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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Someone I know has had their Direct Debit put up to nearly £300 a month. I have no idea how it's possible unless he has some serious arrears, but I did lol.
    Jesus. Even with a hot tub mine's not anywhere near that.

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    I'm £100 up on mine. That's probably going to take a sharp turn.

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    Self isolation back when travelling into England until a negative PCR test is obtained.

    RIP my IAG shares.

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    Masks back in shops lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Self isolation back when travelling into England until a negative PCR test is obtained.

    RIP my IAG shares.
    That already exists? I've flown back and forth multiple times this month and had to do a test on Day 2 each time.

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    It's alright, life's more or less the same as it was in 2019 and these are just minor inconveniences.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    That already exists? I've flown back and forth multiple times this month and had to do a test on Day 2 each time.
    You have to isolate until you get the result now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Masks back in shops lol
    I'm in Malvern which is full of olds so I've been doing this anyway.

    My life impacted not one jot

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    That already exists? I've flown back and forth multiple times this month and had to do a test on Day 2 each time.
    It doesn't. You need to do a day 2 lateral flow test now and with no isolation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    You have to isolate until you get the result now.
    Turns out I'd misread the instructions and had been doing that anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Turns out I'd misread the instructions and had been doing that anyway.

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    What is the actual science on the additional protection granted by the booster? I'm smelling SCIENCE at this briefing.

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    This will have done wonders for the Team WFH members that have been dragged back into the office. I'm buzzing for you lads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    What is the actual science on the additional protection granted by the booster? I'm smelling SCIENCE at this briefing.
    Toggle Spoiler

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    I don't mean to sound like a dick (and I should have been clearer), but I'm not interested in case numbers. Nobody should be at this point.

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    I've never seen a bigger overreaction to anything in my life. These are weak, scared people.

    Just get the fucking boosters done and on we go ffs. Travel restrictions/rules are a complete 100% destructive waste of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I've never seen a bigger overreaction to anything in my life. These are weak, scared people.

    Just get the fucking boosters done and on we go ffs. Travel restrictions/rules are a complete 100% destructive waste of time.
    Not helped by the questions from all the journalists seemingly coming from people who're more scared/want to scare people. Utter clusterfuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    I don't mean to sound like a dick (and I should have been clearer), but I'm not interested in case numbers. Nobody should be at this point.
    There's a similar one for hospital admissions, and presumably there will be one for deaths as well.

    If you've had two jabs, why would you be against the booster?

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    There's a similar one for hospital admissions, and presumably there will be one for deaths as well.

    If you've had two jabs, why would you be against the booster?
    I'd rather we moved on from all this shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Not helped by the questions from all the journalists seemingly coming from people who're more scared/want to scare people. Utter clusterfuck.
    The worst thing is that a lot of people will be scared, because why wouldn't they? The media industry is completely broken.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    I'd rather we moved on from all this shit.
    It would indeed be nice if the virus was not still knocking about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    It would indeed be nice if the virus was not still knocking about.
    The virus will be knocking about for all our lifetimes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    The virus will be knocking about for all our lifetimes.
    Will that not impede your plan to simply move on?

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    Oh no, a virus!

    Time we all grew up I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    Will that not impede your plan to simply move on?
    We should be treating this like winter flu now. That is the moving on I'd love to see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    We should be treating this like winter flu now. That is the moving on I'd love to see.
    I imagine that's what will happen, but I can't see the harm in erring on the side of caution and jabbing as many people as possible this winter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    I can't see the harm in erring on the side of caution
    The problem is when this logical line gets followed through. Nobody has any sense of perspective.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    I imagine that's what will happen, but I can't see the harm in erring on the side of caution and jabbing as many people as possible this winter.
    Caution against what by jabbing as many people as possible? Jab all the vulnerable people + anyone who actually wants one (to appease the bed wetters) and we'd be fine.

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    Another rent a gob fear mongering SCIENTIST on the news talking absolute shite. We're in for a tidal wave of these chancers coming out of the woodwork again, aren't we?

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    Everyone that got a booster.

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    German heads are gone watch: we have to do a lateral flow test to get into a restaurant which we have to do outside before we go in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    German heads are gone watch: we have to do a lateral flow test to get into a restaurant which we have to do outside before we go in.
    Not as bad, but when I was in Italy last weekend I had to have someone follow me around and serve me my food at every buffet offering.

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    Brilliant, I thought my plastic glove mask combo in Greece was over the top but that takes the biscuit.

    Looking forward to gagging outside.

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    I give it three days before shops have got one way systems back in. Luckily I declared the pandemic OVER at work weeks ago and took it upon myself to pull all the floor markers up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    I imagine that's what will happen, but I can't see the harm in erring on the side of caution and jabbing as many people as possible this winter.
    Can you use your excel skills to plot some kind of chart showing the level of caution involved in making 60 million people wear masks and everyone catching a plane isolate because 2 sick people have been found?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Can you use your excel skills to plot some kind of chart showing the level of caution involved in making 60 million people wear masks and everyone catching a plane isolate because 2 sick people have been found?
    Scotland never stopped wearing masks, and when I've been in England it's felt like the majority have worn them on public transport and in shops. I don't know why they changed the rules in the first place.

    On the travel rules, I have no idea tbh. It's easy enough to dodge it all if you care enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    The virus will be knocking about for all our lifetimes.
    True. It will become endemic.

    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    We should be treating this like winter flu now. That is the moving on I'd love to see.
    I would like to see that too. With that said, we have not reached the level of people vaccinated + people previously infected that will allow for that*. As someone said upthread, we should be more concerned about vaccinating more people than giving boosters, but here we are.

    I attended a talk by the QE Nicholas Christakis not too long ago, where he predicted that we have one more year of this shit. I am willing to believe him, unfortunately.

    *By allow, I mean for governments and health organizations to stop shitting themselves.

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    And once we're done with this, inflation, etc. will come in. Should be a fun next several years.

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    Yeah, this will take a while to shift into a bland illness.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    Scotland never stopped wearing masks, and when I've been in England it's felt like the majority have worn them on public transport and in shops. I don't know why they changed the rules in the first place.

    On the travel rules, I have no idea tbh. It's easy enough to dodge it all if you care enough.
    And vaccine passports and yet it hasn't made a blind bit of difference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    Scotland never stopped wearing masks, and when I've been in England it's felt like the majority have worn them on public transport and in shops. I don't know why they changed the rules in the first place.

    On the travel rules, I have no idea tbh. It's easy enough to dodge it all if you care enough.
    I'm not particularly arsed either way, it just made me lol to hear it described as "caution". It's like bleaching the cutlery and calling it washing up.

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    HTH x

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    Nice to see Giggles branching out.

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    2G+ regulations mean you get the negative of on the spot lateral flow tests but positive of not wearing a mask again in the restaurant. It's relatively ok as a compromise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Nice to see Giggles branching out.
    Nice to see someone speaking sense. Enough cunts going around with half a breakers yard in their face and they couldn’t possibly wear a mask.

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    I'm going abroad for a few days on Friday and paid for a fucking lateral flow test to take when I returned which came today (mainly just so I could get the reference number sorted out for the "passenger locator form" or whatever it's called, one less this to do and all that) which is now effectively useless to me. I mean it was only £25 or something, but I'm sure they won't be offsetting that against the cost of the PCR test I am now meant to do after he dropped this rule change out of the blue.

    Realistically, what will happen if I just ignore any request to do the PCR test when I return to the country? I'm guessing nothing. I'm leaning increasingly towards that course of action to be honest. Fuck all this now.

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    I didn't bother doing mine once and they didn't send anyone round. They're not paying test and trace people anymore so there's no-one to narc on you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    I'm going abroad for a few days on Friday and paid for a fucking lateral flow test to take when I returned which came today (mainly just so I could get the reference number sorted out for the "passenger locator form" or whatever it's called, one less this to do and all that) which is now effectively useless to me. I mean it was only £25 or something, but I'm sure they won't be offsetting that against the cost of the PCR test I am now meant to do after he dropped this rule change out of the blue.

    Realistically, what will happen if I just ignore any request to do the PCR test when I return to the country? I'm guessing nothing. I'm leaning increasingly towards that course of action to be honest. Fuck all this now.
    Likewise (for work). It's a load of absolute panic station bobbins.

    You don't have to do the test but you do need to get the code.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post


    HTH x
    Everything wrong with Britain in that tweet there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Skipping 'Xi' in the alphabet naming strategy is pretty lol. Also, read elsewhere - won't southern Africa be throwing up variants for the rest of time, seeing as half of them have HIV and will struggle to reach any sort of lasting herd immunity?
    All the variants are Xi variants when you think about it…

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