DOOM: "Omicron Covid cases ‘doubling every two to three days’ in UK"

[AtW]

"Shelf availability of items between 10 and 13 December 2021 was lowest for "paracetamol" and "frozen turkey" with 20% and 17%, respectively, of these items marked as “none” or “low”; shelf availability was highest for the “beer” category with 75% of this item recorded as “high” (Kantar Public). Section 3."

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/econo...16december2021

[AtW]

Lots of people still without mark in local Waitrose

[SueEllen]

88,376 positive figure for today

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Apparently the labs can't process the number of positive cases there really are.

Some people are going to have a tulip Xmas.....

Oh "Dishy" Rishi is on the case. He's talking to some business leaders at the moment and is going to cut short his trip in the US.

[AtW]

88,376 positive figure for today

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[AtW]

""R number for Omicron in UK estimated to be between 3 and 5

Hopkins says that for Omicron, the R value is between 3 and 5 in the UK, and that the variant is spreading rapidly - doubling in size every two days.
The current R value of the Delta epidemic in the UK is estimated to be between 1.1 and 1.2."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...088faae41c4f6e

[AtW]

Are the British or Russians better at being in an orderly queue?

Russians because in Russia you queued for the product and never knew if there will be enough by the time it's your turn, where as in Britain people either queue to checkouts with products in hand or for something they know they'll get most certainly.

[SueEllen]

They are more of queue-in now...

Are the British or Russians better at being in an orderly queue?

[AtW]

I'll bet they're not walk-in any more.

They are more of queue-in now...

[SueEllen]

I got my booster in a walk-in centre on the 1st Dec.

I'll bet they're not walk-in any more.

Some places are still doing walk-ins.

I had mine on the day they changed from 6 months to 3 months, as that was my 6 month point, though I could have got one at my GP surgery.

[cojak]

I got my booster in a walk-in centre on the 1st Dec.

I'll bet they're not walk-in any more.