Slow news day? The real deal? End of the world? 
 

They’re saying it probably came from an animal, has Somebody been shagging monkeys again? 

52 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

Can we all a least agree the virus has fucked us good and proper?

Or is that anti Boris?

Can’t see why Germany, US etc being fucked is anti-Boris

More good news

 

1 hour ago, Sweep said:

The bottom line is the key one. Things have changed forever now, previously when in the Far East, I've always been mildly amused at seeing people wandering around with face masks on, and even wearing them in the office, not just when outside. Masks are here to stay now, and we'll see then being worn as they are in the Far East as a matter of course. I suspect that social distancing will remain a thing as well, not 2m or anything like that, but capacity of venues, pubs restaurants will be reduced. I think people will clean their hands a bit more as well, and not be such dirty bastards. The upside is that we'll hopefully see a lot less of things like seasonal flu as well

Aye, though in the longer term, it may subside a little I suppose.

More thinking about planning our cities, not living with pigs, carp or pangolin etc.

Lawyers seem to be having some fun with the AZ/EU contract

47 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

More good news

 

And it'll be sensitive on your skin

1 minute ago, Not in Crawley said:

And it'll be sensitive on your skin

No more tiers

1 minute ago, stevieb said:

No more tiers

Oh very good- you need to get that on yer twitter.

13 minutes ago, stevieb said:

No more tiers

Very good, that was stolen by me 2 minutes after reading  

18 minutes ago, boltondiver said:

Lawyers seem to be having some fun with the AZ/EU contract

The EU should have read it before making false statements. 

21 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Oh very good- you need to get that on yer twitter.

I don't do twatter. Feel free to steal! 🤣 

8 minutes ago, Boby Brno said:

The EU should have read it before making false statements. 

Kate Bingham, and I'm paraphrasing " we got lots of people from the private sector with relevant experience in, to get moving on the contracts quickly".

Good on her. If a few noses get put out of joint; tough.

2 hours ago, Sweep said:

The bottom line is the key one. Things have changed forever now, previously when in the Far East, I've always been mildly amused at seeing people wandering around with face masks on, and even wearing them in the office, not just when outside. Masks are here to stay now, and we'll see then being worn as they are in the Far East as a matter of course. I suspect that social distancing will remain a thing as well, not 2m or anything like that, but capacity of venues, pubs restaurants will be reduced. I think people will clean their hands a bit more as well, and not be such dirty bastards. The upside is that we'll hopefully see a lot less of things like seasonal flu as well

Masks will get fucked off quickly, I think, but more people will carry hand sanitizer/wipes and such

12 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Masks will get fucked off quickly, I think, but more people will carry hand sanitizer/wipes and such

I don't think we'll be forced to wear them, I just think that a lot of people will choose to in certain environments, like travelling on the tube or in supermarkets.

 

Anyway, it'll be nice to have the choice 

36 minutes ago, stevieb said:

I don't do twatter. Feel free to steal! 🤣 

I'll whack it on my linkedin - might get a copywriting gig out of it! 

 

2 hours ago, Boby Brno said:

The EU should have read it before making false statements. 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/it-s-hard-to-see-how-the-eu-can-win-a-case-against-astrazeneca/amp?__twitter_impression=true

444,000 vaccines yesterday. Back on track.

5 minutes ago, Boby Brno said:

444,000 vaccines yesterday. Back on track.

that's more like it - we should be gettign towards that sort of number everyday now that far more places have opened up - good news, we'll be in the pubs by the end of May now I reckon, great news!

10 minutes ago, Boby Brno said:

444,000 vaccines yesterday. Back on track.

Phew

1 hour ago, Mounts Kipper said:

 

Aye.

Seems I was wrong; I didn't think they would, and though its not quite a ban, the thin end of the wedge just got a bit thicker.

11 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Aye.

Seems I was wrong; I didn't think they would, and though its not quite a ban, the thin end of the wedge just got a bit thicker.

As long as they don't stop our supply, they can do what they want. I'll not get too animated about it until I hear they're actually stopping stuff getting to us

1 minute ago, Sweep said:

As long as they don't stop our supply, they can do what they want. I'll not get too animated about it until I hear they're actually stopping stuff getting to us

Let's hope so. Otherwise a huge shit storm is coming. 

A clever bit of manoeuvring here: they've made a mistake, and now pass it down to the member states.

Without looking deeper into it, I would guess that it only needs one country to object.

Do we want the UK all sorted and vaccined way ahead of the EU?

Which I guess rules out any UK resident travelling to Spain this year at the very least

Or

Do we try and get all countries done at roughly the same pace and possibly open up borders a bit sooner?

 

 

1 minute ago, Spider said:

Do we want the UK all sorted and vaccined way ahead of the EU?

Which I guess rules out any UK resident travelling to Spain this year at the very least

Or

Do we try and get all countries done at roughly the same pace and possibly open up borders a bit sooner?

 

 

Ideally, we spread the love and the vaccine, wih the bonus folks can secure their rightful place on the beaches of Costa Del Sol.

But, we need to look after our population as best we can.

A great year for caravans etc

2 minutes ago, Spider said:

Do we want the UK all sorted and vaccined way ahead of the EU?

Which I guess rules out any UK resident travelling to Spain this year at the very least

Or

Do we try and get all countries done at roughly the same pace and possibly open up borders a bit sooner?

 

 

You've not thought this through.

If all brits are vaccinated, then surely other countries would be happy to have them.

It certainly reduces the chance of more new strains developing here too. They'll be pleased by that.

Other countries should aspire to reach the levels of Israel and us. Not us reduce our levels to allow them to catch up.