Mr.Tease
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37 minutes ago, giantkatestacks said:
The idea is to use it as a holiday base though isnt it - not to just sit about and drink surrounded by toddlers. We holidayed in Somerset last year as well at another campsite so have a list of stuff we didnt get round to.
So are you meant to camp there and then go off to visit other locations, like the Tor etc, and just use it as a base, or are you meant to stay on site each day and just potter around the fields? Sorry if this is a daft question!
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Wonder if the September thing they applied for a license for will be basically this plus a stage with music🤔
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2 hours ago, giantkatestacks said:
I'm weirdly over excited about this.
Worse- I’m weirdly excited about other people going and sharing photos and videos of it!😂
Then again, one of my favourite threads on this site was that one when the truck driver/delivery man filmed himself driving round the site while it was being set up (before he had to take it down).
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2 hours ago, zahidf said:
Fake SAGE getting ready for their tv interviews saying how we need to lock up now and cancel the roadmap
Genuine question, are you and your similar posters not genuinely bored to tears by now of typing the same lame joke/terms like 'fake sage', 'nerds', 'boffins', 'variant porn', 'data not dates', 'muzzles', 'face nappies' etc every single day, multiple times day for the past two months, even after everyone else has repeatedly said how tedious it is. Do you do this in real life, just repeat yourself every single day with no interest as to whether anyone else is bored? I know I'm bored to tears posting complaints about it every week or so!
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4 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:
Obviously great news that over 30s are eligible for vaccines but can't help feel this is a logistical misstep.
Agreed, they don't even have the hands to hold the syringe, plus they eat too much fish
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3 minutes ago, zahidf said:
Very unusual for the BBC website to run with the accusation rather than the tories rebuttal of it (bet they end up changing it in an hour or so).
I noticed the last few years if it was anything vs labour they'd run with the accusation as the headline quickly, but when it was the tories they'd often wait a while until the tories had refuted it, and would run with that denial as the headline - they're s*** scared of them!
Peston also saying 2 sources said he did say it
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33 minutes ago, eFestivals said:
It's only taken them three months to follow thru on that threat it's almost like they knew they didn't have a good case.
I presume they were waiting until they'd sorted out the big deal with pfizer, so they can now burn their bridges with AZ, likely they're just using it to pressure them and will drop it before it goes anywhere - the ethics and optics of suing a cost price manufacture who will likely be the main western supplier to lower income countries, just to deflect blame from their own mess ups, are horrific.
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4 minutes ago, Homer said:
I can't imagine why everyone keeps blocking you. Bye!
I do wonder how many people have blocked him at this point
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14 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:
Isn’t this because Johnson needs a trade deal with them? Brexit...
I presume the plan was also he'd go over there scratch their government's back and in return announce he'd managed to 'secure' some of the AZ vaccines that were being held back, where as now he's had to cancel the trip and likely put them on the red list
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22 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:
The first lockdown in the UK was less than 13 months ago, Covid was unheard of 16 months ago, yet we already have an abundance of wonderful vaccines and more than half of the UK adult population have been immunised. Do you know why that is? It's because we have wonderful scientists and pharmaceutical companies who paired together to create, test and manufacture these vaccines.
If you let every Tom, Dick and Harry make poundshop versions of them, then when the next pandemic of Fluvid-25 or whatever hits, these people won't even bother to make vaccines.
Vaccine patents MUST be protected to respect the tireless work of those who delivered the vaccines.
The creator of the Oxford vaccine was specifically motivated by a desire to make it a global vaccine, patent free and sold at cost price. Not everyone is motivated by greed.
Do you really believe big pharma wouldn’t bother trying to make a vaccine during a deadly pandemic? Even the greediest realise if tens of millions die and the global economy stops, then there is no money to be made.
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2 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:
I'm not pretending that I believe that keeping prevalence down to protect the immunocompromised before we have vaccinated more of the population is a significant consideration.
As @El Matador says, if it really was mainly about variants, then it wouldn't be a valid reason to keep things going indefinitely - and indeed the UK's plan is to ease restrictions almost entirely in two months. Given that the population of the world is unlikely to be vaccinated this year, emergence of new variants is likely to be an issue well beyond easing of restrictions in this country. So it seems to me that variants aren't top of the list.
Are we at cross purposes on what you mean by "caution"?
I don't think we are! I think we probably are on the same page (I don't take issue with people arguing about how cautious we should be, it's just when articles pretend they don't know what factors are underpinning the caution)
I think it's fair to say there are one or two variants they're concerned about vs the AZ vaccine (they probably want more real world data before they can make definitive conclusions), and they think we'll Likely need the booster shot from September to cover them- look on it as an overly cautious dress rehearsal, and once theyve got it down, they'll go with annual boosters with less/next to no restrictions.
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7 minutes ago, El Matador said:
If we keep restrictions because of the potential for variants that can bypass the vaccines then restrictions will need to be in place indefinitely. It's not a valid reason to maintain restrictions.
That's a reasonable argument, I just take issue with articles that pretend they don't understand the reasoning for the caution. Personally, I think they'll be cautious over summer, have the booster shots in autumn/winter for the current variants that will hopefully negate the need for a winter lockdown and then after that they'll adopt the stance you have.
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1 minute ago, JoeyT said:
Can't believe some people are still pretending they don't understand the caution is mainly over variants developing that can bypass some of the immunity
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14 minutes ago, eFestivals said:
How is everyone coping with the gnome shortage.
Stealing/kidnapping
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2 hours ago, gooner1990 said:
Its getting a bit interesting where I work as some people have been going in throughout (maintenance staff, catering etc) and some half working from home and half in office and some 100% working from home.
I had a debate with my team leader who announced that she won't be returning to working full time in the office and I pushed her a little on why. She is in her mid-20's, lives 15 mins from our place of work, has no children or any other reason that makes working from home easier. She had no answer for me....funnily enough one of my friends works with her boyfriend and through that connection I heard it was because she prefers to lie in bed till 5 to 9 and sit in her pyjamas all day etc, although obviously she wouldn't admit that to me!
When you've experienced a bereavement or been through a traumatic or life changing event, it's really common to not want to just carry on as before-sometimes you don't know what exactly you want to change, or why, but you just know something needs to be different (because life, or at least your perspective of it has fundamentally changed! ) .
This past year has completely altered people's reality, bringing up issues of mortality, loss of control and how you feel safe again knowing shit like this can happen (and also shifting your perspective on what's important and what you've been putting up with).
I cant/don't want to carry on as before as if nothing has happened, but I've no idea yet what that means or what form that will take- I think a lot of people will find themselves feeling that way going forward (though lots of people will feel the opposite and will want to try and restore their life to what it was before, and that's how they'll feel safe again!)
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12 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:
It isn't just huge corporations like Greggs and Pret that benefit from people being working in offices, it's small local independents too. I work in a town just outside Glasgow and the local cafe i go to sometimes is fucked atm cause of offices and colleges being closed.
As ever on this thread, people get mixed up between what suits them and what benefits the majority. FWIW I think a mix between wfh and offices is fair enough. But to say you can do the exact same work from home 5 days p/w as in the office just is not true (exceptions of course). Things won't always be like this- we will get back to people in offices, meetings etc.
Everything changes-should everyone have kept renting videos in the 90s to stop video rental shops going bust?
As some business's become no longer viable, other ones will become viable. If city centres see less business, rents will come down, reducing costs and possibly seeing retail space become residential space, which would then see an upswing of people living there, and available to use services like the cafes you're worried about.
Just seem short sighted to think of it as a bad thing.
Lots of us have lived in towns that declined partially due to people having to move to or commute to cities, now some of that might swing back
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15 minutes ago, sisco said:
Anyway, back to an earlier point I mentioned. If people are now working from home should they be paid less?!
Nope, they should be paid more to compensate for the extra money they’re spending on heating and electricity.
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15 minutes ago, MrHew said:
It's bloody bonkers. I refuse to regularly buy my lunch so take a packed lunch most days. Buying a lunch is a proper treat to me. Saves me a ton of money to spend on what I prefer too
Yeah, when I first started working I was on the minimum wage, so buying lunch would essentially cost 1 hours worth of pay. Then on top of that commuting would take up at least 2 hours of pay and take 2 to 4 hours each day. So essentially I’d waste 2 to 4 hours a day to work 6 hours, of which I’d spend 3 hours pay on just getting to and from there and eating lunch. Absolute farce!
I switched to taking packed lunch to save money, and then ended up dropping lunches all together
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20 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:
It's crackers. I spend money in my local town centre every lunchtime.
Am I the only person who doesn’t eat lunch?
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1 hour ago, Radiochicken said:
There’s no way this doesn’t come back to bite them in the arse. Good luck to them.
By sheer coincidence :
Pfizer/BioNTech to fast track additional 50m vaccine doses for EU
EU countries will receive 50 million more Covid-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer and BioNTech by the end of June, the head of the EU Commission said on Wednesday, as deliveries expected at the end of the year will be brought forward.
Reuters reports:
Ursula von der Leyen said the earlier deliveries, which will start this month, will take total supplies to the EU from Pfizer to 250 million doses in the second quarter of this year.
She also confirmed the Commission was in talks with the two companies for a new contract for 1.8 billion doses to be delivered in 2022 and 2023, confirming a Reuters report last week.
The EU has already signed two contracts with Pfizer and BionTech for a total of 600 million doses to be delivered this year.
Von der Leyen thanked BioNTech and Pfizer for always having been reliable.
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1 hour ago, mattiloy said:
Seems like old forensic bollocks is learning the hard way about the treacherous qualities of the right wing snakes he has filled his shadow cabinet with.
It’s pretty much all they do- talentless, nothing to say, no ideas- they think they’re in an episode of House of Cards or Game of Thrones. All they do is shit-ly plot and brief against whoever is the leader. In reality no one likes them, they’re not popular with anyone but their mates in the press. Occasionally they shut up for a few months, but they can’t help themselves because they have nothing else to offer, but hey, they’re mates with the media and they give them stories so they never get any scrutiny whatsoever.
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19 minutes ago, philipsteak said:
Fucking hell, we are a ridiculous country
Surreal and pathetic- Northern rail have done the same- efestivals should be next!
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14 minutes ago, Toilet Duck said:
They have more or less followed the zero-Covid strategy that others in the region have pursued. Their domestic economy is going along nicely, so they can manage fine while the rest of us can’t do anything, but that changes when the world gets moving again. I need to go to Shanghai at some point, but at the moment it’ll take me 28 days to be able to actually go to the meeting! (14 days in a government quarantine facility and then 14 more self-isolation in my hotel)...so not feasible to go at the moment (I have a multiple entry visa that’s still valid, otherwise I wouldn’t even be able to get a visa at the moment). The majority of the vaccines they have manufactured have been for export (as a diplomatic strategy), I expect that they will rapidly vaccinate everyone when the world opens up so they don’t get left behind, but are in no great hurry until then. Which vaccine they use is the question (the plan was domestic ones, and I reckon the two shot adenovirus one they have is probably just fine, all vaccines would look poor if controlling the current situation in Brazil was the measure of their effectiveness!)...
Thanks! I went to Beijing back in October 2019- glad I did now, as I’ve no idea when that will be an option again! I did think they’d be in more of a hurry to vaccinate, but maybe they’re confident when they do need to they can ramp up the vaccinations quickly.
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4 minutes ago, Toilet Duck said:
I believe they are also considering starting over and making an mRNA vaccine as the efficacy looks so good. They haven’t really pushed all that hard on their domestic vaccination programme and don’t seem to want to purchase existing vaccines from elsewhere (I guess when you need a couple of billion doses it makes it a bit harder!)...I wouldn’t be making too many judgements about the apparent efficacy of my vaccine compared to others though from data derived from a rampant wave in Brazil, might be a bit premature to be writing them off! They do have one vaccine that is essentially the same as the Russian one and that has performed well in trials...none of these vaccines have been compared head to head in trials, so very difficult to judge between them. Real world use of OX/AZ vs Pfizer suggests little or no difference between them in terms of effectiveness.
Why have China been a bit sluggish when it comes to vaccinations, or at least don’t seem to be going all out with a vaccination strategy? Is it because they were so effective in getting it under control domestically and are content maintaining that? Curious if there are any good articles on their mid-long term strategy.
When will this shit end?
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Last year we were looking at the possibility of it taking years to create an effective vaccine (and the possibility that we'd never find one at all), the fact we've had so many highly effective ones so soon is amazing, and administered so quickly- there were people on this thread who felt so hopeless they didn't even want to wait until November/December for the vaccine trial outcomes!
Just wish one of the vaccine manufacturers would relax the patent so we can get some more vaccines to other countries asap