SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

Rado_N said:
Should have been done weeks if not months ago.
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Absolutely!! Certainly should’ve been done before Xmas & maybe things wouldn’t be as bad as they are now. Again, reactionary actions being taken.
 
Dumb fecker could have announced this last week which would have given schools and parents a bit of time to prep for this, inept duckers the lot of them.
 
LARulz said:
No good excuse? People not being able to see their loved ones if they are sick, being stranded abroad, losing their jobs or getting thrown out of their education?

I'm sorry, but there are plenty of reasons. If you can't see how doing what more successful countries in lockdown's have done then that is silly. UK never shut its borders, fine, but they never did any requirements to enter. Almost all lockdown success countries kept travel restricted, not closed. You don't enter without a PCR test, you do one at the airport, you stay at a government hotel during quarantine etc. If people who are willing to travel with all these checks (at their expense), I can guarantee you their travel is essential
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The likes of Taiwan and Australia which are among the best to date numbers wide shut their borders. I sympathise with your predicament but I firmly believe anywhere that’s an island should have closed it’s borders during a proper lockdown. Instead we’ve now seen the U.K. strain moving to other countries
 
It’s great Boris has a bestie in Starmer.
 
ha_rooney said:
Yeah, looks like the plan is to review again end of February. It’s needed to give the vaccine roll out a chance - now they just need to ensure the roll-out doesn’t get fecked up.
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They said something before the brief that admission for over 80's is reducing which is hopefully early signs the vaccine is working.
 
Superunknown said:
The amount of notice given to primary schools is disgusting.
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My would be mother in law who is a 60 year old diabetic primary teacher had to plan lessons for this week, go in to work today and teach 20 kids face to face who have all had relatives visiting them this weekend and now has to come up with a remote plan going forward. She absolutely hates the Tory bastards.
 
On another note I'm so glad I hated Boris before it became a hipster trend.
 
golden_blunder said:
The likes of Taiwan and Australia which are among the best to date numbers wide shut their borders. I sympathise with your predicament but I firmly believe anywhere that’s an island should have closed it’s borders during a proper lockdown. Instead we’ve now seen the U.K. strain moving to other countries
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It’s absolutely staggering that nothing was (and still hasn’t been) done to stop people travelling into the country.

There’s literally zero checks going on at ports when people arrive, it’s just reprehensible negligence from the government. Even fecking Trump stopped people going into the US.
 
Rado_N said:
It’s absolutely staggering that nothing was (and still hasn’t been) done to stop people travelling into the country.

There’s literally zero checks going on at ports when people arrive, it’s just reprehensible negligence from the government. Even fecking Trump stopped people going into the US.
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ALL travel should be stopped, any planes flying should be cargo only.
 
Thought so, no idea why people are spreading misinformation about the football stopping, here of all places, we're all miserable enough as it is without that going too.
 
I notice Boris apologised to the kids and parents for the inconvenience. Nothing to the teachers, headteachers and support staff who've been stressing all Christmas as to what fecking state their lessons are to be presented when they come back in January, as well as how they'd suddenly become medically competent to carry out Covid testing for thousands of kids.

Now having to rearrange all of their curriculum to either remote learning or 'live lessons' where kids can just turn off the computer without consequence.
 
Judas said:
Thought so, no idea why people are spreading misinformation about the football stopping, here of all places, we're all miserable enough as it is without that going too.
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It does have a bit of a match day feel in the last 30 minutes in here. Just waiting for the knee jerks.
 
Fully Fledged said:
The schools are safe now that they are empty. It was having people in them that was unsafe.
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Oh I completely agree, and feel for the teachers and school staff who have been working their assessments off trying to keep everyone safe now and now have to plan remote lessons, after being told they must open!
 
Judas said:
Thought so, no idea why people are spreading misinformation about the football stopping, here of all places, we're all miserable enough as it is without that going too.
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20:12 on the Sky News feed “Elite Sport including Premier League will stop”
 
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