When will this shit end?

[MEGABOWL]

46 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

Christina just been on LBC during the news.  They went with her for the sound bite rather than  the other guy saying chillout.

What. A. Shock.

[Ozanne]

1 minute ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Yeah this is what I think. They're trying to reassure people after some of the coverage would be my guess.

Hopefully it’ll lead to some people calming down a little bit. 

[Zoo Music Girl]

3 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

Whenever Bojo says anything I automatically think the opposite is true. 

To be fair, this is a good point.

[Zoo Music Girl]

3 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Ive just worked out the reason for this presser ..... Its to announce the fact ive had my second jab  at 2 pm ..... they just want everyone to know the Pyramid will be on the farm .... pre dosing with paracetamol now 🙂 

Congrats!

[Fuzzy Afro]

Media being briefed no changes to the roadmap 

[Crazyfool01]

9 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Congrats!

Thanks … it’s a relief … my car failed to start today so I’m helping out the local taxis too 🙂 

[Ayrshire Chris]

Surely it’s about increases in vaccine roll out in areas where virus is rife and possibly local lockdowns.  There’s more testing centres appeared in Glasgow  in the last few days, especially in a high population density area where vaccine uptake has been below average.  R still hovering around 1.  

[zahidf]

Four in 10 adults say they would be more likely to attend an event if they were required to show proof of a negative Covid test, a study suggests.

Some 41% of adults were more positive about attending an event such as the theatre or a concert if they were required to show a negative test, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says.

But a majority - 71% - said they would be less likely to attend if it meant spending an extra two hours in the venue to allow for a socially-distanced exit.

An event without any social distancing, being required to wear a face covering for the duration of the event, and being unable to eat food and drink also put adults off.

The ONS asked 7,617 people in Britain about their likelihood of attending organised events between 28 April and 3 May.

[Paul ™]

Busy here today, this shit isn't ending soon..

Guesses when we hit page 4000?

[JoeyT]

oooosh another bumper 1st dose day.

 

[Zoo Music Girl]

24 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Four in 10 adults say they would be more likely to attend an event if they were required to show proof of a negative Covid test, a study suggests.

Some 41% of adults were more positive about attending an event such as the theatre or a concert if they were required to show a negative test, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says.

But a majority - 71% - said they would be less likely to attend if it meant spending an extra two hours in the venue to allow for a socially-distanced exit.

An event without any social distancing, being required to wear a face covering for the duration of the event, and being unable to eat food and drink also put adults off.

The ONS asked 7,617 people in Britain about their likelihood of attending organised events between 28 April and 3 May.

Two hours to exit?! They must be thinking of pretty big venues.

[Stretlow]

Just now, Zoo Music Girl said:

Two hours to exit?! They must be thinking of pretty big venues.

I've been locked in football grounds longer than that, I can tell you from experience...

 

It's absolutely crap

[Zoo Music Girl]

11 minutes ago, Stretlow said:

I've been locked in football grounds longer than that, I can tell you from experience...

 

It's absolutely crap

Ugh. I think I've taken like 40 minutes to get out of gig venues before and that was bad enough. No thanks.

[fraybentos1]

What on earth is the logic of socially distanced leaving events after being crammed in together for the previous 2 hours. Nonsensical.

[Crazyfool01]

22 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

oooosh another bumper 1st dose day.

 

I’d say we hit some massive numbers once these boosting clinics are set up … gonna take a punt on 1 million dose days 

[ace56blaa]

1 hour ago, hodgey123 said:

That is fair enough, but this time is literally incomparable to March or even December 2020. Over 95% of all at risk categories have been vaccinated and a huge proportion of that twice!

Yeah, I just think Boris would do anything he can to not have to utter the words "Lockdown" ever again, even before these recent concerns about the Indian variant, the June 21st date was held in question. Also it was always gonna be the case that Boris is less worried about changing plans after the local elections. 

I think opening is good though. Even though I predict a little bumpier road than we expected 

[DeanoL]

1 hour ago, Barry Fish said:

She is on sky news a lot as well 

Sky News basically book guests based on how many angry Twitter replies they get. It's all circular, but the reason she has profile is more down to her voice being amplified by those who disagree with her than those that do.

1 hour ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Yeah this is what I think. They're trying to reassure people after some of the coverage would be my guess.

I think it's the opposite - they'll announce no changes but emphasize people should still be sensible and cautious. "You can mix with people indoors from Monday but we'd encourage you not to mix with too many different people" - "only hug close friends and family" - that sort of thing.

Or they're going to push back indoor mixing in households as that's a lever they can push without impacting the economy.

[Avalon_Fields]

1 hour ago, MEGABOWL said:

This is the time to hold our nerve. There was always going to be a rise in cases at some point but as long as we’ve broken the link between cases on the one hand and serious illness/deaths on the other we crack on. We haven’t even had the rise in cases yet, just a couple of local spikes. There’s definitely a confidence issue not helped by some elements of the Media.

Totally agree with your comments 

[efcfanwirral]

2 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

The be sensible thing is a bit loaded in my eyes.  

You are either acting in or out of the rules.

Then you have the shit situation like in Wales where you can follow the rules and then be shamed for going on holiday.  

Yeah I thought that too - it sounds very similar to "the pubs are open but don't go to them" 

[Avalon_Fields]

I’ll report on the road blocks and tanks deployment as they isolate Bolton at 5. Fortunately I’m 500m on the right side of the barricades 

[Fuzzy Afro]

There’s no issue with having separate rules and guidance.

 

The government would be well within their rights to suggest that indoor mixing in households isn’t advisable and hugging certainly isn’t advisable but we don’t want to criminalise it anymore. 

[squirrelarmy]

14 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

I’ll report on the road blocks and tanks deployment as they isolate Bolton at 5. Fortunately I’m 500m on the right side of the barricades 

Make sure you’re upwind of any fallout in case they decide to nuke the town. 

Edited May 14, 2021 by squirrelarmy

[steviewevie]

What you've all been waiting for

 

[BobWillis2]

3 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

What you've all been waiting for

 

This is the equivalent of me and my family playing monopoly tonight and then going to London and trying to run the hotels I’ve built on park lane. 

Edited May 14, 2021 by BobWillis2

[DeanoL]

23 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

The be sensible thing is a bit loaded in my eyes.  

You are either acting in or out of the rules.

Then you have the shit situation like in Wales where you can follow the rules and then be shamed for going on holiday.  

The holiday thing is weird. Most people on here seem to think it's fine if there are still restrictions on foreign travel as of June 21... I think for a lot of people though it's actually more important than nightclubs or gigs.

I think "be sensible" is better than setting up ridiculous unenforceable rules though. I don't think it helps anyone to say "meet a maximum of six people indoors, or two households, but no more than 20 different people total in a 3 week rolling window". Or "you can hug people, but only family members, friends you'd be comfortable sharing a hotel room with, or people you've seen naked".

Like I mentioned earlier, for a lot of people, Monday is becoming "COVID is over" day - because they don't really care about house parties, nightclubs or gigs. There's a need to stress an element of caution, and the Indian variant both makes this more important and provides a handy justification.

25 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

Pretty sure I've seen her ranting on pretty much every channel.

Because she gets a lot of engagement and says stuff that can be boiled down into a tweet that can then get a lot of controversy and other stations see Sky doing this and think "ooh, she's popular" and so it goes. 

I mean, I'm sorting of backing your point here: by saying she's on this stuff because people get angry with her and that's good for ratings and social engagement.

The alternative is that she's on this stuff because people agree with her and think she's right.