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www.ft.com/content/176b9bbe-56cf-4428-a0cd-070db2d8e6ff

Good article in the FT
I wish this would actually penetrate through to people

Great article thanks @RobinHobb I have saved it. Can't argue with stats!

@derxa
I have shouted at the Scottish teaching union man on the radio when he was going on about masks. Told him where he could shove 'em.
Is it this man?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flanagan
I can't bloody stand him

I have no idea, Derxa, but from the small bit I heard, I can't bloody stand him either! It's the making out that schools are death-traps, & teachers will suffer that gets my goat. What about all other keyworkers, including restaurant staff who have worked in busy circumstances this past month. They don't all wear masks. Their customers don't face the front, & some of them wander about instead of staying in their seats.

No restaurant workers' union spokesperson has been on the radio shouting that their members deserve better. (Or is that because working in a job for others' enjoyment for minimum wage is seen as not worthy enough?)

Off the soapbox now.

Anyone remember Leicester? It doesn't seem to get a mention in the news much these days. According to last night's local news they are still in lockdown, & it will be reviewed in 2 weeks. They've been like that for 2 months. It's like they've been forgotten. I find that frightening.

(I'm not having a go at teachers BTW).

Then on BBC dementing about how this is a bad virus for young people, as if for everyone (for more serious cases perhaps but not all) I am so fed up with their reporting. Me too. Spreading fear and panic whilst retaining their cushy bloody jobs.

Anyone remember Leicester? It doesn't seem to get a mention in the news much these days. According to last night's local news they are still in lockdown, & it will be reviewed in 2 weeks. They've been like that for 2 months. It's like they've been forgotten. I find that frightening.

That is frightening, and I'm guilty of forgetting. I had assumed that things would have been lifted by now.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

Anyone remember Leicester? It doesn't seem to get a mention in the news much these days. According to last night's local news they are still in lockdown, & it will be reviewed in 2 weeks. They've been like that for 2 months. It's like they've been forgotten. I find that frightening.

That is frightening, and I'm guilty of forgetting. I had assumed that things would have been lifted by now.

It is frightening.

We are still in local lockdown - because we are in a labour run ward in calderdale. The Tory wards are now free. I fear we will be forgotten about now too. I think as well because it's not a total lockdown, there's not much economic pressure to re open. It's just we can't see friends and family (there are some business restrictions I think) so they don't give a shit.

The unrest is growing now. People are getting angry. I am getting angry.

That is frightening, and I'm guilty of forgetting. I had assumed that things would have been lifted by now.

Me too, TBH. They said cases are coming down but are still not low enough. I wondered what they need the numbers to be. And is anyone looking at whether or not the local lockdown is actually working, or worth it? Are they measuring cases, deaths from covid or covid hospital admissions?

If a place is still in special measures 2 months later then are they going in to look at why? Because if it is because people are mixing households, for example, would it not be logical to ask them why they are doing it? And to then provide appropriate & proportionate support & education to change behaviour? (As opposed to heavy sanctions).

If people are following the guidelines & cases aren't coming down, is it the guidelines that are at fault?

I suppose all this costs money, & takes up resources we don't have. But it's what I'd do.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

Anyone remember Leicester? It doesn't seem to get a mention in the news much these days. According to last night's local news they are still in lockdown, & it will be reviewed in 2 weeks. They've been like that for 2 months. It's like they've been forgotten. I find that frightening.

That is frightening, and I'm guilty of forgetting. I had assumed that things would have been lifted by now.

Considering I go to uni in Leicester - we have had NOT A WORD about the remaining regulations in the city from Uni - just a "glad businesses can reopen" press release.

[quote RobinHobb]www.ft.com/content/176b9bbe-56cf-4428-a0cd-070db2d8e6ff[/quote]
It's a great article but he spoilt it at the end.
His last sentence more or less said, 'yeah it's fine now but the second wave is coming - and will be far far worse if we don't carry on living life in near isolation.

Considering I go to uni in Leicester - we have had NOT A WORD about the remaining regulations in the city from Uni - just a "glad businesses can reopen" press release.

Some businesses are open, which is perhaps giving the illusion of everything being "normal". But you can't have people round to your house or garden, or go to a restaurant with people from another household or support bubble (hate that phrase). So definitely still not allowed to do what other areas can do.

For any readers of The Times : DO NOT READ TODAY'S EDITION! My god is it miserable! Double-page spread of Wanksock proclaiming a second wave. Double page essay about the possibility of some sort of meteor shower hitting the Earth & ending civilisation as we know it, with a headline like, "If you thought the pandemic was bad, just you wait!"

I was going to take a photo of it to post here but I can't be bothered to waste precious minutes of the sub-freedom we've got left.

Surely there must be good news somewhere?

@theorchidkiller
Some good news?
A bit to early to say but here’s hoping the peaceful gathering in London and Berlin is well supported

It starts at 12 o clock

@TheOrchidKiller goes without saying. Minimum wage earners should be rarely seen- and definitely not heard.

I mean obviously I’m SAD that thousands of pret/costa workers will lose their jobs - but I’ve bought myself a £600 coffee machine for my home office and my wife makes my lunch every day.

All of us here now have an increased risk of sadly dying.

Having a bit of a down day today. The Torygraph rolling Covid feed is quoting Tobia Ellwood (Tory MP) as threatening the public with "draconian measures" if we don't all comply with strict social distancing till there's a vaccine. I just fired off an email to his House of Commons email address telling him - politely - to fuck right off with that one. And Wanksock can piss off to. And my poor MP may also be receiving a missive today . I'm just so tired of being infantalised like this. Its basically "Social distance nicely or we'll send you to your room". And the eye rolling at young people for...kind of just being young people & wanting to do young people things???? - is awful. I'm not exactly the illegal rave demography myself, but you can't expect 19 year olds to sit in their houses for the next twelve months

There is very little news reporting on how people are coping in these lockdown areas I have noticed. Wonder why not

Tales of woe about holidays cancelled but not much about this.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane
@TheOrchidKiller
goes without saying. Minimum wage earners should be rarely seen- and definitely not heard.

The minimum wage earner in our house has a sense of purpose because they have that job. I'm not being dramatic when I say that that minimum wage job has been a life-saver.

As for the dark sense of humour/dementia "link"... science, is it?
If anyone thinks I'm swapping my gallows humour for knock-knock jokes straight out of the Puffin Book Of Jokes c. 1978 they can think again! ( although "what's green & red & goes round at the flick of a switch?" A: "a frog in a liquidiser" came out of that book & was seven year old me's favourite).

😂 @TheOrchidKiller I’ve been trying to expand my kids’ literary endeavours by introducing them to William Golding.

Did NOT foresee them watching Piggy’s death on a loop and gasping with delight each and every time. 😂

Anyone got the link to the gov or nhs paper where they admitted many deaths were put down as covid when they were Not?

Coronavirus: Why are deaths falling as cases rise? www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53951764

Interesting change of tone here.

That is a bit more balanced for the BBC

@TheOrchidKiller
Double page essay about the possibility of some sort of meteor shower hitting the Earth & ending civilisation as we know it

It can hit tomorrow for me so long as it takes me (and all friends and family) with it.

Friend in Calderdale area small village had a party with other relatives last week, half of them are NHS employed. It is a joke.

DS and DIL in Manchester last night, went shopping, stayed in a hotel apart from the bloody awful masks they thought everything was normal.

@SomewhereEast DH and I have just been discussing which country leader might be first to show some backbone and break ranks. (Obvs not including Sweden, US and Brazil in that). He thinks Merkel I'm thinking Spain or France. One of them, surely, must at some point say 'hang on, this uptick in cases isn't leading to anything'.

Would love to think our esteemed leader would have been a bit more impressive (Ha!). It's a funny old time when I'm rooting for normally deeply irritating Tory backbenchers.

I am so pissed off reading Portugal is teetering on the edge again. Hey Boris we are the bug infested country not others in Europe. Our figures are far higher, we killed far more.