Coronavirus

[C8RKH]

I agree @Peapod to an extent, and as usual was being my usual shy, provocative self as you clearly picked up on! 

But you did hit upon my main point, and surprisingly quickly for a Neanderthal if I do say, which is why oh why is the media in this country so quick to whip everything up into a frenzy and to convince us all the world is ending, and the important bit, why do then people sneak out and rip the shelves bare (yes, it is actually happening in some places, but not to the extent the expensive (they stopped being free some time ago lol) press would have you believe....?

Massive coincidence that we both had the same lunchtime free to help out the missus. We have at least three things in common then!

[Barrykearley]

I’m stunned you lot managed to get any seasonal produce for our seasonal dinner..... it’s not like there’s anything coming from the eu.... oh hang on...

[Bibs]

  

39 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

We have at least three things in common then!

  Hopefully the missus isn't one of them 

The press just want website clicks and paper sales. They don't care about anything but their bottom line and stats that lead to it increasing. Even the impartial 'report the new' beeb are guilty of not letting the truth get in the way for traffic. 

[Peapod]

6 minutes ago, Barrykearley said:

I’m stunned you lot managed to get any seasonal produce for our seasonal dinner..... it’s not like there’s anything coming from the eu.... oh hang on...

You mean my sprouts came from the EU

[C8RKH]

7 minutes ago, Peapod said:

You mean my sprouts came from the EU

I can guarantee they did not come from Brussels. 

[MPx]

Being a real Neanderthal I, of course, let my gatherer go to Waitrose on her own while I hunted for an elusive local motorbike mechanic.  She was far more successful than me but her first story on return was that as she reached the front of the three person queue to get in, the woman coming out said "oh ...its real chaos in there" like she'd been through some kind of trauma.  Once F got in the shop, she said it was exactly the same as it always is with plenty of food and other stuff on the shelves and no more crowded than normal.  She got everything she wanted to keep us going 'til next Tuesday just as she has done every week.  People it seems, fed by the media, love to live their lives going from crisis to crisis instead of it just being the non event that it actually is.

[Bibs]

Did she pick up any of the Heston Mince Pies @MPx? They're lush

 

[Barrykearley]

1 hour ago, Peapod said:

You mean my sprouts came from the EU

Highly unlikely - like most folks xmas dinners - it will all be seasonal veg that will be uk sourced. Sprouts almost certainly from Lincolnshire 

[Barrykearley]

Sooo weee Jimmy has been caught out being naughty. Time for the media to hang, draw and quarter the witch

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55419564

[Colin P]

48 minutes ago, Barrykearley said:

Sooo weee Jimmy has been caught out being naughty. Time for the media to hang, draw and quarter the witch

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55419564

Absolutely, just came on here to call for her resignation. Always the first in the queue to call for resignations for the slightest indiscretion. Come on you evil witch - you made the fecking rule and broke it. Go NOW!!! Let some good come out of COVID.

[MPx]

11 hours ago, Bibs said:

Did she pick up any of the Heston Mince Pies @MPx? They're lush

 

'fraid not Bibbo, not my thing.  But he did get me a huge white Toblerone which definitely is!!!

[eeyoreish]

With much of the south moving to tier 4 on Boxing Day it looks like those lorry drivers might be the only ones going anywhere.

[Chillidoggy]

Just now, eeyoreish said:

With much of the south moving to tier 4 on Boxing Day it looks like those lorry drivers might be the only ones going anywhere.

Already there, old bean!

And now there's talk of putting the lorry drivers in a hotel.

[march]

You think Kent has got it bad - we have to put up with bad puns as well.

[esprit22]

So my house is in a teir 4 area, l was a tad surprised when there was a knock on the door yesterday, and some idiot wanted to read the meter! Unbelievable 😷

[C8RKH]

I popped to our Asda this morning. It was so busy I had to wait in a queue of 1 for a coffee in the Cafe!  

Like you Barry found all the shelves full and was not busy at all. Gonna be a lot of food going cheap when they reopen after Crimbo! Got some beautiful Salmon fillets for a song and a bucket full of mussels for a wee dance.

With the Brexit deal all but done business as usual, albeit with additional paperwork, in January.

Just need to get vaccinated then woo hoo....

[pete]

47 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

 

Just need to get vaccinated then woo han

 

[pete]

Is that part of the gin project

[Sparky]

Ah...

[Chillidoggy]

Part of a UCL study, behavioural science.

[KennyN]

[red vtec]

@Buddsy I was told that the numbers being declared as dead due to COVID is partly to clear the morgues. If post-mortems etc had to be carried out it would cause huge delays due to the numbers and block the system. kind of makes sense.

[andydclements]

@Buddsy To expand on what @red vtec has said:

https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/coronavirus/gps-told-how-to-certify-coronavirus-deaths/

....GPs have been advised that Covid-19 is a notifiable disease, but this does not mean that deaths caused by Covid-19 always need to be referred to the coroner.....

 

And, the headline death rates related to COVID-19 are where the person has tested positive within the preceding 28 days, that does not mean it will be cited on the death certificate as the primary cause. If it were one of the cases on that notifiable disease reports then I think it would have to be the primary cause noted on the death certificate. You cannot expect figures to align if you "set aside that can of worms" that is death due to heart failure, death due to lung failure etc, because (virtually) all patients who die from COVID-19 die from parts f their body shutting down, but the shut down was exacerbated by the infection and what it did to the body.

[Barrykearley]

This might help @Buddsy

[scotty435]

What I’ve yet to hear from any Covid denier, is a cogent reason why the Govt and the NHS would want to lie and say the Covid situation is worse than it is. Can someone enlighten me? What’s your thoughts Barry?.