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https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-02-23/california-homegrown-coronavirus-strain-looks-increasingly-transmissible-and-dangerous Obviously people arriving from San Fran into the UK can pretty much stroll straight out of the airport. They just need to fill out a form and promise they’ll go straight to the place they’re staying to quarantine.

I’ll be the one in the blue t-shirt

Te quiero mi amor

There are providers offering COVID cover with their travel insurance. The Post Office is one of them. EHIC are still valid if in date and many are long dated (mine runs well into 2024), but what specifically changed about medical rights in January? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44850972

Because we didn’t remove all controls last summer. It’s all in the paper. The vaccination isn’t 100% effective and some of the graphs show how deaths could spike depending on uptake and the % of infection blocking.

An insight about that is in the paper that I posted a page or two back. The Government don’t want the 1000 deaths per day figure and opening up hard is the rapid way to cause a spike again. If, say, we gradually open up in April and then remove all controls by July/August then deaths could hit ~2500 (this is shown in one of the graphs in the paper). The incompetent word removeds have **** it. We needed to do everything properly from the start and we’re still not doing things properly now. Meanwhile people are crying cos they can’t have two weeks in Benidorm, but they shouldn’t worry - Boris likes to be popular, so people will get their wish followed by further infection spikes, variants and then additional cycles of lockdowns and other control measures. I can’t see an end to this.

There’s an interesting paper on this here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.27.20248896v2.full.pdf TL;DR Things will need to be lifted a lot more gradually and much later than otherwise expected.

I’ll be really glad to see the back of her, and will praise the day that she never needs to be interviewed again, but I will kind of miss seeing Devi on our screens She can f**k right off with this chat about next year, though.

This you?

Probably for a different thread but I often wonder who came top.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-advice-on-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine JCVI list of members: https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/joint-committee-on-vaccination-and-immunisation#research-recommendations

I reckon we’re due to spank someone again so I’m going 5-1 to us. Watkins to grab a hat-trick, Grealish to score and El Ghazi to net again.

I still don’t understand your thinking. Not enough people having family or friends who haven’t been seriously ill (or died) is surely an extremely good thing and the absolute desired outcome from someone being infected. Why would you want more people to have gravely suffered just so other people have the opinion it’s a big deal?

What!?!?!?

Criminally underrated post! Really liked the use of a reference from The Office

I have no idea whether you’re just parodying being a vegan at this point.

*Spaff, Spaff, Spaff*

There are five of the best players I’ve ever seen play for us full stop in that squad. (God, Atkinson, Daley, Yorke and Ugo)

I hate those **** things! They’ve actually have been around for years and became a silly trend way before COVID. They started off as ‘Winter igloos’ which at least makes some sense, but venues have been putting them up in the summer too. You pay through the nose to sit in what’s basically a bit of plastic with some chairs in it.

I was trying to remember these places but couldn’t picture them in my head. I’d say Broad Street had around fifteen viable places for a drink and the Arcadian had 52 Degrees North (which won national awards) on the upper level and about five/six decent places in the internal concourse. Then you had a few places just nearby outside or on Hurst Street (Green Room and Steering Wheel/Bambu). As the outsider I am these days, it doesn’t seem that sheer volume has been replaced. Bennett’s Hill and Temple Street just doesn’t have an equivalent amount of venues.

Broad Street was a worthwhile place to out back in those days. It’s not any more and I wonder whether that’s reflective of a general decline in nightlife across the whole of the city centre. That’s not to say there aren’t still places to go, but 15-20 years ago, I’d say the nightlife was nicer, more expansive, had a greater volume of decent venues and was overall just better than it is now. On Broad Street, I remember places like the Living room (expensive, flashy), Stoodi Bakers (late night, good music), Some Place Else (pre-drinking venue) for the club - Bakers (which was generally well respected on the clubbing scene); then there was The Sports Bar (for pints and a bit of sport with mates), Rococco and Risa (I remember seeing Hendrie, Bosnich and Ugo in there several times) plus a number of others that were respectable and good for a night out. Then there was also the Arcadian. It eventually seemed to surpass Broad Street as the place to go out. Some people used to say it was pretentious, but I never saw it like that. I just thought it was a trendy place to go out with nice people. Then there were pockets of decent bars along places like Suffolk Street and Smallbrook, Summer Row, Regents Wharf, John Bright Street. Plus you had all the clubs Xela mentioned plus others (Steering Wheel, Bobby Brown’s, The Church, Liberty’s, Air) And the on top of all that...places like St Paul’s Square, The Mailbox, Colmore Row and Brindley Place had good places in those days too, just like they do today. Everything just seemed nicer and more high end in those days. I don’t get up there much these days, but when I do, it mostly seems a bit rough and there seems to be a lot less choice available.

Southgate looks like he pulls himself off to trains the duller than sewerage, waistcoat rocket polisher, c**knosed spunk maggot. And he got lucky at the last World Cup.