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

lynchie

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Yeah it's ridiculous. My boss was working from home from the beginning of December because his wifes parents were up and they're considered at risk yet still expects the rest of to be working from the office as normal..
I know of a lot of people who can do their jobs from home but their bosses don't trust them, so they'll be getting them in. Furlough should come back in full, but I don't see that happening.

Also - churches, full of old people, still allowed to be open. Stupid.
 

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Yeah but there's a ban on takeaway alcohol.
Being reported that alcohol deliveries are banned as well, which is an awful decision, as it's the only way alcohol dependent people who live on their own can get it whilst self-isolating.
 

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So what's the bottleneck right now in the vaccine rollout? Is it a lack of trained staff? Lack of vaccines? Or a combination of the two?

Zahawi is saying 14 million will be vaccinated by the end of the lockdown, but I trust the Tories as far as I can throw em, especially after the track and trace, PPE and testing debacles.
 

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Being reported that alcohol deliveries are banned as well, which is an awful decision, as it's the only way alcohol dependent people who live on their own can get it whilst self-isolating.
I’ve just added a bunch to my Asda order for this weekend.
 

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Where do you get takeaway alcohol from?
There were a couple of pubs local to me who were doing take away pints in plastic glasses, no idea why you would want one though as you would have to stand outside in the car park and have it.

I didn't order anything myself but they were doing deliveries of mini kegs as well which wasn't a bad idea at the time and might have kept a few places ticking over, this might be the final blow for some places though.

Grim times if you are a landlord.

Does that include supermarkets?
Nope don't think it does.
 

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There were a couple of pubs local to me who were doing take away pints in plastic glasses, no idea why you would want one though as you would have to stand outside in the car park and have it.

I didn't order anything myself but they were doing deliveries of mini kegs as well which wasn't a bad idea at the time and might have kept a few places ticking over, this might be the final blow for some places though.

Grim times if you are a landlord.



Nope don't think it does.
Right
 

DomesticTadpole

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There were a couple of pubs local to me who were doing take away pints in plastic glasses, no idea why you would want one though as you would have to stand outside in the car park and have it.

I didn't order anything myself but they were doing deliveries of mini kegs as well which wasn't a bad idea at the time and might have kept a few places ticking over, this might be the final blow for some places though.

Grim times if you are a landlord.


Nope don't think it does.
Boris and Co. will only be bothered if their fine wines and Bollinger can be delivered.
 

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Pubs, restaurants. Buy a pint, they put it in a plastic glass and you take it away.
Not always a plastic glass, most I saw would put the beer into containers (think milk cartons) so you could take it home, or where ever you were going.
 

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That is just insane.

My family who live in the urban areas of NC have been pretty happy with Cooper, but the rural areas are another matter. My cousin is a PA in a rural hospital in NC and they have a tent city in their parking lot. He has had number of patients who got angry at him because they are in the COVID area and "COIVD doesn't exist". How is your state government handling this (outside your idiot superintendent)?
Our governor is an even bigger idiot, is big buddies with Trump, wants schools fully open, and doesn’t want to mandate anything... and he has also tested positive for Covid after attending an awards presentation at a church where nobody was wearing masks.

Oh - and the Governor’s Mansion has been closed to all tourists since March. But everything should be open.
 

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So what's the bottleneck right now in the vaccine rollout? Is it a lack of trained staff? Lack of vaccines? Or a combination of the two?

Zahawi is saying 14 million will be vaccinated by the end of the lockdown, but I trust the Tories as far as I can throw em, especially after the track and trace, PPE and testing debacles.
Matt Hancock is personally placing a Union Jack sticker on every single hypodermic needle.
 

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So what's the bottleneck right now in the vaccine rollout? Is it a lack of trained staff? Lack of vaccines? Or a combination of the two?
Production, only approved late December and AZ only produced the 530k prior to approvals.
 

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This seems like a watered down version of the lockdown in March. They haven't even updated this advice on social distancing.

"space–stay 2 metres apart from people you do not live with where possible, or 1 metre with extra precautions in place (such as wearing face coverings) "

All this with a variant that is 50% more transmissible. The 1 metre guideline was a revision from the 2 metre rule and I was never convinced that was the right thing to do. Reducing risk by wearing a mask and then partially reducing the protection seems completely cock eyed.
 

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The circumstances are exceptional but be in no doubt, there buffoons have made it ten times worse.