Coronavirus.

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Perhaps they feel so comfortable in their majority that they can trim the electorate a little, at least those not profitable?
 

cj1

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We are in conspiracy theory territory here if a government wanted to kill the venerable why continue with virus suppression policies that offer most protection to these groups?
 

BobClay

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I'm sorry, but I'll repeat the one conspiracy theory I proposed about four years ago, that there is an Alien space craft hiding in the asteroid belt and pointing an insanity beam at the Earth. (It's a low cost way to obtain an entire habitable world.) The more you look at the last four years, the more credit it gets.

And if Trump wins the next election ... well ... I think we'll be looking at fait accompli here. :|
 

staffordjas

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I'm at Festival Park. People in shops seem astounded when I spring back when they come close.
An old bloke ( a stranger to us) stopped and chatted on his way back from the bar a few weeks ago. He was saying how he'd visited town for the first time for months and found it so different nowadays....

I was gobsmacked at his next comment
" People kept jumping back from me when I went close to them , as though I'd got leprosy or something. I kept telling them what's up with you, I haven't got any infectious diseases or anything"
:ohno:. No hope of some people understanding they can be carrying it and passing on with no symptoms.

My neighbour is the same. Was astounded she got told off when closely approaching the local Co- op queue in the early in days and people told her to keep her distance. Her reasoning..." As long as you wash your hands you are safe....."

No hope it ever going away with idiots who think like this :(
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
An old bloke ( a stranger to us) stopped and chatted on his way back from the bar a few weeks ago. He was saying how he'd visited town for the first time for months and found it so different nowadays....

I was gobsmacked at his next comment
" People kept jumping back from me when I went close to them , as though I'd got leprosy or something. I kept telling them what's up with you, I haven't got any infectious diseases or anything"
:ohno:. No hope of some people understanding they can be carrying it and passing on with no symptoms.

My neighbour is the same. Was astounded she got told off when closely approaching the local Co- op queue in the early in days and people told her to keep her distance. Her reasoning..." As long as you wash your hands you are safe....."

No hope it ever going away with idiots who think like this :(
The more elderly are finding it very difficult to adapt, I've found. There's no malice there, just an inability to comprehend.
 

BobClay

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So who's going to be downloading and using the government app then on Thursday?

Only if it's 'world beating.'
(And most of those other 'world' hypothetical microbes in the Venusian atmosphere have already died laughing at the idea ..... hey ..... maybe that's the plan ... :eek::lolsmash: )
 
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tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
No chance til it's been pulled apart and examined, but at the moment I only leave the house to shop so irrelevant. Next week I'm in a building with 3000 teenagers so......
 

Thehooperman

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What is the logic behind the 22.00 pub closing time?

All it will do is bring those who finish drinking earlier like myself and those who stay longer into the night together won't it?

People are already ignoring social distancing and showing no respect so unnecessarily cramming more people into the same space is absolutely ridiculous.

Time to start ordering more real ale boxes from Izaac Walton's Brewhouse again, me thinks.
 

Mudgie

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What is the logic behind the 22.00 pub closing time?

All it will do is bring those who finish drinking earlier like myself and those who stay longer into the night together won't it?

People are already ignoring social distancing and showing no respect so unnecessarily cramming more people into the same space is absolutely ridiculous.

Time to start ordering more real ale boxes from Izaac Walton's Brewhouse again, me thinks.
10pm closing will be like 2pm last orders on Sunday was before 1988, a mad rush to the bar to get a last one in and then everyone leaving together and crowding onto the same bus, all of which negates the social distancing that had taken place in the pub throughout the evening.
But that's Boris's finger-in-the-air thinking and whack-a-mole policy making.
With coronavirus under control from early July, when pubs reopened, to early September, when schools reopened, it's blatantly obvious that pubs aren't to blame but they make a convenient scapegoat.
 

rudie111

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10pm closing will be like 2pm last orders on Sunday was before 1988, a mad rush to the bar to get a last one in and then everyone leaving together and crowding onto the same bus, all of which negates the social distancing that had taken place in the pub throughout the evening.
But that's Boris's finger-in-the-air thinking and whack-a-mole policy making.
With coronavirus under control from early July, when pubs reopened, to early September, when schools reopened, it's blatantly obvious that pubs aren't to blame but they make a convenient scapegoat.

OK then lets close the schools again :welldone:
 

Thehooperman

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10pm closing will be like 2pm last orders on Sunday was before 1988, a mad rush to the bar to get a last one in and then everyone leaving together and crowding onto the same bus, all of which negates the social distancing that had taken place in the pub throughout the evening.

Exactly the question I was asking.
 
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