When will this shit end?

[stuartbert two hats]

7 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

What on earth are you on about? In what way is “Wider social contact rules will apply in all these settings to prevent indoor mixing between different households.” not a form of lockdown?

Give your head a wobble. I fear you’ve been completely thrown off track here to think restrictions like that aren’t a significant form of hinderance on most people’s lives.

I said nothing about whether they were significant. I was pointing out how patronising it was to attack someone over clarifying a term by repeating your own words back at you.

Please making inferences and then replying as if the thing you've imagined has actually been said.

[BobWillis2]

A fairly civil day in this thread and Stevie comes along trolling with his personal insults. 
 

Nothing will be said though. 

[Hannibal Schmitt]

36 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

Weatherspoons had app ordering before Covid.  I doubt app ordering will be going anywhere now.

Never realized that to be honest as here it would be completely strange ordering with app, even now, but anyway today is fish friday club isn`t it?

[stuartbert two hats]

8 minutes ago, BobWillis2 said:

A fairly civil day in this thread and Stevie comes along trolling with his personal insults. 
 

Nothing will be said though. 

Apart from when something is said, like it is often.

 

@steviewevie please stop it. It doesn't help at all, even if you think it's funny.

[steviewevie]

16 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Apart from when something is said, like it is often.

 

@steviewevie please stop it. It doesn't help at all, even if you think it's funny.

sorry Bob.

Poor Bob.

[efcfanwirral]

1 hour ago, Barry Fish said:

Weatherspoons had app ordering before Covid.  I doubt app ordering will be going anywhere now.

 it has its advantages. I do like it in certain situations especially when it's busy, keeps the bar queues down a bit when they have staff dedicated to it. Our local pub will definitely benefit (by keeping it) as the bar is quite small and seems more set up for indoors/how it was before but they've now opened this massive garden for covid times. Hope they keep it as the new bit is a proper sun trap... 

Edited July 16, 2021 by efcfanwirral

[steviewevie]

so...thread ends on Monday, right...?

[steviewevie]

7 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

so...thread ends on Monday, right...?

and can we get to 4000?

[Guest]

 

[efcfanwirral]

5 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

 

I feel for the South East, South West and East of England. Likely to be dragged backwards because of the rest of us....

[stuartbert two hats]

Had a letter from my daughter's school today that said something along the lines of:

"The restrictions are changing, so we can't stop you doing stuff, but for fucks' sake, the local rates are the highest they have ever been, so don't be a knobhead, none of the kids are vaccinated"

Edited July 16, 2021 by stuartbert two hats
Added local

[efcfanwirral]

Just now, stuartbert two hats said:

Had a letter from my daughter's school today that said something along the lines of:

"The restrictions are changing, so we can't stop you doing stuff, but for fucks' sake, the rates are the highest they have ever been, so don't be a knobhead, none of the kids are vaccinated"

When it's put like that it pretty much should just be an extension. You can do it but you really shouldn't is no leadership at all from the country (I'm saying that as someone attending a festival next weekend) 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, efcfanwirral said:

I feel for the South East, South West and East of England. Likely to be dragged backwards because of the rest of us....

As a South Easterner I will let you guys off 😉

[BobWillis2]

2 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

I feel for the South East, South West and East of England. Likely to be dragged backwards because of the rest of us....

It’s nothing new, bar alpha. 

[Matt42]

I don’t think I’ve seen a debate since Brexit where people are so staunchly divided. Completely different schools of thought.

[steviewevie]

20 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

I feel for the South East, South West and East of England. Likely to be dragged backwards because of the rest of us....

I don't know...some of those kents had a variant named after them

Edited July 16, 2021 by steviewevie

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

25 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

 

North East & Yorkshire is a HUGE area and home some to some 8.5million people.

Edited July 16, 2021 by RobertProsineckisLighter

[BobWillis2]

Just now, RobertProsineckisLighter said:

North East & Yorkshire is a HUGE area 

South east has the highest population I believe.

[DeanoL]

1 hour ago, Matt42 said:

What on earth are you on about? In what way is “Wider social contact rules will apply in all these settings to prevent indoor mixing between different households.” not a form of lockdown?

Give your head a wobble. I fear you’ve been completely thrown off track here to think restrictions like that aren’t a significant form of hinderance on most people’s lives.

Lockdown means (or did mean) being forced to stay in one place. That is "don't leave your home". It has its root in prisoners being "locked down" being confined to cells. 

Having a lockdown where you have freedom to move around at will (without needing a specific reason) can't technically be a lockdown. 

If you think about this way, there's no way if we started with Stage 2 measures back in March 2020 when this kicked off, that anyone would have referred to those measures as a "lockdown". Language can change fast, and has but it's certainly not mad to think that way. At worst it's "well actually Hoover is the brand name you should call it a vacuum cleaner".

[steviewevie]

Puking bug

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/16/norovirus-warning-bug-spreads-england-lockdown-eased

[Matt42]

2 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

Lockdown means (or did mean) being forced to stay in one place. That is "don't leave your home". It has its root in prisoners being "locked down" being confined to cells. 

Having a lockdown where you have freedom to move around at will (without needing a specific reason) can't technically be a lockdown. 

If you think about this way, there's no way if we started with Stage 2 measures back in March 2020 when this kicked off, that anyone would have referred to those measures as a "lockdown". Language can change fast, and has but it's certainly not mad to think that way. At worst it's "well actually Hoover is the brand name you should call it a vacuum cleaner".

I call it a lockdown if there are rules stopping me from seeing and doing what I want. It’s a lockdown if it’s a criminal offence for me to host my family round my place. 

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

5 minutes ago, BobWillis2 said:

South east has the highest population I believe.

 

5 minutes ago, BobWillis2 said:

South east has the highest population I believe.

Yep - south west is about 2.5m I think. 

Shame that don't show hospital admissions per 100k too...

[steviewevie]

2 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

I call it a lockdown if there are rules stopping me from seeing and doing what I want. It’s a lockdown if it’s a criminal offence for me to host my family round my place. 

So then it becomes totally subjective. I would call it a blessing to not have to host my family round my place.

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, RobertProsineckisLighter said:

 

Yep - south west is about 2.5m I think. 

Shame that don't show hospital admissions per 100k too...

The data you want to look at is hospital capacity, and in certain areas they are struggling.

[steviewevie]