa. 

Myer is not the place for you to take a political stance.

captain haddock did his own research now he's going to be drink driving

You can really see a trend here:

Masks = useless, make you sick and morally/ethically evil

Lockdowns = Useless, make you sick and morally/ethically evil 

Vaccines = Useless, make you sick and morally/ethically evil

I'm assuming that within 2 months, conservative media/pundits will be proclaiming the the new anti-viral drugs are, let me guess:  Useless, make you sick and morally/ethically evil?

I'll eat my hat if that isn't exactly what Alan Jones or Craig Kelly are going on about by March. 

the imaginary man in the sky botherers are exhibiting cult behaviour

mothership due any day now

Mine's not political but practical.  The death rate is now below the normal flu, ergo I think it's time to move on.

Having said that I will still wear a mask when I got into a store and wherever they're mandatory. I am definitely not a zealot about this and may have been half pissed when I wrote that rant..

My only concern about not wearing masks is that ICU cases may become unmanageable due to more people getting sick which is a fair and valid point.. 

Almost 2 years later... I was never very optimistic about this coming to fruition despite the overwhelming evidence that things have gone better in this pandemic when the community worked together. 
As others have said, there are some that can't see that there are no black and white answers just different shades of grey, that things you do as an individual have an impact on the greater community you live in (and depend on) and that there are no shortage of media and political grifters that are ready to exploit this.

exactly

the right wing grifters trying to sell their snake oil horse de-wormer solutions
the grifting fringe doctors trying to become right wing podcast 'celebrities'
the QAnon types and sovereign citizens pushing their conspiracy theories so they can sell red caps and silly fWeEdUmB T-shirts

Our hospitalisation rate is at 520 now in NSW. Two days ago, we were at 388. I think we might feel some strain now (especially with 2000 medical staff in iso due to COVID). Last time, we peaked at 1200 (I thought it was 800-900 before). 

Masks rules in NSW are pretty sensible at the moment - basically in indoor settings/public transport areas (https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/stay-safe/rules/people-in-nsw#toc-masks-covid-19-safe-check-in-and-vaccination-evidence). I don't see that as being so onerous or unreasonable.  

In the UK, the rules are pretty much the same (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own).

UK should be having according to professor pants down of sage 6000 deaths a day by now, no wonder Boris listens to the red team , 
In the last three  week's 78 per cent of deaths are double jabbed

Obviously stats aren't your strong suit.

Who would’ve thought? 

the crazy Kennedy laughing all the way to the bank with his conspiracy grift business model

the QAnon right wingers think he has the GoOd InFo when he's on the take

5 minutes reading fact checkers takes this guy apart

Dirk, can you give URL citations for the above information?

Can you provide citations confirming christian Eriksen was vaccinated?

Got a boxing day text reminder from hmg to get a booster jab, only six weeks from my last booster.

So you would support a year of working with a face mask because it isnt onerous or unreasonable? What about school? There is significant data that working 8 hours with a mask forces people to work from home but working from home for another year isnt a bad thing?

And what has face masks for some of the time accomplished? 11k cases in NSW today and nearly 4k in Victoria

See it wasnt face masks on buses that kept the virus at bay. It was hotel quarantine and compliance on social distancing. Dont forget also, 70%-80% of cases were household to household

Australia fucked up. They were operating under the assumption that vaccinated people were 20 times less likely to spread the virus, and a mere 3 weeks into opening up they have slammed on the brakes and crying that hospital systems cant cope with the projected Excel data

So now what? We go back to a hybrid approach and dont call it a lock down. And wait patiently for the virus to crawl through our population of 25 million

We have a non compliant 90%-95% vaccinated population that were promised if they got 2 jabs they can have their life back. I even saw a youtube ad on it a minute ago. The hysteria and tokenistic restrictions have to stop. Opening up was our plan and there is nothing that can be done to go back


And the irony of your post isnt lost on me. A thread full of people screaming about how scientifically backed and tested vaccinations are the only way forward, and then a literal link to a site on how average Joe can "make" their own face mask. They are polar opposite approaches and anybody who thinks constant antagonising of the population is the way forward is kidding themselves

the Lieberals made a big mistake by allowing masks off for 2 weeks and now we have an uncontrollable outbreak

Oh boy, this again. Stop moving the goal posts. The current conditions are masks in highly populated areas (e.g. public transport and shopping). You're not going to be wearing a mask when outdoors or eating at a restaurant (unless you're a hospitality worker). Kids have also been wearing masks all last term, so there is also that...

I agree that we are messing it up given the hospitalisation numbers in NSW are over 600 already. It's probably too late to reverse course now. Not sure what can be done except hop that the Government supports the hospital system and hope that you don't need to go to hospital yourself. 

It probably wasn't just masks but a combination of relaxing conditions

when looking for info , always best to go to the horses mouth and not its arse
bmj.com british medical journal
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n3131

Covid-19: Government ignores scientists’ advice to tighten restrictions to combat omicron

BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n3131 (Published 21 December 2021)Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:n3131
But experts accused the government of dithering and ignoring the latest modelling1 provided to its Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which show that without additional restrictions now, hospital admissions across England could peak at between 3000 and 10 000 a day, while deaths could reach between 600 and 6000 a day.

professor pantsdown pearl of widsom to the 92 memebrs of sage
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1042204/S1439_SPI-M-O_Consensus_Statement.pdf

see table 1