Covid-19

[gonzo]

For once Im backing boris on this. He announces lockdown on the 27th there would be fucking carnage across the country. Piss ups and street parties all over the gaff. Remember that first time they shut the pubs and gave us all 6 hours notice, they were packed to the rafters.

Play it by ear is the best way imo. Better than cancelling Christmas.

Gives chance for the booster to catch up and a second week of people not at work and kids at school.

[Casino]

1 hour ago, BobyBrno said:

The figures for the last 7 days in England. Earliest first.

68,868

77,299

83,693

82,426

71,702

76,065,

80,916

Not doubling every two days as predicted. We are now also reaching the 1 million a day booster target. The government are right to hold off making rash decisions at the moment in my view. That’s not being an apologist, it’s being a pragmatist. 

 

It was omicron that was predicted to double

Not total cases

Plus, i suspect testing has gone out of the window for many

[Spider]

Testing is way down on last week.

Not that I’m cynical, but surely people weren’t just hoping for a long Xmas break…..?

[radcliffe white]

If you want a decent Xmas why would you test from last week onwards madness

[bolton_blondie]

6 minutes ago, Spider said:

Testing is way down on last week.

Not that I’m cynical, but surely people weren’t just hoping for a long Xmas break…..?

Surely though alot of people don't get paid for being off? 

[mickbrown]

Double bubble

Edited December 21, 2021 by mickbrown

[gonzo]

1 minute ago, mickbrown said:

We'll never lockdown to the extent we did before because Johnson has lost any semblance of authority.

No bugger will take any notice anymore.

Imagine the house parties if he shuts the pubs on NYE?!

[Youri McAnespie]

45 minutes ago, Spider said:

He’s a very devout Nazarene. So probably not, unless she’s got the body of a 7 year old boy.

He's heavily into a Finnish Black Metal band?

Why would that stop him shagging that Ukraine filth bag?

She's a ten wank a day.

She'd probably slit your throat as you slept though.

[Spider]

Just now, Youri McAnespie said:

He's heavily into a Finnish Black Metal band?

Why would that stop him shagging that Ukraine filth bag?

She's a ten wank a day.

She'd probably slit your throat as you slept though.

But she’d do it with a scalpel and be yanking your chopper as your life ebbed away.

 

[Youri McAnespie]

1 minute ago, Spider said:

But she’d do it with a scalpel and be yanking your chopper as your life ebbed away.

 

What a way to go.

The dosser Walker will probably peg it at 90 of some mad tropical disease with his dowdy wife holding his hands.

Give me exsanguination and a wank at the scalpel of that Nadya girl any day. 

[Rudy]

8 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Imagine the house parties if he shuts the pubs on NYE?!

Doubt the OB will have the manpower to shut down every pub

[little whitt]

Jock land Table service 

i might  go up there 

all the once a Year Drinkers at the bar Christmas Eve  Thinking what to order 

Get out the way you Cunts 

[Youri McAnespie]

24 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

We'll never lockdown to the extent we did before because Johnson has lost any semblance of authority.

No bugger will take any notice anymore.

Thank you Mick - someone finally who refers to the twatface not using 'Boris' like he's a daft mate not a poisonous hybrid of viper and weasel.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

11 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

If you want a decent Xmas why would you test from last week onwards madness

Don't understand this. If you're a bit rough, and think you might have it, why wouldn't you get checked?

I'm all for keeping things open as long as possible, but if folk don't bother testing themselves and just go out and about, potentially spreading the thing, then that's one sure fire way of bringing in more strict restrictions. 

We're at the olds for dinner Saturday; f-i-l is sadly showing his age, and there is no way I'd take the chance of not doing one if I thought I might have it.

[gonzo]

1 minute ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Don't understand this. If you're a bit rough, and think you might have it, why wouldn't you get checked?

I'm all for keeping things open as long as possible, but if folk don't bother testing themselves and just go out and about, potentially spreading the thing, then that's one sure fire way of bringing in more strict restrictions. 

We're at the olds for dinner Saturday; f-i-l is sadly showing his age, and there is no way I'd take the chance of not doing one if I thought I might have it.

There's an argument to be had that if it wasnt for the testing nobody would have a clue the thing exists. Its winter, people get ill and the NHS is the news every year without fail how its on the verge of collapse.

[Escobarp]

Been out in Edinburgh today and whilst it’s a Tuesday it’s still the week leading upto Xmas and it’s been fucking dead. Such a shame really.  But I’m a fan of keeping places open as those who want to go out will go out and those who don’t won’t and that’s personal Choice. 

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

5 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

 I do understand the concept of pausing on a decision, BD. The issue is it's not been communicated that way. If the decision is to review daily, tell people but undrestand that business cannot operate in that way and when people have things planned over a holiday period which have cost them money.

So, you have to be clear and lay that plan out. This is obfuscation, and there is a fundmental difference.

If you think this is decision making, lordy.

It's a decision that Humphrey Appleton might have made 😁

[Winchester White]

Just now, little whitt said:

Jock land Table service 

i might  go up there 

all the once a Year Drinkers at the bar Christmas Eve  Thinking what to order 

Get out the way you Cunts 

Christmas Day was the worse for it when we had a pub with 12 till 3 opening. Loads of cunts you never saw from one year to the next, wondering what to drink, how much is it and what's changed since they last stepped foot in the bastard place. Fuck off home you boring shitpiles, there are regulars and friends who want a good drink before Christmas dinner!

[Escobarp]

8 minutes ago, little whitt said:

Jock land Table service 

i might  go up there 

all the once a Year Drinkers at the bar Christmas Eve  Thinking what to order 

Get out the way you Cunts 

Been able to get table service up here all the way through in most boozers. Absolute delight it’s been no cunts stood dithering at the bar and nobody asking who are you. 
 

bliss 

[radcliffe white]

16 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Don't understand this. If you're a bit rough, and think you might have it, why wouldn't you get checked?

I'm all for keeping things open as long as possible, but if folk don't bother testing themselves and just go out and about, potentially spreading the thing, then that's one sure fire way of bringing in more strict restrictions. 

We're at the olds for dinner Saturday; f-i-l is sadly showing his age, and there is no way I'd take the chance of not doing one if I thought I might have it.

I never said don’t if you feel rough I would myself, I’m on about folk who test for the sake of it so don’t complain if you’re isolating over Xmas

not aimed at you btw 

 

 

Edited December 21, 2021 by radcliffe white

[DazBob]

I'd only be testing if either I felt rough or if living with someone who had it.

[Escobarp]

35 minutes ago, gonzo said:

For once Im backing boris on this. He announces lockdown on the 27th there would be fucking carnage across the country. Piss ups and street parties all over the gaff. Remember that first time they shut the pubs and gave us all 6 hours notice, they were packed to the rafters.

Play it by ear is the best way imo. Better than cancelling Christmas.

Gives chance for the booster to catch up and a second week of people not at work and kids at school.

I’m with this. In reality he can’t win can he. He locks down folk will moan. He says from 27th we lock down folk moan. He says let’s see how it goes folk moan. 
 

as I said above leave things open. If people want to go out they go out take the risk. If they don’t they stay home. 
 

We now know we will get through it we’ve done it before. We know much more than we did at the onset so let’s crack on for me. If I get it I get it and I isolate. 
 

common sense 

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

4 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59742884

1 billion put aside for Covid hit businesses. Right set of cunts the Tories. 
 

 

Might have been better spent funding the NHS then we could all get on with our lives & I'd guess a billion will be a drop in the ocean when shared around the amount of businesses that actually survive compared to the money lost. 

[Escobarp]

Just now, DazBob said:

I'd only be testing if either I felt rough or if living with someone who had it.

Or hoping you had it Xmas day so you didn’t have to go to the outlaws. 

[stevieb]

7 minutes ago, gonzo said:

There's an argument to be had that if it wasnt for the testing nobody would have a clue the thing exists. Its winter, people get ill and the NHS is the news every year without fail how its on the verge of collapse.

Aye. Winter 2017 we had 100k flu deaths in 2 months (usually 60k over a normal winter). 

I remember getting the train to manc for work every day and it was like the walking dead. Everyone soldiering on to work blowing out of their arses because they have to and continuing to see family and go to the match during the festive period because its tradition.