Coronavirus

[PINKIE]

tad simplistic imo as during the summer the original lockdown had driven the number of infected down , though it was still at large in the community to say the least , which goes a long way to explaining the lack of spike however by Christmas we knew it was rampant and was even more transmittable therefore the same behaviours would lead to different results .

It is an over simplification. We had low infection rates in the summer and they are higher now.

But I was 'out in the field' so to speak in the summer at markets and events as we had few restrictions down here. Folk coming down stayed in their bubbles, observed the rules, sanitised their hands, wore their masks and then went home to their holiday homes in their family bubbles. The restaurants and cafe's etc responded brilliantly with their covid secure measures and in the most, it was contained.

Add in a more contagious variant and a general sense of covid fatigue. The supermarkets are no longer making people queue to get in, have ditched one way systems and queuing for the tills, a bit more complacency and then basically ditching all the rules for Christmas. And although Boris said nobody should travel for xmas at the 11th hour, most people had made their plans and were going to **** that off regardless.

Huge amounts of household mixing down here at xmas with families who travelled here from all over the country has seen rates spike down here now.

 

[PINKIE]

I seen that, mate. You and your family, stay safe

I'm in Knowsley, at the moment. It's a surreal experience, ambulances blue lighting all day long and story after story from the locals about so and so testing positive and being admitted to hospital, or worse. I won't let anybody in the house now on that 0.001% chance my Dad picks up another virus or one of these new strains that's going about manage to infect him, again. I just wish it was ****ing over with now.

Yeah easy bro.

Keep you and your old man safe. Vaccines will see the end of this and it will pass eventually.
Folk just need to have some resolve and some self discipline.

 

[Solid Air]

It is an over simplification. We had low infection rates in the summer and they are higher now.

But I was 'out in the field' so to speak in the summer at markets and events as we had few restrictions down here. Folk coming down stayed in their bubbles, observed the rules, sanitised their hands, wore their masks and then went home to their holiday homes in their family bubbles. The restaurants and cafe's etc responded brilliantly with their covid secure measures and in the most, it was contained.

Add in a more contagious variant and a general sense of covid fatigue. The supermarkets are no longer making people queue to get in, have ditched one way systems and queuing for the tills, a bit more complacency and then basically ditching all the rules for Christmas. And although Boris said nobody should travel for xmas at the 11th hour, most people had made their plans and were going to **** that off regardless.

Huge amounts of household mixing down here at xmas with families who travelled here from all over the country has seen rates spike down here now.

but as i said those same summer behaviours at Christmas would have caused a spike but agree that supermarkets etc loosened their "behaviours" without any publicity i.e. keeping a count of people in store

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Would love to know what’s in it for this ****, Hartley-Brewer etc.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55676037

 

[PINKIE]

but as i said those same summer behaviours at Christmas would have caused a spike but agree that supermarkets etc loosened their "behaviours" without any publicity i.e. keeping a count of people in store

Not really. As I said in the summer folk came down in their bubbles, stayed in their holiday homes and then went home again.

At Christmas, the bubbles were broken as folk came down and mixed with several different households together with their families here in Cornwall. As well as resident Cornish families doing likewise here and also travelling off up country.

Add to that, a contagious variant and a general sense of complacency and it’s no wonder cases have spiked down here.

 

[Archers Road]

Would love to know what’s in it for this ****, Hartley-Brewer etc.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55676037

The interesting thing there is, it appears there is some sort of obligation on newspapers not to promote “miss-leading and inaccurate information”. ****, who knew?

 

[Tobes]

Would love to know what’s in it for this ****, Hartley-Brewer etc.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55676037

They’re shills. Brewer is mates with Banks and Wigmore and works for S*n radio. Their collective aim is to get businesses up and running and get the plebs back in the office and none of this working from home shizzle. As their paymasters are taking a bath. So they’ve been peddling COVID misinformation for months and months, they’ve now rebranded themselves as sceptics, merely offering alternative scientific arguments. Which basically means they’ll peddle any old ****e from discredited quacks or these stat manipulators who cherry pick snippets and create their own made up reworking models to produce misleading bullshit.

Toby deleted all of his old tweets to try and hide his embarrassment. Only the Internet doesn’t forget and they’ve been archived by numerous people. Oops. He also made up some bullshit about having an app that deletes tweets older than a week, another lie, as demonstrated by checking the lazy nonces actual timeline.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

They’re shills. Brewer is mates with Banks and Wigmore and works for S*n radio. Their collective aim is to get businesses up and running and get the plebs back in the office and none of this working from home shizzle. As their paymasters are taking a bath. So they’ve been peddling COVID misinformation for months and months, they’ve now rebranded themselves as sceptics, merely offering alternative scientific arguments. Which basically means they’ll peddle any old ****e from discredited quacks or these stat manipulators who cherry pick snippets and create their own made up reworking models to produce misleading bullshit.

Toby deleted all of his old tweets to try and hide his embarrassment. Only the Internet doesn’t forget and they’ve been archived by numerous people. Oops. He also made up some bullshit about having an app that deletes tweets older than a week, another lie, as demonstrated by checking the lazy nonces actual timeline.

Well yeah I know that. It was a rhetorical question.

Edit- wasn’t even a question. I still knew. Honest.

 

[Tobes]

Well yeah I know that. It was a rhetorical question.

Edit- wasn’t even a question. I still knew. Honest.

**** you then.

 

[Libby]

Shops starting to do the queue outside thing again by the looks of it.

 

[FosseFilberto]

Shops starting to do the queue outside thing again by the looks of it.

Yup ... but went into local Waitrose yesterday and the chilled shelves were literally stacked with loads and loads of yellow reduced stickers ... so footfall must be well down ... never seen the like before ... we invested in an additional freezer during first lockdown so took advantage with loads of stuff yesterday ... bargains galore

 

[Libby]

Yup ... but went into local Waitrose yesterday and the chilled shelves were literally stacked with loads and loads of yellow reduced stickers ... so footfall must be well down ... never seen the like before ... we invested in an additional freezer during first lockdown so took advantage with loads of stuff yesterday ... bargains galore

Seemed odd that they stopped it tbh, seemed to be when masks became mandatory.

 

[Tel (they/them)]

Know nothing about rentals. But a mile down the road from me a new build estate went up. A percentage have to be help to buy, also others are 'affordable' for renting/people only employed. then there are loads that are in rental market. these are being rented out for more than the mortgage costs on help to buy. Why are developers/local government allowing this to happen. They will have been cash buy/but to let mortgage. But they are smaller 2-3 bed semi's and are now out of reach for most.

Because it’s about land appraisal. Sticking a load of affordable rent on a site will inevitably lead to a loss for both the developer and the client. That’s why you get a mix of Affordable, Shared Ownership and Private, and plus the fact that it isn’t going to be a load of council tenants exclusively moving in helps not to upset the locals when in planning.

A-graded H/A’s operate (or should do) on decent profits, last I was updated I think they were running a £1bn budget surplus or profit, therefore self sustainable or not requiring government funding, or requiring decreased levels of funding pro-rata on increased orders.

A smart developer will buy land, appraise and plan, then offer to multiple H/A, that way they circumvent public contract competition.

Either way, private sales are propping up the deficit on affordable rent developments.

 

[Commachio]

My sister and brother in law, both have it now. No idea how they are doing, are we are still not speaking.

So who's gonna get the jab first on here?

 

[PINKIE]

My sister and brother in law, both have it now. No idea how they are doing, are we are still not speaking.

So who's gonna get the jab first on here?

Fosse will be first in line.

 

[brb]

My sister and brother in law, both have it now. No idea how they are doing, are we are still not speaking.

So who's gonna get the jab first on here?

Isn't Duggie the oldest on here, expect he will get it first. Isn't it over 80's then over 70's.

Sorry if you're not Duggie, but I thought I saw you mention your age one time.

 

[Commachio]

Isn't Duggie the oldest on here, expect he will get it first. Isn't it over 80's then over 70's.

Sorry if you're not Duggie, but I thought I saw you mention your age one time.

think you are correct.

 

[Diego]

Isn't Duggie the oldest on here, expect he will get it first. Isn't it over 80's then over 70's.

Sorry if you're not Duggie, but I thought I saw you mention your age one time.

Depends on what you mean by "on here", the thread or the site?

 

[PINKIE]

Isn't Duggie the oldest on here, expect he will get it first. Isn't it over 80's then over 70's.

Sorry if you're not Duggie, but I thought I saw you mention your age one time.

Thought @bigsmithy9 was our most senior resident ?

 

[Peej]

My sister and brother in law, both have it now. No idea how they are doing, are we are still not speaking.

So who's gonna get the jab first on here?

Anyone over 75 will beat me to it. I’m in with the 70-74 due to health. Feel 85 at min