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Is the 2021 Lions Tour Doomed?
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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 1016870" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>They wont though. The UK's numbers are great but only front line workers and over 70s have been jabbed so far barring the odd exception here and there, most only once. They also employ a 12 week gap and we're told it can take a further two weeks to be fully immune which means they need to be vaccinated 14 weeks prior to travelling to be immune. This means every fan would have to receive their first jab by mid April on the assumption they'll only travel over the week of the first test. Considering it's a safe estimate to say about 75% of Lions touring fans are between 35 and 60 and work in the tertiary sector it's just not going to happen, they're not prioritised. You also have Irish fans, not in the UK who</p><p>won't be vaccinated until around July/August at best in the aforementioned brackets and Scotland who I believe are managing their own roll out differently and less efficiently.</p><p></p><p>This is also forgetting that immune people can still aid the spread of the virus by touching surfaces and bringing it from one to another etc... so all five countries involved would have to be vaccinated completely two weeks prior to any travel, unless we start prioritising rugby fans it won't happen, even then it'd be touch and go. It is quite literally unfathomable that this tour goes ahead as planned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 1016870, member: 45598"] They wont though. The UK's numbers are great but only front line workers and over 70s have been jabbed so far barring the odd exception here and there, most only once. They also employ a 12 week gap and we're told it can take a further two weeks to be fully immune which means they need to be vaccinated 14 weeks prior to travelling to be immune. This means every fan would have to receive their first jab by mid April on the assumption they'll only travel over the week of the first test. Considering it's a safe estimate to say about 75% of Lions touring fans are between 35 and 60 and work in the tertiary sector it's just not going to happen, they're not prioritised. You also have Irish fans, not in the UK who won't be vaccinated until around July/August at best in the aforementioned brackets and Scotland who I believe are managing their own roll out differently and less efficiently. This is also forgetting that immune people can still aid the spread of the virus by touching surfaces and bringing it from one to another etc... so all five countries involved would have to be vaccinated completely two weeks prior to any travel, unless we start prioritising rugby fans it won't happen, even then it'd be touch and go. It is quite literally unfathomable that this tour goes ahead as planned. [/QUOTE]
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