Kingman Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 11 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Are you allowed to be in a support bubble if from another area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 3 minutes ago, Kingman said: Are you allowed to be in a support bubble if from another area? I assume it means the exercise shouldn't be outside your local area. So no trips from London to the Brecon Beacons under the guise of exercise. Delivering groceries to your housebound grandmother in the next town who would otherwise starve = still fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 1 minute ago, Kingman said: Are you allowed to be in a support bubble if from another area? It will depend on what the legislation says. I believe that's currently the case and the guidance simply says: Quote ...if you form a support bubble, it is best if this is with a household who live locally. Prepare to debate this point, however, if you're stopped by a copper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 5, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2021 53 minutes ago, ender4 said: I think its mainly because there has been less social interaction between people than normal, so the flu hasnt been able to spread as easily as previous years. Doh...yes of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 5, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 5, 2021 graffiti in that there posh Formby, where it's generally never seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted January 5, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2021 For those of you feeling a bit down and the New Year Optimism has slipped away after yesterday's announcement (I'm looking at you @Xela). I've just taken a stroll around the garden. First time I've been out there since probably the day after Boxing day. The sun was shining with blue sky. If you turned your face towards the sun you could feel a little heat in it. Everywhere I looked there were Daffodil shoots coming out. My prediction is that in a couple of months we will be surrounded by the little yellow critters, the sun will be warmer, the most vulnerable in society will have been vaccinated and Covid will be firmly in retreat with the country finally and permanently beginning to open again. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 I hope so @sidcow. It’s amazing what some pleasant weather can do for your mood and outlook. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted January 5, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2021 15 minutes ago, bickster said: graffiti in that there posh Formby, where it's generally never seen Where did you get the paint? Wilco? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 5, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: Where did you get the paint? Wilco? I would imagine it was obtained from the local family run hardware store owned by a convicted paedophile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post snowychap Posted January 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2021 2 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted January 5, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2021 1 minute ago, bickster said: I would imagine it was obtained from the local family run hardware store owned by a convicted paedophile Always have the best colour ranges in all fairness 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Quote Wisconsin pharmacist who left vials out believed vaccine could harm people and change their DNA, police say The Wisconsin pharmacist arrested last week after allegedly removing vials of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from cold storage is a conspiracy theorist who believes the vaccine could harm people, police say. Pharmacist Steven Brandenburg, 46, is accused of intentionally leaving out 57 vials, prompting hospital officials to sequester most of the doses because they thought the vaccine was rendered ineffective. In a probable cause statement obtained by CNN affiliate WTMJ, authorities say Brandenburg admitted to investigators he believed in conspiracy theories and believed "the COVID-19 vaccine was not safe for people and could harm them and change their DNA." https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/04/us/wisconsin-pharmacist-vaccine-vials-court-hearing/index.html What a bat shit crazy country that is. A pharmacist?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 On 23/09/2020 at 19:11, darrenm said: I don't understand why no-one else is mentioning that this will probably be a non issue by the new year because of at least one of the vaccines. When I said new year, I meant by the first quarter of the new year On 23/09/2020 at 19:44, HanoiVillan said: @darrenm see @Genie's comment above. I don't want to rule out *any* vaccine having been distributed to *anybody*, but the approval, production, distribution and logistical challenges are substantial. I think you're too optimistic about the timelines, and by some distance (though of course I would be delighted for you to be proven right). Shall we call it a draw? They started vaccinating in 2020 but won't scale up for the next week or so. Johnson is still saying they'll have all of the at-risk done by Easter.. On 23/09/2020 at 19:54, darrenm said: Fair enough. I'm pretty sure the production already started a while ago. This was on the 5th June: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52917118 Since then the trials have gone better than expected with almost no interruptions and a strong immune response shown so if anything they will have become more confident to invest and ramp up production in readiness. Distribution yes would be a challenge. Approval is decided by the governing body which is conveniently, the government. Perhaps I am too optimistic with the timescales but I'm basing it on how desperate I think the situation is about to get. The end of furlough, more lockdown restrictions of hospitality, businesses going bump everywhere - I can just see the government seeing this is their lifeline and parting the seas to get it through. I think this was largely correct but it seems production hasn't been pre-scaled up as promised and all of the distribution hasn't been sorted out ready to go. But I think the latest lockdown coinciding with the vaccine rollout probably counts as them seeing it as their lifeline but I'm still to see a 'parting of the seas' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKongVillan Posted January 5, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2021 14 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: TBF i go out for a run once or twice a week for 7k ~10k run each go. I hated it but had to do it because of health/weight control, so i think I qualified for this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) 48 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Just had a quick look at villa twitter (I know, scary place) and found. Quote "stop making the prime minister political ... i give up" Who was it who said there won't be anyone left supporting him? 'His recent spell in an ICU' was in the first half of last year; he's been back at work for more than 6 months. If he doesn't feel up to handling a national crisis, what is best? To carry on failing, or to hand over to someone in a fit state to deal with it? Risible excuses. Edited January 5, 2021 by blandy removed sweary quoted tweet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: 'His recent spell in an ICU' was in the first half of last year; he's been back at work for more than 6 months. If he doesn't feel up to handling a national crisis, what is best? To carry on failing, or to hand over to someone in a fit state to deal with it? Risible excuses. **** up and making bad decisions when other countries have shown the correct decisions can be made, yep not his fault. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 2 hours ago, It's Your Round said: I hope so @sidcow. It’s amazing what some pleasant weather can do for your mood and outlook. On the flip side the weather was incredible during the first lockdown and it was frustrating I couldn't go anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straggler Posted January 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2021 We are doing worse than the USA. More deaths/100,000 and more infections. The USA has a certifiable moron in charge whose contribution to fighting the virus was to suggest injecting bleach into lungs as a cure, playing golf and holding superspreader events all over the country. Boris had a look at the rallies and laughed as he arranged the ultimate superspreader event of a day for millions of children to mix all over the country after encouraging their families to mix over Christmas. Boris at his best is worse than Trump pretending that the whole virus thing is not his problem and doing nothing. There is no measure you can hold to the performance of the UK to find the results acceptable and there is no one else left to blame. If the country was unprepared, we have had the same party in charge for over a decade there is only them to blame. Events are not unprecedented if they happen on a regular basis, as pandemics do, they are certainly not unprecedented if the same problem arose only 9 fricking months ago. I can almost excuse failure to prepare for a pandemic back in March 2020, it must be tempting not to spend that money and to try and kick that can down the road hoping that you won't be the one to get hit. Failure to prepare during a pandemic for the expected results of the pandemic you are in is just stupid. Making the same mistakes over and over again as people die and businesses fail is unforgivable. It didn't have to be this way. We are an island, we could have controlled our borders and tested people as they entered (why the effing hell are we doing Brexit if when we really need to control who comes in we don't bother?) we could have followed the success stories from all around the world of places that managed to control the virus, but our leadership chose not to. They chose to do nothing, they chose to learn nothing, they chose to be surprised at every turn despite being given constant guidance they chose not to listen to. They chose to let the NHS suffer, they chose to give teachers no ability to deliver what was being asked of them, they chose to leave kids at home unable to access the technology and classes they need to have any chance of being educated at home, they chose to let kids go hungry, they chose to wait, they chose inertia, they chose colleagues on the basis of dogma and loyalty rather than competence, they chose to line the pockets of themselves and their friends at the expense of working solutions, they chose the deaths of their citizens over making a decision that might make them unpopular. Boris and his crew are incompetent and cowardly, with only avarice and shamelessness as a response when empathy and intellect were required. Boris the unready, what a word removed. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Seem to know a lot more people who have it/have had it, this time round. Down our yard there’s 3 off with it and one of the wives is critical in hospital. She’s in her late 50s, overweight with health issues but it’s getting close to home now . It ended up killing my grandad which was a blessing in disguise, and expected, but yeah, it seems more common this lockdown compared to first lockdown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 It's got into a residential home down here. Staff and a lot of patients. The NHS is trying to prop it up, but resources are stretched already. We don't need many more of these, or we'll really start to slide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts