Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[beesonthewhatnow]

They’re just an utterly incompetent shower of bastards.

 

[Steel Icarus]

It's so stupid. So many students and staff off with Covid in my college now, my daughter's school have two more whole year groups off for a third consecutive week, why not now?

 

[xenon]

What’s happening with vaccine passports? I missed the beginning.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I can't watch this utter shambles any more

 

[elbows]

What’s happening with vaccine passports? I missed the beginning.

They are bringing them in in a weeks time, but a negative test can also be used to get in.

 

[xenon]

How do you prove your vaccine status? Is it the NHS app? Only I’ve heard the version Northern Ireland are using is a right pain in the arse involving photos and passports.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

What’s happening with vaccine passports? I missed the beginning.

for venues over 500 cap indoors, 4000 outdoors some other numbers about seated or standing and all above 10000 cap

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

How do you prove your vaccine status? Is it the NHS app? Only I’ve heard the version Northern Ireland are using is a right pain in the arse involving photos and passports.

You can order a paper letter from the NHS website.

 

[xenon]

Cheers. No plans to attend anything that large in the next couple of weeks.

 

[Calamity1971]

WFH if you can, but you can still photocopy your arse if you get a test first.
Plan B is as shit as all their other useless fucking plans.
His head shaking at questions shows this cunts arrogance

 

[gentlegreen]

Not that I need it, but I did the phone thing - and worried afterwards that the phone camera might have caught embarassing aspects of my lifestyle
I don't recall - was that the registering for the NHS per se ?
If so, I've used it in several contexts since ...

 

[clicker]

He exited very quick. Allegras leaving drinks beckon.

 

[Calamity1971]

He exited very quick. Allegras leaving drinks beckon.

Fastest that bin bag full of custard has ever moved.

 

[Ax^]

They’re just an utterly incompetent shower of bastards.

Tory bastards as well

 

[xenon]

Simon no case to answer will investigate. LOL.

 

[kabbes]

I'll just point out again that nothing he is announcing today isn't anything we haven't already been doing in Scotland all along. How's his Freedom Day looking as a decision now, huh?

Edit, except work from home guidance, although Nicola Sturgeon put that back in formally last week, and it's always been kept in a 'if you can do this then do it' tone of voice here.

It wasn’t mandated. We have a massive office in Scotland and we never rescinded working from office because the government was only advising it, not requiring it. If a government doesn’t lay down something as a rule for business, they may as well not bother saying anything.

 

[Sue]

I'll just point out again that nothing he is announcing today isn't anything we haven't already been doing in Scotland all along. How's his Freedom Day looking as a decision now, huh?

Edit, except work from home guidance, although Nicola Sturgeon put that back in formally last week, and it's always been kept in a 'if you can do this then do it' tone of voice here.

Yeah it's complete bullshit.

 

[LDC]

"Your spokesperson has resigned has they've been caught abusing children."

"Well, yes, but first off let me pay tribute to them and say what a fantastic job they did before they got caught."

 

[Ms Ordinary]

Oh god, daily tests for contacts instead of isolation.

This was the tacit policy where I work (already allowed according to the NHS app for the double-vaccinated).

Guess what? Our department has gone down one by one - even with PCR tests, the time-lag before getting a result has given it just enough time to spread before we're allowed to isolate.

Though also didn't help that the un-vaccinated & partially-vaccinated types are also most likely to rely on LFTs. Those of us who now have positive PCR results all had 2 to 3 days of negative LFTs while waiting for them.

 

[weepiper]

Feels like we're probably going to see some further restrictions in Scotland quite soon (short Twitter thread)

 

[weepiper]

Also, lol

 

[weepiper]

It wasn’t mandated. We have a massive office in Scotland and we never rescinded working from office because the government was only advising it, not requiring it. If a government doesn’t lay down something as a rule for business, they may as well not bother saying anything.

Was it ever actually mandated (in England or Scotland) though? I may be remembering wrong but has it not always been phrased as 'should work from home if you can' to get round all the many industries where you actually can't work from home.

 

[little_legs]

plan b finally materialised in part because of the party, lol

 

[SpookyFrank]

plan b finally materialised in part because of the party, lol

Yeah, shame it's the same as plan A though.

 

[StoneRoad]

Too little, too late, as per usual.
I'm already boosted, masking & WFH when I can.

and testing instead of isolation, that's just bizarre ...

 

[kabbes]

Was it ever actually mandated (in England or Scotland) though? I may be remembering wrong but has it not always been phrased as 'should work from home if you can' to get round all the many industries where you actually can't work from home.

It’s a subtle difference but yes. There is a difference between “should” and “advise”. The former is taken as a mandate and the latter is not.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Yeah, shame it's the same as plan A though.

It's not.

 

[existentialist]

He's said it again! "We will miss her".

If there were a "Person Who Just Doesn't Get It" award, he'd have it for 2020, 2021, and (I strongly fear/suspect) 2022, he'd be a shoe-in.

 

[Balbi]

Just in case I don't understand, what exactly was Plan A over there folks?

Get about 70% of the population vaccinated and then just open everything up without masks or social distancing or limits on venue capacity.

Because that doesn't seem like a plan.

 

[Sue]

Just in case I don't understand, what exactly was Plan A over there folks?

Get about 70% of the population vaccinated and then just open everything up without masks or social distancing or limits on venue capacity.

Because that doesn't seem like a plan.

In England, pretty much.