Sure pal
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Sure pal
Yikes.
You see this said a lot, despite how utterly ridiculous it is. People are allowed to criticise our Governments mishandling of the pandemic without offering themselves as an alternative to the prime minister.
I expect every other government in Europe apart from this one very publicly cancelling Christmas didnt help. Neither did realising the Oxford vaccine trial went wrong and the country will likely have to pause its vaccinations for 1 or 2 months in the New Year because there arent enough doses.
I dont think he will call another meeting before next week on the 30th like he said.
But he is definitely announcing lockdown on the 30th.
But he is definitely announcing lockdown on the 30th.
I guess you missed Antonio Costa "preserving the Christmas spirit" by making relaxations on Christmas, while simultaneously announcing the need for more severe restrictions by New Year's, as did multiple other countries on the continent and elsewhere.
The Oxford vaccine trial went wrong? I thought it was about to be approved for use?
It might be for the last time for many older people, yes
It's expected to be approved on the 28th of December
Personally I don't think it's that. I think people are quite rightly annoyed at how the government has dealt with this from start to finish.
Camilo is a covidiot. Best to ignore his posts really.
They got the dosing wrong by accident, and the more effective dose had no data for over 55s. The FDA wont issue approval until February at the very earliest and the EU has gone quiet on it. I'm sure the UK will approve it asap, because they have to.
Very cute...
My point is that of course the government have handled this dreadfully. They should have had the balls to say from the off that Christmas should have been held under restrictions.
My family have all prepared for Christmas in this way, lots of people actually took the government’s 5 day relaxation and ran with it. Just because you can, doesn’t always mean you should. Now the uproar.
Good man.
I'm expecting the worst month and a full lockdown
Your last 2 words are the most important. Full lockdown.
People use the word lockdown as if it means anything. The last one was nothing of the sort.
Nothing changed and as a result, it achieved zero. Quite unlike the first one which certainly had a beneficial effect. But it was lifted far too quickly.
Speculation is that we’ll be having mass vaccinations in early January either way.
What a load of crap. Wife is traveling alone to see her very ill mother abroad (not Covid) on Monday. Had to get the ridiculously expensive fit to fly certificate for nearly £200. The tickets themselves are nearly £800 and strictly non refundable.
Where do we go to get exceptional circumstances permission? It's a shambles. We're just going to turn up at Heathrow airport and hope Qatar Airways let her through.
Where do we go to get exceptional circumstances permission? It's a shambles. We're just going to turn up at Heathrow airport and hope Qatar Airways let her through.
Well they will have to because they run out the Pfizer vaccine in January and wont get anymore of that or any other vaccine until March.
Must be a new strain if it's spreading fast through all those affluent like minded areas with huge homes in the south east.
Quite stark for south and south east to be in Tier 4 to say the least after all nonsense said about the north a month ago.
Seriously though cases have exploded down there and in Wales so rules change quickly to reflect that. Germany the country that did well for a long time have had a week of 700-850 deaths a day and 30k cases.
Quite stark for south and south east to be in Tier 4 to say the least after all nonsense said about the north a month ago.
Seriously though cases have exploded down there and in Wales so rules change quickly to reflect that. Germany the country that did well for a long time have had a week of 700-850 deaths a day and 30k cases.
I will be very, very surprised if that was the case. Pretty sure the Government would be yelling about it to keep country morale up. It'd be a good news story in a very, very bad week.
Do you still think London's numbers are being massaged?
Are flights out of Heathrow affected?
Yeah, he's got a bit of a sore throat today apparently but I don't think that's a listed symptom. The only reason he had the test was because it was a requirement before going into hospital for the operation. Maybe it's a false reading or something I don't know.
Just 371 sleeps until Christmas.
fecking hell, no shame.
Lockdown is guaranteed, only Tory loons dont realise it yet.
Some regional data for information:
Top local authorities, I've never seen any number as high as Thurrock's.
Top local authorities, I've never seen any number as high as Thurrock's.
Damn, totally forgot this gem.
Nope
Don’t think he has been seen since. Bless you Starkie, wherever you may be
Very much mixed feelings. It's a clusterfeck. We should never have been in this mess. There are so many points it could've been avoided by governments across the UK. It's the right decision based on the awful place we find ourselves in right now though.
We were all so innocent way back when.
I was joking on page 1 of this thread because I was sat in a departure lounge ready to fly to Taiwan when this thread was created. Taiwan was a hot spot back then. How times have changed!
I also remember a mate in China asking me to sign a passport application for him after he destroyed his own so he could escape back to the U.K where it was safe.
How times change indeed
Thank God for that. Hopefully no one is stopped from entering the airport. How are they going to implement flight controls if people just keep on traveling?
A friend of mine just sent me a photo from inside the Westfield shopping centre, in London. Throngs of people. Loads without masks. Is that normal in the UK?!
In Ireland you could go days without seeing a single maskless person in an indoor space. I know the benefits of masks are kind of uncertain but to me it’s a marker of general civic spiritedness during the pandemic. If they can’t be bothered wearing a mask in a shopping centre then chances are you’re taking the piss in other ways too.
All very well moaning about Boris and the gang but that photo really shocked me. Looks like the British public need to up their fecking game or reap the consequences.
In Ireland you could go days without seeing a single maskless person in an indoor space. I know the benefits of masks are kind of uncertain but to me it’s a marker of general civic spiritedness during the pandemic. If they can’t be bothered wearing a mask in a shopping centre then chances are you’re taking the piss in other ways too.
All very well moaning about Boris and the gang but that photo really shocked me. Looks like the British public need to up their fecking game or reap the consequences.