And surprise surprise, London cases rising amongst teenagers so all of a sudden they get mobile testing units to test the entire school population. Does anybody know if that happened in Hull and ER when that was causing our rate increase? I don’t remember seeing one parked up outside South Hunsley.
It’s not the entire school population, it’s just certain ages in the seven worst affected London boroughs. I’m pretty sure they set up something similar at Hull Uni when our rates jumped.
I haven't looked too deeply, but they're being sold in the press headlines as being among the highest region in the Country, and more to the point, rising as others are falling. The numbers seem to change when you look back, but when I looked a while ago, their figures at the start of the tiers were a fraction higher than Manchester's were at that time.
We normally get the girl from Wigan, brought up in a shoebox, worked down the mll for fourteen hours a day, sob story but not this time. By her own admission she's an idiot but not as much as Sky subscribers who are paying towards her 6 months off work on full pay. Is she really that indispensable? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...y-suspended-SIX-MONTHS-party-rule-breach.html
Seems to be the way of the world these days. I'd be surprised though if she's off work, I expect she'll be doing off-screen stuff.
I thought uni was set up before the peak, when they were coming back, but all Unis are getting tests before Xmas anyway
Interesting tweet from North Ferriby United - possible game on Boxing day? Currently not allowed under Tier 3 regs, are they expecting a reduction to Tier2?
Thinking about it, I wonder if the Government will leave things as they are for this review, given we're all due some form of relaxation of the rules three days later?
You may be right OLM, I don’t know, but a ‘mobile’ testing centre at Hull Uni for students in Brough or Howden isn’t a lot of use. And that wasn’t announced during a national Press Briefing as an excuse for not putting the area into Tier 3
Apparently they plan to test 11 to 18 year old pupils and their families. Certainly that's a first. Having paid over £600,000,000 for the Innova tests and found that they could have just given everyone a 10p coin and ask them to toss it (similar accuracy at a fraction of the cost) they're determined to use up all the tests somewhere.
Anyone looking for a business opportunity? There's nothing new under the sun. Did the law work last time? NEAR THE END OF THE 19th century, New Yorkers out for a drink partook in one of the more unusual rituals in the annals of hospitality. When they ordered an ale or whisky, the waiter or bartender would bring it out with a sandwich. Generally speaking, the sandwich was not edible. It was “an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and mummified ham or cheese,” wrote the playwright Eugene O’Neill. Other times it was made of rubber. Bar staff would commonly take the sandwich back seconds after it had arrived, pair it with the next beverage order, and whisk it over to another patron’s table. Some sandwiches were kept in circulation for a week or more. Bar owners insisted on this bizarre charade to avoid breaking the law—specifically, the excise law of 1896, which restricted how and when drinks could be served in New York State. The so-called Raines Law was a combination of good intentions, unstated prejudices, and unforeseen consequences, among them the comically unsavory Raines sandwich. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich
Are you suggesting "they" should not have spent anything on R & D, anywhere, to try to find a solution to a virus that was creating havoc & killing hundreds of thousands of people ? There has been a base of research on these fatal viruses over the last decade or two (SARS, MERS) that have led to solutions for the "plagues". Let's leave it there shall we - do no more ? 10p coin is the answer. Here's a quid, chose your 10 lucky (or unlucky) targets. please log in to view this image
This was common practice in Toronto in the 70's on a Sunday, when the law was no pubs could open unless food was served with an alcoholic beverage. We trained on Sunday mornings - 20 of us went to the local after and ordered 3 or 4 sandwiches cut into segments to satisfy all of us and the daft law. Never a problem. Sanity arrived around 1981.
I think they might have chosen to spend the money on a body with some sort of track history - Innova (incorporated in Nevada) are a new company founded in March this year. What previous experience they can draw upon apparently relates to a failed attempt to create a self cleaning film for car windscreens.
