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@Julie Hall - Joint Peak District AOyou can sit in the other naughty corner as @eag doesn’t exist🤣 you should be thanking me anyway as you now have one donated from @NigelO, and I should get commission for helping him clear his garage 😉

Half a tank done this morning. Cold but great to be out. Pics taken along the Elham Valley in Kent

@NigelOis on the cake list!!

@aegis off the cake list then Are you trying to raise money for the next holiday? Not going to get far on just one gear knob so you will need to supplement this with more goodies from your garage!

Thanks all. 4 wheel alignment and a new steering wheel arrived yesterday, made a whole world of difference and I'm in the midst of trying to make a bootlid... if its successful I'll be proud enough to post a photo, if you don't see a photo, probably best not to ask haha

Happy Birthday Giles

The banter is always better when your around!

@Julie Hall - Joint Peak District AO would you like to borrow my box of various sizes of stainless steel grub screws? Cost you a cake….

Viral load with earlier variants was much reduced with vaccination (check the earlier cycles from REACT-1) Yeah, that was my point, it makes the mandate difficult to support now from that perspective alone. There is still a very strong case for vaccination providing protection from serious illness in those not yet exposed (and recovered) even though Omicron is less pathogenic then what came before, particularly Delta. Omicron is still killing people don’t forget, and from that publication Jim just posted….you don’t want a bad reaction to Covid

Latest figures from REACT-1 are suggesting that neither vaccination nor previous exposure is reducing the viral load, meaning that being vaccinated or not has no impact on how contagious one is when infected with Omicron, so it seems the ‘get jabbed to protect yourself and others’ no longer applies at it did with earlier variants. Now it’s just get jabbed to protect yourself, and while the rules in place continue, to enjoy certain liberties. It really is a rapidly moving target. Latest variant of Omicron, BA2, is apparently about 120% more transmissible than the BA1 variant. No sign it’s any more pathogenic though. https://www.reactstudy.org @jim_l Wow. That’s pretty terrifying isn’t it. Thanks for sharing that (sincerely!).

@Julie Hall - Joint Peak District AO - I have a surplus Westfield alloy gearknob - you'll need to find three grub-screws though, as I re-used these when fitting my carbon gearknob

We have focussed a lot on deaths as a means of measuring the Covid damage, which I have suggested is a flawed approach. We think, "you got it, you got over it, all is well" .. Don't follow this link if you want a happy day today: https://gero.usc.edu/2020/12/08/century-covid-pandemic-risk/ Interestingly, the 1918 flu killed many more young people, most likely due to healthy immune systems unleashing the inflammatory response. Our survivors, mostly the half a million that went to hospital and came out, but even the ones that didn't end up in hospital, what are their prospects for long and healthy lives, we will begin to find out, and may still be finding out in decades to come.

Count us in as well @Simon Waterfall Syman84 Will be there Thursday through to Sunday, it's always a good weekend

Isn't it good we have a club where the Factory Parts Dept actually care about it's club members, well done WSC 👍.

...And fitted!

Westfield Sports Car Club - Fun in the Peak District, Cowboy & Cowgirl style.

@Julie Hall - Joint Peak District AOsorry it’s already gone ☹️

My neighbour’s 5-year old daughter, who has no underlying conditions, just came back home from four nights in hospital after getting COVID. Her parents were beside themselves to say the least.