Coronavirus

[radcliffe white]

18 minutes ago, Nobster said:

Lets get a couple of coach's down to Knutsford at the weekend, the numbers there are higher than ours so why are they in tier 2 

That’s for Boxing Day 

[Rudy]

Looks like I’ll be getting smashed in my pub shed for my birthday 

Wonder of the Mrs will buy me a brass

[Not in Crawley]

14 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

How the fuck is Lancashire not split into smaller areas?  It’s a fucking joke, government is utterly useless. 

Its difficult, our london borough is way down with infections but you can't do borough by borough lockdown.

Please to be in tier 2 though. 

[Not in Crawley]

44 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Says avoid travelling outside the area for t3 unless necessary, fine lines with these tiers/borders places may ask for proof of address 

The kids are in Kent, we are in London. I'll be travelling between.

[captainmed]

We all suffer because of the over 60’s.

 

[Guest]

What a load of Shit 

[Not in Crawley]

So I have to buy a burger to have a pint, and if I have a burger at say 8pm, can I jut keep drinking until 11pm - its not a pint per meal is it?

I wonder if wetherspoons will start doing £1 burger and pizza meals to get folk in and drinking.

[Spider]

Well I didn’t vote for the cunts.

 

[radcliffe white]

5 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

So I have to buy a burger to have a pint, and if I have a burger at say 8pm, can I jut keep drinking until 11pm - its not a pint per meal is it?

I wonder if wetherspoons will start doing £1 burger and pizza meals to get folk in and drinking.

This way some places weren’t arsed buy a meal stay all night some you had 2 hours 

[leigh white]

Glazebury just over mile away from me are in Tier 2, if I do get desperate and a desire to have a pint in a pub, will have to bite my lip and buy some grub to compliment my ale.

Edited November 26, 2020 by leigh white

[Tonge moor green jacket]

13 minutes ago, Spider said:

Well I didn’t vote for the cunts.

 

Could have voted for permanent lockdown I suppose.

[bolton va va]

I'm alright with tier 3 & hope we stay there till xmas.

We all know that there's going to be a free for all & loads ignoring the guidelines at xmas , with a big spike in covid cases afterwards putting huge pressure on the NHS,  so it's better to try & force the R rate as low as possible before the festive bellendery begins. 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

1 minute ago, bolton va va said:

I'm alright with tier 3 & hope we stay there till xmas.

We all know that there's going to be a free for all & loads ignoring the guidelines at xmas , with a big spike in covid cases afterwards putting huge pressure on the NHS,  so it's better to try & force the R rate as low as possible before the festive bellendery begins. 

Exactly. 

Two weeks to stick at it. Every chance of dropping a tier given numbers falling on the 16th.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Good map this, has all the rates too for comparisons 

 

https://electionmaps.uk/covid19-tier-map

 

[DazBob]

Can't say I'm massively arsed. Yoof can start playing football again, as can I.

Hopefully these restrictions won't be in place for too much longer if they help bring the R rate down down to an acceptable level.

[radcliffe white]

Not arsed myself already resigned to it really and in terms of football it’s not like tier 2 could have us all back it would be a lottery on which games anyway 

if the stats keep going down no reason why we shouldn’t be downgraded on the 16th 

[Leyther_Matt]

32 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Exactly. 

Two weeks to stick at it. Every chance of dropping a tier given numbers falling on the 16th.

I'm convinced that the announcement for Dec 16th will see everywhere move up a tier to allow for the Christmas relaxations.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

1 minute ago, Leyther_Matt said:

I'm convinced that the announcement for Dec 16th will see everywhere move up a tier to allow for the Christmas relaxations.

I think that's why so many are in high tiers now.

If numbers drop no way would they get away with increasing a place's tier level.

The capacity of hospitals to cope is one of the contributing factors. Article on local news yesterday iirc, about Blackburn. Hospital there has twice as many covid patients as they had in the first wave. 

Not sustainable, particularly as we approach peak flu season, so understandable that much of North west is tier 3.

In two weeks or so, hopefully numbers in hospital will start to fall as confirmed cases fall now.

[Burndens Bogs]

13 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

I'm convinced that the announcement for Dec 16th will see everywhere move up a tier to allow for the Christmas relaxations.

Cornwall will move into Tier 0 for free bing & brasses.

Edited November 26, 2020 by Burndens Bogs

[birch-chorley]

2 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I think that's why so many are in high tiers now.

If numbers drop no way would they get away with increasing a place's tier level.

The capacity of hospitals to cope is one of the contributing factors. Article on local news yesterday iirc, about Blackburn. Hospital there has twice as many covid patients as they had in the first wave. 

Not sustainable, particularly as we approach peak flu season, so understandable that much of North west is tier 3.

In two weeks or so, hopefully numbers in hospital will start to fall as confirmed cases fall now.

Surely they aren’t expecting much of an influx due to Winter Flu? 

So far this year only 300 have died from flu (if numbers are to be believed) vs the normal average of 17,000

I’d imagine the restrictions in place for Covid will also reduce Winter Flu transmission, both here and abroad, I wonder if the Southern Hemisphere Winter Flu was lower this year? That normally comes our way 

Add that to the fact 30m are being vaccinated for it this Winter this year vs the usual 15m and I doubt Hospitals have anything to worry about that way 

[Spider]

Makes no difference to me

Pubs are for standing up and supping in so I still wouldn’t bother with this nonsensical eating bollocks.

Lad can play football, shops are open so the only real restriction is socialising, which is irritating but hardly the end of the world.

No-ones asked us to eat a raw pig for breakfast.

Spitfires etc..

Edited November 26, 2020 by Spider

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

7 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I think that's why so many are in high tiers now.

If numbers drop no way would they get away with increasing a place's tier level.

The capacity of hospitals to cope is one of the contributing factors. Article on local news yesterday iirc, about Blackburn. Hospital there has twice as many covid patients as they had in the first wave. 

Not sustainable, particularly as we approach peak flu season, so understandable that much of North west is tier 3.

In two weeks or so, hopefully numbers in hospital will start to fall as confirmed cases fall now.

I think it was reported a couple of weeks ago that RBH had five Covid wards, up rom two about a month before. I don't know if tgat's still the case but I can't imagine if it has reduced it's reduced by much. It's not difficult to understand why we're still in Tier 3 based on that.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

12 minutes ago, birch-chorley said:

Surely they aren’t expecting much of an influx due to Winter Flu? 

So far this year only 300 have died from flu (if numbers are to be believed) vs the normal average of 17,000

I’d imagine the restrictions in place for Covid will also reduce Winter Flu transmission, both here and abroad, I wonder if the Southern Hemisphere Winter Flu was lower this year? That normally comes our way 

Add that to the fact 30m are being vaccinated for it this Winter this year vs the usual 15m and I doubt Hospitals have anything to worry about that way 

It's not 300 v. 17,000 but, yes, we should probably see a sharp reduction in the number of flu cases

[Traf]

Just catching on the last few pages and...

Blaming Burnham is bollocks. North West was always going to be Tier 3. Liverpool have T2 as a thank you for being he mass test guinea pigs and for the extreme measures they had earlier. They'll be T3 in a fortnight.

Talk of nipping "over borders" for a pint is part of the wider problem. Stick to the rules FFS, you're not exempt because you're close to somewhere that is.

[athywhite1958]

1 hour ago, captainmed said:

We all suffer because of the over 60’s.

 

Fuck off you blaming anybody who's a bit older than you