Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Jebus_lives]

What did you call my mum lid?

I don't call her anymore.

 

[summerisle]

 

[orly]

I don't call her anymore.

lol

 

[Chewbacca]

What noone seems to point out.

Genuine home run pubs that people call their livelyhood will go under with these rules. People's businesses will just go under, especially if they drag it out over months. That's not just one person, that's families affected , children, lose more than just a pub when they have no means to make money. The jobs scheme doesn't cover actual income for businesses does it not and many of them will have had the loan already . Which of course needs to be paid back.

However weatherspoons , the UK chain will thrive under these conditions. Business will be booming all over the country. They may even be able to buy up some prime locations once their former owners are cleaned out by the banks.

Another ramification of these regulations.

Your confusing “ramifications” with “the point”

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Surely it makes more sense to tell uni campuses to shut and provide financial support to the uni's rather than shut the economy down to try stop students super spreading when they'll just do that anyway in the halls?

Also instead of wasting good furlough on 20-30 year olds in hospitality why not furlough say none home workers over say 50 in customer service roles for a few months to try keep them safe as possible?

Its the complete lack of science that annoys me - im happy to lose money if it keeps atleast one person safe but it would be nice to see common sense approaches.

Unless you are planning on vaccinating atleast 60% of the population to try get some form of herd immunity regardless of how long that may last then the current tier 2/3 rubbish makes little sense long term - may aswell do a full lockdown for 4-6 weeks and try sort out trace and trace.

To be doing these partial lockdowns with the long term view of only vaccinating the elderly and sick for me is daft - its literally a road to nowhere.

 

[Nymzee]

Students are usually too pissed to go to their lectures anyway so no idea why they're not eLearning.

 

[BlueToff]

Weatherspoons for one. The majority of the pub customers will end up going there. I'd go there if I was a drinker, cheap drink, reasonable food and most importantly , open

ah, this is the future

all work from home and city centres just full of spoons.

Utopia

 

[BlueToff]

Students are usually too pissed to go to their lectures anyway so no idea why they're not eLearning.

Could they really not just have been told (the unis I'm on about here) not to open until, say, Spring.

Have it all as eLearning (like it is anyway). Take away the costs from the students and if the government needs to cover some, then fine so be it. But it was surely worth the trade off from 1000s of students spreading it around the country to just then be locked in halls anyway.

 

[davmaher]

Not to be pendantic

This tone of reply also works against your posts as well you know. ...lol

Not to be pendantic but the word you are looking for is pedantic.

 

[the sniderman]

@Kenshin buddy @JEBUS_LIVES just took all your corners i am shook. brutal.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Could they really not just have been told (the unis I'm on about here) not to open until, say, Spring.

Have it all as eLearning (like it is anyway). Take away the costs from the students and if the government needs to cover some, then fine so be it. But it was surely worth the trade off from 1000s of students spreading it around the country to just then be locked in halls anyway.

Its purely down to money, they knew what would happen in the halls but allowed it due to the money involved. You don't need to be an expert to know that university halls aren't the ideal place to be during a pandemic.

 

[Nymzee]

Could they really not just have been told (the unis I'm on about here) not to open until, say, Spring.

Have it all as eLearning (like it is anyway). Take away the costs from the students and if the government needs to cover some, then fine so be it. But it was surely worth the trade off from 1000s of students spreading it around the country to just then be locked in halls anyway.

Not sure why they're in myself. Students do eff all most of their time there anyway.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Students are usually too pissed to go to their lectures anyway so no idea why they're not eLearning.

Should have never gone back, they could have the same learning experiences from home rather than fork out on rent, and thats the only reason they were advised it was safe and told to go, to look after the landlords pocket's...

 

[Kenshin]

@Kenshin buddy @JEBUS_LIVES just took all your corners i am shook. brutal.

I gave him an easy one man.

Make him feel better lol

 

[Cool_Blue]

Well they say Merseyside locked down due to infection rates but, like you say, similar rated places haven't been. No one has challenged what the reason is for that though.

I’ve just returned from Crete and now have to quarantine for 14 days, even though Crete has a rate of Covid cases of about 5% of where I live, Conwy county, which is in lockdown measures. But people from Liverpool can still holiday in Gwynedd and Anglesey? Yet according to the Welsh government, I’m more of a danger to the local population, hence the quarantine