Off Topic Coronavirus

[Steelmonkey]

I'm on my way up next week, Steels. I'm going to be mightily pissed off if I can't get a bleeding drink.

Sorry pal - don't take it out on the people, they'd love to serve you.

If we see a dramatic downturn in cases it'll be worth it in my opinion - I'm sure you won't agree. My son works in the pub/restaurant business and this will affect him, and I hope that this won't cause any business to shut their doors for good - it may well be the death nail some small businesses though.

 

[Stroller]

Sorry pal - don't take it out on the people, they'd love to serve you.

If we see a dramatic downturn in cases it'll be worth it in my opinion - I'm sure you won't agree. My son works in the pub/restaurant business and this will affect him, and I hope that this won't cause any business to shut their doors for good - it may well be the death nail some small businesses though.

I'm all for stuff that might work, but this is all meaningless bollocks if you ask me. Desperation to be seen to be doing something. Why the fixation with alcohol? Prohibition looming.

 

[sb_73]

I'm all for stuff that might work, but this is all meaningless bollocks if you ask me. Desperation to be seen to be doing something. Why the fixation with alcohol? Prohibition looming.

Not saying I support it but I don’t think it’s a fixation with alcohol, it’s a fixation with the way people behave after a few drinks, social distancing out of the window etc. I don’t know what the evidence is to say that pubs and restaurants are crucibles of infection, but someone in an influential position is obviously telling politicians that they are, along with visitors to private homes, and that the result of not curbing contacts in these settings could be the collapse of the NHS. Cue fear and panic amongst the policy makers and libertarians and alcoholics on the streets in protest etc etc

Seems that the politicians are still more scared of what the virus could do than the impact on the economy and the broader health of the population.

 

[Stroller]

Not saying I support it but I don’t think it’s a fixation with alcohol, it’s a fixation with the way people behave after a few drinks, social distancing out of the window etc. I don’t know what the evidence is to say that pubs and restaurants are crucibles of infection, but someone in an influential position is obviously telling politicians that they are, along with visitors to private homes, and that the result of not curbing contacts in these settings could be the collapse of the NHS. Cue fear and panic amongst the policy makers and libertarians and alcoholics on the streets in protest etc etc

Seems that the politicians are still more scared of what the virus could do than the impact on the economy and the broader health of the population.

Who are these people in influential positions? Where is the evidence? As I've said in earlier posts, people need to believe in the efficacy of the laws they are being expected to abide by. Show me the evidence that a 10pm curfew makes a blind bit of difference. How can having a drink with a meal pose any ****ing danger? This is arbitrary knee-jerk nonsense based on a dubious increase in 'cases' without a concomitant rise in hospitalisations or deaths. Utter ****ing bullshit.

Edit: My rage is not aimed at you Stan, as I'm sure you will understand.

 

[Woodyhoopleson]

Who are these people in influential positions? Where is the evidence? As I've said in earlier posts, people need to believe in the efficacy of the laws they are being expected to abide by. Show me the evidence that a 10pm curfew makes a blind bit of difference. How can having a drink with a meal pose any ****ing danger? This is arbitrary knee-jerk nonsense based on a dubious increase in 'cases' without a concomitant rise in hospitalisations or deaths. Utter ****ing bullshit.

It is bullshit. It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.

 

[sb_73]

Who are these people in influential positions? Where is the evidence? As I've said in earlier posts, people need to believe in the efficacy of the laws they are being expected to abide by. Show me the evidence that a 10pm curfew makes a blind bit of difference. How can having a drink with a meal pose any ****ing danger? This is arbitrary knee-jerk nonsense based on a dubious increase in 'cases' without a concomitant rise in hospitalisations or deaths. Utter ****ing bullshit.

Edit: My rage is not aimed at you Stan, as I'm sure you will understand.

I’m watching episode 6 of Mortimer and Whitehouse on the iPlayer. It’s a calming antidote to everything.

 

[Erik]

I do hope you're all planning to get the social distancing microchip in your arm, so you get a little electric buzz like a lab rat when you stray too close to a passer-by. Oh, and don't forget the vaccine. It'll never stop you getting coronavirus (an inevitability) and you might go totally ****ing insane, but without it you won't be allowed a health passport to travel abroad for a nice weekend away. Do it. Do it now.

 

[KooPeeArr]

2 million people classed as vulnerable who were told to isolate until August.

If we were to go back to normal then we would have to imprison that many people.

If we abandoned all rules then anyone who wanted to meet anyone vulnerable wouldn't be able to.

So it's 3% of the population in permanent full lockdown plus anyone living with them if you think that the rules in place are too restrictive.

For what it's worth, I think the 10pm curfew is ridiculous if you are keeping pubs open but, then again, I would shut pubs if it was me.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

I'm all for stuff that might work, but this is all meaningless bollocks if you ask me. Desperation to be seen to be doing something. Why the fixation with alcohol? Prohibition looming.

This has been the priority throughout and it’s gone so well so why change strategy now?

Arbitrary local lockdowns unless you’re fortunate enough to have a senior Tory for an MP or be in a strategically important seat.

 

[rangercol]

Not saying I support it but I don’t think it’s a fixation with alcohol, it’s a fixation with the way people behave after a few drinks, social distancing out of the window etc. I don’t know what the evidence is to say that pubs and restaurants are crucibles of infection, but someone in an influential position is obviously telling politicians that they are, along with visitors to private homes, and that the result of not curbing contacts in these settings could be the collapse of the NHS. Cue fear and panic amongst the policy makers and libertarians and alcoholics on the streets in protest etc etc

Seems that the politicians are still more scared of what the virus could do than the impact on the economy and the broader health of the population.

The boozing culture in this country is completely out of control.
Any hint that people's drinking will be curbed in any way causes uproar.

It's ****ing obvious to me that people are less likely to adhere to strict social distancing rules when they're half-cut.

 

[Stroller]

The boozing culture in this country is completely out of control.
Any hint that people's drinking will be curbed in any way causes uproar.

It's ****ing obvious to me that people are less likely to adhere to strict social distancing rules when they're half-cut.

But only after 10pm, or if you are eating a meal.

 

[Didley Squat]

Here in the land of Oz, Queensland to be precise, our beloved Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, God bless her, refuses to open the borders completely, point blank.

Said after 28 day zero co-vid cases only, she would open the border to New South Wales and alike.
NSW went 12 or more days without a single case but succumbed to just a couple of cases overnight, hence the bitch, which has causes squillions of businesses to go bust, refuses to open the border.

Consider this ....................... How many hundreds of people in each country die from the flu each year?
Yet, we only have several cases of co-vid throughout Australia ( excluding Victoria ).
How many people have died this year from the flu?
Apparently none, so it seems .................. there all co-vid19.

Our imbecile of a Premier is in election mode ( October 31st ) so now, even though November 1 was stated as the day we open the border( providing no new cases were forthcoming in NSW ), of course, she is saying squat about moving that date back ..........all lips are sealed until after the election.
If she gets back in, we are fcuked!
She is an utter asshole ( just my personal view for what its worth ).

 

[Stroller]

Got my Covid test result last night - negative as expected.

Just over four days from requesting a test to getting the result - not too bad, I suppose.

 

[qprbeth]

Now I am really really confused.
You know I got that alert last week telling me who I had been in contact with....it hasn't happened since

It didn't tell me anything about why I got it or that any of them were positive.

Well it appears you only get an alert when you are in contact with someone who is positive..

But it didn't tell me to do anything, or tell me to get a test ...and it disappeared

Has anyone else got the app
Anyone else got this sort of update.

Anyone know anything.

 

[SW Ranger]

Now I am really really confused.
You know I got that alert last week telling me who I had been in contact with....it hasn't happened since

It didn't tell me anything about why I got it or that any of them were positive.

Well it appears you only get an alert when you are in contact with someone who is positive..

But it didn't tell me to do anything, or tell me to get a test ...and it disappeared

Has anyone else got the app
Anyone else got this sort of update.

Anyone know anything.

Don’t ask me Beth. I was depending on you to tell me

 

[sb_73]

Got my Covid test result last night - negative as expected.

Just over four days from requesting a test to getting the result - not too bad, I suppose.

If you were isolating, as I think you should have been according to the rules (no comment from me) the 4 days would be a very long time, especially if you can’t work from home and don’t have a family/friends network to shop for you. The turn around on these things really should be 24 hours, and there are antigen tests out there which are much quicker.

In the absence of a vaccine regular testing of huge numbers of people is the key to keeping things open.

Hope you are feeling better re the chest infection.

 

[qprbeth]

Don’t ask me Beth. I was depending on you to tell me

So apparently they have been sending out TEST positive messages to test the system.


Some users of the new NHS contact-tracing app have received notifications saying they'd been near someone with coronavirus, only to discover the alerts were system checks sent by Google and Apple.
People who downloaded the COVID-19 app in England and Wales told Sky News they had received a notification which said: "Someone you were near reported having COVID-19."

Yet, when they clicked on the message, they found no information explaining whether they should self-isolate.


Well at least I havent infected the checkoutlady in Tescos last Monday.... If we can find a half-arsed stupid way off doing something...we will find it

Whats wrong with the old staple "Testing Testing 1,2,3...testing"

So as you were, I havent been evil and infected half of Buckingham, and no you cannot get to see your contacts..

I am still sure I was not in contact with 40 people in the last week. I haven't been in contact with 40 people since March!
Not impressed so far

 

[qprbeth]

Got my Covid test result last night - negative as expected.

Just over four days from requesting a test to getting the result - not too bad, I suppose.

Well that is at least good..and improving on the time to results

 

[sb_73]

Now I am really really confused.
You know I got that alert last week telling me who I had been in contact with....it hasn't happened since

It didn't tell me anything about why I got it or that any of them were positive.

Well it appears you only get an alert when you are in contact with someone who is positive..

But it didn't tell me to do anything, or tell me to get a test ...and it disappeared

Has anyone else got the app
Anyone else got this sort of update.

Anyone know anything.

I don’t have the app, partly based on your experience of it! I don’t fancy being told to isolate in a vacuum of information about where I was allegedly exposed, as like you, I know exactly who I spend more than 10 minutes within two metres of, and it is a tiny number of people. If any of them develop symptoms I will gladly shut myself away.

I have nothing against an tracking and tracing app in principle, I just have no faith in this one.

 

[Steelmonkey]

Got my Covid test result last night - negative as expected.

Just over four days from requesting a test to getting the result - not too bad, I suppose.

18 hours for my NHS test results (in Scotland)

55 hours for the private healthcare results (in England)