Vaccination update
Over 17.8m vaccination doses have now been administered across the UK, to over 17.2m people.
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the...
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Its constantly being stated and advertised that one dose wont give you immunity, but it will stop the disease being lethal and will minimise the chances of hospital treatment.
So yes, one of the few good desisions we have seen was to delay jab 2 in order to give jab 1 to as many people as possible.
But now we have 25% of the most vunerable vaccinated, so covid is no longer lethal to them. This is for a disease that is lethal to the most vunerable 1% of people.
Lets just look at that and then wonder why are we still in lockdown, we need schools and businesses back open. Its fine to Err on the side of caution at times, but not when it involves so many livelyhoods.
Its all well and good saying there may still be a little bit of risk ..............
there is always risk, there is risk when we cross a road. The movie Irobot explored this very issue very well. Basically the robots in the end decided the only way to protect humans was to lock them down to prevent them taking risk.
For too long now the risk has not been great enough to justify the damage of lockdown, not just economic but in terms of mental health and other issues caused by lockdowns.