Mind blown.Was the day the Beijing Olympics started, too - 8/8/08
Mind blown.Was the day the Beijing Olympics started, too - 8/8/08
Oh and they are extending the mask rules to include museums, galleries, cinemas, places of worship, recommended now and enforceable from August 8th.
8 day of the 8th month. 88 = HH = Heil Hitler.
I'm right on the border (by the Albion ground). I read somewhere that local lockdown could cross boundaries and I'm pretty sure that if West Brom and Smethwick get lockdown then some parts of Brum could be included such as Handsworth.
Yeah, I read that somewhere too. That a regional lockdown isn't necessarily going to go on council boarders or whatever, and a Sandwell one could quite possibly include parts of Brum and Walsall
Dudley and Wolvo too.
I really hope this is leading up to advising masks to be worn in indoor office spaces by autumn / flu season.
I've been back into work for a few weeks now (anyone not vulnerable or reliant on public transport was expected in & we do actually need a core of office-based staff) & with the best will in the world, inevitably people are not really distancing.
It feels ok at the moment - it's a small office with big windows & easy access to outside space & (partly due to there being large no of office-based smokers) & half the usual number of people - but I am not looking forward to winter when the windows shut & the crappy heating/"AC" comes on.
Frustratingly, the guys at work are actually really compliant with the mandatory stuff - wear their masks like lambs on the train & in shops - but seem to have such solid faith that BoJo is a good sort doing his best (!) that they won't do anything before it's officially required
Fucking hell. Stick that under a spoiler or something.
Regarding people waiting for BoJo to tell them what to do, as far as I'm aware he has. He's told offices to be Covid secure but hasn't really defined what that means. So any decent company should be putting in various measures and getting people to comply.
There is some documentation regarding covid secure guidance, but I have a vague memory of reading loads of it and not coming away with anything worth mentioning here. It didnt leave much of an impression so I will resort to guessing that it was full of empty platitudes, as this seems like a safe bet.
This is a man with a degree in literature from Oxford remember.
Travel insurance is invalid. The stresses of trying to get home as people in Spain are finding out. With cancelled flights, it could cost some a small fortune to be forced into extending their stay and a small fortune trying to buy a flight home.I just cannot fucking understand the thought process behind willingly stepping on a plane at this point, regardless of the health concerns, just from a financial stress point of view why would you risk it? Add to that most of the things you do on holiday are. going. to. be. shut.
Travel insurance is invalid. The stresses of trying to get home as people in Spain are finding out. With cancelled flights, it could cost some a small fortune to be forced into extending their stay and a small fortune trying to buy a flight home.
Many of those there just want a relaxing holiday on the beach. Not.
Do those that follow independent sage know whether they mention sewage-based surveillance much? As I mentioned recently I have not followed the output of that group at all yet, and I do plan to start at some point before autumn but I'm not quite ready yet. I guess it bothers me that I dont routinely see any obvious pressure for the government to get such a sewage system in place ASAP, and I end up thinking this all the time now that we are in a stage where local and regional measures are being taken in response to the other test-based data we do have.
Sewage testing has been happening since March, and is being expanded.
Sewage monitoring is the UK’s next defence against covid-19
Researchers have pioneered wastewater analysis and are now contributing to a nationwide programme, reports Chris Baraniuk For the past few months, scientists in the UK have been quietly poring over samples of British faeces. Researchers at a handful of universities around the country have been...www.bmj.com
However, although DEFRA has committed to the wider nationwide sewage surveillance scheme, there are few public details about it, notes Singer. The BMJ asked DEFRA if it could clarify the scope of the programme: a spokesperson declined to comment but said more information would follow “in the coming weeks.”
I got stuck with the ash cloud in 2010. Luckily was somewhere cheap as it wasn't covered by travel insurance.Travel insurance is invalid. The stresses of trying to get home as people in Spain are finding out. With cancelled flights, it could cost some a small fortune to be forced into extending their stay and a small fortune trying to buy a flight home.
Many of those there just want a relaxing holiday on the beach. Not.
Johnson has a new phrase now too.
"Hands, face, space, get a test,"
"Hands, knees and bumps a daisy".
In Cardiff today. It was weird in Tesco just now, I was virtually the own person masked up.
It's only taken a week of wearing one in England and it now feels totally normal for me. It can't be long before Wales starts insisting on it.
No, here it is...
Wash, cover, make, hands, face, space.
Got it?