AD's say "well open the playgrounds and swimming pools then you Malaka"

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Good for the police! Yes BBC should be a trusted source for local communities, not dementing at them.

My town has mainly independent shops - mainly because the premises are too small to be of interest to chains - and most of them are in the process of opening up again. There are even a couple of newbies in the process of opening, which either shows blind faith (or that they signed the lease just before the pandemic started). Most of the coffee places are open, and the restaurants have mainly been doing takeaway so far. I'm sure there will be many casualties over the next few months, especially since there won't be many tourists over the summer, and our large monthly markets definitely won't be happening in the forseeable, but it is feeling quite positive in town at the moment. The problem about changing redundant shops to residential is that if it's done quickly and on the cheap as a relaxation of planning laws suggests, it could just end up with shoddy conversions and future slums, rather than nice mixed-use neighbourhoods. This is what has happened with the conversion of office blocks to residential, which was the Tories' previous idea to relax the planning system.

Our town centre is dying, it has the most expensive business rates, more than Cardiff. It's also in a National Park and almost every building is listed, even the 60s/70s hideous Library.
I think that there is little to no chance that the National Park Authority would approve residential accommodation in empty shops.

I'm finding the smaller independent shops nicer to shop in than the bigger chains at times, due to them just having a couple of people in and usually no queues. Whereas e.g. M&S - fuss and guidelines and arrows everywhere, more people so difficult to browse. Maybe (hopefully) could be a good thing for the smaller shops, especially if they can have online shopping as well.

Ours have very high rates too, which was always a problem for the smaller shops.

Insane
Where the heck was that?
I imagine just a wild guess here that the roads were just a little less busy 70 years ago. What a fecking eejit.
They make Scots look like bloody fools.

@maudesmum Our local council was really proactive about getting our big weekly Saturday morning market back & it seems to have worked

Just seen this on another thread (one about staying 'safe') which is interesting as what I wondered too with family in one of those.(who said similar)

"My brother and his family live in Holland and he works in Germany. He says people in both countries are bewildered by the fear in some of the UK people they know. It’s not because they didn’t have as many deaths in Netherlands or Germany but neither government tried to frighten people to death and most people in those countries understand who the virus can be bad for, which is mainly the very elderly, and they are just getting on with their lives, rather than cowering in fear and hanging onto every bit of bad news.

I find it embarrassing that UK people are seemingly quite dim and unable to assess risk compared to other countries."

Just been on a murdering spree to primark. All very well organised

I wore a mask on the bus (thanks Sturgeon) and it seemed pointless:
Half the bus not wearing one
Half of those wearing one weren’t covering their nose
I felt hot and sweaty in it. Very unpleasant.

@Orangeblossom78 The fear is the hardest thing to combat - but it is something that the government has deliberately aimed to instil in people. Ultimately it may prove to be more damaging to society than the virus itself.

I’d like to think that one of the things to be looked at in the final reckoning will be the communication strategy that was chosen. I don’t hold out much hope, mind you, because Bloody Stupid Johnson and Dominic Cummings will have their sticky little claws all over it, no doubt.

@Orangeblossom78 I’ve given up on that thread. Apparently being terrified is okay because COvid deaths/complications/knows a nurse who said it’s like nothing seen before

I know several nurses who haven’t said that. Also know several nurses who have been twiddling their thumbs whilst worried about those with serious illness not turning up at hospitals because of Covid.

It would be so helpful if we were able to separate out the deaths with Covid and deaths of Covid so that we could bash people with the figures.

Warning selfish rant alert!
Our in store cafes are opening on Sat. I can't say I am looking forward to it. We are getting 'training' this week on the whole distancing/safe shit. Fgs there isnt room in the small cafe to be 2m away from customers at tables! Plus we have had feck all training in the actual big cafe yet they expect us all to do all jobs in the cafe including cooking! I could run away.

And they still haven't sorted my tax out I am paying basic Scottish tax on 15hrs wages a week i am sick of the disorganization in there.

I am definately having a wobbly day. I woke up and burst into tears! Don't know what I was dreaming about but obviously not joyous😄

I dont have half the problems lockdown has caused for so many people. No childcare issues, not worrying about losing my job, no worries about my hair (kids are like hairy hoobits though) i dont go out to pubs so not missing that. Only have £ worries but hopefully will get more shifts soon but then again they took on a load of new staff so no guarentee.

Nothing going right today. Cant get on work website to see my Rota on my phone despite the whole 2 step verification. It keeps trying to send me an email instead of a txt and failing. I can do it on my pc though! My pc is playing up, slow as a small and have had clean up going for ages on it!
Realised that my ex hasnt paid maintenance properly in months his dd apparently keeps going wrong! But he has £ for other stuff. So that's a txt I need to face up to doing.

Rain and mist here so nowhere to go. Just fed up with this whole shitstorm of what passes for life just now.

On the plus side i am getting chinese tonight even though I can't afford it🤣🤣

Sorry pity fest over.

It's odd how it is always nurses not GPs saying these dramatic things. Because I have heard it mentioned from GPs there are lots of worse things people can get and it is all a bit OTT.

Im starting to lose my patience now with the air corridors thing. Its typical of how this government have handled the whole thing....

Make a sweeping statement and say then fill the details later......then days and days later we are still hanging on waiting for the "imminent announcement" or the favourite "later this week".

@Willow2017 I hope you extract every morsel of pleasure from your Chinese .

I'm getting mad. Apparently wider schools opening will cause more lockdowns like Leicester. How pray tell? Oh yeah nobody can tell me how it's linked to schools.

[quote Worldgonecrazy]@Willow2017 I hope you extract every morsel of pleasure from your Chinese .[/quote]
Thanks i will do my best😄

@TrustTheGeneGenie

I'm getting mad. Apparently wider schools opening will cause more lockdowns like Leicester. How pray tell? Oh yeah nobody can tell me how it's linked to schools.

What dumbass fucknugget came up with that?!

TrustTheGene
You're doing a fine job there out in the wild! I want to wade in behind you but I can't bear it so I'm just reading through the way you can't take your eyes off a car crash (tho obvs no one dies in car crashes... You know. Cos Covid. People only ever die of Covid).

On the thread in petitions about schools reopening.

malakas.

'fucknugget' oh that's brilliant!

@iamapixie

TrustTheGene You're doing a fine job there out in the wild! I want to wade in behind you but I can't bear it so I'm just reading through the way you can't take your eyes off a car crash (tho obvs no one dies in car crashes... You know. Cos Covid. People only ever die of Covid).

Ha! Thank you I'm actually raging.

Alas, I must take a short break and pick up my tiny germ ridden covid spreader from nursery where he has likely killed his key worker with his many diseases.

I did that walk, despite the drizzle, which escalated to pickling down, when I got there. 7747 steps. Less than I hoped for, as I took the straightest route but half of them with a heavy backpack.

With Covid you mean. Not any other diseases. There aren't any.
Still the plus point of all this death is that soon there'll be no one left for Covid to kill.
Because it has 120% death rate. Or something.
So luckily we won't need our children educated. Because we'll all have died from the deadly virus.
Christ I've lost the plot

@TrustTheGeneGenie I have just bobbed over there and given them 13 scientific papers to read that support children being in school.

Happy reading Malakas!