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Lockdown for our city from Sunday evening.
And they sneaked out a new rule that has not yet appeared on websites "All places that sell alcohol have to cease at 10pm". That includes shops and supermarkets. |
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Bosch has just launched a reliable test that takes 39 minutes.
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Its test has a sensitivity of 98% (ie the ability to avoid false negatives) and a specificity of 100%( ie the ability to avoid false positives). |
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Im constantly having to follow ridiculous & inconsistant rules for a virus no one I know has ever seen evidence of. Between myself, and my family (several of who work in schools, so know a lot of people) and other contacts, we know a fair portion of our town and surrounding area. Plus we have a couple of local FB groups Im a member of. Do you know how many cases of CV19 we know of ? Zero, not a single one. No one I know, or anyone they know, no one in any of our groups. I had to visit the dentist the other week, and answer all the contact questions about do you have, know of ... blah. I asked them how many cases they know of .... yep, you guessed it, Zero. So if you wonder why large parts of the public are starting to get pissed off, you know why. Im constantly following stupid rules to fight something that may as well be on another planet. |
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A lot of people are asymptomatic and aren't aware that they've had it. That is how it was able to spread unnoticed.
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Vitamin D helps fight and avoid infection
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I’m not denying it’s existence, 40 odd thousand people have died, but I think the country is going mad. As I’ve always maintained, shield the vulnerable, everybody else get on with life. |
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RULE OF 600 Hundreds of boozers spill out of pubs into street ‘party’ and packed Tubes after ‘fun police’ enforce 10pm curfews
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They will close the pubs very soon imo. |
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Unfortunately, closing the pubs and restaurants in London at 10pm compresses all those who would normally have left at 10pm, 11pm and midnight onto the same trains and buses, so social distancing becomes weakened. |
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What if the elderly don't want shielding and just want to live out there lives as they wish to.
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The bottom line is ......” is the NHS at risk of being overwhelmed”?
Ev3n at the height of the pandemic everyone that needed a bed had one, everyone that needed a ventilator had one. Unless hospital admissions look like they’re heading to those levels There should not be extra restrictions ( I hate the term lockdown, as we’re not in lockdown in any way). That is in the government’s 5 point plan, that they’re ignoring. |
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Sod the bloody NHS. All we hear about is the NHS, NHS, NHS.
What is the point of an NHS that cannot provide the service element in its name? Cancer? Kidneys? Hip replacements, etc. The NHS isn't exactly overwhelmed with CV vases now plus they have the Nightingale capacity. Barbed wire round the doctors' surgery; Gestapo surgery front desk only capable of saying "No". My mask shields me from other emitted particles; my plain galss spectacles reduces particle ingress to my eyes; hand gel galore. What's the big problem? If the younger proportion run wild, they're not affecting the more vulnerable people who protect themselves sensibly. And the Guvmin hasn't a clue what do do. |
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So they do a study and it turns out that, at least this time, there is evidence their suspicion is correct. Public Health authorities though are rightly wary of promoting health advice they aren't entirely convinced by. |
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Vitamin D is a vitamin, there is no downside from promoting it. Yes topping up your vitamin d levels ensures your immune system is at 100% but it won't boost it beyond that
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Love this from the police today in London.
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Even with Vitamin D, the immune system takes time to build it's immunity. In that intervening time, damage is done to cells.
The required specialist surgeons(eg orthopaedic for joint replacements) can't be magicked out of thin air, Then there is the physiotherapists etc. Wearing a mask isn't 100% effective. Not quite sure how having potentially infected people gathering in GP surgeries is a good idea. The younger generation go home, work in shops, visit people etc. That makes their behaviour a potential risk. ---------- Post added at 19:56 ---------- Previous post was at 19:56 ---------- Quote:
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The BLM protests occurred when we were still in full national lockdown, you know when Cummings was getting his eyes tested. This is double standards and hypocrisy of a gold standard. |
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It’s a bad day when Nomadking can shoot you down with copying and pasting from two sources.
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I don’t “support” them, I support the right to protest on an equal footing to other causes and be policed in the same manner. |
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The answer if you are unsure, is absolutely no, and I might add again that this type of totalitarian bollocks is partly the reason they are protesting. It seems that some protests are more equal than others. Such is the way of things these times. |
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An anti-mask protest is probably going to break the rules on wearing masks tbf.
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I suspect your judgement is being clouded by your view of the political motives behind each protest rather than being objective from a health perspective. |
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There were mass gatherings that resulted in criminal damage that didn't get prosecuted. While a guy who protested to save the statues got two weeks in prison for public urination after he turned himself over.
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A record, by your own standards of contradiction. |
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23rd of June is when he said pubs and restaurants were allowed to open on the 4th July. By then shops were already open. |
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The difference is that there are now regulations on social distancing, whereas before there wasn't. They weren't arrested for simply gathering, they were arrested for not social distancing.
Whether a previous group of protesters were causing damage, and not being arrested is a separate issue. As my previous link/quote pointed out, protests ARE allowed, but they have to socially distance and submit a risk assessment. |
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Either way you cut it, the restrictions were tighter during the BLM protests, that they are now. Therefore the police response is not proportionate. |
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Also the deaths were higher which I would consider the "realist" factor
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Also my point is not about appropriateness, or about the protest. My point is very simply about the same conditions and response being afforded to those protesting this issue, as was afforded to those protesting previous issues. That’s all Quote:
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I don't think the restrictions now are more than they were then. I don't actually know why the police stopped this protest but as I said since they were protesting the rules on COVID I wouldn't be surprised they broke the rules on COVID. I think a lot of the times it's about how much the people 'push it'. The police would have turned a blind-eye to some rule breaking as it's not fesible or sensible to arrest everyone who isn't social distancing or wearing a mask but if you have mass rule breaking then that can only go so far. I don't have a strong opinion on the BLM marches or this one breaking the rules though. They both seemed pretty risky. |
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I think that’s the difference. Pierre has such strong opinions on BLM he literally started the thread.
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My mum has been taking Vitamin D3 for years, it didn't stop her catching Coronavirus and ending up paralysed.
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/684 Which basically removes your right to protest, en mass, in a seemingly free society. The people protesting in London are right to protest. If you didn’t know about this, you should and you should be concerned. This is bordering on Orwellian. I’m pretty sure this was never debated in Parliament. Which is why I’m sure MP’ are now demanding that. Government is stepping beyond what is acceptable to a free society. Whether a previous group of protesters were causing damage, and not being arrested is a separate issue. As my previous link/quote pointed out, protests ARE allowed, but they have to socially distance and submit a risk assessment.[/QUOTE] ---------- Post added at 21:35 ---------- Previous post was at 21:33 ---------- Quote:
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It seems Boris Johnson's honeymoon period has well and truly ended..
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I have no issue with the BLM protests (I have major reservations on BLM as a political entity) but they can protest all they want. If they want to vandalise stuff and attack police....fine. I also have no issue with the protestors that have current concerns with how the government are handling COVID, sure there are wackos amongst them, but also intelligent concerned people. What I do have an issue with is the difference in police response. ---------- Post added at 21:42 ---------- Previous post was at 21:41 ---------- Quote:
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It’s you that’s twisting against one set of protests and sticking up for another. I’m unsure really why to be honest. I think in the current climate, as we all live under greater restrictions they should equally be discouraged.
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I do think you are demonstrating bias, perhaps unconsciously, against BLM. However as I said that’s for another thread. A gathering is a gathering in my book. |
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Let's keep the topic of BLM out of this thread, other than discussing protests
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I’ve been consistent with my view on BLM on this forum. I agree with the message of BLM. I argued against the death of George Floyd and against those on this forum that attempted to mitigate it. I have always drawn a distinction between BLM the message and BLM the political entity/ideology. There is a difference. |
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Let’s adopt the Sweden model. 50% working from home. Make employers pay levies for social security payments at sizeable percentages of wages. Sounds amazing. |
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Dad anyone get arrested at the VE Day street parties? They looked closer than 2 metres to me. Many of them looked high risk too. |
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Can you evidence that less people attended VE Day street parties than these so called “mass demonstrations”. The BBC certainly found one easy enough to join them for singing those tedious wartime ditties. What’s my “real objective” here? I’m not a spy, Max. I’m fairly transparent in this thread on the fact I’d like to see the virus dealt with effectively by the Govermment, which in turn promotes economic recovery. |
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The virus doesn’t care if you’re one large mass gathering or thousands of smaller ones. It takes its opportunities when it can. |
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Back to the topic please.
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I supported the early decisions, I grugingly supported the lockdown. But over the last few weeks its just been one knee jerk reaction after another, and as per previous post, a lot of the general public (that I know of, and myself as well) are getting pretty cheesed off with all these constant (and inconsistant) rules for something none of us have see any evidence of (other than on TV). I went out for a meal tonight. The rules forced me to wear a mask to walk 20 or so feet from the door to my table, and the same when I left. A trip of about 10 seconds each way, Im sure it made all the difference (esp as its almost a certainty there is no CV19 anywhere near the place). I had to keep asking staff to repeat what they were saying to me because their masks muffled their voice so much I could not make it out (a noisy environment). I happened upon the official government site on masks, which states ; Quote:
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There is a difference between what was in the past, just advice or guidance, and what has now been enshrined in law. There is a legal difference between "should" and "must".
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Any measures are introduced at the "last minute" in response to an ever-changing situation. Not really a situation suitable for endless debates that delay things. The alternative would have to be even harsher rules, because of the delay in being able to introduce them. They would have to be entirely speculative and possibly over the top, because they wouldn't know what the situation would be by the time anything was debated and approved. |
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Read it , click on the link. The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/684 It’s no longer a case of being asked nicely to do something, it’s do it or be sanctioned by the state. That is complete overkill for this situation. |
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In Sweden most comply without the need for legislation. They have a sense of community which we lost long ago. |
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Extract from a lengthy article comparing different countries success in fighting Covid.
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However, I must agree that enough is enough. There is growing pressure now for a different approach - one that I have been advocating for sometime now. Protect the vulnerable and let the rest of the population to go about their business. Hopefully,the Commons debate on 6 October will achieve just that. I just hope they don’t force the older population to shield, because many of them are still hail and hearty. Some of us are even healthier than some people in their 30s and so it would be massively unfair to subject them to such restrictions. |
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Which countries HAVEN'T been caught out by easing of restrictions? Just look at the list of countries, where you are required to quarantine upon return to the UK. |
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