When will this shit end?

[Mr.Tease]

6 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Bloke on BBC news saying the new variant about to hit the north very hard,

Brilliant, all thanks to his faffing about this past week, absolute tosser🤬

[xxialac]

Just now, Brownie30 said:

Have we worked out when this shit will end yet? 

The thread is now called: "Will this shit end?"

[st dan]

Its my 30th birthday on Wednesday .. happy birthday to me eh!!

[Copperface]

gov.uk now suitably updated.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home?priority-taxon=774cee22-d896-44c1-a611-e3109cce8eae

[Mr.Tease]

1 minute ago, Brownie30 said:

Have we worked out when this shit will end yet? 

 

[Guest]

Starmer supporting the measures on Sky News and refusing to criticise Johnson as this isn't the right time. Good tone and approach I feel.

[Losing my hair]

5 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Sir David King, the former Chief Scientific Advisor to UK government:

Interviewer: "Sir David, on a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate the UK government on its tackling of Covid-19?"

Sir David: "Is there a number lower than 1?"

Well this bloke's not much of a scientist is he, never heard of negative numbers

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

From The Mirror:

You cannot meet people from outside your household or bubble anywhere - indoors or outdoors.

The only exemption is that one person can take exercise outside with one person from another household.

BUT - Stay 2 metres apart from anyone not in your household.

[Losing my hair]

And to think only 10 days ago I was in Tier 2. Gone through 3 and 4 and now National since then.

[Andre91]

Goodness me. 

[parsonjack]

No alcohol with takeaways is a change on March lockdown....why so? 

[steviewevie]

3 minutes ago, st dan said:

Its my 30th birthday on Wednesday .. happy birthday to me eh!!

I turned 50 during the first lockdown.

[jparx]

Apols if it’s been posted but watching footie and this thread is moving fast. But for those working/studying at uni, this is on the gov site

Higher Education provision will remain online until mid February for all except future critical worker courses.

Expecting to be wfh fully for the time being at least.

[JB15]

4 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Starmer supporting the measures on Sky News and refusing to criticise Johnson as this isn't the right time. Good tone and approach I feel.

Shock. 

[Copperface]

7 minutes ago, jparx said:

Apols if it’s been posted but watching footie and this thread is moving fast. But for those working/studying at uni, this is on the gov site

Higher Education provision will remain online until mid February for all except future critical worker courses.

Expecting to be wfh fully for the time being at least.

If you live at university, you should not move back and forward between your permanent home and student home during term time.

Does that mean students are able to return to their student accommodation and stay there ie next week? 

 

[jparx]

Just now, Copperface said:

If you live at university, you should not move back and forward between your permanent home and student home during term time.

Does that mean students are able to return to their student accommodation and stay there ie next week? 

 

Hmm not sure from the wording, but I doubt it in reality. I guess nothing to stop students returning to private accommodation, but I can’t see any way they’re returning to Uni accommodation in the next couple weeks.

[Copperface]

3 minutes ago, jparx said:

Hmm not sure from the wording, but I doubt it in reality. I guess nothing to stop students returning to private accommodation, but I can’t see any way they’re returning to Uni accommodation in the next couple weeks.

Yep, that's what I believe. I did it last time as well, to and from Liverpool in a day, dropped off at door of rented house and straight back. 

That's what's going to happen again I think. She's better off with her friends in a house rather than cooped up with parents for months.

Edited January 4, 2021 by Copperface

[Andy0808 v5]

Will the FA cup be on this weekend?

[st dan]

2 minutes ago, jparx said:

Hmm not sure from the wording, but I doubt it in reality. I guess nothing to stop students returning to private accommodation, but I can’t see any way they’re returning to Uni accommodation in the next couple weeks.

Yeah i very much doubt it. They won’t be back into actual lectures etc this year either. I sincerely hope the poor students are reimbursed for all of this - you’re looking at £13k a year (course and living grants etc) but I’m going to guess they won’t be. 

[gigpusher]

Just unfriended a Facebook friend because she complained about my husband calling Boris a prick which is the mildest thing either of us has said about Boris in moths so yep guess Lockdown will be an excuse to do some spring cleaning!!

[JoeyT]

Still leaving the can you work at the office question open to interpretation:

• go to work, or provide voluntary or charitable services, if you cannot reasonably do so from home.

[ModernMan]

3 minutes ago, Andy0808 v5 said:

Will the FA cup be on this weekend?

Yes.

[hodgey123]

Just now, JoeyT said:

Still leaving the can you work at the office question open to interpretation:

• go to work, or provide voluntary or charitable services, if you cannot reasonably do so from home.

This is a massive part of it. My girlfriend used to work at ASOS and they completely pushed the limits on whether they ‘could’ work from home after the first lockdown (when they all did work from home successfully) to the extent that they all worked in the London head office during the November ‘lockdown’. I would not be surprised to see them do this again.

Her new employers are similarly loose with their interpretation. There is also a lot to be said for coffee shops such as Costa (where my Mum works) that push the limits and desperately cling on and open with click and collect. Just encourages people with no other reason for being out to make an unnecessary trip. 

[efcfanwirral]

4 minutes ago, Andy0808 v5 said:

Will the FA cup be on this weekend?

 

1 minute ago, ModernMan said:

Yes.

I hope so but I think some more positive tests will come out so I'd imagine not all games. I would expect all football to stop after that for a while though due to too many positives 

[incident]

15 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

No alcohol with takeaways is a change on March lockdown....why so? 

Not sure if this is the reason, but during the original restrictions last year there was quite a bit of perceived abuse going on - some of the bars near me were selling takeaway food + pints, and then on weekends when the weather was dry quite you'd get people taking them directly across the road to the park and using it as a beer garden.