Coronavirus

[horlock07]

A local shop for local people? 

We're on the edge of the lake district, its more a local shop for the tourists!

[pauld]

Nice one Rishi :

"Since 10 August, people who test positive are also asked about places they have been and activities they have done in the days before becoming unwell; eating out was the most commonly reported activity in the 2-7 days prior to symptom onset"

(from the latest PHE evaluation of where the upsurge in COVID has come from). So the British govt spent millions of pounds of taxpayers money on fanning the flames of the second wave. Genius.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/921561/Weekly_COVID19_Surveillance_Report_week_39_FINAL.pdf

[Valid Pint]

Sleeping was also divulged as a common pastime. Slumberland now vilified (by those fortunate to have a mattress).

Please cease your grotesque COVID cop-out tactics to suit your inherited political bias.

[JBZ]

Sleeping was also divulged as a common pastime. Slumberland now vilified (by those fortunate to have a mattress).

Please cease your grotesque COVID cop-out tactics to suit your inherited political bias.

Are you one of those who unfortunately do not have a mattress?

[singingiiiffy]

Nice one Rishi :

"Since 10 August, people who test positive are also asked about places they have been and activities they have done in the days before becoming unwell; eating out was the most commonly reported activity in the 2-7 days prior to symptom onset"

(from the latest PHE evaluation of where the upsurge in COVID has come from). So the British govt spent millions of pounds of taxpayers money on fanning the flames of the second wave. Genius.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/921561/Weekly_COVID19_Surveillance_Report_week_39_FINAL.pdf

what would you have done differently? things had to open. people would have said they left the hospitality industry to die if they continued to be shut.

I feel sorry for the properly run places. too many customers ig ignoring rules and lack of enforcement at a number of places. iv eaten out probably 5 times since march. 3 of this in a beer garden. I dont feel particularly safe doing so

[Samdy Gray]

Correlation ≠ causation.

[Dr Pierre Chang]

what would you have done differently? things had to open. people would have said they left the hospitality industry to die if they continued to be shut.

Oi! Don’t you realise common sense has no place in this thread....anti govt drivel only!

[Flashheart]

Apparently, the 'NHS' track and trace app does not recognise the result of tests that come from the NHS. It only recognises the results that come from SERCO.

[pauld]

what would you have done differently? things had to open. people would have said they left the hospitality industry to die if they continued to be shut.

Sector-specific support from govt. Tried to open up too early, it's a gamble that's not paid off. Same with the 10pm curfew nonsense.

Oh and a working Test Trace and Isolate system, rather than wasting lockdown and £12bn on funnelling money to a private contractor with a proven record of failure.

[Saxondale]

Its ok for the entertainments industry to die apparently.  We're not valid.  The 700k people who work in it are irrelevant.

[RobertT]

Bars were the source of many of the cases in the South over here as well, it’s not too difficult to work out why.  It’s the stand up places that cause the issue, it is entirely possible to create a safe environment in a pub, but it has to be based on well managed practices like using tables, only allowing a defined number in based on those tables, avoiding congregating at a bar to place an order etc.

[Jimmy HaveHave]

I'm not sure the 10pm curfew is going to help slowing the spread

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12781541/pub-10pm-curfew-crowds-street-drinking/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8777387/Police-battle-disperse-crowds-partying-street-10pm-closing-time-new-Covid-rules.html

[Panda Paws]

Was out in Soho last night. Lovely drinks and dinner with no cause for concern until we left at 9:45. It was carnage. The curfew is the single stupidest restriction in a long line of rules, based on absolutely zero evidence.

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Was out in Soho last night. Lovely drinks and dinner with no cause for concern until we left at 9:45. It was carnage. The curfew is the single stupidest restriction in a long line of rules, based on absolutely zero evidence.

It's nice to hear it from someone who was there rather than seeing it in the papers and you're right It dosen't make sense and another reason to confirm they've lost the plot

[Batch]

Was out in Soho last night. Lovely drinks and dinner with no cause for concern until we left at 9:45. It was carnage. The curfew is the single stupidest restriction in a long line of rules, based on absolutely zero evidence.

they defended the decision saying it was based on science , and also the decision to let students return to university.

I can only find scientists saying it won't work, and the university situation was modelled and inevitable.

I'd imagine restrictions will be tightened soon