Maybe pubs and that aren't putting so many staff on because they want to make their profit margin as large as possible given they lost out on lots of business after the past year?
Maybe pubs and that aren't putting so many staff on because they want to make their profit margin as large as possible given they lost out on lots of business after the past year?
I'm not blaming furlough per se, as I said it absolutely had to happen and it was the right thing to do. But a possible consequence of it could be that people who work jobs casually now don't need to work those jobs for a bit as they were on 80% with essentially no outgoings for months.Originally Posted by Kikó
Again, they needed to be, but it's a consequence of the pandemic and one example (of many) how we're far from back to normal.
Again, fair point, but that isn't normal.
The cynic in me does wonder whether some industries have realised that they can make customers wait x amount longer with y fewer staff and generate z more profit. It's all bollocks short term thinking though, much like getting everyone in an office to work from home forevermore.
Don't get me wrong, it's definitely not how it was. I'm hoping we do not again push the open up date because I think this time it will cause unrest.
It won't cause (immediate) unrest. What it will cause is deep social problems that unfold over years. It needs to just end and if people die then people die (they won't, really).
I've already noticed people being quite meltdown-prone.
The only rules that are being followed now (widely) are the ones you can't get around. Masks in shops, all the restaurant nonsense, etc.
Distancing between friends and family is long dead. That's where the cases are coming from. Letting people pack out pubs will give cases a further kick, but it's not like we're actually going from distancing to no distancing.
As a population, we're utterly broken. They can do what they want from here and I'm genuinely not sure what it would take for actual civil unrest to occur.
The only thing that would provoke 'unrest' would be incomes drying up.
Or a substantial drop in house prices
A huge amount of the population are utterly broken and terrified they have had 18 months of the BBC, Sky etc terrifying them, there's no coming back for them.
The Welsh government have just announced we are heading into a third wave today it's utterly ridiculous.
I live in the 3rd biggest city in Wales and I still can't take my kids swimming, see a doctor face to face or get anywhere near a dentist..
It's utterly depressing.
Same here mate.
The bit I don't understand is that all modelling shows that hospitalisations per case are at 4% and falling (was 9-10% in January), deaths are still crawling along in single figures per day if that, rate of case growth is tiny compared to the last two waves, and yet the political decision-makers seem completely oblivious to this and want to pretend that a third wave is equal to the first and second waves - it just isn't.
It's like the vaccines haven't happened.
Some of us have been able to walk into a pub without booking. Everything is back to normal lads.
I've been able to go to the dentist as well.
As I said ages ago, the biggest anti-vaxxers in this country and by quite some margin, are now those in the church of SCIENCE. It's batshit bonkers.
More tales from the world of amateur cricket, we've just been told by our county board that from now on (not from a year ago when we restarted playing, but from now on) if a player tests positive then his team's next match is automatically cancelled, and the other 10 from the last match are not allowed to go on a cricket ground for any reason for 10 days - this due to '...what we've seen around reduced adherence to social distancing'. Obviously the county cricket board are not arbiters of the law, so all this is just a 'recommendation' (bold, caps, underlined).
Absolutely normal stuff here, totally normal.
Same. And I’ve been swimming.
I'm a twit
That's absolutely crazy.
I would predict (unless it collapses on its arse first) it will happen in football as well when you restart - it's the sport's governing body trying to cover its arse and not be blamed for spread.
I'm currently trying to devise the most effective method of cover-up should it happen to my club. I'm done with listening to these pen pushers.
I would be encouraging "don't ask, don't tell". If you get Covid, stay at home but keep your mouth shut.
Get the fuck back into school, office and pub and spread that shit on like the flu it is and always has been.
You never could. It's Wales.
I'm fully magnetised now.
Kids swimming later. Dentist tomorrow. Might try and go into a crowded pub tonight to watch the football.
We finished our football season and it didn't happen but I don't think we had anyone go down with Covid.
The biggest annoyance was the lack of changing facilities.
Harsh, but true.
You can book swimming lessons, but it's to dangerous to just go in there randomly plus the changing rooms are still closed because they are not Covid secure so even the pre booked classes have you either leaving the building with a towel round you or changing pool side.
It's all just madness.
27 deaths today. North West and Yorkshire making up half of them. The North East hasn't registered a death in nearly a fortnight. It's clear where the vaccine uptake has been royally bottled.
One positive case in Y9 at my school yesterday, 42 kids sent to self-isolate. Two more positives put us up to over 80 - amazed the whole bubble hasn't burst.
The isolation rules will have to go when we open up. It's just nonsensical.
They can keep "if you've got Covid, stay at home" (and introduce the same for the Flu tbh) but that should be the end of it.
On that note, why on Earth are two England players isolating?
Because they were in close contact with Wee Willy Covidheed. Luckily, every Scotland player kept their distance and at no point did any of them go within 2 metres of him.
Because unlike the entire Scotland team (Petr Cech's observations noted), including a manager who basically kissed Gilmour full on the lips after the game, they were the only 'close contacts' of young Billy.
Those numbers today
It's all kids testing positive. Hold your nerve.
2 of my colleagues have their kids off school after cases in their year.
Summer Holidays soon. That gives it 6 weeks to fuck off a bit and for more of us to get double jabbed.
It's over. We're good.
So we are new in Delta plus territory!!
An even more deadly and far more transmissible variant.
If this keeps up Covid will reach a point where it will be so contagious some sap in India will sneeze and a grandmother from Cardiff will catch it..
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The real pandemic at the minute is hay fever. Why is it much worse when you’re in your own flat. Fuck me, this is grim
Piriteze is your friend.
It's not hayfever, that's the Epsilon variant. Lock yourself in for 14 days, batter yourself round the head with a wooden spoon and stick your penis in a jar of mustard.
The struggle with the hay has been very real of late, but after 40 years on this planet I've finally managed to not rub my eyes when it hits and it's amazing how much that helps.
Will go buy some, ty ty.
It needs to make up its mind. One minute runny eyes and nose and next nose and throat/glands are drier than a nuns twat which suddenly makes breathing more of an effort
Donned by a flower.
You love me.
Over the counter stuff stopped working for me so I went to my GP and got prescribed Fexofenadine. Absolutely life-changing stuff. I think they're quite stingy with handing it out these days but it's worth pushing for it if the normal stuff isn't cutting it.
I'd try the various pills each summer but was told this year to try the Beconase spray. The sky has never looked so blue, the birds have never sounded so sweet etc
Millions of people dying from Covid every 52 seconds and we have people here on this very board being wet flannels about a blocked nose.
Priorities people.
I got my vaccine yesterday as well. Great combination
You alright mate?
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