Coronavirus

[Nowack]

8 hours ago, Spider said:

Said it before, they’ll be throwing roadblocks up around the town by October.

If the report that the lockdown had little effect on reducing the virus in the North West is true then you may be right. 

[MickyD]

9 hours ago, Escobarp said:

Girl I know had to take her daughter to Dundee for a test 130 mile journey.   Is what it is. You need a test you go where one is available or wait. 

Spoke to a woman on the phone regarding my self-test kit registration. I asked the question about why, when there’s a testing area in Bolton, are folk being offered Blackburn. Apparently, rather than doing a test and booking it in, thus making a further slot available, many test centres will do a number of tests; 10, 20, whatever the number, and then input them all at the same time which creates an equivalent number of testing slots. 
 

She said that if you get offered a test centre too far away, try again in five minute intervals. It’s just that Bolton is fairly busy currently.

[Rudy]

8 hours ago, leigh white said:

Been supping Fosters today with an old Bolton mate in Leigh. 😃

I’d rather drink a pint of covid

@Mr Grey

 

[ErnestTurnip]

My lad goes to uni next weekend so I'm guessing a lot of others will as well. There's loads of overseas students coming over and the policy is that they have to self isolate for a fortnight which seems sensible. Then you realise they are isolating in halls of residence and the like which seems a lot less sensible.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

99 cases per 100000 here now. Kinell, its really shot up.

Got one of these electronic signs on new lane. Immediately beyond it feral kids en masse in the road, outside shops, in gardens. Like a coronation. 

Get the TV cameras up there and some bobbies and fine all the parents. Or seal the area.

[radcliffe white]

21 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

99 cases per 100000 here now. Kinell, its really shot up.

Got one of these electronic signs on new lane. Immediately beyond it feral kids en masse in the road, outside shops, in gardens. Like a coronation. 

Get the TV cameras up there and some bobbies and fine all the parents. Or seal the area.

MEN reporting 104.3 now 

[deane koontz]

Right what are the new rules now then - Only essential travel but pubs are still open? Is that correct 🤔

 

 

[peelyfeet]

17 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

MEN reporting 104.3 now 

It'll go up for a few days more at least. Theres a lag. 

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

11 minutes ago, deane koontz said:

Right what are the new rules now then - Only essential travel but pubs are still open? Is that correct 🤔

 

 

Probably not for much longer.

[MickyD]

1 hour ago, ErnestTurnip said:

My lad goes to uni next weekend so I'm guessing a lot of others will as well. There's loads of overseas students coming over and the policy is that they have to self isolate for a fortnight which seems sensible. Then you realise they are isolating in halls of residence and the like which seems a lot less sensible.

When all this first kicked off, travellers were placed in isolation wards on Wirral. What happened to those?

[Not in Crawley]

1 hour ago, ErnestTurnip said:

My lad goes to uni next weekend so I'm guessing a lot of others will as well. There's loads of overseas students coming over and the policy is that they have to self isolate for a fortnight which seems sensible. Then you realise they are isolating in halls of residence and the like which seems a lot less sensible.

they can't leave their rooms - they're not supposed to be wandering round. Food is brought directly to their room from the canteens.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

3 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

they can't leave their rooms - they're not supposed to be wandering round. Food is brought directly to their room from the canteens.

What about the piss stones and showers?

[Not in Crawley]

Most rooms have toilets and showers in now.

[ErnestTurnip]

10 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

they can't leave their rooms - they're not supposed to be wandering round. Food is brought directly to their room from the canteens.

None of them have been told that where my lad is going and there are no food facilities on site apart from the kitchens shared between rooms.

[Not in Crawley]

Just now, ErnestTurnip said:

None of them have been told that where my lad is going and there are no food facilities on site apart from the kitchens shared between rooms.

same in another place, UKC and Christ Church I know of - apparently outside caterers are being brought if there are no kitchens on site, or coming from the SU. They shouldnt/can't leave their room for two weeks.

[ErnestTurnip]

Think you are right and I was talking bollocks/getting the wrong info from the lad.

If the students did it properly the uni sorted them out with special quarantine flats 2 weeks before the official start so they would be clear by then and could crack on in whatever way everyone else is.

[Casino]

2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

 on new lane. Immediately beyond it feral kids en masse in the road, outside shops, in gardens. Like a coronation. 

Get the TV cameras up there and some bobbies and fine all the parents. Or seal the area.

Chucking stuff at passing cars now

Its going to kick off on that stretch

[Not in Crawley]

3 minutes ago, ErnestTurnip said:

Think you are right and I was talking bollocks/getting the wrong info from the lad.

If the students did it properly the uni sorted them out with special quarantine flats 2 weeks before the official start so they would be clear by then and could crack on in whatever way everyone else is.

Yeah - UKC has a high % of overseas students and there was special provision for them - other houses off campus as well apparently. 

They should all be clear before the start of the first term i believe. Its been a bit grim for some of them but overseas students are a huge market for unis so its been in their interest as well to treat them right.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

32 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Most rooms have toilets and showers in now.

How things have changed

[Tonge moor green jacket]

12 minutes ago, Casino said:

Chucking stuff at passing cars now

Its going to kick off on that stretch

Had one idiot ride right out in front of me yesterday evening. Probably about 6 or 7. No cycling ability nor sense. Going to take a different route from now on.

[ex_midlandwhite]

44 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

they can't leave their rooms - they're not supposed to be wandering round. Food is brought directly to their room from the canteens.

Is this the overseas kids or the ones from Bolton?

[MickyD]

9 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Had one idiot ride right out in front of me yesterday evening. Probably about 6 or 7. No cycling ability nor sense. Going to take a different route from now on.

You’re lucky it was a kid at least in semi-control. I’ve driven down there and car tyres come from up the hill. 
 

Is the dartboard still in the front garden, behind which, kids are playing?

[Not in Crawley]

14 minutes ago, ex_midlandwhite said:

Is this the overseas kids or the ones from Bolton?

Interesting point, I only heard about those who had to from places where you had to isolate for two weeks from anyway.

If places have local strict lockdowns then I suppose itd make sense. Or just stay at home for two weeks - you do nothing for at least a month anyway!

[Casino]

Yeah

Mounted on the stolen street sign

Im not altering my route in the same way a bombing wouldnt stop me going out and about but fucking hell, theres some lawless folk on that stretch

Plod van at the breightmet end of new lane about 7 last night and nodody at the front of dartboard towers

All the kids were outside the shops

Edited September 6, 2020 by Casino

[Not in Crawley]

21 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

How things have changed

Yeah mine were so shit they pulled them down. But if you're coming out with 50k worth of debt you can expect a bit more than a bed, a desk and a sink.