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Another fine example of trickle down economics. The amount chief execs earn has gone from 20 times the average worker in the 80s to now be 120 times. BBC saying they have to work 34 hours to beat the median average pay. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55551314 Also in the news the ONS have...

Had the same, was doing shopping, collecting medication etc for them and then I'd get my Mum saying she'd popped to M&S but it was fine as its safe there! Took weeks to drill it into them.

That's one of the exemptions.

I've no idea how nobody lost it with that women and her sudden onset of any illness she could think of. Made me laugh when one of the coppers said 'she'll have polio by the end of the week'.

Government create their own problems a lot of the time. If they hadn't made any mention of getting 10 million doses of Pfizer and 30 million doses of Cambridge Astra by the end of 2020 then we'd all be thinking it was going brilliantly in terms of getting hold of vaccines. Over promising leads...

The BBC article is interesting. Around 15 million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine in the country, about half what the government said would be available by the end of 2020 but only 4 million have been filled and finished ready for use. Interestingly the factory in Wales where this finish...

Warwick Uni did their Christmas science lectures online this year if they're any use to anyone who is home schooling. 6 lectures in total, 2 for each age group, 8+, 10+ and 12+. https://warwick.ac.uk/wie/warwickengages/calendar/warwickchristmaslectures/

Doesn't this in part come down to companies having sufficient staffing levels rather than running everything on the minimum possible to save money? Obviously if half your workforce is off there's a problem but most businesses should be able to cope with a certain level of staff being off. What...

If you can work from home and you boss is making you go in he's a dick and depending on how exactly they implement the promised legal enforcement of restrictions might be breaking the law by the end of the week. The issue of people not staying at home because they can't afford the time off even...

In lockdown 1 local forces were advised by the National Police Chiefs’ Council to work on the basis that the length of the exercise had to be greater than the time spent on travel. Or something along those lines, can't remember the exact wording. Suspect they'll use similar this time as nothing...

I would guess it would help with compliance as well. If people see 7 figure numbers popping up every week as vaccinated then it gives you hope and makes it easier to put up with a few more weeks.

Other countries didn't allow exemptions to mask wearing did they? If you left the house you worse a mask, if you had a medical condition that meant you couldn't wear a mask you weren't deemed safe to leave the house. We've done the double whammy of allowing exemptions and not requiring any...

Frustrating that we're 9 months into this and still talking about the same issues we had day one. Increased deliveries, click & collect and booked slots for shopping shouldn't be that hard to implement. Thats just off the top of my head sure there's plenty of other things that can be done.

Should seems a pretty vague term for something you're putting into law. Would that really hold up if challenged?

They definitely need to clamp down on what shops are actually essential.

Not watching but following the BBC News feed which said. That is exactly what they've been ignoring people saying for months and claiming it wasn't true. Suppose its an improvement on the buildings are safe, its just a problem when people are in them rubbish he came out with earlier today.

I'm watching the football, what is actually changing on a practical level given we're already in tier 4 and supposed to be staying at home unless you can't WFH?

The scientists did know that, they said it at the time. And of course that assumes people in tier 2 are sticking to the rules. Did the pictures being shared on social media of people in London shopping and in bars & restaurants give any indication people were doing as they were told or anything...

These vaccine manufacturers should really speak to Johnson as he seems to know more about how vaccines work than they do.

Assuming this is going to be an increased lockdown, although I'm not sure how much more locked down I can be when we're already at 'don't leave the house' level, they really need to give details of what is going on with vaccinations. How many doses we have now and what deliveries we are...