Coronavirus

[Bibs]

Would be nice if the fines went to NHS charities.

[mayevora]

There's been a lot of debate about anti-Vaxxers on social media lately. I am now coming forward to stand up and say I'm firmly in the anti-Vax camp. There, I've said it!
I have my reasons, like many anti-Vaxxers, but it's important that everyone approaches this sensitive topic armed with the information THEY know to be true. I know my truth and I have first hand experience that backs up my stance.
I had a Vax once and it was the noisiest shittiest vacuum cleaner ever. I will never buy one again. All these armchair experts have clearly never experienced the disappointment of having to go over the same piece of carpet again and again to pick up the same piece of fluff
I am firmly in the Henry/Dyson camp backed up by my Shark, and I will not be told otherwise.

[andydclements]

But they do a great job of cleaning rugs, mopping up liquid mess etc.

[ChrisJ]

Here's the local paper's take on the funeral

Police attend Woodhall Lane funeral in Welwyn Garden City | Welwyn Hatfield Times (whtimes.co.uk)

No mention of the community involved.

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Today, officers said they are working with partner agencies and the family, to ensure the safety of those attending Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane and that of the wider public.

From personal observation, I'm not sure that they did.

[Spinney]

I’m sure the police know from bitter experience that there’s no point trying to impose fines or social distancing with that lot. They may well tell the public they have, just to appease them though. 

[TdM]

After intelligently saying they will fine people for attending parties, the government may now now pay people to get infected. Way to increase the infection rate!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55760467

[Bibs]

If that's to encourage people to self-isolate after a +test, the sort of person who doesn't still isn't especially with £500 of the governments money in their pocket. What a dumb and ridiculously expensive idea.

[andydclements]

Couldn't agree more. I get that if somebody will loose income due to self-isolating then a payment will ease the problem but if somebody's income is not decreased* and expenditure not increased then why should it be necessary to give them  money for having been infected?  (* I could have said e.g. people on benefits, but I'd have meant only receiving benefits with no other income. Also people like myself aren't impacted, I get sick pay, or if I'm well but isolating then I can simply carry on as normal working from home).

A week or so ago, I noticed something on the field next to where I live, whatever it was arrived over the course of one day. A couple of days ago I walked the few hundred metres and found that it's a lot of glass bottles, so went and collected them yesterday and took them to the local bottle bank (as art of my now daily walk). I picked up in excess of 12 bottles (all Lambrini , all the same size 1.25l IIRC), so either one household got through 15litres + of that stuff in a day, or there was a gathering to celebrate some event, and it was well after Christmas. Obviously here in the countryside we are immune to the infection hence not needing to follow the rules, pity nobody informed the virus of that.

[PaulCP]

If they people a grant of £500 for abiding by the law and self isolating then I will be applying for a £500,000 grant for being a law abiding citizen all of my life!

Ridiculous idea!

[910Esprit]

I had a late night visit from the police last night checking on my recent movements!   It seems that one of my neighbours has been monitoring my movements....    Anyway, copper was nice as pie and no case to answer!   However, it sort of made me wonder what life would have been under the Stasi     

[SFO]

26 minutes ago, 910Esprit said:

I had a late night visit from the police last night checking on my recent movements!   It seems that one of my neighbours has been monitoring my movements....    Anyway, copper was nice as pie and no case to answer!   However, it sort of made me wonder what life would have been under the Stasi     

Your neighbour sounds like a nutter with not enough to keep him/herself occupied 

[910Esprit]

That's exactly right..  Anyway, forewarned is forearmed!

Edited January 22, 2021 by 910Esprit

[C8RKH]

On 20/01/2021 at 18:08, Chillidoggy said:

I see the Archbishop of Canterbury (aged 65) has jumped the vaccination queue.

So a vaccine is better protection than Religion. Yup, that figures as most Religious Factions are just political groups anyway.

On 20/01/2021 at 18:39, Chillidoggy said:

Something to do with him doing care work or similar. I do feel he should have turned the other cheek.

It goes in your arm, not your arse

[pete]

BBC News - Covid: 400-person wedding party in Stamford Hill broken up by police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55764673

[Bibs]

It seems that religion wants to be exempt from mass gathering bans, the NYC wedding with 900 people was Jewish too. Strange!

[exeterjeep]

2 hours ago, C8RKH said:

t goes in your arm, not your arse

The arse is for speaking out of.

1 minute ago, Bibs said:

It seems that religion wants to be exempt from mass gathering bans,

May be these covidiots should be excluded from hospital treatment if they get covid, or have to pay a large fine before going into hospital.

[Kimbers]

3 hours ago, 910Esprit said:

I had a late night visit from the police last night checking on my recent movements!   It seems that one of my neighbours has been monitoring my movements....    Anyway, copper was nice as pie and no case to answer!   However, it sort of made me wonder what life would have been under the Stasi     

A huge % of Police work is currently dealing with COVID law breakers and people who don't realise they are breaking it (or those that do and don't care)! Plus of course those instances where people dial 999 because their neighbour has gone out for the 2nd time that day so "It can't be essential". So I feel your pain but the Police have to be seen to be acting.

You would be shocked by how many people are breaking the rules constantly. Walking with 2 other people from outside their household, travelling to a park 10 miles away when there's one 30 seconds away because "I wanted a change of scenery". Having someone round and telling you they are "their support bubble" then the next day its someone else (you can't change it), Refusals to wear masks making up some crappy health issue they don't have a exemption certificate for, "Just popping out for a drive because I was bored", meeting some mates in the park, going out and getting a bunch of flowers "for the Mrs to cheer her up", Having 2 other couples round for a game of Bridge because "We've done it for 30 years and we added them on our support bubble" (which is their grown up son and not their elderly friends). I could go on for ages. 

[march]

The Police only Issued 5 x £200.00 fines for the 400 people gathering - Not sure that is much of a deterrent for the attendees.

[Techyd]

10 minutes ago, march said:

The Police only Issued 5 x £200.00 fines for the 400 people gathering - Not sure that is much of a deterrent for the attendees.

However the venue / organisers were fined £10,000 and that is going to be a deterrent.  The 5 guests detained were perhaps all the attending officers could get to before the crowd dispersed!

[exeterjeep]

7 minutes ago, Techyd said:

The 5 guests detained were perhaps all the attending officers could get to before the crowd dispersed!

As it was a wedding I would have thought they must have a guest  (fine) list that could be examined and all asked to prove they were really somewhere else.

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

How could anyone have enjoyed that wedding? If you were a guest, you just wouldn’t want to be there. If you were the bride and groom, you would be worried sick about getting busted. I hope it was worth it.

[march]

41 minutes ago, Techyd said:

However the venue / organisers were fined £10,000 and that is going to be a deterrent.  The 5 guests detained were perhaps all the attending officers could get to before the crowd dispersed!

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.

[910Esprit]

1 hour ago, Kimbers said:

So I feel your pain but the Police have to be seen to be acting.

No compaints at all.  The policeman was friendly, professional  and polite.   I would prefer them to clamp down on offenders

[100th_Idiot]

A friend of mine caught the Rona. In his 50s but fit as he went to the gym 5 times a week doing weights and HIIT classes. Recovered after 2 weeks but gave it to his partner.She's a bit younger but asthmatic. She had to stop taking her asthma medicine as it's steroid based so impacts the immune response.

Anyway all went quiet for a couple of weeks but the update is his partner has recovered OK but he is suffering from long covid effects. Severe fatigue and breathlessness.

It's not just death you need to worry about.

[pete]

55 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.

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