McBrid
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Great effort from the NHS.
A Week Today Boris will Outline Lockdown Exit Strategy
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Great effort from the NHS.
Erimus74
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And the NHS too without a doubt, which my daughter is a big part of
Alvez_48
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It's like they want to create arguments with the Mrs...
'lets go to the park!'
'cant be arsed it's freezin'
'you never want to do anything ya lazy ****'
Randy
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That's how I describe him to my kids.
"When can we go see my friends?"
"When the floppy yellow haired man says we can"
Tommy_Dickfingers
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My kids don't know why I call him Tuesday as in .............. When will that 'See you next Tuesday' get the pubs open
Muttley
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What he should say is that
Schools will reopen when teachers have been vaccinated
Shops will reopen when the infection rate is less than 100 per 100k and close again if it goes above that for more than a week
Etc. measurable targets (not necessarily those but something like that)
What he will blurt out is waffle waffle schools march waffle shops, vaccinations, marvellous, waffle, bit of Latin, NHS track and trace marvellous...
He is an incompetent uncaring arrsehole. Responsible for a huge loss of life and economic crisis. Seeing him next Tuesday is far too soon
changingman
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Whatever happens it's sure to demonise the hospitality sector further without a shred of empirical evidence to back it up.
Randy
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Standard.
Been seen as the whipping boys throughout, don't expect it to change anytime soon even though we've been closed and/or heavily restricted more than we've been normally open in the last 12 months.
I mean 100's of people mixing in supermarkets every day since the beginning of this has played no part at all has it? Picking up and putting back items, close proximity to products others pick up etc
changingman
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Agree, and whilst I'm not advocating closing supermarkets to open pubs/restaurants it does feel like more could have been done in the retail sector in general (as it was in the hospitality sector).
I think enforcement of hospitality venues has been poor - almost as if the government has put it in the "too difficult, let's just close them" bracket.
Supermarkets have also suffered from the same inconsistency of rules - if I want to go to my local waitrose I need to wait outside for around 40 minutes versus just waltzing into Tesco?
When this started I fully expected supermarkets to be delivery only - I wonder if this has been considered at any point? Feels like some of the funds wasted elsewhere could have ploughed into a logistics network of the necessary size and scope to implement this (which would also be incredibly useful post-pandemic!)
I think enforcement of hospitality venues has been poor - almost as if the government has put it in the "too difficult, let's just close them" bracket.
Supermarkets have also suffered from the same inconsistency of rules - if I want to go to my local waitrose I need to wait outside for around 40 minutes versus just waltzing into Tesco?
When this started I fully expected supermarkets to be delivery only - I wonder if this has been considered at any point? Feels like some of the funds wasted elsewhere could have ploughed into a logistics network of the necessary size and scope to implement this (which would also be incredibly useful post-pandemic!)
asredastheycome
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Meet your Mum and Dad in Primark
asredastheycome
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Cannot believe they have fans in at the Cricket in India. Although the rates are really coming down they still had 155,000 deaths on 8 Feb. Good news is the have so far vaccinated 0ver 58 million people so they still have a way to go.
SmallTown
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14.5 million have received half the jab
Muttley
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I had COVID in October, so I had to isolate and had to use a home delivery service. It was hardly possible to get a slot and at the time COVID infections were a lot lower than they are now.
It ill behoves me to defend the government but the goal has to be to reduce places where people come into contact. As supermarkets are plainly required to feed us there is no point pretending that they are anything other than vital. Pubs, restaurants, gigs, etc. are low down the list of what has to be reopened and I miss them as much as anything but instead of bleeting constantly of being the whipping boys just accept that you and we will all have to wait. I'd rather wait a few weeks longer than risk yo-yoing between open and closed and if you are honest so would you.
Randy
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It's hardly bleating.
Hospitality now has a reputation unfairly pinned on it as a mega dangerous super spreading environment when it's been shown it never was.
Supermarkets should have been doing more with regards to delivery. It was obvious that they wouldn't be forced to close so should have been throwing resources at delivery. Actual visits to supermarkets should be enforced by the police or army to only limit say 20 people in the supermarket at any one time.
Muttley
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How?
Have you tried to buy a van recently? And then you've got to have people to pick and prepare the stuff
Yeah right. That's me not bothering if you're just going to be silly.
Really? Where? In the first lockdown there were example of pubs opening via the backdoor and lock ins. That is not the fault of the "hospitality sector" but it did happen. Many were good with distancing protocols and some weren't. But it is a fact that by closing hospitality you reduce mixing particularly between non family groups and therefore reduce the ways in which the virus is spread. Please don't bother with the "more people caught COVID at home" rubbish it just shows you don't understand statistics and virus control.
Randy
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Go on Muttley show me the evidence that hospitality was the driver of the pandemic.
Have I tried to buy a van? No, that's a strange question.
Why shouldn't there be a regulation on the capacity of supermarkets enforced by police/army? The supermarkets themselves aren't doing it because they've got a golden opportunity at the moment to maximise profits.
Have I tried to buy a van? No, that's a strange question.
Why shouldn't there be a regulation on the capacity of supermarkets enforced by police/army? The supermarkets themselves aren't doing it because they've got a golden opportunity at the moment to maximise profits.
Laughing
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We all have our own agendas for reopening. Alvez misses the gym, Randy wants to get back to work. I just want to be able to visit my 2 daughters I haven't seen in a year.
The different priorities we each have should be ignored in favour of good modelling.
What will actually happen is restrictions will be lifted based on what tory donners press for.
Randy will probably have to wait a while to serve fancy named jus, Alvez will just have to do star jumps and I'll have to wait to see my daughters until the economics say we can not the modelers
The different priorities we each have should be ignored in favour of good modelling.
What will actually happen is restrictions will be lifted based on what tory donners press for.
Randy will probably have to wait a while to serve fancy named jus, Alvez will just have to do star jumps and I'll have to wait to see my daughters until the economics say we can not the modelers
Randy
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I'm kind of comfortable with my current working week of 6 hours at the moment
Getting my daughter back to school is my target at the moment. Roll on March 8th.
Laughing
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I think that is one target that will be achieved Randy, rightly or wrongly.I'm kind of comfortable with my current working week of 6 hours at the moment
Getting my daughter back to school is my target at the moment. Roll on March 8th.
