Coronavirus

[AndyWolves]

Yeah, it's a slight change of tack from getting care homes done first.

The timelines seem to have shifted slightly given the rumoured approval this week didn't happen

Kenny was indeed a minge teasing bastard

 

[Kenny]

Kenny was indeed a minge teasing bastard

Blame the Telegraph.

 

[Kenny]

One of the most frustrating aspects our Governments handling of this is the mixed up communication. How difficult is it to have a standard message.
Since lockdown 2 ending and Tiers coming back announcement we have had the following
- Tiers in place until March
- Tiers in place until Easter
- Could have Lockdown 3 in January (Gove on Saturday)
- Tiers will expire February 3rd (Boris trying to stop a fuckload of his MP's voting against him)

 

[Keef]

I'd go with lockdown 3 in January, due to the government being surprised at the unexplainable spike in cases towards the end of December

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Would make no practical difference to anyone in Tier 3. All that would happen is some retail that is going to re-open next week will close again, and it'd be the kind of places where no-one spends any money in January. We are in lockdown now, we will be in lockdown on Friday.

To be honest, if it's just increased household mixing and it's largely adhered to, it shouldn't make much difference. Any rise should be cancelled out by schools being shut (if they had any sense they'd do this by mid-December anyway, not like anything gets done in the last week of term) and one of your five days is Christmas Day where nothing is open anyway bar pubs (and even then only for a couple of hours), who likely won't bother outside Tier 1.

But it's just shit, as ever they have a task and do the worst job possible with it. How can "Northumberland" be lumped together, for instance? Berwick to the south of County Durham is about 100 miles.

 

[Boozad]

Had to go into town earlier to pick Cassidy’s glasses up, we got there really early so grabbed a coffee and had a walk around for a while. It was really weird, like something out of 28 Day Later. Can’t see it being any different after Xmas either, we’ll be back where we are now.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The strategy now appears to be "hope the vaccine fixes everything" which to a point makes sense if we're as close as they say we are to it being rolled out, but equally isn't anything like good enough now we've had nearly nine months of this. What on earth have they been doing that we can't sit outside and have a coffee FFS?! (Although you can, and you can stand in a queue indoors while you wait to order, you just can't use a cafe's own sterilised, distanced, Covid-safe seating areas, which of course makes sense. Cram everyone onto park benches and random walls dotted around, because that definitely is better).

The fact we had around four months of lockdown and we're likely going to end up with another four months of lockdown in all but name is a disastrous failing on so many levels.

 

[AndyWolves]

The strategy now appears to be "hope the vaccine fixes everything" which to a point makes sense if we're as close as they say we are to it being rolled out, but equally isn't anything like good enough now we've had nearly nine months of this. What on earth have they been doing that we can't sit outside and have a coffee FFS?! (Although you can, and you can stand in a queue indoors while you wait to order, you just can't use a cafe's own sterilised, distanced, Covid-safe seating areas, which of course makes sense. Cram everyone onto park benches and random walls dotted around, because that definitely is better).

The fact we had around four months of lockdown and we're likely going to end up with another four months of lockdown in all but name is a disastrous failing on so many levels.

The strategy has always been to faff about until a vaccine is ready.

If cases are rising or in danger of rising there isn't much they can do. Every single restriction that gets rolled back causes an increase in people mixing, however small, which bumps up the R.

 

[Tredman]

One of our twins is back into isolation after 1 week out from the last 2 weeks. That’ll be a whole month of high school missed already. We’re pretty much the only people we know who have followed every single fucking rule - as a family of 5 we’ve seen pretty much no-one since summer, whereas other cunts are merrily carrying on as normal (and sending their kids to school). I am so fucking sick of this

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The strategy has always been to faff about until a vaccine is ready.

If cases are rising or in danger of rising there isn't much they can do. Every single restriction that gets rolled back causes an increase in people mixing, however small, which bumps up the R.

I'd agree that once rates are climbing (cases, deaths, ICU admissions, R, whatever) then you need to take action.

It's more that outside of something they haven't had any role at all in - vaccines - how exactly have we progressed since March? They've done nothing. Just a complete waste of almost an entire year. The impact of that is huge, for many different reasons.

 

[lemonjelly]

when did it change back to families going shopping together? Went to do a big food shop this morning. loads of couples with kids in tow running round the shop. I'm sure the advice is still a single person does the shopping.

Oh, and if you're a food retailer with a regular tannoy announcement advising customers to maintain 2 metres distancing, make sur your fucking staff do eh? One prick collecting deliveries or click and collect crashed his fucking trolley into mine twice, and other staff are just milling around customers with zero regard to distancing.

 

[Tredman]

I’m liking this new spiky LJ.

 

[lemonjelly]

he's about a lot, just hides it well

 

[AndyWolves]

Wolverhampton drops to the 25th worst Covid case offender

 

[Paul]

he's about a lot, just hides it well

I have never doubted your darker side

 

[lemonjelly]

I have never doubted your darker side

tribute to david prowse?

 

[Tony Towner]

Government minister tells pubs how to get around its own regulations

https://twitter.com/x/status/1333371092040298499

 

[Sniffer]

Eustice is a prat. He was arguing earlier that cases were falling due to the lockdown (no shit Sherlock!) but having an earlier lockdown, as advised at the time by sage, wouldn't necessarily have worked.

 

[lemonjelly]

also contradicted government advice stating you can finish your meal then drink. I understand you're supposed to leave shortly after the meal is finished.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Wales forcing all pubs and restaurants to close at 6pm. No alcohol at any point.

Again I don't get this, do they think these places can survive on lunch service only? Because I'll tell you now, they can't.

If consumption of alcohol in table service-only venues is a big factor (how this would be I don't know, but they keep basing their bollocks rules on this assumption) but you're not serving alcohol, why does it matter whether people are eating at 1pm (impractical for many, they're still working, but typically now further away from eateries) or 8pm?