When will this shit end?

[Euphoricape]

Lockdown from mid January until end of March is now very likely

[ShakeyCrash]

1 hour ago, Homer said:

Discussing Glasto now on 6.

Anything of note?

[squirrelarmy]

He mentioned crowds for Boxing Day Sales. Why are they even contemplating letting these happen?

Keep all the physical stores closed and let people shop online instead. 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, squirrelarmy said:

He mentioned crowds for Boxing Day Sales. Why are they even contemplating letting these happen?

Keep all the physical stores closed and let people shop online instead. 

wales have preempted this and shut them ...

[Fuzzy Afro]

Whitty basically saying the vaccine rollout is in three parts and only when the first two are completed can we look at cancelling social distancing. 

[Guest]

Why is it inhuman to ban Christmas but not Eid?

[Fuzzy Afro]

1 minute ago, Ozanne said:

Why is it inhuman to ban Christmas but not Eid?

Eid wasn’t banned 

[squirrelarmy]

1 minute ago, Ozanne said:

Why is it inhuman to ban Christmas but not Eid?

Because cancelling Eid doesn’t piss off those important right wing voters. 

[Fuzzy Afro]

The Eid “ban” was a local thing. It shouldn’t have happened and was an oversight by the government. But the vast majority of the country were under much looser rules for Eid than they will be for Christmas. Gatherings of 30 were allowed for most for Eid. 

[Punksnotdead]

8 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

He mentioned crowds for Boxing Day Sales. Why are they even contemplating letting these happen?

Keep all the physical stores closed and let people shop online instead. 

Fuck that anyway! Boxing day is for vegging out, watching sport, eating xmas chocolates & drinking rum!

[zahidf]

Q: Will social distancing end once the vulnerable have been vaccinated?

Johnson says a few weeks ago he spoke about the cross-over point, when vaccination would allow measures to be eased.

We are “by no means there yet”, he says.

But he says that point will come before Easter.

 

There you go

[Crazyfool01]

fish for Scotland ..... hurrah ... dont they need a market to sell it ? 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, crazyfool1 said:

fish for Scotland ..... hurrah ... dont they need a market to sell it ? 

I bet he thought that was so funny. 

[zahidf]

Ha!

[Crazyfool01]

Law in wales for 2 households .... very different to Boris statement earlier 

[Chapple12345]

Wales are now limiting groups to 2 households at Christmas 

[Fuzzy Afro]

Brexit deal done 

[FestivalJamie]

16 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Q: Will social distancing end once the vulnerable have been vaccinated?

Johnson says a few weeks ago he spoke about the cross-over point, when vaccination would allow measures to be eased.

We are “by no means there yet”, he says.

But he says that point will come before Easter.

 

There you go

So you’re trusting Boris Johnson... who told us everything would be “back to normal by Christmas”, and now look where we are.

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Also no Numbers yet, I’m thinking 22k+ sadly 

[Fuzzy Afro]

25 minutes ago, Punksnotdead said:

Fuck that anyway! Boxing day is for vegging out, watching sport, eating xmas chocolates & drinking rum!

Agreed! Going shopping on Boxing Day is for wrong’uns

[zahidf]

2 minutes ago, FestivalJamie said:

So you’re trusting Boris Johnson... who told us everything would be “back to normal by Christmas”, and now look where we are.

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Also no Numbers yet, I’m thinking 22k+ sadly 

I know hes not trustworthy at all but there is other evidence that Easter is when they are going for ( timing of furlough ending, the parliamentary votes, the leaked vaccinating plans)

[efcfanwirral]

3 minutes ago, FestivalJamie said:

So you’re trusting Boris Johnson... who told us everything would be “back to normal by Christmas”, and now look where we are.

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Also no Numbers yet, I’m thinking 22k+ sadly 

if it starts going up the next few days I see a U-turn on Christmas. pushing your record days in terms of hospital admissions, people in hospitals AND cases and still allowing a relaxation sounds mental to me

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, efcfanwirral said:

if it starts going up the next few days I see a U-turn on Christmas. pushing your record days in terms of hospital admissions, people in hospitals AND cases and still allowing a relaxation sounds mental to me

Doing the groundwork today .... putting doubt in peoples minds about plans .... 

[FestivalJamie]

Just now, zahidf said:

I know hes not trustworthy at all but there is other evidence that Easter is when they are going for ( timing of furlough ending, the parliamentary votes, the leaked vaccinating plans)

I understand what you’re saying but I’m just trying to say just because he says something doesn’t mean it’s gonna happen.

Im just taking this week by week. Over 100,000 vaccinated per week is a success story in itself. I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I’ll see where we are next week and so on and so on rather than trying to imagine what the circumstances will be like come Easter. 

 

 

[Euphoricape]

22 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

fish for Scotland ..... hurrah ... dont they need a market to sell it ? 

 

[efcfanwirral]

3 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Doing the groundwork today .... putting doubt in peoples minds about plans .... 

I hope so - the idea being that there will be a lot less plans to ruin if they've already sort of advised people against it today

Then those who HAVE to for mental health etc reasons can do so, but those of us who are only doing it because we can (or have family who are insisting on it because we can) will have a get out

Edited December 16, 2020 by efcfanwirral