Fleetwood playing tonight

Big Fish and Finance King Ed Leek and Anna Kingsley Club operations ... I'm sure Everyone are excitedly waiting to attend Zoom meeting.... Kick off 7-30pm TONIGHT ..all DT members have access .. Or will it be replica of past live attendance with a few "ahem" oldies ..

Pete - we had our 'flu jabs last week.

Taiwan has done a good job of controlling the virus without harsh lockdowns that screw the economy. 7 deaths compared to our 40,000. Turns out that you need a quick acting competent government who know what they are doing. The complete opposite of the UK.

Pete, my flu jab is booked in for October 15th.

I get the feeling the belief that humans can control a virus while waiting for a vaccine will be shown to be Utopian hubris and we’ll destroy the economy while proving it.

School kids aren’t the age where the spike is happening and according to my son his school are being pretty good at making it work. They’ve had a few off and not one of them has it so personally I’m being wary of the claims that schools are spreading it. Sounds like the usual 2+2=5 level of logic people apply when they hear less than half the story.

Maybe having the ability to hibernate would be an advantage to some 🙂

Asked because I saw this earlier [Link]

Apparently flu was down considerably in Australia this winter due to social distancing.

It's all here updated daily: [Link]

Guardian which got it from the government dashboard.

Sandy - Just hope no-one hits your arm afterwards, like someone did when when you broke it:)

My flu jabs due in October, but as a youngster,dont think I will be getting then.got a text the other day to send a BP reading in.

Another flat earther. We are still some way off the 100k new cases a day we had at peak in the spring, but we will hit that soon enough of this trajectory isn't slowed, and the hospital admissions and deaths duly follow.

Treebs - where did you get the stat about numbers hospitalised?

It's a "casedemic" in the words of Prof Ivor Cummins

There is a profoundly different approach in hospitals for this second wave - we aren't clearing the wards in preparation and are trying to continue to clear the backlog of non COVID stuff (which isn't achievable). Add in the usual winter bed pressures and the inadequate current measures from the government and the winter is going to be very tough indeed. It's all been oh so predictable which is the most depressing thing.

RK - Thanks. Have to chase my surgery up every year to get mine. If I didn't don't think they'd bother contacting me, even though high risk.

Pete - got mine scheduled for Monday pm. Booked by my wife, but I have to say I'm reluctant. Will be my first ever.

Trebor, except that during first wave our testing was well behind others

Pete, I have mine schedfor 3:29pm Saturday. Not great timing in view of footy but was told the next available slot was in three weeks

And those on ventilators have doubled. Eek.

About a 55% increase in people hospitalised compared with a week ago.

Any old farts had much luck getting a flu jab yet?