Haha. That's good with me, mystery man. I do apologise for infringing upon your 'private life' with regard to asking whether you've had a vaccine you've coined as 'unsafe'. Hilarious cop out, better than self reflection any day of the week. 10/10.

No Tim, you've learned nothing about your thoughts.

These are direct quotes. If you don't believe these things, don't say them. I don't buy for a second that anyone would come out with such wild things and then 'forget' they'd done so. The latter two were in this very thread..

"In fact I cannot be bothered to try and debate with such a closed mind as you have Blue Jay. You try to impose your ideas, but don't listen to others. The vaccine will not be safe for years, as stated by Becky. So we will have to lockdown until then according to you. You need help."

Ironically the only lie in the above, from you of course, is that I've never at any point claimed that we should endlessly continue with lockdowns. In fact since the first one I've stated that it's very much a judgement call with negatives to lockdowns or otherwise.

Edited by BlueJay (31 Mar 2021 10.14pm)

BJ, you carry on taking everything I say out of context for your personal pleasure. I really have no more time for you. Your condescention knows no bounds. You are a very unlikeable person. You have picked an argument with me over a remark about misuse of covid 'guidelines', and dragged up months old comments to try and disqualify me. You even failed to read the Tim Black article that I posted. And as for what you think you know about me, you know nothing. As is how I want it. I don't do facebook or twitter or any of the other s*** that everyone else does for that very reason. All you know about me is what I want you to know.

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

I posted your quotes within the context of your actual posts - I neither added nor subtracted anything. You proclaimed how unsafe the vaccine would be 'for years'.. and out there 'species killing itself' views to lockdown. And I haven't even touched on the thalidomide type angles previously just thrown out there like nothing. Some threw everything at the vaccine - nothing stuck. It was all very unfortunate and I purposefully and repeatedly sought clarity because misinformation or entirely unfounded takes can result in others making bad decisions at this time that cost them dearly.

Putting these things out there, then not withdrawing them and going on an endless 'will I, won't I' guessing game about whether you intend to get vaccinated (because you realise how ludicrous a complete change of heart appears) is self indulgent and belittles something that is so important at this time.

In any case, it appears that you do actually now intend to get vaccinated. I'm glad you've had a rational change of heart - no doubt down to the successful roll out, and people drumming home the facts of the matter, regardless of how you greet them at the time (profanity etc). If the outcome is you and yours doing the right thing, that's good enough for me. By virtue of having it, one would imagine it would bring about a more balanced and sensible take going forward. Be grateful. Many of us are.

Edited by BlueJay (01 Apr 2021 12.39am)

Rapid, twice-weekly COVID tests to be offered to everyone in England - including home delivery - [Link]

A decent idea. It at least allows people to routinely monitor their status should they wish to need to. Useful in numerous situations and households.

For the responsible I agree. A friend mentioned this a couple of weeks ago.

She has vulnerable people in her household and hasn't seen her own mother for a year. She is concerned about giving her mother the virus or vice versa.

She just wanted a level of confidence that they could all take the test before meeting up.

One more point

With LFT having a false positive rate of (conservatively) 1000 per million tested then, if everyone used the tests we would see 67,000 false positives per twice weekly test - what a great opportunity for Johnson to panic and then lockdown again.

This might have been useful 12 months ago but cannot see the point now.