Two quotes from The Times today

Ingleby_Flash

Ingleby_Flash

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That show how ridiculously out of touch the government is.

1. “The government is advising children to aim for an hour‘s physical activity a day and adults 2.5 hours”

2. “Ministers are starting a public information campaign calling on people to ‘take the next step safely’ to protect the progress of the vaccine rollout”

1. What type of lives do they think people lead that they‘ve got 2.5 hours a day spare to excercise, get home from an eight hour shift, feed the kids then rock off for two and a half hours? Single parents? Maybe they expect us all to rely on our child minders and personal trainers more. Plus you’d be knackered doing 2.5 hours a day, I walk two hours most days and every six or seven I need a day off.

2. We’re not protecting the NHS any more so now they need another stick to control us with. If I get the virus tomorrow (disappointing since I had my jab yesterday) how will that affect the vaccine rollout? Why can’t they trust the general public to use their common sense (99% have it)

Total ignorance of real lives by the people applying a nanny state they think is appropriate. These people get off on control and someone should be calling them out on it.
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
That show how ridiculously out of touch the government is.

1. “The government is advising children to aim for an hour‘s physical activity a day and adults 2.5 hours”

2. “Ministers are starting a public information campaign calling on people to ‘take the next step safely’ to protect the progress of the vaccine rollout”

1. What type of lives do they think people lead that they‘ve got 2.5 hours a day spare to excercise, get home from an eight hour shift, feed the kids then rock off for two and a half hours? Single parents? Maybe they expect us all to rely on our child minders and personal trainers more. Plus you’d be knackered doing 2.5 hours a day, I walk two hours most days and every six or seven I need a day off.

2. We’re not protecting the NHS any more so now they need another stick to control us with. If I get the virus tomorrow (disappointing since I had my jab yesterday) how will that affect the vaccine rollout? Why can’t they trust the general public to use their common sense (99% have it)

Total ignorance of real lives by the people applying a nanny state they think is appropriate. These people get off on control and someone should be calling them out on it.
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8 hour shift what's that. I have been retired a few years now but previous to that it was 1982 when I last did an 8 hour shift. It was always 12 hours after that for me. Remember working at Cleveland Bridge in Darlo and it was 7x12 hours shifts then the tossers tried to force you to work overtime every night. Round trip to Redcar every day on top of that.

Agree with your points but its just more absolute boll0cks from the Government. I thought exactly the same as you did when I read point 2.
 
asredastheycome said:
8 hour shift what's that. I have been retired a few years now but previous to that it was 1982 when I last did an 8 hour shift. It was always 12 hours after that for me. Remember working at Cleveland Bridge in Darlo and it was 7x12 hours shifts then the tossers tried to force you to work overtime every night. Round trip to Redcar every day on top of that.

Agree with your points but its just more absolute boll0cks from the Government. I thought exactly the same as you did when I read point 2.
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So 12 hours, an hour to travel, two hours to eat, shower and shït, 2.5 hours excercise leaves you 7.5 hours to sleep - maybe they have thought this through after all.

Im retired too and I don’t think I could fit 2.5 hours a day in every day.
 
A day, or a week? NHS guidelines state that it's that amount per week.
150 minutes a day just sounds absurd.
 
I paid for the Times and Telegraph during lockdown as the free papers’ (aside from the Guardian) content just gets more clickbaity and riddled with ads.

I binned off the Times within a couple of months. It’s the M&S of papers, just over-trumpeted waffle, mostly news-free. No surprise it’s totally in the Tories’ pocket. Professor Pantsdown was so confident in being interviewed by the uncritical Times he even managed to sneak in that they never thought they’d “get away with” lockdown policy. As if it were an unlawful immoral act - well who’d have thunk it.

I like Henry Winter though but it’s not worth buying for him.
 
I do at least 1 hour a day now - when working full time I sometimes was in work for 11 hours a day, it was unhealthy and over 17 years I put on about 30kg and it was slowly killing me.
 
1. Well you just get your nannny to look after the kids don't you (when they're not in boarding school that is)?
(Why do people bother having kids that they don't look after btw?)

2. I think it's clumsy wording. No it won't affect the roll out. I think they mean allow the roll out to continue smoothing the transition to lifting restrictions ,rather than any spikes in cases hindering the transition.
 
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