basil
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proactive
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Oi!
Cue
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Boris won’t officially close hospitality or they’d have to provide financial support again
Instead they’ll just tell everyone to stay come and hospitality will be further crippled
Gramaisc
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One imagines that Boris, as with some others, is planning his own future more than "ours" and is making sure that his financial support is sound.
Once ICUs are full the decision is made for them.
If they are going to fill up, then the sooner you make some efforts, the better, of course - but, 'wave a flag and hope for the best' may still be their preferred policy.
staffordjas
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Son got refused entry into a night club last night , despite being double jabbed and having a covid passport . Going straight out after a late shift at work his phone was on 1% , the bouncer actually saw his covid passport. But before he got around to scanning it , sons phone died and wouldn't let him in even though he'd just seen it !
I'm getting rather p1ssed off with the whole thing now. I caught covid despite being double jabbed , but the jabs most likely kept me out of hospital as was just like a really, really bad cold. Now boosted thinking that with antibodies and that extra jab I was well covered, but seemingly not according to all this panic with the new variant and still got further restrictions and possible Omicron to look forwards to.
So fed up I've just ate a whole tub of ice cream at midnight , thinking sod it I'll go happy at least !!!
Thinking about it though , when I was a kid getting German measles , chicken pox etc. I remember some of those you got twice and that was it then , you didn't get them again ( can't remember which ones )
Pity he's booked 10 days holiday off work in January to cover all the planned birthday outings ! He can't even go into work and call a meeting with 'liquid refreshment ' supplied now .....
I'm getting rather p1ssed off with the whole thing now. I caught covid despite being double jabbed , but the jabs most likely kept me out of hospital as was just like a really, really bad cold. Now boosted thinking that with antibodies and that extra jab I was well covered, but seemingly not according to all this panic with the new variant and still got further restrictions and possible Omicron to look forwards to.
So fed up I've just ate a whole tub of ice cream at midnight , thinking sod it I'll go happy at least !!!
Thinking about it though , when I was a kid getting German measles , chicken pox etc. I remember some of those you got twice and that was it then , you didn't get them again ( can't remember which ones )
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Withnail
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Mr M - this has to be an intervention - seriously dude, what's going on?
Quite apart from anything else i'm straight up going to pull you up on this - 'senior management in the NHS have been told to (this)... now that Government has...' because it is outright misleading right off the bat. One does not follow from the other, and if you had any integrity at all you would acknowledge that. These are two entirely unrelated things.
As has already been alluded to ^above, this is 'select' advice to a Select Committee, from a not impartial observer, reported on by an untrustworthy source.
Dude, you're giving us Daily Mail source that has been picked up by ... how many other news agencies...?
I don't know what has happened to you, but i'd like to think it's not too late, so i'm going to post something now that is very long and wordy, but i'll post just this as a tl;dr
- we have a long history of zoonotic escape, so the null hypothesis would tend toward that, would it not?
It would be nice to have you back anyways.
PS seriously, read the ^above, v.interesting and sourced both ways
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Lucy
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Unfortunately I think it's a massive myth that people assume that being jabbed stops you getting it.
We're all fed up, but we can be fed up and keep people safe or we can be fed up and play risk with others lives. The government are handling it disgracefully but what I always have to remind myself is that doesn't mean being safe is the wrong thing to do.
SketchyMagpie
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As I understand it, the booster does provide significantly better protection than two jabs after three months, albeit lower than the original two jabs protected against Delta. I think it's around the 70-75% mark if I recall.
The likelihood is that a tiny amount of Omicron infections will be hospitalised if the sufferer has had their booster. That's the silver lining, that if you get it and you're triple-jabbed you're unlikely to get seriously ill.
However, the danger (and why further restrictions may be necessary) is that the reproduction value is so high that we may legitimately reach a million infections per day within weeks and even if a tiny percentage of those infections are hospitalised, a tiny percentage of a huge number is an awful lot of people.
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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I have enough toilet roll and nappies for into the new year, i want to avoid shopping unless necessary over the next few weeks, but wondering if it's worth getting enough to cover January too. Especially nappies anywayPlus massive disruption to supply chain and services. I don’t want to say stock up on toilet paper but stock up on toilet paper
Cue
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To be fair… going into a nightclub with 1% battery seems like a really, really bad idea anyway.
rudie111
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I would get nappies. You can pretty much go without most things but I wouldn’t want to be short of nappies! Maybe keep a stash of tea towels and safety pins
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Thehooperman
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I can pick some shopping up for you when I do mine if it helps and means you don't have to go out.
staffordjas
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He'd been working all day and went straight out , but should have thought to take his charger to work . He's learnt his lesson though!
I've got mine and hubbys printed off each month for when we go to matches, as well as on the phone . Like when we used to go to airports. I'd never trust my phone boarding passes and documents, I'd always have paper copies as well.
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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Thanks, appreciated mate. We did venture out in the end, running late so went to aldi in Stafford. Stupidly busy, and many only half wearing masks, reinforced why I normally go to stone
Edit: Got 4 weeks worth of nappies, some the next size up just in case.
littleme
250,000th poster!
You've always got to have that little dig, haven't you?
Like ^him?
You should 'of' gone to Specsavers, seems like you have an indelible 'rose' tint to yours.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
COVID-19: Downing Street defends photo claiming to show PM and staff in lockdown garden gathering - as Labour demand 'the truth'
The picture, published by The Guardian, shows the prime minister, his wife Carrie, and colleagues with wine and cheese. It came after a news conference in which the then-health secretary, Matt Hancock, outlined the latest lockdown restrictions.
And on it goes...
SketchyMagpie
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So the gig I skipped on Wednesday has, it turns out, proven to be a bit of a spreader event as loads of people in the FB group have reported testing positive.
One thing everyone has also mentioned is that security where not checking Covid Passes on the door.
This is partly why I've been so cautious about gigs, I think the measures would probably make them relatively safe if a) everyone attending abided by them and b) every venue enforced them but there's no confidence in this happening whatsoever.
Even at Bristol, where I escaped without catching Covid, the staff barely glanced at my pass and didn't scan the code.
Absolute joke.
One thing everyone has also mentioned is that security where not checking Covid Passes on the door.
This is partly why I've been so cautious about gigs, I think the measures would probably make them relatively safe if a) everyone attending abided by them and b) every venue enforced them but there's no confidence in this happening whatsoever.
Even at Bristol, where I escaped without catching Covid, the staff barely glanced at my pass and didn't scan the code.
Absolute joke.