Deposit Paid, Car Built, getting cold feet....

[Sealiedog]

20 minutes ago, Nick72 said:

Come June the vast majority of UK population will have had COVID. At which point we should be returning to something resembling normality.

That's what I'm banking on. 

I wouldn't count on that, Imperial College have published a big study that shows a previous infection gives you 19‰ protection from the new variant. Hopefully it will prove to be less dangerous than delta, but until more of the world is vaccinated it will keep mutating. 

[Nick72]

4 hours ago, Sealiedog said:

I wouldn't count on that, Imperial College have published a big study that shows a previous infection gives you 19‰ protection from the new variant. Hopefully it will prove to be less dangerous than delta, but until more of the world is vaccinated it will keep mutating. 

Hadn't seen that but also seen recently a report that you are a 1000percent better protected if you had two jabs and then got covid. Like my wife. I can't catch it at all. I've tried. Probably because when all this started I had a chronic strange non productive cough and fever for two weeks, so I think I've had it. At the time I was with Chinese, Italian, and Spanish students were it was rife.

Each time it mutates it trades out its ability to kill for an ability to better transmit. So in the end it becomes like a common cold. Problem is that weve probably got a few more generations of this virus to go and whilst we don't lovk down, which we should be doing now, we overwhelm the health service with the moderately ill.

[ernieb]

6 hours ago, Nick72 said:

Hadn't seen that but also seen recently a report that you are a 1000percent better protected if you had two jabs and then got covid. Like my wife. I can't catch it at all. I've tried. Probably because when all this started I had a chronic strange non productive cough and fever for two weeks, so I think I've had it. At the time I was with Chinese, Italian, and Spanish students were it was rife.

Each time it mutates it trades out its ability to kill for an ability to better transmit. So in the end it becomes like a common cold. Problem is that weve probably got a few more generations of this virus to go and whilst we don't lovk down, which we should be doing now, we overwhelm the health service with the moderately ill.

We have plenty of Covid/SARS virus which were pretty bad a few years ago, not in the UK, which are now seen as common colds and this will eventually be the fate of Covid 19. In the mean time we have to live, work and play with what we've got and the jabs seems still like the best route out of this situation to me. I'm. used to getting a flu jab every year and I'm sure this is what will happen in time with Covid 19 if it persists. It looks most likely that the over 60's will be offered a 4th jab, booster 2, to prop up the immunity level in the coming months.

But the situation around the world is very different and the effects of the virus will impact on all parts of the supply chain especially cars which is complex and has a protrated delivery system to the UK.  The original poster can only decide for themselves what's best as we can never know the intracaies of his circumstances.  

[Flatcoat]

……of this virus to go and whilst we don't lovk down, which we should be doing now, we overwhelm the health service with the moderately ill“

1) There is nothing to stop anyone locking themselves down.

2) If you had your own business wiped out by lockdowns you might think differently.
We cannot run away everytime there is a Covid related  health problem. It’s fine for the middle class work from home brigade but they still expect their food deliveries….. 

[Nick72]

2 hours ago, Flatcoat said:

……of this virus to go and whilst we don't lovk down, which we should be doing now, we overwhelm the health service with the moderately ill“

1) There is nothing to stop anyone locking themselves down.

2) If you had your own business wiped out by lockdowns you might think differently.
We cannot run away everytime there is a Covid related  health problem. It’s fine for the middle class work from home brigade but they still expect their food deliveries….. 

Fully support that comment for what my opinion is worth.

At the end of the day it's a difficult balance. I've been waiting for should be routine medical tests and treatments for at least 18 months. Normally under 3 months. So there's that kind of thing too.