The HfP chat thread – Monday 18th January

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• Linda says:

  18 Jan18 January 09:18

  Isn’t the new Avios partnership due to be announced today?

  • Andrew says:

    18 Jan18 January 09:52

    Today is the last day of Tesco – so tomorrow they will announce.

    • memesweeper says:

      18 Jan18 January 11:10

      Tomorrow they *might* announce… could be delayed until they are ready to unveil the instore banners, actually allow earning, etc.

      • Rob says:

        18 Jan18 January 12:51

        This would only make sense if Avios became a Nectar partner. For anyone else it requires a substantial change to their existing operation which is likely to be phased in. If it is Waitrose, for example, then the new combined JL / Waitrose loyalty scheme is unlikely to launch until JL stores are open again.

        • Dan says:

          18 Jan18 January 12:55

          So is it Waitrose/JL then? 😛

        • Rob says:

          18 Jan18 January 13:31

          Honestly don’t know.

        • Doug M says:

          18 Jan18 January 13:45

          Would be quite an IT step for Waitrose wouldn’t it. Their loyalty scheme as it stands seems to be you give us data, we give you nothing. Sorry forgetting the 50p off essential frozen veg every 8th week.

        • Rob says:

          18 Jan18 January 14:25

          This loyalty scheme was tested in a few towns in late 2019. I assume the IT is therefore baked in now. What surprises me is that no HfP reader seems to have taken part.

  • Mouse says:

    18 Jan18 January 11:24

    Can anyone say who it is?

• RB says:

  18 Jan18 January 09:24

  I now have a Tesco fast voucher issued – what do I do to get it into avios?

  • Rob says:

    18 Jan18 January 10:13

    Go to tesco.com/clubcard, search for Avios and go from there.

• Maciek says:

  18 Jan18 January 09:33

  What happened to the historical chat threads? I can’t find them anymore. I was specifically looking for the one suggesting that removing and re-adding cards to amex online account makes the offers flow in again – sadly it doesn’t work for me.

  • Rhys says:

    18 Jan18 January 09:36

    We hide them from the homepage. Search for ‘chat thread’ plus the date and you’ll find it.

• Mco says:

  18 Jan18 January 09:41

  Times article today “ Mutation could undo Covid vaccination progress if lockdown is ended, expert warns”

  Does anyone know the experts logic as to how the vaccine will be effective against mutations once we lockdown for the whole of 2021 and vaccinate everyone.

  I’m no expert but if the virus continues to mutate indefinitely and those mutations make current vaccines redundant aren’t we back to square one?

  Only way I can see this working is if we shut the borders full stop and barricade ourselves on this island for ever.

  • David S says:

    18 Jan18 January 10:00

    I can’t help thinking that this is Boris’s idea anyway…..or that’s what it feels like

  • Sandgrounder says:

    18 Jan18 January 10:06

    Every year a new vaccine will be produced to tackle the new strains and distributed, in the same way the flu vaccine is. In 2019 we invited 25m and 15m had the jab. The problem is that with flu, exposure to one strain gives long-lasting partial immunity to other strains. We don’t know if that will be the case with Covid-19. We might need to vaccinate more people each year than we do for flu. However, once we get the production and distribution infrastructure in place, it should be manageable.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    18 Jan18 January 11:54

    It’s a virus it will mutate.

    Is the public really buying this is a two
    Shot solution to the virus forever?

    • Alan says:

      18 Jan18 January 12:04

      I dont think anyone has claimed it is.

      It might be it might not, all viruses mutate but some much more slowly than others and many vaccines work for 10yrs or more before needing reformulation.

    • callum says:

      18 Jan18 January 12:52

      Has anyone (in authority) made such a claim?

      Not that your insinuation that it can’t be a “two shot solution” is valid. Many vaccines for viruses work in that fashion, not to mention a couple have been completely eradicated (Smallpox being the only one in humans).

      Granted, with the ways things are going, it’s looking like this might be “the new flu”, but no-one could possibly know that yet.

  • kitten says:

    18 Jan18 January 12:40

    This is looking like 4 jabs a year if protection is only 4-6 months

• Helen says:

  18 Jan18 January 09:56

  Does anyone have a Now TV box in their garage I could buy (stick doesn’t work with my very old tv) ?

  • Sandgrounder says:

    18 Jan18 January 10:10

    I had one a few years old I used on the upstairs TV, and an update this year totally disabled it, so you may have trouble finding one that works. If it’s a port issue, you could consider a SCART to HDMI adapter?

  • Owain says:

    18 Jan18 January 10:52

    I have one, that I would be happy to send for the cost of postage and packaging.

    • Helen says:

      18 Jan18 January 11:03

      Thank you Owain. My email address is glasgowgirl64@gmail.com

    • Genghis says:

      18 Jan18 January 11:44

      V kind. I was throwing them in for free if they wanted them when I was flogging the vouchers to my colleagues.

      • Jay says:

        18 Jan18 January 11:55

        Ha ha… good old Tesco Direct days… remember them well.

• James says:

  18 Jan18 January 10:46

  What is the latest I can claim a FTV with BA?

  • memesweeper says:

    18 Jan18 January 11:11

    I got one within a few hours of my first flight in the booking being due to leave, online.

• Sandra says:

  18 Jan18 January 10:49

  BBC news reporting that the Australian D of H Secretary (he is also the doctor who quickly closed their borders last March) has said Australia is unlikely to open its borders in 2021 even if all their population is vaccinated due to worries that even after vaccination there may still be transmission of the virus. He also said the current 14 day quarantine requirements would continue for some time.

  • Aston100 says:

    18 Jan18 January 12:42

    Mad Max scenario incoming.

  • memesweeper says:

    18 Jan18 January 12:48

    My suspicion has always been that those countries with the lowest levels of infection thus far will be the last to open up.

  • The Savage Squirrel says:

    18 Jan18 January 13:56

    Things looking positive. A mere 14 days after first dose (when you would expect immunity to be partial and weak as for most of that period the vaccine would not have had much effect) it already has a strong effect on reduced transmission.

    https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/SyUu1N2CP?fbclid=IwAR3xMqA3-HT4FTt3bAbSoRLw_bGkg8ON8BU7-1uDi04YQnRxq_mi5uFQNno

    Watch Israel for further data, as they’re the furtherst ahead with population vaccination … and it’s population studies you need to show the effect on transmission (to answer the question about whether the vaccine stops you spreading the virus to others).

• Grant says:

  18 Jan18 January 10:55

  Reposting this from last night for those who may not have seen it.

  Amex are doing a free 12 month trial to Blinkist Premium. It’s supposedly US only but I’ve tried it and it works. You can turn off the auto-renew as soon as you’ve signed up for the trial and it will continue to let you have access until the end of your trial period.

  https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/benefits/perks/blinkist/1-year/

  • Andrew says:

    18 Jan18 January 11:47

    The U.K. version of this offer is for Calm – also a free 12 moth subscription for Amex holders.

    • Tom H says:

      18 Jan18 January 15:54

      I think the UK calm one has ended?

    • bafan says:

      18 Jan18 January 16:51

      U.S. cards did both – I availed of them both ha.

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