Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[PhilM]

No. I believe everyone should be disciplined and try and see this virus off...still, if a free born Englishman really really needs their pastie or latte then they must get it.

Bon appetite.

So you've picked two examples which aren't really a fair portrayal of what is open: I don't see any coffee shops open, but I have seen bakeries for bread etc.

I do also see butchers, fish mongers, cheese shops (it's food) and takeaways (less of a necessity I accept) which are all feeing the country and providing a service.

As long as they're complying for social-distancing regulations like your wonderful supermarkets, I see no wrong doing; in fact, I expect that they're safer.

 

[roydo]

I am a local hero in my own way. Modesty forbids me to elaborate.

As for your farmer mate: he's 'kin raking it in. They called it profiteering in the war.


Cash from chaos.

My mate is the butcher.

Started his independent shop from scratch a few years ago. Its called feeding people.

Your lot stripped the shelves bare in the supermarkets.

 

[roydo]

So you've picked two examples which aren't really a fair portrayal of what is open: I don't see any coffee shops open, but I have seen bakeries for bread etc.

I do also see butchers, fish mongers, cheese shops (it's food) and takeaways (less of a necessity I accept) which are all feeing the country and providing a service.

As long as they're complying for social-distancing regulations like your wonderful supermarkets, I see no wrong doing; in fact, I expect that they're safer.

No coffee shops open in the town near me. Just the essential shops and services.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I thought transport was a Local Authority responsibility? You know, like TFL in London.

Not really. Tfl is a bit different to usual transport systems

 

[Methuselah]

...d'you mean the Local Authorities that have seen their funding cut to the bone?

Well it depends which local authority you look at. Liverpool, for example, have an excellent public transport system incorporating trains, buses, ferries. The fact that there are many well run transport systems shows that it can be done.

 

[davek]

Well it depends which local authority you look at. Liverpool, for example, have an excellent public transport system incorporating trains, buses, ferries. The fact that there are many well run transport systems shows that it can be done.

Where a route is profitable you might get a decent service. Where a route isn't...

 

[davek]

Daily testing target not met for 3rd day running.

'kin clowns.

 

[Brisan123]

I've been wondering what's to stop employers outsourcing work to cheaper parts of the world?

Probably still need to attend the office a few days a month

 

[Jebus_lives]

I must admit to being shocked by the report of drivers in a queue for a coffee.....

Stuck behind Boris.

 

[Harryflashman]

I am a local hero in my own way. Modesty forbids me to elaborate.

Thank you for your service

 

[Goat]

That's exactly what they are.

I wont let them get away with it Dave.

Not a chance.

 

[Brisan123]

I‘m not not sure anyone has have they ? Obviously wearing a mask does something. It stops you coughing or sneezing all over someone else and perhaps stops a virus coming the other way. But look at the trouble we’ve had in getting ppe to half a million medics. The U.K. has 67million people, all of whom would need one or two masks per day, so say 100 million every single day, and of course everyone else on the planet wants the same. I just think the government are taking a practical view of the situation and delaying in case a test to tell if you have had the disease comes along......or until they’ve built a massive stockpile of masks.....

You can make reusable (washable )face masks

 

[davek]

I wont let them get away with it Dave.

Not a chance.

...but but but it's difficult to compare different country performances...the government are just following scientific advice...

 

[Jebus_lives]

Daily testing target not met for 3rd day running.

'kin clowns.

Massive effort to meet one arbitrary figure then back to business as usual.

Sums this Government up really. Throw out some rhetoric that sounds good, Lie, cheat and mislead rather than deliver.

 

[davek]

Stuck behind Boris.

By the way, on the day when the UK officially became the worst performing nation in Europe on Covid19, where was the Butcher at the press conference?

MIA - again.