No offence caused at all @The Pub Landlord I was concerned I might cause offence with my own post, hope I have not. I do agree it is galling that freeloaders who don't look after themselves may get vaccinated before more honest, hard working folk. And the scroungers who leech off our benefit system are a long term headache. There are far too many greedy people with no self-respect or respect for others. Wasters who take advantage of a system supposed to help unfortunate folk who've lost their jobs avoid slipping into poverty and homelessness, just for the time it takes them to find new work and look after their own finances again. No easy answer to that one.
Unfortunately Dick it is the logistics of it all that’s causing the problem- my mum is in Greenwich and having the same problem
Almost 56,000 new positive tests in the last 24 hours, and just a handful less than a thousand fatalities. Let's be thankful we are all still around on here. This has been a terrible, terrible year. Stay safe this evening folks, and in 2021...
US Coronavirus news; Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has directly defied the wishes of outgoing President Donald Trump, concerning raising personal aid payments for Americans from $600 to $2,000; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55484625 If I read the story correctly, the amendment might have passed in the Senate if McConnell had backed it, as the amendment has already been approved by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. But McConnell won't back it, saying it would mean another huge borrowing requirement that presumably he believes America cannot afford. And if he won't back it, the Senate cannot vote on it. Just when you think US politics can't get any harder to understand - it does. EDIT: Reading into it a bit further, it seems McConnell wants to include the allowance increase in a new Aid Bill. But the Democrats won't support a new aid bill because it will include lots of other stuff Trump wants to do that they don't believe in. Strikes me though, that if Americans get $600 instead of $2,000 and they know McConnell pevented that rise for political reasons (trying to attach more Trumpian policies to it rather than just supporting it as it stood) many of them aren't going to blame the Democrats. The original bill has now been signed by Trump though (several days ago) so at least Americans will get their $600 along with other vital benefits, and protection from eviction.
I know the FTSE 100 is all about business rather than people, and I suppose we should be grateful for the relative stability of it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55500103 Still feels a bit wrong that it has fallen only 14.3% in the last 12 months, compared to a 31.3% contraction after the Credit Crunch in 2008. I know a stock market crash now would only make matters worse. So it's a 'good' thing that markets have not suffered more. But nobody died of anything related to the 2008 credit crunch. Hospitals were not full of people whose mortgages were no good. The lesson I suppose is that there are more important things in life than share prices.
and this is why the people above are right cvnts! 'Don't put me to sleep, I won't wake up': Last words of Covid-stricken father before he died | Daily Mail Online
There are always going to be a (relatively) small number of mindless idiots. They should be severely punished - especially the ones who force Police officers to fight with them while arresting them. But I don't suppose they will be. Thousands of Police officers - along with thousands of front line NHS staff - are down with Coronavirus or are self-isolating. People who think it's OK to gather in crowds to protest or to party should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. They should be sentenced to watch uncut video footage of people dying in ICU wards and care homes, for 12 hours per day for at least a month.
I’ve noticed that lots of the rule breakers in London can afford £200 Nike trainers & expensive I phones, but can’t afford 80p for a face mask. Or they have “got asthma innit” .
It’d be nice if they all got it without spreading it further! ,my friends elderly father died from Covid yesterday morning ,so no celebration of the new year for her now or ever again
The current situation with sections of the community deliberately not wearing masks reminds me a lot of the way “polite society” refuses to discuss Heysel around Liverpool fans. Anyone out & about in London every day can see who the super spreaders are. All I can say is that the spike in “new” asthma suffers must run into the tens of thousands. Or maybe these people just don’t give a ****.
A lot of those I have seen on YouTube claiming to have asthma or other reasons not to wear a mask are very vocal about their right not to give evidence of exclusion. Many of them give the impression that they are not taxpayers or contributors to the good of the nation. I am quite happy to see natural selection take its course amongst them.
Covid: Councils call for all London schools to stay shut https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55507001 Come on PM, listen to the scientists and the people on the ground. A huge number of kids are going to be off anyway, sick or isolating. The infection & hospitalization figures are out of control. If not all the schools, close all the secondary schools & colleges - at the very least.
