Coronavirus

[Techyd]

58 minutes ago, march said:

No they weren't - the Police are considering it - the venue is claiming they new nothing about this 🙄, they are looking at the organisers but I bet this goes nowhere.

True, they are facing the fine and of course the venue will do what it can to get out of it but that does make it quite different to 'only issued 5 £200 fines' that you noted.

4 minutes ago, pete said:

New nothing so why we're black out curtains at every window

....and how did they get in !

[march]

16 minutes ago, Techyd said:

True, they are facing the fine

The problem is who is actually facing the fine.

The school is claiming it new nothing as it used a 3rd party for letting the premises

The 3rd party was just doing it's job and letting it as it had been charged to do (no longer apparently - contract cancelled)

The newly weds?

The person who booked the hall - who may claim they were never there and new nothing etc.. etc..

It just seems to me that it could be a real can of worms tracking down who was actually culpable especially as they only fined 5 people (I assume this means those are the only personal details the Police obtained)

 

Personally I think its a good opportunity to throw the Mother in Law under the bus.

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Why would the school be renting out its hall in the current circumstances anyway? Gyms, sports halls etc all closed. No meeting indoors beyond your household / bubble. The school should certainly pay a sizeable fine.

[exeterjeep]

On 21/01/2021 at 11:12, ChrisJ said:

Got a funeral going on at the catholic church across the road - hundred or so people. Police standing around directing traffic.

Is it this one on the bbc -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55772495

10k fine for the funeral directors

[Peapod]

More chance of restaurants and pubs opening on the 31st February than the 31st January.

[Dan E]

@Buddsy I am going to call you out on this. Have you watched the news or known anyone personally that has died of this? 
 

I guess not, I have and I can tell you it isn’t pleasant in fact it is tragic. So are you going to have the vaccine? 

[ChrisJ]

 

Yes, that's the one @exeterjeep

I was just reading the same on the local paper - thanks for posting that, I don't read the BBC website much anymore.

[scotty435]

1 hour ago, Buddsy said:

Every time I see groups of old ladies or friends walking around together my heart is lifted a little and inside I give them a salute or a thumbs up. 

Ive written to my MP 4 times telling her I do not consent nor do I appreciate these lock downs and I will not be voting Tory next election. Shes been pretty apologetic about it...luckily it turns out her husband shares the same views as I do on the subject! Actually seems a fairly decent part of Boris's MPs do too and have been telling him to end them.

I see the movement of mass opening restaurants and pubs on the 31st January seems to be gaining pace. I do hope so but we will see.

buddsy

Sorry Buddys it’s about time you moved into the real world. Obviously you are a popular forum member but you need to be called out for your relentless anti lockdown and disinformation on the true facts. I do not know or dare to know what it would convince you change your mind. 

[Dan E]

1 hour ago, Buddsy said:

Sorry no I dont watch the news

Sorry no I only know a few people who I work with who had it over Xmas. Oh and Kimbers

Taking the vaccine..Now I know youre taking the mick! 

buddsy

 

So you haven’t lost anyone to this and you won’t take the vaccine, correct? Laughing emojis do not cut it by the way 

[Barrykearley]

40 minutes ago, Buddsy said:

Guess Im lucky I live in a part of the world where its not prevalent.

 

buddsy

You should be careful. The new strain is 30% more fatal as per official statistics.

or to assist in contextualising @Buddsy as I know you are a pedant over this - it’s raised from 1.0% fatalities to 1.3% fatalities across all age demographic based on 1000 people.

actually using official statistics it’s 100% fatal to all those whom died of covid ***

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*** based on those tested positive with the last 28 days

Edited January 22, 2021 by Barrykearley

[SFO]

6 minutes ago, Barrykearley said:

it’s raised from 1.0% fatalities to 1.3% fatalities across all age demographic based on 1000 people.

 it's so small as to be nearly statistically irrelevant .. though Vallance did say the data wasn't clear. So, why bring it up now if not to frighten folks?

[Barrykearley]

And folks wonder why others are dubious.

 

spanish flu - burned for 2 years and killed millions globally. Is this looking any different?

was it the vaccine and the big governments that saved us?

[Mysterae]

@Buddsy, let me guess, you won't take the vaccine because Bill Gates is going to put a chip in you? Remote control you with 'em 5G waves? Sounds ridiculous yes? I don't like to disrespect you or take a cheap shot but you need to look at the world rather than the 2 metres around you. People are dying. The stories I read on other forums are horrific. My cousin and her husband are in a bad way. It might not be in your neck of the woods yet but it will be soon if not controlled.

[scotty435]

Get a grip Barry a other popular forum figure that members seem to think you are a bit of a laugh and it’s ok what ever you say but sadly you are out of order. Like I have said in the past what I have yet to hear from a Covid denier is a cogent reason why the government and the NHS would want to lie and say the Covid situation is worse than it is. Yes I understand like most of us you are probably out of pocket from this terrible pandemic, you say you follow the rules but easily put thumbs up to people that don’t. One thing is for sure we can recover from our, your financial loss sadly the the many 1000s that have lost there life’s from this tragic event can not. There is more than making a few bucks in life.

[Barrykearley]

2 minutes ago, scotty435 said:

Yes I understand like most of us you are probably out of pocket from this terrible pandemic, you say you follow the rules but easily put thumbs up to people that don’t.

I follow the bloody rules and find them ridiculous. I don’t for one minute put my thumbs upto rule breakers however I do encourage people to have their own opinions rather than those foisted upon us by the government.

[mdw]

8 hours ago, Buddsy said:

Guess Im lucky I live in a part of the world where its not prevalent.

 

buddsy

Err not so sure about that. my son's girlfriend is a junior doctor at the hospital in Norwich and is far from having  a fun time with covid.    Her comment to him yesterday was that was she was getting sick and tired of signing death certs!! First time round was all oaps , she now has people 20s and up with it to care for.

[andydclements]

@Buddsy, I know you say you don't read/ watch the news but just have a look at the local paper. You'll find that Norfolk was one of the areas that was recently one of the fastest growing problems, and Norfolk still has/had some of the few areas where the infection rate was growing despite the country and all big geographical areas seeing declines. It may be that we avoided it before and so there's no immunity to slow spread now, or just that we are being too complacent here in Norfolk.

[Lex Templar]

All I can say is accept the lock downs, we have been strict here in Australia and we have had many weeks now with 0 locally transmitted cases.

[Barrykearley]

14 minutes ago, Lex Templar said:

All I can say is accept the lock downs, we have been strict here in Australia

Not the case in the uk. It’s very lax at best. Countless reasons to be out the house and spreading it. I’ve been away working this week onsite - absolutely no noticeable difference in traffic on the roads other than no school run. Coming home last night there was a 1/2 mile queue at one of the roundabouts - for the drive through McDonald’s!

And before I get moaners - I cannot work from home - it’s rather difficult to wire a commercial chicken shed for free range eggs from home. This one is contracted to supply Waitrose - so part of the food supply chain. 

Edited January 23, 2021 by Barrykearley

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Update on the two covidiot male neighbours opposite.

After the last discussion, all of the visitors magically disappeared for a couple of days until the letting agent went round to see them on the Wednesday as warned. She was there for 12 minutes, wearing her face mask.

Two days later the visitors had all returned for last weekend’s entertainment.

Last night I got a message from a neighbour in another house telling me that one of the tenants was seen ferrying a group of visitors with their overnight luggage in his own car from their cars parked 200 yards away, straight to the house under cover of darkness. Presumably in the hope that we didn’t notice them arriving in his car. You couldn’t make it up!

It is estimated that there is currently 6 or 7 people staying overnight in that house where 2 people live.

 

[march]

For all those piss takers and naysayers:

Last night a friend of Carina's died of Covid19 - he was rushed to hospital about a week ago and placed in an induced coma. He was fit (lifted weights etc..) and in a Heavy Metal band and followed the rules/guidelines religiously. He had no underlying conditions when admitted with Covid.

If you don't agree with the virus fine - but do not mix in a society where you may kill others by your stupidity.

 

As a note another friend has a mother who does not believe in the virus and has refused to have the vaccine -  the GP's has struck her off their books and now has to sign forms to access further hospital services.

[Bibs]

2 hours ago, Barrykearley said:

absolutely no noticeable difference in traffic on the roads

I was working in SW London on Monday. On the drive home at 5pm, there was a point where there was zero traffic visible on the M25 around me, something that I've only experienced before in the middle of the night on rare occasions. No, the road wasn't closed and I hadn't noticed the signs 

[pete]

they heard you were coming😂

[andydclements]

1 hour ago, march said:

For all those piss takers and naysayers:

Last night a friend of Carina's died of Covid19 - he was rushed to hospital about a week ago and placed in an induced coma. He was fit (lifted weights etc..) and in a Heavy Metal band and followed the rules/guidelines religiously. He had no underlying conditions when admitted with Covid.

If you don't agree with the virus fine - but do not mix in a society where you may kill others by your stupidity.

 

As a note another friend has a mother who does not believe in the virus and has refused to have the vaccine -  the GP's has struck her off their books and now has to sign forms to access further hospital services.

Now, if you had not known them to be visitors of the tenants, then you might reasonably have suspected the unfamiliar people to be there illegally (other than COVID rules, say trespass, squatting, breaking & entering etc) and you could have done the neighbourly thing and called the police in an effort to protect the possessions of the tenants.

[march]

36 minutes ago, andydclements said:

Now, if you had not known them to be visitors of the tenants, then you might reasonably have suspected the unfamiliar people to be there illegally (other than COVID rules, say trespass, squatting, breaking & entering etc) and you could have done the neighbourly thing and called the police in an effort to protect the possessions of the tenants.

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