Coronavirus - UK
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Catogrande there's the nub.
How much of the comparatively innocuous second wave has been because hospitals haven't been overwhelmed as they were back in NH spring?
From a distance I can see why governments across Europe are starting to take action. The issue for me is how sporadic and confusing those measures have been with zero clarity around communicating the containment strategy. If indeed there is one.
You’re not wrong about the lack of clarity. There is a rule for pubs in the severe lockdown areas that they cannot open or serve alcohol unless it is with “a substantial meal”. Cue a BBC article and subsequent HYS on what constitutes a substantial meal. The conclusion was that a pasty doesn’t count but a pasty and salad does. Really? My thoughts are order the pasty and salad and leave the rabbit food. It’s all gonna be out of date lettuce going brown at the edges anyway.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
So London goes into Tier 2. Searching high and low and seemingly no way to find out if we're London or not, although I guess the clue could be in "London Borough of Bromley". Postcode checker shows us as "Medium".
Yeah, I'm the same, although I'm pretty sure I'm viewed as South East.
Wasn't sure if this was a good / right thing or not, but then I saw Sadiq Kahn supports it and more, so I made my decision that it must be completely the wrong thing and catastrophic for London.
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
What does Tier 2 mean for you guys? Curfews, takeaway only etc? Kids still at school? Can you go into the office?
No inside household mixing is the big thing.
What does that even mean??? You all come home and go straight to your rooms???
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
What does Tier 2 mean for you guys? Curfews, takeaway only etc? Kids still at school? Can you go into the office?
No inside household mixing is the big thing.
Re-read, I assume it means no intra-house mixing. Different families.
Yeah?
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
What does Tier 2 mean for you guys? Curfews, takeaway only etc? Kids still at school? Can you go into the office?
No inside household mixing is the big thing.
Re-read, I assume it means no intra-house mixing. Different families.
Yeah?
Inter. But yeah.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
What does Tier 2 mean for you guys? Curfews, takeaway only etc? Kids still at school? Can you go into the office?
No inside household mixing is the big thing.
Re-read, I assume it means no intra-house mixing. Different families.
Yeah?
Summed up my marriage.
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As speculated about a month or so back, Wales to go to 2-week full National Lockdown this coming Friday (23rd).
I can't wait for Drakeford to fuck off back to teaching woodwork at his local comp.
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A succinct op-ed on the confusion of COVID
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@MiketheSnow I got about halfway through before giving up. Does this douche live his life to go and find loopholes and moan about them? Pretty sad.
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
A succinct op-ed on the confusion of COVID
This is what happens when a government, facing heavy opposition on every single decision it can possibly make (and it must make these decisions) try to maintain some sort of balance to the lockdown / economy ledger. There is literally no easy way out, no pleasing more than 30% of people way out and no rules which will not get mocked mercilessly.
Can't go in the same taxi? Greens - bad for the environment, Anti-lockdown - will prevent people going out, Pro-lockdown - pay the taxi drivers 80% to stay at home, no need for them to work, people can drive, Media- further proof that the government cannot communicate & thus why should we listen to them?
It's so easy for internet twerps to make these little video's about the confusion, but where is the British trait of pulling together & trying to overcome this thing?
When you are in a plane nosediving, should the people really be asking the pilot why he made such a bad decision 20 minutes ago?
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Detail is not lazy, fat, poshboy Boris Johnson's thing and under pressure of the crisis he has turned out to be a remarkably poor strategic thinker and a weak communicator too.
The UK public are almost all doing their very best to contain the spread of the virus and maintain some sort of economic normality, but they are not helped by the incoherence and ambiguities in the UK public health policy.
I can't remember a single memorable thing Johnson has said in months but whenever he comes on the TV I think of this piece of genius from Matt Lucas:
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@sparky said in Coronavirus - UK:
The UK public are almost all doing their very best to contain the spread of the virus and maintain some sort of economic normality, but they are not helped by the incoherence and ambiguities in the UK public health policy.
That this is posted almost directly after the shithouse video before it makes it even more laughable. The cherry on top being using Matt Lucas to try and help your point.
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@sparky said in Coronavirus - UK:
More genius from Matt Lucas:
As much as I am pissed off with the seemingly UK response to bitch about everything and moan about the government, as opposed to using common sense & interpreting the rules with more than one brain cell .... this is very good.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MajorRage imagine if people decided to catch separate taxis instead of being dickheads just because there's no specific rule to cater for every fucking possible scenario.
The only way to resolve all the conflicts is 100% lockdown. No essential services, nothing. You can't go out. End Of.
A tactic which I think, many people would actually support!