Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

Even if they wanted me to go see them I wouldn't. Like I say, wouldn't want that on my conscience if something happened.

Fair enough....

 

[Tubey]

Food shops, supermarkets, garden centres, hardware stores, building merchants and off-licences, petrol stations, car repair and MOT services, bicycle shops, taxi and vehicle hire businesses, banks, building societies, post offices, loan providers and money transfer businesses, medical services such as dentists, opticians and pharmacies, vets and pet shops, agricultural supplies shops, High Street businesses such as storage facilities, funeral directors, launderettes, dry cleaners, car parks, motorway service stations. Restaurants still do takeaway including alcohol.

Public transprt is operational, schools, colleges and universities still open.

It's just a different name for the same thing we've been doing since the first lockdown ended.

And being honest I don't know of anyone who's paying the blindest bit of notice to it.

Which brings me back to my point a few weeks ago - either lockdown or don't; half-arsing it means people ignore it and, even more dangerously, means people will be complacent if we ever did have to put a "proper" lockdown in place again.

Schools being open alone makes this whole thing a total joke, nevermind everything you've just listed there.

 

[davek]

Some pubs are also doing takeaway meals.....I reckon there’s only our place fully closed.....

Have you been given the go ahead yet to start reordering ale etc? I know you mentioned this the other day as a decent indicator on what's happening come 2nd December.

 

[Charro]

Could very well be my mums last Christmas so I’m hoping it’s as normal as possible, from a selfish standpoint.

We don’t listen to the majority of the rules anyway. It’s all about applying our own common sense and it’s worked up to now.

Christmas is an incredibly hard time of year for loneliness and isolation. I think we can relax the rules for a few days without a complete apocalypse happening in January.

 

[Brennan]

Food shops, supermarkets, garden centres, hardware stores, building merchants and off-licences, petrol stations, car repair and MOT services, bicycle shops, taxi and vehicle hire businesses, banks, building societies, post offices, loan providers and money transfer businesses, medical services such as dentists, opticians and pharmacies, vets and pet shops, agricultural supplies shops, High Street businesses such as storage facilities, funeral directors, launderettes, dry cleaners, car parks, motorway service stations. Restaurants still do takeaway including alcohol.

Public transprt is operational, schools, colleges and universities still open.

All of the bold were open during the first lockdown.

 

[Tubey]

Could very well be my mums last Christmas so I’m hoping it’s as normal as possible, from a selfish standpoint.

We don’t listen to the majority of the rules anyway. It’s all about applying our own common sense and it’s worked up to now.

Christmas is an incredibly hard time of year for loneliness and isolation. I think we can relax the rules for a few days without a complete apocalypse happening in January.

The police can't enforce it. They've admitted they won't even try. As long as you aren't having 50+ people raves on Christmas Day, just get on with it and be sensible.

If the government encouraged common sense at this point, people would be receptive. Telling them they can't have Christmas will just get a swift collective middle finger in response; it's pointless.

 

[davek]

It's just a different name for the same thing we've been doing since the first lockdown ended.

And being honest I don't know of anyone who's paying the blindest bit of notice to it.

Which brings me back to my point a few weeks ago - either lockdown or don't; half-arsing it means people ignore it and, even more dangerously, means people will be complacent if we ever did have to put a "proper" lockdown in place again.

Schools being open alone makes this whole thing a total joke, nevermind everything you've just listed there.

I see restaurants doing decent trade in take away. I see drive through McDonalds doing a lot of trade.

It's just pubs being hit. That's the major common feature from the first lockdown. Yes, not all shops are open. But there's still activity on high streets etc.

There's been no lockdown. If there had been we'd be on top of this virus again come 2nd December.

Still, we'll see hundreds of scumbags in town again marching for "freedom" - and they are backed by big business and a certain political party.

 

[JLW]

Even if they wanted me to go see them I wouldn't. Like I say, wouldn't want that on my conscience if something happened.

And how will you feel if they wanted you to go and you refused but then something happens to them for other reasons? And you haven’t seen them for the last 12 months and will never again!

That’s something I couldn’t live with on my conscience.

The chances of me going to see my parents. One of them catching Covid from me and one of them dying from it is very very unlikely.

 

[peteblue]

Have you been given the go ahead yet to start reordering ale etc? I know you mentioned this the other day as a decent indicator on what's happening come 2nd December.

No and it’s a pain in the arse. To open on the 3rd we need to order beer next Wednesday. Even if we assume that we open, no one has as yet updated or communicated the tiers.....

 

[davek]

All of the bold were open during the first lockdown.

So those and more that weren't.

As said: "much more going on".

 

[davek]

No and it’s a pain in the arse. To open on the 3rd we need to order beer next Wednesday. Even if we assume that we open, no one has as yet updated or communicated the tiers.....

Incredible.

They literally cant organise a piss up.

 

[Brennan]

So those and more that weren't.

As said: "much more going on".

So in response to a question about what is different in this lockdown versus the first you decide to post a load of businesses that were open first time around.

Seems a bit pointless but hey ho.

 

[Kenshin]

Yeh and if that's a possibility at the time fine but right now, as it stands, I can't just get a test on a whim so it isn't a possibility.

Soon the entire country will be encouraged to be regularly tested after this Liverpool roll out.

I'd hope the encouragement following this is for people to have regular tests and therefore control their movement within the restrictions put in place.

 

[Nymzee]

And how will you feel if they wanted you to go and you refused but then something happens to them for other reasons? And you haven’t seen them for the last 12 months and will never again!

That’s something I couldn’t live with on my conscience.

The chances of me going to see my parents. One of them catching Covid from me and one of them dying from it is very very unlikely.

I've seen them this year. I stand at the gate and chat to them once every week.

Again, I wouldn't want to live with the thought I could have passed something on without knowing that killed them. I also know my grandparents and know they wouldn't want me to have that on my conscience.

Don't really get why that's so hard for you to understand.

 

[Nymzee]

Soon the entire country will be encouraged to be regularly tested after this Liverpool roll out.

I'd hope the encouragement following this is for people to have regular tests and therefore control their movement within the restrictions put in place.

I'll have a regular test if available. Right now it's only private and they're north of £200 which I don't have spare.