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🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham, on Talk Radio. |
0:13.3 | Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio. |
0:17.1 | You might be forgiven for thinking this morning that things are getting worse rather than |
0:20.9 | better. But in fairness, that's what they said would happen, isn't it? 1,564 new deaths, the biggest single |
0:26.2 | daily tally, mortality now higher than the first wave, a new, new variant found in Brazil, |
0:30.9 | and all this despite the lockdown, which is now looking like it's going to be here for a very |
0:34.8 | long time indeed. I wonder how long it is going to be before they start saying that it's going to be here for a very long time indeed. I wonder how long it is going to be |
0:37.6 | before they start saying that it's actually working and the number of infections and the number |
0:41.3 | of deaths is actually coming down because it ain't at the moment. Yesterday I called on the government |
0:45.1 | to get themselves a plan. Today they're about to launch a 24-7 vaccination program while revealing |
0:50.0 | that over 2.6 million vaccines have now been administered in the country and there are now 21 million |
0:55.7 | doses here ready to go. What that means is all people in the top foremost vulnerable categories |
1:00.4 | can be vaccinated by February the 15th. That is surely enough reason to have hoped that Boris Johnson |
1:05.7 | can now formulate some kind of plan, as I suggested yesterday, for the lifting of some of the |
1:10.2 | restrictions, particularly on top of some of the restrictions, |
1:15.5 | particularly on top of the news that people who have had COVID have got 85% protection against getting reinfected. |
1:17.2 | With the numbers of people who have had it reaching the millions, surely we must be heading |
1:21.2 | towards herd immunity, just like Professor Neil Ferguson said at the weekend. |
1:26.1 | Remember that? |
1:26.8 | 0344-49-1,000. Coming up this morning, |
1:29.5 | we've got an awful lot to do. First up, it's Baroness Hoey, who isn't happy about where |
1:33.3 | Northern Ireland has been left by the Brexit deal. She's asking for the government to sort it out. |
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