Anyone fancy a lads tour of Israel? Losing Don to the cause will be a right laugh.
Anyone fancy a lads tour of Israel? Losing Don to the cause will be a right laugh.
I am still booked to play golf in Portugal in October. If I'm still having to shell out £150 a pop for a load of PCR tests by then, fuck it.
Does somebody watch you do the test?
Boots do them for £100. The output is a PDF any mug could counterfeit. Imma ask my parents what the verification looks like but I strongly doubt it's anything to prevent it as it has no barcode or even reference number
Just shows how utterly draconian and fucking stupid this 'test before entry' shite is. Fuck that, and fuck your passports as well.
Conf @ 5PM to announce a further delay to lockdown easing?
Anyone got any explosives going spare?
If we let the SCIENCE win again I'll be joining you in the hunt for some.
Can I get a copy please?Originally Posted by Don
Boots do them for £100. The output is a PDF any mug could counterfeit. Imma ask my parents what the verification looks like but I strongly doubt it's anything to prevent it as it has no barcode or even reference number
I'm a twit
I'd be happy to if I had the willpower to redact the personal info but that us not looking likely currently.
I'm sure you can trust the spreadsheet badboy with personal info.
I will piss myself if we delay everything rather than shut the bastard borders.
We won't be delaying everything, but shutting the borders is not and never will be a viable policy. Just look at the knots the Australians are tying themselves up in.
True they've had a terrible time with the knots.
He's delayed it, absolutely nailed on now it's bad news.
Better not delay relaxing restrictions. I’m booked in to Hooters on 26th June.
I'm a twit
Just bomb the areas full of this vindaflu shit and crack on. Two birds, no stones.
This is the most sarcastic sign-language geezer in the world.
I did warn that proportion of cases from one variant is our new enemy, and so it comes to pass.
What a bollocks.
Focusing on 2nd doses seems retarded to me. The over 60's aren't catching it. It's the young unvaccinated and the under 60's that either dodged the vaccine or had it too recently to be fully protected.
Just fucking carry on as is.
They're back to focusing on cases again it seems.
If it's a choice between closing borders (dealing with that logistical nightmare) and carrying on normally within them or going through this bollocks every time a dominant strain pops up then the first option needs to be seriously looked at.
Personally I'd just crack on until people start dying in significant numbers again, which there's a good chance won't even happen.
It strikes me they are saying one thing (ooh scary cases!) and doing another (continuing to prioritise 2nd doses).
Clearly there is no vaccine escape in the Indian variant or it would have gone off like a rocket by now. It's going round low vaxed south Asian areas and hasn't touched whitey, but obviously you can't say that.
It doesn't really change much, does it? 2nd doses were already getting prioritised and the first shots are almost at my age group. Cases haven't ballooned and this variant's been here for months.
Army deployed to North West to respond to Indian variant
I have serious doubt over the number of Asians from Bolton and surrounding areas travelling to and from India strictly for business purposes.
Besides, why are we prioritising business over health.
#CloseTheBorders
I'm a twit
On the contrary, I believe every Indian has a right to a second shop abroad.
Glasgow.
For fuck sake.
I’ve yet to see any reasoning why this variant should delay the ROADMAP. There’s literally only one reason why it should and that is if it leads to an increased rate of hospitalisations and deaths. I don’t give a shit about increased transmissibility.
Indeed. Seems we do listen to the SCIENCE wankers far more than we should.
That fear mongering epidemiologist must be fapping herself silly tonight.
I clocked the BBC in-house Indian variant saying the current restrictions (as in what they are today) are far too loose. Is she just invited on for idiotic 'balance', like when they used to have to have Nigel Lawson on to say global warming isn't happening #yolo just burn your rubbish?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sions-day.html
It’s over, lads. Prepare yourselves for summer lockdown.
Yep spot on. 10k admissions a day.
Feel sorry for all the poor cunts with actual illnesses.
Not happening. They can try but compliance is gone.
Again, I think there's irresponsible calls of doom but it's from the reporting of the tabloids. The daily mail are fucking hateful.
The tabloids are indeed scum, but Warwick have been at it again.
Er, vaccine? No need to bother factoring that in. At all.A Warwick University modelling team cautioned that if it was 40 per cent more transmissible the next surge could be worse than the second wave, with up to 6,000 daily admissions, and a 50 per cent increase could lead to 10,000 per day.
If. And like you said, the vaccine's going to be a factor. Our second wave was shit because the vaccine rollout was just underway. It's almost six months later.
CDC said so, so I have stopped wearing my mask.
I forgot to put mine on when I went a shop the other day. Only realised when I was paying, then checked and the other four customers and two staff members within sight weren’t wearing masks either. Maybe we all forgot.
The staff were [possibly] Indian too. RIP
I'm a twit
Rip
Better go for a test, mate.
To be fair the second subheading there is: "But scientists are optimistic vaccines will work against the strain and still no evidence it is more dangerous". But yeah, the article overall isn't exactly optimistic.
On a slightly different topic... Decent Guardian article from the other day: 'End of England’s hug ‘ban’ highlights confusion over law and guidance' https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...w-and-guidance
I've been thinking of myself as pretty diligent in reading the updated laws/guidelines, but had no idea the exercise thing was never law.“Throughout the past year, the government has – probably deliberately – muddled the difference between law and guidance, and social distancing has only ever been guidance,” said Adam Wagner, a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers who has studied coronavirus legislation.
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Throughout the pandemic, the government has issued instructions as though they were enforceable rules, when in fact they were not, Wagner pointed out. When Boris Johnson announced the beginning of the first national lockdown in March by instructing the nation to remain indoors, the order had no legal power for three days.
“And that set the mode for the rest of the year,” Wagner said. “The most common example that people think about is exercise once per day, which has never been part of the law. It’s always been the law that you can exercise whenever you want.”
Even asides from any issues of law, the communication from the government since last March has been a shambles really.
It sounds like the opposite of a shambles if it could keep people inside without the actual legal power to compel them to.
Has worked the other way around too though, right? E.g. having multiple bubbles.
Coming out at the start and saying "we can't force you to stay at home, but please do" would have been a disaster. That's a mental article.
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I think the rules/guidance have all been pretty clear, and obviously social distancing was only ever guidance. How could you legally enforce it? Everything else is just deliberate idiocy ('What does "alert" mean?'/all the wank about 'substantial meals'), local police making shit up about exercise and sitting on benches, and people thinking they can get away with bending them by being in multiple bubbles etc.
I think you're grossly over estimating Johnny Publics understanding of legislative powers. If Boris Johnson says stay at home, that's it, that's the law.
I meant in the general sense that people knew what they were meant to be doing. I don't think anyone could seriously claim ignorance about visiting people (for example) when the rules/guidance said otherwise.
The deciding factor for people doing as they’re told and staying at home is whether pubs are open - beer gardens or inside seating doesn’t matter; if they’re open, we’re out.
I'm a twit
CDC said so, so I have stopped wearing my mask.
Blood on your hands.
Credentials in username. Pepe WIN.
Every picture on her profile has an 'I told you so' look, as well.
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