Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[blulouie]

VAT as an ad valorem tax wouldn't alter the broad conclusion anyway - would just give higher numbers. But are you sure the chart doesn't include VAT?

Read it.

 

[tsubaki]

As i said the majority of a litre of fuel ( just like beer & alcohol ) is mainly duty.

But lets get back on topic.

oh it is, but alcohol and fags have gone up too - this hasn't, solely because of politics

 

[mrb85]

Dont understand your logic at all fella.
You where intimating certain members of society etc should get the bill if anything happens to them.
Comparing it to anyone that refuses a jab that could cost their own life plus many others around them & NHS staff that would have to treat them.
Not very sound logic .

Maybe I'm completely misreading your post, but what I was saying is the exact opposite -- under a national health service nobody should be charged. And certainly not on the grounds that you spend less money on things which are highly taxed.

 

[blulouie]

Read it.View attachment 122099

 

[Jebus_lives]

Ahh, I get it -- if you're sufficiently well off to spend your money on cigs, booze, cars etc then you won't have to pay the cost? Bizarre pro-capitalist thinking there fella.

I have thanks, and results are inconclusive on the matter of whether they afford much protection for the prospective infected individual though perhaps beneficial to hinder the spread of the virus from someone already infected. Thing is, put a textile mask on, hold a lighted candle directly in front of your mouth, and blow -- the candle will flicker or even go out.

Try to spit on it and see what happens.

 

[edge]

You would have to be mad to leave a country where levels of Covid are decreasing daily and inoculations rising spectacularly to mix with a load of people in a country where the number of cases is rising and their inoculation rate is abysmal....

Think Spain said this week if it gets the vaccine it could have 70% done with the first jab by june /july , I will have had my 2 well before then in may and I have had covid as well , so though I would chance it, then again plenty say I am a bit crackers anyway

 

[BlueToff]

@Billy Dean

What's happening over there, mate? Seems a bit of a mess! (not that the UK is some shining light, i'll add).

Coronavirus: Germany's Merkel reverses plans for Easter lockdown

Chancellor Angela Merkel describes the proposed five-day lockdown over Easter as a "mistake".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[BlueToff]

Anyway, good to see that joint statement.

 

[davids]

Looks like I might be going Russian.

 

[BlueToff]

Coronavirus: EU and UK try to end row with 'win-win' on vaccines

After weeks of tension over Covid vaccine supplies, the two sides now say they are working together.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[davek]

Coronavirus: EU and UK try to end row with 'win-win' on vaccines

After weeks of tension over Covid vaccine supplies, the two sides now say they are working together.

www.bbc.co.uk

The UK government have been brought to heel.

 

[edge]

Looks like I might be going Russian.

Get it, the people behind it have a good record , think they were one of the first to get a drug for ebola, and they are sharing data going forwards with AZ.

 

[BlueToff]

The UK government have been brought to heel.

How, exactly?

 

[Billy Dean]

@Billy Dean

What's happening over there, mate? Seems a bit of a mess! (not that the UK is some shining light, i'll add).

Coronavirus: Germany's Merkel reverses plans for Easter lockdown

Chancellor Angela Merkel describes the proposed five-day lockdown over Easter as a "mistake".

www.bbc.co.uk

They’ve lost the plot mate! Definitely a mess lol

 

[BlueStevie35]

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