Sajid Javid has called on all those eligible for the booster jab to take up the offer and do their part to avoid the need for a winter lockdown. The Health Secretary added that, as immunity against the virus begins to decrease over time, a third dose is needed to protect the public. Sky News has the story.
Around 30% of people aged over 80 and 40% of over 50s in England are yet to receive a top-up jab of the Covid vaccine, according to the Department of Health.
Three million more people in England are being invited to have a booster shot next week – and Sajid Javid said he “strongly urges” everybody eligible for the jab to take up the offer.
The Health Secretary said: “We know immunity begins to wane after six months, especially for the elderly and the vulnerable, and booster vaccines will top-up their protection to keep people safe over the winter.
“I strongly urge everybody who is eligible for a Covid booster or flu vaccine to take up the offer as soon as you can.
“For those not yet eligible, please help your parents, grandparents or vulnerable loved ones get their jabs, as it could save their life.”
Javid also told anyone who is yet to have their first or second dose of the Covid vaccine, “it is not too late”.
“This truly is a national mission”, he added.
“If we all come together and play our part, we can get through this challenging winter, avoid a return to restrictions and enjoy Christmas”.
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The National Trust appears to be run by the BBC and some Americans with the odd accountant, management consultant and conservationist thrown in for diversity.
The National Trust is the largest private landowner in the United Kingdom. The Trust’s land holdings account for almost 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres; 2,500 km2; 970 sq mi).
Given the amount of acres of Britain over which they hold sway, one might have thought that the odd agricultural college graduate, some proper country folk with, say, practical experience of running a farm, might have come in handy?
When we lived in England in the mid-/late-2010s, we bought NT and English heritage family passes every year and thoroughly enjoyed many sites, including Woolsthorpe. We noticed many families enjoying a lovely day out in the park areas outside the grand homes, which cost just a few pounds for parking fees. What a shame. If I were living there now, would I boycott NT?
This may help you decide that:
https://www.restoretrust.org.uk/
I have not been to an NT property for many years. I always found them a bit soulless.
If you move the properties further and further away from their original roles and change the atmosphere to that of some kind of faintly disapproving school room, the visitor experience becomes increasingly enervating, in my view.
What’s with the the dyslexia? Is it a shield against being seen as stupid?
I thought the addition of Dyslectic people on the judging board was strange. I have had the privilege of having worked with some people who were dyslectic, brilliant mathematicians, but B useless at reading and writing. So how in all concepts of common sense are any of these people going to able to understand a single word of what may or probably not be presented?
Further more, new ideas come from thinking from outside of the box, not from within. That in itself excludes any new concept for entry. What a waste of time and money,
“Dyslexia” is very similar to Dianne’s get out of jail race card.
For the lefties who are a bit thick but who believe they belong in the higher reaches of the non-working world of academie a card such as Dyslexia is an essential passport to a life of comfort. Sometimes those amongst this group also like to bolster their places with the addition of an alphabet card.
When in danger of being found out just pull out your Dyslexia card and your troubles melt away. Any suggestions that the card holder might be talking out of his / her arse are easily refuted and if the inquisitor persists there is always ‘hate crime against a persecuted minority.’
A faultless modus operandi which might even lead to enoblement in the future.
Always have your persecuted minority card to hand.
So wrote Sir Isaac of his Principia. I wonder how any of the candidates for the NT prize would get on if they put that in their abstract.
I think we can guess!
Reported to the police for hate speech would be my guess.
Another day and another mad scheme, whilst the NT continue losing volunteers, members and visitors.
Surprisingly, NT membership in 22-23 was 5.73 million up from 5.71 million in 21-22, more than the population of Costa Rica as the NT proudly declares.
It stood at 5.6m in 18/19 so there must be plenty of woketards joining.
I suspect some have hoped against hope that it was beginning to come back from the grave.
I think that Newtonian optics is the most exclusionary brach of physics, dealing as it does with the properties of white light.
Thermopdynamis has a lot more going for it as it includes the concept of black body radiation.
Astrophysis/quantum theory caps it all with the all consuming black hole.
They say that Newton was the last alchemist… that presumably includes trans-mutation?
Ah yes, Newton – and his universal law of attraction F = Gm1m2/r2.
I would like to propose the universal law of repulsion with the same essential formula. This pertains to divide and rule, so the stronger the force the more division and conflict.
Two strongly-held views are encouraged, e.g. woke and non-woke, of effective mass m1 and m2. They are deliberately put in close proximity, so r is small.
Then we are all F’d.
awesome comment
‘I would like to propose the universal law of repulsion with the same essential formula.’
Coulomb has beaten you to it: : F=kq1q2/r2.