When will this shit end?

[Leyrulion]

Largest amount of PCR tests processed today. 340,000 processed. 28% up from the start of the month. 

[squirrelarmy]

1 minute ago, Leyrulion said:

Largest amount of PCR tests processed today. 340,000 processed. 28% up from the start of the month. 

Hopefully one of them was mine. 

[steviewevie]

I know not covid related...but interesting none the less...1976 election map

[Fuzzy Afro]

5 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

Largest amount of PCR tests processed today. 340,000 processed. 28% up from the start of the month. 

Encouraging that there were "only" 20,000 cases on that many tests tbf after we had 26000 the other day

[Crazyfool01]

BBC saying this Maureen woman is becoming some kind of celebrity .... whilst featuring her twice .... bloody idiots !!

[Quark]

1 hour ago, zero000 said:

Thought better of Robshaw. But clearly he hasn’t improved his decision making, since his famous decision to go for touch  

Ha, that always comes up! I still think he made the right call on that one!

But yeah, what a dick. Would have been his Twickenham farewell. 

[zahidf]

Tories are being reasonable: the poor will only spend the vouchers on crack

[Lizzim]

Every day I wake up and this goes through my head -

"It doesn't matter if the world has gone mad

If we just hold on, if we just hold on, yeah

The sky is falling, and the world has gone mad

And we sing our songs, and we just hold on, yeah"

My world has gone mad for more than 18 months, and I'm only just holding on.  

[zahidf]

[Mr.Tease]

20 minutes ago, Lizzim said:

Every day I wake up and this goes through my head -

"It doesn't matter if the world has gone mad

If we just hold on, if we just hold on, yeah

The sky is falling, and the world has gone mad

And we sing our songs, and we just hold on, yeah"

My world has gone mad for more than 18 months, and I'm only just holding on.  

It sounds like things had been hard and messed up for you before Covid-19 struck, which must of made everything seem even more surreal and difficult to deal with when it did. I do hope you can hold on and ride out the storm, must be really tough for you to have been going through what you’ve been going through for so long. Life’s weird, sometimes it seems like you get snakebit and you just seem to get bombarded with s*** for a stretch, it almost seems unreal after a while! I do believe all things must pass but it doesn’t feel like that when you’re in the midst of it. Sure would make it easier if we had a rough time or date for when things will start to ease off!

This is what’s been going through my head most of this year:

 

[Ozanne]

Hospital admission data for England.

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

2 hours ago, crazyfool1 said:

BBC saying this Maureen woman is becoming some kind of celebrity .... whilst featuring her twice .... bloody idiots !!

The woman from Barnsley? I don't agree with her, but I don't completely disagree with her. 

She will speak for hundreds of thousands of people up and down the country. 

In the same way that Barnsley voted unanimously for Brexit... They like thousands of places up and down the country relate to people that they feel relate to them. 

She'll be leader of the council next year.

[Lizzim]

26 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

It sounds like things had been hard and messed up for you before Covid-19 struck, which must of made everything seem even more surreal and difficult to deal with when it did. I do hope you can hold on and ride out the storm, must be really tough for you to have been going through what you’ve been going through for so long. Life’s weird, sometimes it seems like you get snakebit and you just seem to get bombarded with s*** for a stretch, it almost seems unreal after a while! I do believe all things must pass but it doesn’t feel like that when you’re in the midst of it. Sure would make it easier if we had a rough time or date for when things will start to ease off!

This is what’s been going through my head most of this year:

 

Thanks, loving Hold On - takes me back.  Yeah spring 2019 was a bitch and then just as I thought we'd turn the corner....

I'm old enough to know we can come through in the end though. I've been through a few roller coaster rides.  

Should really have posted on the how do you feel thread.... sorry.

[steviewevie]

I think as an experiment they should lift all restrictions in Barnsley and tell the elderly and vulnerable if they're scared then stay in...otherwise don't worry about it.

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

17 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

I think as an experiment they should lift all restrictions in Barnsley and tell the elderly and vulnerable if they're scared then stay in...otherwise don't worry about it.

We're already over over 500 cars per 100k here. 

I don't feel unsafe but I would like to understand why - is it a few outbreaks at a few large employers is it something else.

 

Is it even distributed? Does it follow the usual trends in the borough? Is it the usual M1 split? Etc.. etc.. 

Edited October 23, 2020 by RobertProsineckisLighter

[zahidf]

2 hours ago, zahidf said:

Tories are being reasonable: the poor will only spend the vouchers on crack

 

[Fuzzy Afro]

They’re scrapping the VAT exemption for face coverings, so look for a fall in compliance in the coming weeks.

[Ryan1984]

Remember our Christmas conversation on here? No surprise Spaffer has done the opposite...

[Ozanne]

1 minute ago, Ryan1984 said:

Remember our Christmas conversation on here? No surprise Spaffer has done the opposite...

Of course it’s wishful thinking. People will then be surprised when there’s a rise in cases in early January. 

[fatyeti24]

15 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

They’re scrapping the VAT exemption for face coverings, so look for a fall in compliance in the coming weeks.

I think you'll find they're called face masks. 

[steviewevie]

9 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:

Remember our Christmas conversation on here? No surprise Spaffer has done the opposite...

I think they will relax restrictions so families can visit each other, unless things are really bad.

[Ozanne]

Good for them.

[efcfanwirral]

So Borat is brilliant for those who like that sort of thing. They have Rudy Giuliani on camera saying China created the virus and spread it round the world and that nobody was eating bats. And hugely mocks the US conspiracy lot.

They also have him hitting on a young (what he thought) was a journalist. But he wasn't taken in of course....

[zahidf]

 

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 hour ago, efcfanwirral said:

So Borat is brilliant for those who like that sort of thing. They have Rudy Giuliani on camera saying China created the virus and spread it round the world and that nobody was eating bats. And hugely mocks the US conspiracy lot.

They also have him hitting on a young (what he thought) was a journalist. But he wasn't taken in of course....

We just watched it. Enjoyed it mainly and did laugh a lot. The Giuliani bit a definite highlight. Could have done without the synagogue bit personally, but I could we what he was trying to do.