Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Tuerto]

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Because we are already seeing evidence of people being fed up now. Car usage is back on the rise. Parks are busy.

Anecdotally, i agree with you.

[Tuerto]

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Is it? Got a link to that info? I was thinking it seemed busier nearme but not as much as normal.

Just look out of the window

[Allez Allez Allez]

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Just look out of the window

What are the chances that the one time we need shit weather on a Bank Holiday weekend we get the opposite?

[Tuerto]

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What are the chances that the one time we need shit weather on a Bank Holiday weekend we get the opposite?

Nailed on. The news is going to be full of reports of stupid people out and about because the weather is good and sad people posting pictures of crowded areas. I'm watching The Phil Silvers Show instead.

[Croesy Blue]

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What are the chances that the one time we need shit weather on a Bank Holiday weekend we get the opposite?

19 degrees and sunny this Sunday, going to be a big test

[Eric Cartman]

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Personally, I would say the best advice is to spend less time watching TV news which is sensational and not very good. Personally, I view this Covid outbreak as akin to a bad winter influenza epidemic. In this case we have had 8000 deaths this last year in the at risk groups viz over 65% people with heart disease etc. I do not feel this current Covid will exceed this number. We are suffering from a media epidemic!

When things hadn't been closed you ridiculed posters who said that they should be by asking them why they thought they knew better than the experts. Now things have been closed and the UK has pivoted closer to what those posters were initially suggesting, you know better and it's no worse than flu.

Laughable.

[the other bob wilson]

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I see Matt Hancock saiid today that it is "perfectly possible" that predictions from scientists that Easter Sunday may see a peak in death figures which suggests that the new cases figures are expected to plateau next week based on what's happened in other countries.

[Wales-Bales]

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When things hadn't been closed you ridiculed posters who said that they should be by asking them why they thought they knew better than the experts. Now things have been closed and the UK has pivoted closer to what those posters were initially suggesting, you know better and it's no worse than flu.

Laughable.

Could you restate this in plain English.

Thanks.

[CCFCC3PO]

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I see Matt Hancock saiid today that it is "perfectly possible" that predictions from scientists that Easter Sunday may see a peak in death figures which suggests that the new cases figures are expected to plateau next week based on what's happened in other countries.

Every day I hope to see the figures lower.

The number of cases seems to be levelling out which is a good sign. The people who are not coming through this, sadly, will be a few days later.

Italy are on the 4th week of lockdown, their new cases are starting to drop but are still high.

[Croesy Blue]

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Could you restate this in plain English.

Thanks.

He said you're chatting bollocks as usual.

[Eric Cartman]

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Could you restate this in plain English.

Thanks.

You are a hypocrite

[J R Hartley]

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Had a **** full of the people who are not respecting the social distancing rules we have in place.

Some prick in Aldi last night walking back and forth the queue where they've got the red circles clearly marked out every 2 metres. He only had a pack of sandwiches and normally I would say to someone with a handful of bits to jump ahead of me but he was being an impatient prick so I thought "Nah, **** him".

He eventually gave his sandwiches to his mate who was waiting patiently in the queue and then proceeded to barge past an old lady so I couldnt bite my tongue any longer and asked him what the **** he was playing at? Did he think we were queuing like this for a laugh or that the 6 foot of plastic glass between the cashier and customer which hed just barged the old lady into was up for a joke?.
The cheeky **** told me he had given his sandwiches to his mate to pay. He obviously thought I was having a go at him for cheating the queue totally oblivious to the real issue of social distancing!!!

The youngsters I can cut some slack but this guy was late 40s early 50s ffs.

[blue matt]

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Had a **** full of the people who are not respecting the social distancing rules we have in place.

Some prick in Aldi last night walking back and forth the queue where they've got the red circles clearly marked out every 2 metres. He only had a pack of sandwiches and normally I would say to someone with a handful of bits to jump ahead of me but he was being an impatient prick so I thought "Nah, **** him".

He eventually gave his sandwiches to his mate who was waiting patiently in the queue and then proceeded to barge past an old lady so I couldnt bite my tongue any longer and asked him what the **** he was playing at? Did he think we were queuing like this for a laugh or that the 6 foot of plastic glass between the cashier and customer which hed just barged the old lady into was up for a joke?.
The cheeky **** told me he had given his sandwiches to his mate to pay. He obviously thought I was having a go at him for cheating the queue totally oblivious to the real issue of social distancing!!!

The youngsters I can cut some slack but this guy was late 40s early 50s ffs.

I said it before, Social distancing just isnt working like it should, guidelines just do not work, we need hard and fast rules

B&M are still open , they sell a small amount of food, my brother-in-laws flat mate works in there, she had to help a couple with garden furniture to the car park, now thats not essential

I took the dogs for a walk today, Yes i crossed the road when people approached us, on one corner We witnessed 9 OAP's having a chat, now these had no concept of 2M apart

people are still not getting it

[az city]

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But equally eminent experts are saying different things.

Which ones do you believe?

It wasn't clear your follow-up comment was directed to me. Examples of what?

I know (from personal experience) there is an awful lot of politics going on in the background around this.

I also know the data that is thrown up worldwide is highly dubious in terms of its validity and usefulness. Some is more useful, some is less so. It's very difficult to pick out the data that is trustworthy from that which is not. A lot of emphasis is being given to some Icelandic data (
https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/...covid-19-0523/).

[cyril evans awaydays]

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When things hadn't been closed you ridiculed posters who said that they should be by asking them why they thought they knew better than the experts. Now things have been closed and the UK has pivoted closer to what those posters were initially suggesting, you know better and it's no worse than flu.

Laughable.

Let me unpick this a bit for you.

Gluey thought his banker troll post of the day was to take a paragraph of a blog by a virologist and post it as if he had said the words himself. The complete opposite of his usual MO which is to post someone else's words or video showing how itk he is but without any commentary about what this proves.

Presumably the aim this time was to suck people into how utterly outlandish the quote was and then point out they weren't his words but those of a respected Professor.

Unfortunately Lardy sussed it within minutes of the post and others provided the context. The context being the Professor's words clearly set out that the stringent measures in place here and elsewhere provide the justification that the ultimate health toll of this will be akin to seasonal flu, not that this will happen naturally.

You probably got the backlash of the frustration that his jolly wheeze had blown up spectacularly in his face.