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Originally Posted by Discombobulated
The big news here now is the Indian variant, there are a few patches in the UK where it's growing and becoming the dominant strain, apparently it's 50% more infectious than the UK variant. Our area has some infections but not as many as others - so far we're still low numbers but the danger is if it grows exponentially. We've all seen how quickly that can happen.
I have heard they are bringing up 2nd doses from 12 to 8 weeks for over 50s/vulnerable people. There was some talk of the young being given vaccines immediately in some areas (we're still on 38/39 year olds) but I don't know if that will actually happen.
Personally I feel the young have really suffered with this, they have lost over a year in their development, and now back of the queue for vaccines - yet they can and do get sick with this especially as more likely to be in frontline service jobs.
So I'm back to worrying - and I disabled facebook again - so many horrible comments calling those of us who want caution 'bed wetters'. Some peole are just nasty.
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And the UK strain was how much more infectious than the "regular" one? *sigh* that's just what we need. Luckily so far in Germany there's been a few cases but no big clusters.
Meanwhile back home the news is about travel agencies getting extremely busy because the travel advice for several countries has changed/is changing

Let's spread some more different strains!
I'm feeling more and more stupid for being cautious. Not taking my chance
now when we have some freedom coming back, in case it gets taken away again in a couple of months.