welnik Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 34 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: It didnt work because we went and invited people to travel again. Pure stupidity by world leaders. Should have only let citizeins leave to their respected countries or exceptional circumstances. Holidays not allowed outside the uk. They should have encouraged the uk public to spend money in the uk to help the economy with some incentives. This would protect jobs and keep money in the uk. Yeah i know the airlines would have been in trouble but they could have maybe given them a financial package to help them while they are closed. Yeah, if you're giving people 80% to of their wages, make them go on holiday in the UK. Bollocks to giving the French/Spanish the money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Anyone interested in a £2,000 per day job working for test-and-trace? By the way, you need to have experience in "turning around failing call centres". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 22, 2020 Moderator Share Posted October 22, 2020 1 hour ago, ml1dch said: Anyone interested in a £2,000 per day job working for test-and-trace? By the way, you need to have experience in "turning around failing call centres". I'm guessing not one person in the UK is qualified for that post completely, especially as the specific requirements make no actual sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HanoiVillan Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 2 hours ago, ml1dch said: Anyone interested in a £2,000 per day job working for test-and-trace? By the way, you need to have experience in "turning around failing call centres". 'Tier 2 - General visas are cannot be accepted' Did Data write this while he was malfunctioning or what 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Number of cases in the young, levelling off, possibly dropping. We very quickly need another group to blame. Perhaps we should threaten to sack people with jobs if they are in the next blame demographic. Or stop people’s pensions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 37 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: 'Tier 2 - General visas are cannot be accepted' Did Data write this while he was malfunctioning or what £2000 a day is absolutely obscene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Wait, what fresh **** hell is this? Six months after Cambridgeshire police investigating people into the biscuit aisle, and we're somehow back to that again??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 If you have a record shop, you have to close. If you have a supermarket, you cannot sell CD’s whilst the record shop is closed. That’s my guess. Clearly, it will be ever so slightly undermined by online sales and people getting access to postage stamps and record shop phone numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: If you have a record shop, you have to close. If you have a supermarket, you cannot sell CD’s whilst the record shop is closed. That’s my guess. Clearly, it will be ever so slightly undermined by online sales and people getting access to postage stamps and record shop phone numbers. I can almost see the point. After all, online sales don't involve people gathering in the shop, but as with every "initiative", and I use the term quite charitably, that the UK and devolved governments have launched, it appears ill-considered inconsistent, and the communication of the message is handled even more poorly. Food is obviously fine. All food? Are biscuits essential? Booze is fine as well, which seems a bit odd. While you're in a supermarket, you're not allowed to buy new socks for the next 2-3 weeks, but you can fill your trolley with booze. It's an interesting definition of "essential". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Yeah, I don’t know what’s on the list, so I don’t know where they’ve drawn the line. One man’s essentials for cold weather site visits, is another man’s novelty socks. I do know, that my mate’s shop that sells kiss me quick tat, will now also be selling bread, milk, and spuds. Thus being allowed to stay open. I suspect it’s more about communication and the use of the word ‘essential’. What I think they are trying to do, what i think we both think they are crudely attempting, is to stop Asda and Costco and Lidl mopping up the trade of small specialist local retailers. Wait 2 weeks to buy your surdo drum from the music shop, not the centre aisle of Lidl. The one thing I would say at the moment, I really wouldn’t take stories from BBC Wales at face value. They have a strong agenda at the moment, and it ain’t trying to get a Welsh Republic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 We're locked down again. I very much took this thing seriously at the start, but you cannot keep stopping people's lives over and over again. When will it end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 hour ago, StefanAVFC said: We're locked down again. I very much took this thing seriously at the start, but you cannot keep stopping people's lives over and over again. When will it end Yep, we’re going back in to full lockdown as of 6:00pm today. I mean proper lockdown, don’t travel further than you can walk. Do not take your car 9 miles for a pre booked service. Rumours that the police will be around later to smash all our biscuits and fence off the beach. Do not stand in your parent’s garden. To put that in to perspective, the population of my town is 50,000 reported new cases of covid in the last recorded 7 days: 3 Or in the current way we report figures, 6 per 100,000 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 The data clearly shows that these lockdowns are being applied to a situation that is far less dangerous and uncertain than March/April. Lockdowns are failed policy and completely unnecessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 At least football is essential this time around, for unknown reasons 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 7 minutes ago, sne said: At least football is essential this time around, for unknown reasons It was funny when it looked like it might stop Liverpool winning the league. It's nowhere near as funny when a cancelled season stops us from winning the league. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, ml1dch said: It was funny when it looked like it might stop Liverpool winning the league. It's nowhere near as funny when a cancelled season stops us from winning the league. It likely kept us in the league thou so there is always that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) Imagine a year ago, this being a couple of fairly normal paragraphs in a newspaper article which doesn't really elicit more than a shrug of the shoulders. Edited October 23, 2020 by ml1dch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 24, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2020 Spoke to an ex work colleague on the phone last night. Her 15 year old daughter got sent home from school with COVID-like symptoms. Got tested. Positive. Now my friend also has symptoms, and awaiting her own test result, which is pretty obviously going to be positive. All bad enough in itself, but she's already been isolating since the start of the pandemic as she's recently had surgery and chemo for breast cancer. And in August she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. And she's Asian. Her daughter is panicking and scared that she might have put her mum's life in danger. But hey, the schools had to go back... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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