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Wetherspoon's planning reopening of its pubs and hotels "in or around June"
Pub chain Wetherspoon's said it plans to reopen its bars and hotels in June, as founder Tim Martin revealed the extent of the carnage caused to the business due to the coronavirus lockdown.
www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk
Good times ahead William of Walworth
Lorca
Call in Sick Tomorrow
Not long got back from a C19 testing centre at Worcester RFC, was a quite surreal experience, like being in an apocalyptic movie set. You drive in and a load of what look like festival security in full ppe hold up signs saying 'keep windows shut' and 'park here' etc and then you call their mobile and they give you strict instructions over the phone and hand you the testing kit in a biohazard bag thru a small gap in the car window.
You then have to pull over and do the test on yourself by coughing and sneezing onto a tissue then putting a swab up your nostril and on your tonsils, which is a little unpleasant and placing it into a tube.
You then drive round a circuit and phone a different mobile to get instructions on how to hand in the biohazard bag with the swab. Very strange experience, quite unsettling tbh.
Now have to wait 48 hrs to 5 days for the result!
You then have to pull over and do the test on yourself by coughing and sneezing onto a tissue then putting a swab up your nostril and on your tonsils, which is a little unpleasant and placing it into a tube.
You then drive round a circuit and phone a different mobile to get instructions on how to hand in the biohazard bag with the swab. Very strange experience, quite unsettling tbh.
Now have to wait 48 hrs to 5 days for the result!
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Wetherspoon's planning reopening of its pubs and hotels "in or around June"
Pub chain Wetherspoon's said it plans to reopen its bars and hotels in June, as founder Tim Martin revealed the extent of the carnage caused to the business due to the coronavirus lockdown.
Good times ahead William of Walworth
One of my neighbours is a pub manager. The company who own the pub have also said a similar thing regarding June.
Nothing more than wishful thinking.
As mentioned on this (or another similar) thread my local brewery pubs are not opening till August at the earliest regardless of government advice.
Alcohol + indoors + Covid-19 + public toilets = a fucking mess in most places, let alone Wetherspoons
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it won't be for ages yet. the indications at work are they're not expecting us back until july at the earliest: and they're making plans for closure til at least september.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
and yet cliff richard still stalks the earthUp to (and over) 26k deaths now
More like a shadowy figure that crawls through tunnels beneath the earth
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Judging from the exasperation with which my flatmate relays his tales of trips to the local Tesco, social distancing is going to fucking pot. One idiot even said to him something along the lines that said idiot's violation of social distancing was OK because "everyone else is doing it". Good fucking grief.
We are definitely due a second wave.
We are definitely due a second wave.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I found this very interesting
www.1843magazine.com
Do you speak corona? A guide to covid-19 slang
Around the world, coronavirus is changing how we speak. Don’t be a “covidiot” – make sure your pandemic parlance is up to scratch
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
I found this very interesting
Do you speak corona? A guide to covid-19 slang
Around the world, coronavirus is changing how we speak. Don’t be a “covidiot” – make sure your pandemic parlance is up to scratch
I've always liked hamsteren
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
This is probably the worst thing I've ever seen and heard and I've witnessed a murder:
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
3 layers of cotton with a Numatic (Henry) vacuum cleaner filter inside. A little warm but bloody effective.
Woah there, a bit of patience. To get a second wave we'd need to be out of the first wave. Anything that happens at the moment will still be first wave. Plenty of time for a second one.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Its a modified pandemic version of the shit that was going on before - basically the Johnson government copying aspects of Trumps approach to the media. Same shit that meant before the first pandemic wave got going, they were still doing things like boycotting the Today programme on radio 4, threatening the BBC and Channel 4, etc etc.
So its their previous agenda combined with the fact they dont actually have a proper defence against the criticisms, combined with some polling that showed them doing OK from the pandemic at some stage (I'm out of date with that now) and the fact more members of the public have been watching press conferences (the daily Covid-19 one) and some wont have been impressed with a chunk of the questions from the media.
Hell we even saw the 'lets rally round and support the government on this one' from a few on these forums at some stages of this pandemic, there is some kind of instinct on that front that inflicts some people at times of great woe and uncertainty.
elbows
Well-Known Member
My brother, for example, was asking me the other day why the media are talking as though this country is one of the worst in the world at handling the pandemic, when he thinks the government have done quite a good job. And the reason for that is simple, it has nothing to do with the pandemic, the preparations and the response, its all to do with his pre-existing worldview and politics which are shit.
Yeah. Just shitty political tribalism. If this was a Corbyn government doing exactly the same things... well lets just say you there would be many that would hold a different opinion to the one they currently hold.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Huge rise in deaths announced yesterday, and I thought things couldn't get much worse. Then I saw this. The end of days are truly here.
I thought this was interesting
More details here...
www.innovationaction.org
The filter used suggests this will be at least as good as FFP3 masks..
More details here...
PeRSo - Innovation Action
The filter used suggests this will be at least as good as FFP3 masks..
Aiui they're continuing to (re)assess anyone who'd already started that process, but people who were due a review but hadn't yet started the reassessment process get an automatic extension to their claim (initially for three months iirc)
E2a Coronavirus update - benefit reviews and reassessments suspended
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
Don't know if this has been posted elsewhere but looks like some interesting results on prophylactic treatments.
URGENT! Please circulate as widely as possible. It is crucial that every pulmonologist, every critical care doctor
and nurse, every hospital administrator, every public health official receive this information immediately.
This is our recommended approach to COVID-19 based on the best (and most recent) literature. We
should not re-invent the wheel but learn from the experience of others. This is a very dynamic situation;
therefore, we will be updating the guideline as new information emerges. Please check on the EVMS
website for updated versions of this protocol.
URGENT! Please circulate as widely as possible. It is crucial that every pulmonologist, every critical care doctor
and nurse, every hospital administrator, every public health official receive this information immediately.
This is our recommended approach to COVID-19 based on the best (and most recent) literature. We
should not re-invent the wheel but learn from the experience of others. This is a very dynamic situation;
therefore, we will be updating the guideline as new information emerges. Please check on the EVMS
website for updated versions of this protocol.
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
That has got to be parody has it not or else isolation has got to these guys in a bad way...(calling Charlie Brooker...)
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Well I just risked it all for a computer chair my neighbour just chucked out - though I will quarantine it and wipe it down before using it...
I's rough and ready, but better than my small deck chair that's held together with wood and wire ... and it means I may be motivated to sit somewhere else occasionally ...
I's rough and ready, but better than my small deck chair that's held together with wood and wire ... and it means I may be motivated to sit somewhere else occasionally ...
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