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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2020 17:54:53 GMT
Every year the front page of the Express warns of a new ice age coming ... I suppose it may be accurate one day.
But the forecast suggests 6 degrees and dry on christmas day here.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2020 18:13:35 GMT
listening to the news, isn't that Welsh bloke now saying only 2 households can meet and full lock down again on 28th? - I hope he and Nicola Sturgeon never breed... their child would surely end up with little black moustache and jack boots! I've given up trying to interpret 'the news' I'm cc and my understanding is that I am at one corner of one Tier 3 and that CRT have re instated the 14 day rule, but I can't move out of my tier 3 to another, adjacent tier 3, according to UK Law. If I move, to the next place, I'll have no access to my bubble, no access to sanitation, and be closer to urban activity. I think the CRT will have to stop the 14 day ruling if London is Tier 3, or stop the 14 day in any Tier 3. Stabby pointed out that there is nothing to visit, so moving just to move from one place to snother seems fairly pointless. I don't know how I'm going to get my first and second jab, that's another elephant in the room.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2020 18:25:47 GMT
It seems highly likely that a four week national 'lock-down ' may be introduced in early January. What needs to be locked down are the corrupt politicians handing out contracts to their mates. £252m to Ayanda Capital, registered in Mauritius for tax purposes. PPE not delivered £186m to Uniserve. PPE not delivered £116m to P14 Medical Supplies, with assets of just £145. PPE not delivered £108m to PestFix, with just 16 employees. PPE not delivered £107m to Clandeboye Agencies, a sweet wholesaler. Yes, a sweet wholesaler. PPE not delivered. £40m to Medicine Box Ltd, with assets of just £6000. PPE not delivered. £48m to Initia Ventures Ltd, which registered itself as “dormant” in March. PPE not delivered. £28m to Monarch Acoustics, which makes shop furniture. PPE not delivered £25m to Luxe Lifestyle, which has no employees, no assets, and no turnover. PPE not delivered £18m to Aventis Solutions, which has total assets of £332. Not a typo, £332. PPE not delivered £10m to Medco Solutions, incorporated just 3 days after lockdown, with share capital of (not a typo) £2. PPE not delivered In all, approx £1bn to inexplicable suppliers for PPE that hasn’t been delivered. Those PPE contracts are only the tip of the iceberg. Huge NHS contract awards from estates to new IT systems have made a lot of people rich who would normally not have been allowed to even submit a formal tender, much less actually won the contract. If there is ever a public inquiry into their management of NHS contracts in 2020, I would expect criminal proceedings to eventually be brought against whichever mug they persuaded to oversee these procurements.
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Post by patty on Dec 16, 2020 18:40:16 GMT
Haha! What a quandary! Stay at home... or kill someone's granny? A moral dilemma! Scared of fines, aren't we? Its not very often I resort to this but... give it a break Ross, I dunno about other people but I'm beginning to find it quite frightening and your inane comments are doing my head in....
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Post by JohnV on Dec 16, 2020 18:41:21 GMT
interesting report from Aljazeera
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2020 18:43:52 GMT
To be fair the "stay at home or kill a granny" term was used on radio 4 today by one of the presenters.
Not that radio 4 is especially good news in general but it is quite widely listened to despite being incredibly depressing.
I sometimes have it on in my car when I get bored of the Slayer CDs.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2020 18:45:42 GMT
Haha! What a quandary! Stay at home... or kill someone's granny? A moral dilemma! Scared of fines, aren't we? Its not very often I resort to this but... give it a break Ross, I dunno about other people but I'm beginning to find it quite frightening and your inane comments are doing my head in.... I've had to resort to putting him back on ignore.
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Post by patty on Dec 16, 2020 18:51:59 GMT
Its not very often I resort to this but... give it a break Ross, I dunno about other people but I'm beginning to find it quite frightening and your inane comments are doing my head in.... I've had to resort to putting him back on ignore. I hate to do that but he's begining to cause anxiety so I may well do..it never ends
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2020 19:48:23 GMT
I've had to resort to putting him back on ignore. Hello blacksheep! I can still choose to read and/or reply to you, there is just a significant **** 'meter' before I do...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2020 20:03:05 GMT
My apologies ... this wasn't intended as a covid thread ... I was interested in how restrictions were affecting liveaboard boaters to assist in our considerations as to whether to return to the boat in three weeks, or stay where we are.
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Post by quaysider on Dec 17, 2020 8:24:26 GMT
Back to the op - in your shoes, I would perhaps use the "Christmas Window" to travel to the boat - perhaps using a scuba wearing Uber cab with whatever 'clobber' you might need for a few months and then once in position, potter about taking different walks wherever you like - I feel sure somewhere in the cauldron of rules, I heard/read something about it being ok to "travel" for exercise.
The rational amongst us understand the main worry is about 'large' numbers in the same place - ... the odd potential sugar daddy (and wife) being in 1 tier 3 compared to another tier 3 makes beggar all difference.
Once relocated, your actions will be no more risky to anyone else (or you) wherever you are - in fact, thinking logically, you'll both be much LESS of a risk when you are no longer working in a public environment...
The elephant in the room actually being the fact the places 99 percent of us have to go (supermarkets) which MUST be contamination hubs "don't have to track and trace" and can merrily let every coughing wheezing Tom Dick and gender undecided Harry/iet, wander around at leisure. It does make a mockery of it all.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2020 11:06:32 GMT
Agree with above Quaysider). Instead of Tiers , we need to go back to basics. Handwashing, and all journeys to be essential. Shopping: One person, one household, one trolley, sanitising compulsory unless wearing one trip gloves, masks compulsory within two metres of any other person. I see folks chatting with friends in town (Tier 3), no precautions, yet they have masks, as otherwise they can't do any shopping. Common sense only applies to those who self identify as 'at risk', or with family who are 'at risk', ie over 65/or with other problems. I have isolated myself from other people, with major assistance from family, otherwise, I'd really be struggling, probably have to move to up to town for diesel fuel and food, then back to CRT services every week, as it is, I get everything I can delivered, it's probably cost effective, but I think I should buy shares in Morrisons!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2020 11:19:47 GMT
What I find amazing is how much people spit when they talk.
I never really noticed it before the introduction of a pandemic but most people generate veritable fountains of the stuff just by saying something like good morning.
I believe what the UK.gov should have done early on was to ban talking.
Everyone to go about their business and shopping without talking, at all.
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Post by patty on Dec 17, 2020 13:12:38 GMT
What I find amazing is how much people spit when they talk. I never really noticed it before the introduction of a pandemic but most people generate veritable fountains of the stuff just by saying something like good morning. I believe what the UK.gov should have done early on was to ban talking. Everyone to go about their business and shopping without talking, at all. Gosh a silent world.... First time round if I remember we all scuttled past folk with head down..maybe whats changed now is all the gossiping u see.
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Post by quaysider on Dec 17, 2020 13:51:45 GMT
What I find amazing is how much people spit when they talk. I never really noticed it before the introduction of a pandemic but most people generate veritable fountains of the stuff just by saying something like good morning. I believe what the UK.gov should have done early on was to ban talking. Everyone to go about their business and shopping without talking, at all. er doesn't that pretty much happen in China? - easily done by pointing guns at the population or running them over in tanks.... job sorted.
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