Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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ska invita
back on the other side
are you sure ? Ive had three 111 Covid calls, they ask lots of questions and then i got put through to a doctor - in all three calls
??
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
We had someone turn up for their vaccine this week with classic covid symptoms (new persistent cough) and looked surprised when we were pissed off and suggested they go away and get tested. A year into it and still not a clue ffs.
MrSki I'd call 111 and get a callback from clinical if it's something you're concerned about anyway, or call the place you're due to have it for advice, or if it was one incidence and you now feel OK tell the staff as soon as you arrive and ideally before you go in and start the process. If you have other stuff going on though (temp, feeling rough, etc.) then don't go please, you might be next to someone in a queue who's very vulnerable.
MrSki I'd call 111 and get a callback from clinical if it's something you're concerned about anyway, or call the place you're due to have it for advice, or if it was one incidence and you now feel OK tell the staff as soon as you arrive and ideally before you go in and start the process. If you have other stuff going on though (temp, feeling rough, etc.) then don't go please, you might be next to someone in a queue who's very vulnerable.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
I have called 111 & am getting a call back. Thanks
Mother sent me some John Lewis vouchers because there is no store near her 
just went for a rare trip to Waitrose and the queue was epic. At least 70-80 people waiting to go in. Busiest I have seen any Supermarket since this whole shit started.
Good to see the shop managing footfall I guess.
just went for a rare trip to Waitrose and the queue was epic. At least 70-80 people waiting to go in. Busiest I have seen any Supermarket since this whole shit started. Good to see the shop managing footfall I guess.
I've noticed that, too. And I am glad of it. I reckon it comes down to a few things
1. There were limited delivery slots then, so if you couldn't get a delivery, you had to go to the shop. They seriously ramped up the deliveries and click and collect throughout. I reckon I see a Tesco, Morrison, Asda, Sainsbury or Iceland delivery van on my road at least once a day. At the very least. And people are using Deliveroo for groceries now, too.
2. The supermarkets had shorter hours back at the beginning. They're back to normal hours now.
3. Some other thing I've not thought about.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I think 3 was mainly shortages / fear of shortages / panic buying leading to more shortages
I've got in to the habit of food shopping fairly late evening when it's relatively quiet, and (when i was doing the self isolation thing) signed up for a milk round delivery that can do bread and basics as well
And while I'm not really 'stockpiling' I'm tending to have slightly a higher 'minimum stock level' at home for things
Having said that, some of the shops were more active in limiting numbers they would allow in when it all started.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Both my supermarkets have green / red entry systems.
70 yards apart, I use whichever doesn't have a queue when I get back from my walk around the park.
I got my timing wrong so had to shop on a Saturday ..
One unhealthy looking old duffer in Tesco this morning maskless - perhaps he'd had one jab and felt safe, perhaps it was "political" ...
I probably have some immunity now, so I turned my masked face away and kept my thoughts to myself.
I'm still having to buy "organic" bread flour in the deli.
70 yards apart, I use whichever doesn't have a queue when I get back from my walk around the park.
I got my timing wrong so had to shop on a Saturday ..
One unhealthy looking old duffer in Tesco this morning maskless - perhaps he'd had one jab and felt safe, perhaps it was "political" ...
I probably have some immunity now, so I turned my masked face away and kept my thoughts to myself.
I'm still having to buy "organic" bread flour in the deli.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I'm glad I decided to only do a very minimal version of 'on this day in pandemic history'.
I have to do an entry today because a year ago it was Friday 13th March, a Friday 13th I shall never forget. It was the day I first became aware of the BBCs Nick Triggle, because he came out with the following shit which did not survive a full day in the article it was embedded in, and that I rarely stopped ranting about since. On the day in question I probably said something like 'fuck this times a million'.
Facepalm of the century nominee for sure.
I consider that day to have been the last time the original rhetoric and plan survived, and it also featured Vallances infamous herd immunity shit:
That quote is from Coronavirus: science chief defends UK plan from criticism
I have to do an entry today because a year ago it was Friday 13th March, a Friday 13th I shall never forget. It was the day I first became aware of the BBCs Nick Triggle, because he came out with the following shit which did not survive a full day in the article it was embedded in, and that I rarely stopped ranting about since. On the day in question I probably said something like 'fuck this times a million'.
Facepalm of the century nominee for sure.
I consider that day to have been the last time the original rhetoric and plan survived, and it also featured Vallances infamous herd immunity shit:
That quote is from Coronavirus: science chief defends UK plan from criticism
elbows
Well-Known Member
Some government stuff that I havent bothered to bring up from a year ago is covered by this recent Guardian article. Part of me really hates articles like this, where politics is reduced to a soap opera, but people might still find it interesting. Apparently the penny only started to drop that infections were quite widespread and close to the governments home when Dorries tested positive earlier in this week in history.
www.theguardian.com
'No 10 was a plague pit': how Covid brought Westminster to its knees
Insiders tell of a Whitehall in panic mode and reveal virus spread far more widely than was acknowledged
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
It "may" have brought Westminster to its' knees, pity it didn't cut a few of them off at the knees ...
If one or two of the politicos had actually succumbed fatally to the 'rona in those early days, we might have seen some proper attention to the science a lot earlier, and other lives might have been saved.
If one or two of the politicos had actually succumbed fatally to the 'rona in those early days, we might have seen some proper attention to the science a lot earlier, and other lives might have been saved.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Nice to think they might have been replaced by better politicos, too, but that's probably reaching a bit high.
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
Our local Waitrose was just the same this evening. Mothers' Day tomorrow, innit.
The store had been stripped bare of flowers.
It was post-peak-busy at my Sainsbury's late this afternoon, but I did wonder
why so many people were going out with flowers and wine! 
(Today, I'd have only needed to imagine buying such things for my late mum!
)
Cloo
Banana for scale
Have just about started to book things for the future - a visit to Go Ape at Easter, which I'm guessing will happen/ My daughter wanted to see this Van Gogh thing where you go into a big space with the pictures projected all around you, so I logged on a few hours into when bookings opened (for late October onwards) and it was sold out to December, so I've booked evening tickets for mid Dec, though I am not optimistic things won't have to take a step back by then. I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea for things to be pretty open this summer, but it was idiotic of Johnson (though who'd expect anything more?) to say there would be no going backwards later.
I share your dislike of BoJo the clown and most of his cabinet (mostly for Brexit idiocy), but if he had died, what exactly do you think would have happened? Do you really think things would have been any better than they are now if the non-entity Raab was in charge? Seriously?
Also, sadly, as bad as some of them are, I'm not sure there actually are any 'better politicos' in parliament at the moment, on either side of the aisle, in any party or in either chamber. Certainly couldn't name any, and that is a damning indictment of modern British politics.
Also, sadly, as bad as some of them are, I'm not sure there actually are any 'better politicos' in parliament at the moment, on either side of the aisle, in any party or in either chamber. Certainly couldn't name any, and that is a damning indictment of modern British politics.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Innit, a jizz-filled rotting pig’s head would have done better than the blundering haystacktub of lard
Dave's friend?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Boris forever replacement is or is says by those who know better than me to be Michael Gove. What he lacks in demagogue ability he makes up for in being quite a lot smarter and slippery than Boris.
Likely he loses a few gammon votes but he probably runs the plague mildly better and passes more than a few long term fuck you Leftie laws that are a bit cleverer than Boris fuck the flag like you want to laws.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
A badge for you for noting the reference
Looks like either Gove or Sunak are the likely replacements. Gove is, as you say, slippery, which is why he has been deathly silent the whole way through this and remains probably one of a tiny number ministers not to make some kind of virus-related faux pas (unless I've missed something!) so far, which could put him in good stead. If Boris had died in hospital last year, though, Raab would have taken over, as he did temporarily, so what would have happened after that (leadership election or just keep Raab in post?) is anyone's guess.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Gove isnt pandemic gaffe free.
www.mirror.co.uk
And:
Mask-free Michael Gove spotted days after saying it's 'good manners' to cover up
The Cabinet Office minister urged Brits to cover their faces in shops - but couldn't quite bring himself to do so when he nipped in for a sandwich
www.mirror.co.uk
And:
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