The what's in it for me party in all its glory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
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The what's in it for me party in all its glory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
What shocks me is the speed at which this stuff happens. Your mate's a tory minister and you own a business doing something random like making jewellery or pest control and within a few weeks of the pandemic you have a contract for millions to supply healthcare products.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Like their absolute first thought when they hear about the pandemic is how to make some money out of this, or how to help their friends make money.
The Licensing rules up to Xmas are being reviewed. No changes expected. So I presume Xsnaggle was right we are not in the tier system yet.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...eford-19473420
Remember right at the start of the pandemic when that company Rees-Mogg is associated with talked about how the virus was a money making opportunity?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Exactly, if it’s so bad, you start now.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
A cynic could say they're waiting to announce it the same day as no deal?Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
Telegraph still reporting it'll be rolled out by end of the year https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-h...te-latest-who/
Welsh figures as bad as expected today with the 11,000 shortfall included - another spring type lockdown beckons for me I reckon.
https://public.tableau.com/profile/p...eadlinesummary
Gosh I remember a similar reporting issue in England press and opposition rightly went in to a frenzy calling the government out !Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
So pubs , hospitality, footy shut cases up ???????????
Hearing schools are going to be off an extra week now in Wales at least.....ffs....when can we vote these buffoons out. Not a single case in my kids school yet shutting anyway....
There were zero cases in my daughter's school too... until this week. Now two kids have had confirmed positive tests which has meant two separate year groups worth of children (including my daughter) are having to self-isolate until Boxing Day. She can't leave the house for 10 days because she potentially came into contact with the other child.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
It's going to be f**king nightmare not even being able to take her outside for some fresh air and exercise for 10 whole days.
In terms of your child's school being closed... it's better to be preventative than to act after the fact, don't you think? All it takes is one positive test and it will effect you personally.
Yeah I’m all for it along with being strict at Christmas, because we will all suffer when the numbers rise after it. Is your daughter primary or high school?Quote:
Originally Posted by Heisenberg
Primary. She's in reception.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
Had a call from my Daughters school today. Girl in 1 of her classes positive.
Has to isolate until midnight this Saturday!!!!!!
10 days isn’t it? It’s everywhere at mo so was good to finish early.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
10 days indoors with a 4/5 year old....oooph, that’s quite tough, at least you can still buy alcoholQuote:
Originally Posted by Heisenberg
Those who were using Sweden as an example to follow a few months ago seem to have gone quiet lately haven't they.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ospitals-cases
Yeah think so. Why its taken them so long to advise her and the rest in the class to isolate I dont know.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
Love the way they’ve also waited until schools out for Christmas to announce they are having an extended holiday also.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
When will you get vaccinated? Here's a calculator: https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk
Not impressed with my kids school at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
The teachers have basically engineered a situation where they can have home schooling for the last week so that none of them have to isolate over christmas, but the last week of school has been a complete joke.
the teachers basically printed off a couple of xmas themed wordsearches and colouring in sheets and let them get on with it - both my kids 3 school years apart got given the same sheets.
They basically couldn't be arsed for the last week, and now they'll have a longer Christmas break as well.
I have a birthday next month and if I put my present age in it states there will be about 20 million people in the queue ahead of me but if I input next month's age (which puts me in a different category) it knocks off around 10 million off that figure.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Not ideal for a seventeen-year-old, I grant you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
The calculator states there are at least 6m in front of me to be vaccinated by the end of February. By that time there won't be enough available vaccines unless the Oxford vaccine comes on stream.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
I'm looking at july to september for my turnQuote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
Getting a lot of that chatter around the family about teachers and not being impressed some of the homework set etc , good jobs the shop assistants,health workers, police , fireman, paramedics , postal workers, truck drivers etc didn't apply the same .Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I get the fact there are risks however they can bubble , the folk I mentioned are out and about coming into contact with millions of different people daily, big thanks to them all I say .
Like everything else I'm sure there is some politics on there somewhere , not all but some .
It's time to play How Old Is TBG?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
To be fair to the teachers, they don’t normally do much curriculum based work in the last week before Christmas. What’s worse is to pretend they do and send a load of work home for the kids to do with their parents, which mine have had. Luckily my two love doing it so I set them up and they crack on. It must be a nightmare for some, as will the first week back when they are home again and parents are in workQuote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
59Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
As exactly the same applies to me except my birthday is a month later, I can take what I would call an informed guess if it wasn't for the fact he was in the same year as me in Cantonian :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
I'm sixty five in February.
Meanwhile in South Dakota, home of the anti-maskers, where COVID is taking off bigtime:
https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/15/cops-...ing-wear-mask/
The only difference with a normal Christmas is that this year, you see what kids do in the last week. It's always been the same. I used to go to the last day, but the last week had no lessons ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
My girlfriend's kid goes to private school and they certainly didn't stop working until the end of term. Absolutely no reason for them to basically down tools for the last week, I think it's disgusting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Allez Allez Allez
If they had covered the syllabus already then they could have spent a week going back over things or anything.
They just couldn't be bothered,
So, the reluctance to wear masks in America is purely down to a feeling that personal freedoms are being infringed or is there more to it than that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55362433
That graph is scary. Why is Wales so much higher?
The chart showing the worst council areas here has seven Welsh areas in the top ten in the U.K.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...navirus-uk-map
Yet, the latest ONS figures show the R in Wales is below many regions in England and that in England one in one hundred and fifteen people has Covid, in Scotland it's one in one hundred and twenty five, while in Wales and Northern Ireland, who are both going into lockdown just after Christmas, its one in one hundred and seventy five and one in two hundred and thirty five respectively.
My guess would be a mixture of:Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
- Wales has some very rural areas but most of the population lives close together and we're almost on top of each other in some places. Likewise, areas where different generations are living in the same home, or near enough.
- Greater distrust of experts, media and politicians so fewer people following the guidance. Greater apathy so not caring about the rules and desire for an authoritarian leader - we have one across the bridge selling the possibility of it being more positive than it is and encouraging people to take risks.
- The firebreak was signed up to reluctantly and by people who believed they could act however they wanted after 2 weeks. (It would have been political suicide to have extended it but probably the right thing to do).
- Harsher restrictions has seen people rebelling in ways they might not have if they could still go bowling etc.
Good information (http://www.freshair.wales/) is out there but there are also high profile ex-international rugby players (and the status that brings) saying their rights are being infringed by being asked to wear a mask and they're not going to do it anymore....
Here's the link I took the info in the last paragraph above from.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55365294
From what I observe with the more red-necked citizens of the USA, I suspect the personal freedoms objection is the main one with the "masks are ineffective anyway" argument a lesser one (which may actually just be a smoke screen to the former).Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson