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ADs may have buggered boilers but we haven't got the clap

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BogRollBOGOF · 09/01/2021 15:46

The saga continues to continue with more sequels than a trilogy of trilogies...

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NannyGythaOgg · 12/01/2021 15:51

Daffodils are definitely an essential purchase at this time of year. I think a trip out to buy some is on the cards for tomorrow.

I doubt Boris was genuinely annoyed - I am pretty sure he is amazed at the level of compliance. If he wasn't under such scrutiny I suspect he would rival his Dad for getting round the rules.

AcornAutumn · 12/01/2021 15:59

@NannyGythaOgg

Daffodils are definitely an essential purchase at this time of year. I think a trip out to buy some is on the cards for tomorrow.

I doubt Boris was genuinely annoyed - I am pretty sure he is amazed at the level of compliance. If he wasn't under such scrutiny I suspect he would rival his Dad for getting round the rules.

It might just be a story that got chucked out to panic people, yes.
Orangeblossom77777 · 12/01/2021 16:24

Rolling eyes at the 3m thread. So it has wings now

flower11 · 12/01/2021 16:30

It's been on the red bull

Taswama · 12/01/2021 16:45

What is the 3m thread? Do I even want to know?

Gratefulrunner · 12/01/2021 16:48

Breathe ... actually posted on another thread aside from this one and the good news one - to do with solicitors being critical workers. Law soc guidance actually suggests I am a critical worker. It’s all a bit vague and woolly but makes me feel a little better for sending our kids into school (DP is police so school place on basis of him really)

CruCru · 12/01/2021 16:56

I quite like the good news thread. Probably staying off the others.

CruCru · 12/01/2021 16:58

Good luck Jourdain.

wanderings · 12/01/2021 17:24

From the BBC:
"Retail at worst for 25 years". No shit, Sherlock, with Saint Boris's assault on it.

"800,000 people have lost their jobs."
Ruining the lives of many to save the few.

So fed up with the government actively discouraging outside exercise. Make no mistake, it is what they are trying to do, by stealth. They want us to be too terrified of the police to do it.

And why is Priti doing the briefing???? I haven't watched it (just read the BBC summary), but I bet she's enjoying preaching.

Seriouslymole · 12/01/2021 17:26

@Taswama

What is the 3m thread? Do I even want to know?
No, you really don't. I wish I hadn't read the thread. I am my own worst enemy.

(Apparently the WHO have announced that the "new strain" needs a 3m wide berth rather than a 2m). FFS - you couldn't write this nightmare.

TabbyStar · 12/01/2021 17:27

Yes I've been wondering about you Loki

This bloody supermarket thing is winding me up today, especially for all the women who are reminded of sexual assault or domestic violence each time they're asked, but everyone else instead. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55633843

I shall be shopping at the Coop, "The Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law." except they don't do the posh eggs I like, so I'll have to think about that!

I don't like the narrative that lots of bad people are spoiling it for the rest of us. It just makes people rebel more IMO.

wanderings · 12/01/2021 17:31

It just makes people rebel more IMO.
Yep. I still don't understand why the public haven't rioted yet. I'm sure it will happen if this drags on too long.

ISaySteadyOn · 12/01/2021 17:36

I saw a police car today when we were walking to the playground and, you know, it did scare me. I was afraid they'd stop me.

How long before 'pspers please'?

On the upside, I found a YouTube HIIT workout where all the exercises were set to Broadway musical numbers.

2020BogOff · 12/01/2021 17:44

@wanderings

It just makes people rebel more IMO. Yep. I still don't understand why the public haven't rioted yet. I'm sure it will happen if this drags on too long.
Because most of us, including myself in that, probably feel they would lose too much. Any peaceful protest can be overrun with violence so I wouldn't risk joining. I wouldn't want to be breaking the law.

However, if I had a vote on removing the restrictions I would be ticking that box.

NastyBlouse · 12/01/2021 17:44

I am finding it very interesting that despite repeated questions and musings about how and why the 'new variant' spreads, no one official seems to be able to give any real-world explanations as to what 'more transmissible' actually means in practice beyond some particle-level stuff about receptors.

I get the science: the new model is, for want of a better word, stickier than the older one by a factor of about half. OK, that makes sense in a conceptual way.

So how does that work in practice? Infectious over greater distance? Infectious in a shorter time frame?

But they always glide off that one like an air-hockey puck on a greased ice rink.

And the guidance hasn't changed. Surely if there was concrete evidence that New Variant latched on more quickly, or spread from further away, then we'd have beefed-up rules around distancing etc. The App of Crap would be reprogrammed to mither after a shorter time, maybe. But none of this has happened.

Even Patel the ED-209 of government isn't suggesting that anything's going to change, just that the existing rules need to be followed.

It just feels so vague and unexplained. And therefore a bit... wafty.

CruCru · 12/01/2021 17:55

I talked to my Mum today. She went to the post office (to return my present but that is okay) and said that a youngish (late 20s) man glared at her constantly while in the queue. He also leapt out the way of anyone who came within several metres of him.

The thing is, she was a few feet from him (she thinks in feet, not metres) and was wearing a mask. She’s also now properly elderly - if you thought of a granny, she’d be it. I can’t imagine glaring at a granny who merely stood behind you in a queue.

I told her that this has brought out the nutter in some surprising people.

2020BogOff · 12/01/2021 18:00

I went for a walk today by myself and saw a few people out walking in pairs (apart) and it was so nice to say hello to them as I passed by. Such low risk and so many frothing over outside exercise.

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BogRollBOGOF · 12/01/2021 18:10

People are more space-concious on the pavements... trouble is there's still traffic to consider. I'm sure these types always emerge for the first 2-3 weeks of lockdown because daily walk duty... then they seem to get bored. Numbers certainly drop and people don't sustain the effort anyway. It's a bit frustrating as a regular runner who doesn't want the bother of the social distancing slalom.

DS1 did a grand job of making sure no one would place their eardrums within 2m on our walk to the playground earlier. I kept mine at least 5m ahead anyway Grin

"Local exercise" is now a moot point as homeschooling is depriving me of the daylight required. It's housing estate by night for me at present. Exciting times!

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thefallthroughtheair · 12/01/2021 18:22

NastyBlouse, agreed
One of the things that has concerned me about lockdowns after the first few weeks is that everything has been "wafty", whilst pretending not to be. The use of statistics in particular, as well as various areas of science (or "the science" - that expression being a particular bugbear of mine) by the government has been really poor in my view. And I could not believe the government advert when I watched actual TV the other day, with a green miasma and talk of opening windows to "blow away the particles"...if you haven't seen it, I kid you not, that's what it said, presumably thereby causing many Ds to sob and shake at the thought of people blowing the deadly miasma out of their houses and onto the pavements where it would kill with impunity.

thefallthroughtheair · 12/01/2021 18:24

oh i should say that the opening of the windows was clearly in a home lived in by a couple, not in a 2000 strong school or something.
My in laws however have taken it to heart and despite the fact that they don't leave the house and quarantine all shopping and post, they open their windows to get rid of any latent Covid...

justasking111 · 12/01/2021 18:24

I think that the roolz about distancing are city centric which is why most of us go EH!!! when the three metre rules and all the other to us daft ideas come into being. They are playing whack a mole with city citizens to keep them under control we just suffer the fallout. Except for the odd dog walker I can walk through streets, avenues, cul de sacs and not see a soul. When I see folk in London parks then I get an idea of how many people live per square mile in the cities.

AcornAutumn · 12/01/2021 18:34

@justasking111

I think that the roolz about distancing are city centric which is why most of us go EH!!! when the three metre rules and all the other to us daft ideas come into being. They are playing whack a mole with city citizens to keep them under control we just suffer the fallout. Except for the odd dog walker I can walk through streets, avenues, cul de sacs and not see a soul. When I see folk in London parks then I get an idea of how many people live per square mile in the cities.
I thought the opposite

We can't follow 3m in London, we'd be queuing into Hertfordshire!

@ISaySteadyOn is it this one? I might it tomorrow

AcornAutumn · 12/01/2021 18:34

@thefallthroughtheair

oh i should say that the opening of the windows was clearly in a home lived in by a couple, not in a 2000 strong school or something. My in laws however have taken it to heart and despite the fact that they don't leave the house and quarantine all shopping and post, they open their windows to get rid of any latent Covid...
By this logic, couldn't Covid enter?
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BogRollBOGOF · 12/01/2021 18:40

Spaces either aren't sufficient to allow 3m, or they are big enough that it's probably a non-issue anyway!

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Taswama · 12/01/2021 18:50

Yup seen those stupid government ads with the green lurgy.

DS is coming under a lot of pressure at school to do the tests and getting very stressed about it. Just hope the SenCo can resolve the situation.