Here's a link to the view what tier you're in: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/full-lis...-tiers-by-area
Here's a link to the view what tier you're in: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/full-lis...-tiers-by-area
I think it's only these in Tier 1:
Isle of Wight
Cornwall
Isles of Scilly
Manchester R rate - 0.8-2 - Tier 3
London R rate - 1.2-4 - Tier 2
Neville is fuming
I don't know why, tier 2 is shit as well.
They've basically just continued the lockdown and re-badged it. Even Norfolk is in Tier 2 FFS.
Managed to leave lockdown and go into a higher tier than we were in before it. Top work.
Literally the worst places in the south east. It can't be a coincidence.South East
Slough (remainder of Berkshire is in tier two)
Kent and Medway
Imagine trying to open/close or forecast for your business in retail/hospitality now.
I genuinely don't understand what the point of the increase in last orders time was all about if you need to be eating a meal to have a pint. Who is doing that at 10PM?
And I think once again I can spend all day in the pub on my own again if I want to, I just need to embrace morbid obesity this time to do it.
Or eat incredibly slowly.
Christmas gatherings will be set at eight people over 12 years old in Scotland - and households should stay two metres apart indoors, according to new official guidance.
The rules for Scotland, published on Thursday morning, stated so-called "bubbles" will be capped at three households here.
People in the newly formed group are not allowed to shop together.
There should be no more than eight people, excluding children under 12 years old, in a bubble. One of the households can be classed as "extended", which includes a vulnerable person for care reasons. Children under the age of 12 do not count towards the total.
Bubbles can meet in a private home, including over night. They can also meet outdoors and in places of worship.
The Scottish Government says people should remain two metres from people outside a household as much as possible. In a house, this could prove difficult around a dining table or in front of the Christmas tree.
Avoid sharing cutlery or crockery "if possible".
Ventilation is important so the government recommends windows are open. Keep washing hands and surfaces.
Fucking hell.
Would have really been easier to just say "stick granny in a cupboard".
Tier 2, represent.
Lovely of the government to needlessly promote us to make it look like that “mass testing” nonsense in Liverpool had a positive effect.
I'm a twit
TTH Meet on the Isle of Wight.
Can have 1000 people in a gaff to listen to a hate preacher but can't have 5 people in a pub to drink their pints.
Sharia law has won.
It would be a decent day out. Call it the Mr Creosote Challenge - can you legally stay in a pub from opening to closing time just by eating meal after meal after meal.
This really has been an absolutely terrible year. Nothing to do for half of it but even when not locked down you can't do anything that doesn't become hugely convoluted in the face of ever changing rules. I haven't been to the pub since 2019. I just can't be arsed with the agro.
Went to two pubs last night.
:smug:
Listening to people in the office discussing the new rules this afternoon, I've concluded that the rules are not the problem. The problem is that people WILL NOT READ the rules because they simply don't have the attention span to get through anything more than a four-word headline.
I've got my man calling for 'all or nothing' or else it's too confusing.
Just gone to war with my sister in law and caused a riot in the family WhatsApp.
Her current Christmas Bubble contains 6 households, including mine. I just very politely asked her how she came to decision that I would be willing to break the law and who the fuck she thinks she is to decide who is in our bubble without even speaking to us about it. Said bubble happily contains everyone her and her dippy husband would want to see but doesn't take anyone else into account.
It's gone down well.
I had to quickly explain myself in the work group chat yday after I let slip that I was going round my parents' and got a 'stay safe x' reply. These people
What's the pub protocol, can I pick at my meal for 12 hours or is it that 2 hour max window bollocks again?
That's the law breaking part of the equation. She's trying to dance around it by saying the 6 house holds aren't mixing at the same time. Her family are the only ones that would be seeing each of the other 5 households but she'd have us all breaking the law by doing so.
In all honesty, I wouldn't really care that much, it's the principle of them making decisions on our behalf without even talking to us. It's just the latest in a long line of selfish and controlling bullshit.
That is also why the government had to introduce this Christmas bubble wank as people were clearly going to do it anyway and it would look like they have no control whatsoever as a result. Save face, kill granny.
Huge demand for Covid-19 tests at Dundee University has crashed the online booking system within a day of it going live.
Rapid tests have been made available from Monday whether students have symptoms or not.
I adore things like this.
NI is locking down just as we open up. Infestation incoming
Not if she can't remember it.
Is L/Derry a genuine contraction or a way of skirting around committing to one 'side' or the other on the name of that place?
Thailand has just announced that border will remain closed until at least May or June 2021 - and entries at that point will have had to have been vaccinated. Indonesia and Vietnam expected to follow suit.
Smart.
Qantas will only fly vaccinated passengers when the time comes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55107473
Honestly have no idea where to start with any of this. 'Involve women in the decision-making process'? They must have seen the data stacking up that women are far more risk-averse than men.