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Re: COVID
« Reply #60 on: October 23, 2020, 11:09:59 AM »
So I think the government can throw any and all restrictions at us and everyone is going to do whatever the f*** they want for Christmas....

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Re: COVID
« Reply #61 on: October 23, 2020, 12:06:39 PM »
I think if a deal was struck with the nation that said 'we need a circuit breaker lockdown for three weeks, however, this will allow Christmas with the family to happen'. I think people would take that deal.

That's me naively saying it anyway. I will be following the rules. However, one thing Boris has never taken into account throughout all this is how people will do whatever anyway without official law and consequences. Simply 'trusting' the nation is not enough and quite frankly stupid'
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Re: COVID
« Reply #62 on: October 23, 2020, 05:42:03 PM »
While I’m not a “resign at the first mistake” person, I do think Dominic Cummings being allowed to carry on without punishment doesn’t send the right message...
  Cummings didn't make a mistake, he knowingly broke the law because it suited him and he thought he could get away with it.  And then he lied about it.   A mistake is cutting and pasting the death figures into an excel spreadsheet. 


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Re: COVID
« Reply #63 on: October 31, 2020, 05:25:36 PM »
England going into lockdown!!

Meanwhile, we're in Scottish Tier 1, but means very little (pubs can open longer, and alcohol indoors, still no indoor visiting of 2 households of 6, at the moment)
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Re: COVID
« Reply #64 on: October 31, 2020, 05:35:38 PM »
WHY DID WE NOT DO THE 2 WEEK CIRCUIT BREAKER OVER HALFTERM?!?!

People have been travelling domestically and internationally with little restrictions.  Yet send the kids to school!  Great idea!  That’ll stop the spread....   ::)


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Re: COVID
« Reply #65 on: October 31, 2020, 07:43:51 PM »
Shops will only be able to sell essentials, which means that in the middle of a pandemic you won’t be able to buy a get well card.  :)
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Re: COVID
« Reply #66 on: October 31, 2020, 09:21:09 PM »
Shops will only be able to sell essentials, which means that in the middle of a pandemic you won’t be able to buy a get well card.  :)

Which means the continued death of the high street and the push to online giants, I.e., Amazon.

I just hate the discretion of what’s essential and what’s not... 


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Re: COVID
« Reply #67 on: October 31, 2020, 10:23:37 PM »
Which means the continued death of the high street and the push to online giants, I.e., Amazon.

I just hate the discretion of what’s essential and what’s not...
Yep. I've gained a bit of weight by actually being able to eat and was just thinking I might need a couple new shirts soon. Not for a little bit I guess! (I won't buy those on amazon)



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Re: COVID
« Reply #68 on: November 01, 2020, 10:48:00 AM »
While I’m not a “resign at the first mistake” person, I do think Dominic Cummings being allowed to carry on without punishment doesn’t send the right message...

Or worse, the MP for Glasgow, Margaret Ferrier, who used publc transport when she knew she had tested positive for covid-19, travelling back home from London to Glasgow on a train! 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-54546058




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Re: COVID
« Reply #69 on: November 01, 2020, 11:09:38 AM »
Or worse, the MP for Glasgow, Margaret Ferrier, who used publc transport when she knew she had tested positive for covid-19, travelling back home from London to Glasgow on a train! 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-54546058
I mean, Cummings set the precedent for people keeping their jobs after breaking the covid laws. She should definitely have resigned/been removed as well.


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Re: COVID
« Reply #70 on: November 02, 2020, 08:23:54 AM »
Or worse, the MP for Glasgow, Margaret Ferrier, who used publc transport when she knew she had tested positive for covid-19, travelling back home from London to Glasgow on a train! 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-54546058
Yes, Cummings should be sacked and Ferrier should be forced to resign. 


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Re: COVID
« Reply #71 on: November 02, 2020, 07:22:08 PM »
Yes, Cummings should be sacked and Ferrier should be forced to resign. 

Couldn’t agree more!


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Re: COVID
« Reply #72 on: November 02, 2020, 07:46:56 PM »
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Re: COVID
« Reply #73 on: November 03, 2020, 12:43:24 AM »
What a surprise... There was a gigantic bug in the covid app. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/02/fault-in-nhs-covid-app-meant-thousands-at-risk-did-not-quarantine

I only go to the grocery store, pick up prescriptions, and occasional doctors appointments. This week, after only picking up a script in the previous week, I had one of those ghost notifications and my husband didn't. Glad we are back on lockdown but sick people need to stay the f home.


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Re: COVID
« Reply #74 on: November 03, 2020, 01:14:04 PM »
Glad we are back on lockdown but sick people need to stay the f home.

Well.  I went off on a rant. 

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It's hard to convince sick people, or any people, to stay at home when we had Rishi Sunak saying "Furlough will end!"* and Boris saying, "Eat out to help out!" and "Get back to work!"  The government's policies haven't been encouraging people to stay at home at all.  And now, this autumn surge in cases is the people's fault for not staying home?  As we saw, even the government don't stay home when they should...!  Leading by example?  <headshake>

* And extending Furlough at the last minute for another month because England is back on lockdown, when they couldn't do it for the northern cities that were forced into Tier 3 by Boris, and they wouldn't do it for Wales which entered its own lockdown on October 23rd and FM Drakeford repeatedly asked for help and was denied, and now Scotland wants to do more restrictive measures but they need assurance that assistance won't end as soon as England gives itself the all-clear... premium grade bull sheeeeet.
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