When will this shit end?

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, xxialac said:

It was last scene floating down past the Iberian peninsular.

I’d like it to just float away at present ... 

[Memory Man]

Im sorry but how the absolute shit has this variant come in from south africa?! Why are we not just closing the borders or at least forcing 10 day quarantine like australia? This variant entering the country from outside europe is completely avoidable and completely unacceptable. Disgrace

[efcfanwirral]

With with south african strain about and those hospitalisation numbers letting anyone mix at christmas is again ridiculous. It should be tier 4 from right now.

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, xxialac said:

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, you selfish anti-masker pricks.

I remember back in the day I was a bit of an anti-masker prick...I wasn't very popular on here. Not like now.

[squirrelarmy]

3 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Here you go:

 

 

How many Tories live in that little Tier 2 area in the middle of the country? Might as well make them the same as the surrounding areas. 

[steviewevie]

Jennifer Williams (Manchester evening news reporter) was saying on twitter that numbers were still not rising that much in Gtr Manchester, but if they did start rising as expected the health services would be in trouble as already stretched.

[Gilgamesh69]

Work at a pub. Few of the managers saying they'd be very surprised if we're open on New Year's Eve. Wondering if they're right...

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

How many Tories live in that little Tier 2 area in the middle of the country? Might as well make them the same as the surrounding areas. 

It's Rutland, which is part of the constituancy Rutland and Melton, which shockingly is Tory.

[steviewevie]

 

[DeanoL]

Feel like the second new variant is just a way of demonstrating “virus have variants” and take the international eyes off the Dartford one.

For schools, just close them for six weeks until the vulnerable are vaccinated. Children don’t need to lose out as they can reduce Easter holidays from 2 weeks to 1 and summer from 6 weeks to 1. So same number of weeks learning but when it’s safer.

[st dan]

This is what happens when you suck up, roll over and play ball with this group of bullies (and I live in this area!!). 

[steviewevie]

7 minutes ago, Memory Man said:

Im sorry but how the absolute shit has this variant come in from south africa?! Why are we not just closing the borders or at least forcing 10 day quarantine like australia? This variant entering the country from outside europe is completely avoidable and completely unacceptable. Disgrace

maybe a lorry driver brought it in.

[a6l6e6x]

2021 looks a bit bleak so far

[st dan]

On a side note, I really do not like or have any time for Matt Hancock, and think he’s hardly pretty much this whole pandemic pretty shockingly - but I do think he’s delivered this announcement far more eloquently and less robotic then Boris ever has.

He’s even actually attempted to answer some of the questions he’s been asked too! And not an ‘alas’ to be heard. 

Edited December 23, 2020 by st dan

[xxialac]

2 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

maybe a lorry driver brought it in.

Bloody foreigner. Coming over here with their 501.V2 South African mutant covid variant and wanting to know what love is.

[Crazyfool01]

Look at that line of red following the M5 motorway 🛣... it’s almost like it spreads from movement .... 

[Jack.194]

4 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

Feel like the second new variant is just a way of demonstrating “virus have variants” and take the international eyes off the Dartford one.

For schools, just close them for six weeks until the vulnerable are vaccinated. Children don’t need to lose out as they can reduce Easter holidays from 2 weeks to 1 and summer from 6 weeks to 1. So same number of weeks learning but when it’s safer.

And just leave kids with nothing for the next six weeks?

I don’t disagree that schools need to close in some way, but you’re either suggesting no online or in-school learning for those 6 weeks, or you’re suggesting stripping teachers of 6 weeks of their holidays, which definitely wouldn’t go down well (and I’m speaking as a teacher!)

[gooner1990]

Gone from Tier 2 to Tier 4 (Oxfordshire) 😢

[efcfanwirral]

So this south african strain has had whisperings for the past few days - this was not the first I've heard of it. Now almost everything ends up in our newspapers nowadays, but for some reason this has been kept on the fringes until mentioned in this press conference https://www.theweek.in/news/health/2020/12/21/south-africa-claims-new-covid-19-strain-as-uk-grapples-with-faster-spreading-mutation.html and it also ended up in the Express but they count the same. 

Now I hope this is the government using it to justify/deflect/whatever because the alternative is not good...

Edited December 23, 2020 by efcfanwirral

[Billy Corgan's Ego]

2 minutes ago, st dan said:

On a side note, I really do not like or have any time for Matt Hancock, and think he’s hardly pretty much this whole pandemic pretty shockingly - but I do think he’s delivered this announcement far more eloquently and less robotic then Boris ever has.

He’s even actually attempted to answer some of the questions he’s been asked too! And not an ‘alas’ to be heard. 

He is easily the least offensive of the lot of them for my pallet. I believe he may actually have something resembling a heart deep down somewhere.

Still a d#ck, though!

[Chapple12345]

Well us Norfolk folk are well and truly peeved... if there was a genuine worry about cases/hospitalisations around here or a full lockdown was needed I’d be more sympathetic but we’ve had some of the lowest rates the whole time in the country. I get it’s about getting ahead of the curve but it doesn’t help that so many livelihoods are being ruined because of this constant stop/start approach  

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

Gone from Tier 2 to Tier 4 (Oxfordshire) 😢

Me too mate, stay safe. 

[zahidf]

Hancock says he is confident “we will get through this” by the spring.
And people should resist temptation and avoid seeing people whom they don’t need to.

[zahidf]

6 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

So this south african strain has had whisperings for the past few days - this was not the first I've heard of it. Now almost everything ends up in our newspapers nowadays, but for some reason this has been kept on the fringes until mentioned in this press conference https://www.theweek.in/news/health/2020/12/21/south-africa-claims-new-covid-19-strain-as-uk-grapples-with-faster-spreading-mutation.html and it also ended up in the Express but they count the same. 

Now I hope this is the government using it to justify/deflect/whatever because the alternative is not good...

We dont know enough about it tbh. 

[Jack.194]

1 minute ago, zahidf said:

Hancock says he is confident “we will get through this” by the spring.
And people should resist temptation and avoid seeing people whom they don’t need to.

If only the government weren’t so incompetent, I’d feel a bit more positive after hearing that