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Skyblueweeman

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,196
fernandopartridge said:
We're close to doing similar pending moving into the new house, with a six week old and a two year old I'm not taking chances I don't need to.
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Cant remember if I've said congrats on your newborn so congrats if not. Hope mum and baby are well.

Good luck with the move. What a time to do that!!

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Flying Fokker

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,197
Skyblueweeman said:
Shes my wife...no condoms needed. Baby number 2 expected somewhere between 9-18 months!

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Les Dawson would like that one.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,198
More restrictions being put in place here and even the Russians are getting involved in helping out.
 

Skyblueweeman

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,199
Otis said:
Wish we could do the same.

I am being really, really careful, but my wife works part time at a very busy store and worse still, they have just started putting her on the tills because they are short of staff.

She is therefore having lots of close social contact and cash is constantly filtering through her hands too.
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Sorry to hear that Otis. I know it's no comfort but try and take some solace that Mrs Otis is most definitely doing her bit to keep this country running and ensuring that we come out of this the other side as soon as we can. A big sacrifice that isn't going unnoticed.

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Otis

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,200
Yup.

They are all a very important cog in the machine.
 
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Magwitch

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,201
Astute said:
I have got used to getting battered from both sides.

Labour voter all my life. But I see the faults. Have never voted Tories but can see why others would.

New Labour were Tories in red. They shafted our pensions. The Tories shaft us all the time. Boris is a twat. Corbyn wasn't even capable of beating a twat.

But less of that. We have a virus to beat.
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Boris and some of his now very quiet cohorts are a busted flush and he knows, they know it, just look at Boris’s demeanour at his conferences, look into his eyes.

As for shopping etc, no more supermarkets use home delivery, use butchers and fruit shops for fresh food, keep away from processed food, wear gloves and masks, brisk fresh air walks and plenty of fresh air into your lungs, no public contact and spend our life on the settee watching tv, decorating doing the garden. If all of us did that this virus might subside in a few weeks.
For those who think otherwise look at Italy, no where near its peak yet and hundreds are dying daily and today it’s been announced over 42 African countries are now infected and its now raised its head in India early stage as yet but as we speak the Indian Government are having a practice lockdown in Delhi. Ask yourselves why.
Total Lockdown your loved ones.
 
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djr8369

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,202
Grendel said:
I don’t why people don’t accept the inevitable that in the end 20 - 30,000 will die and all that can be done is restricting the rate of climb over 12 months - I can’t see any estimates below these figures
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Who isn’t accepting that? You’ve spent the last 10 days arguing we’re not on the same trajectory as Italy!


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djr8369

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,203
duffer said:
With apologies for losing my rag, but it’s absolute idiocy to pretend that this isn’t real.

The problem with people pushing the ‘no worse than flu’, or ‘it’s all made up’ line, is that it encourages to the kind of moronic behaviour that we’re seeing out there at the moment.

If you don’t think it’s serious yet, give it a couple a weeks and see if your opinion has changed.

Or, you know, do ten minutes of research on a serious news or science site, rather than relying on three mates on WhatsApp...
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You’d think people could see what is going on elsewhere in the world and start to see the pattern of being continually wrong about it be nothing over the last few weeks, but no.


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djr8369

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,204
fatso said:
but for fuck sake use your brain.
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Please take this advice.


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Robccfc87

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,205
Sick Boy said:
Venice canals run clear, dolphins appear in Italy’s waterways amid coronavirus... - Classic FM
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More to do with less traffic agitating the water beds than anything else I’d imagine.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,206
“We cannot disguise or sugar-coat the threat,” he said. “The numbers are very stark, and they are accelerating. We are only a matter of weeks – two or three – behind Italy. The Italians have a superb healthcare system. And yet their doctors and nurses have been completely overwhelmed by the demand. The Italian death toll is already in the thousands and climbing. Unless we act together – unless we make the heroic and collective national effort to slow the spread – then it is all too likely that our own NHS will be similarly overwhelmed.”

A quote from De Pfeffel Johnson, he could do his own part in all of this and impose a lockdown. All he’s doing his ensuring that the situation here is replicated there, if not worse.
 
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djr8369

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,207
Ring Of Steel said:
this does have all the hallmarks of your classic conspiracy theory.

a huge, worldwide threat which necessitates all human freedoms being curtailed “for our own good”.

Also it’s been pointed out that whereas Boris said he’d have all this going the right way within 12 weeks, the power to detain anyone for anything & impose social lockdown is in place for at least two years.
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Because 12 weeks is Johnson being optimistic in terms of bending the curve. The on/off social distancing measures may continue for 2 years, as shown by an article I’ve linked to previously.


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wingy

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,208
Ring Of Steel said:
Very interesting... Patrick Vallance does not come across well if this is anywhere near true.

10 Days That Changed Britain: "Heated" Debate Between Scientists Forced Boris Johnson To Act On Coronavirus
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Unfortunately this isn't new
This was suggested by BBC correspondent Norman Smith?
At the very first briefing.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,209
 
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Magwitch

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,210
Sick Boy said:
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The time for political fall out is for later but will happen, for now employ total lockdown.
 
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SBAndy

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,211
Wouldn’t surprise me if lockdown was a day or so away now. The other half saw military personnel walking round Bulkington yesterday afternoon, having never seen it happen in the 24 years she’s lived there. Granted there’s a barracks down the road but just seems a little coincidental. Brace yourselves.
 

stay_up_skyblues

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,212
Lorenzo Sanz: Former Real Madrid president dies after contracting coronavirus

Former Real Madrid president dies (aged 72) following hospitalisation with the virus.
 

Sick Boy

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,213
Magwitch said:
The time for political fall out is for later but will happen, for now employ total lockdown.
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Restrictions here mean that from tomorrow all businesses apart from non essential ones must close.
 
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djr8369

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,214
Sick Boy said:
Restrictions here mean that from tomorrow all businesses apart from non essential ones must close.
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Can you give some examples?


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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,215
djr8369 said:
Can you give some examples?


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Essential businesses are supermarkets, pharmacies, food related factories and warehouses and anything related to medicine.
The law is set to be signed later on today and come into effect from tonight.
A lot of companies are still open with minimal staff in the office itself, this law is to stop that from happening.
 
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tisza

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,216
Belgium Health Minister puts ban on non-essential sexual activities of persons 3 or greater in indoor areas

Not really sure what to say.
 
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SBAndy

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,217
tisza said:
Belgium Health Minister puts ban on non-essential sexual activities of persons 3 or greater in indoor areas

Not really sure what to say.
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I’d always class a threesome as essential (providing it’s not me and another bloke).
 
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wingy

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,218
Sick Boy said:
Essential businesses are supermarkets, pharmacies, food related factories and warehouses and anything related to medicine.
The law is set to be signed later on today and come into effect from tonight.
A lot of companies are still open with minimal staff in the office itself, this law is to stop that from happening.
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Does that mean your gaffer can now do one re the use of holidays when working from home?
 

lordsummerisle

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,219
tisza said:
Belgium Health Minister puts ban on non-essential sexual activities of persons 3 or greater in indoor areas

Not really sure what to say.
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Dogging still okay then thank God.
 
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mark82

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,220
tisza said:
Belgium Health Minister puts ban on non-essential sexual activities of persons 3 or greater in indoor areas

Not really sure what to say.
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That has to be fake.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,221
wingy said:
Does that mean your gaffer can now do one re the use of holidays when working from home?
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Hmmm it’s not clear if it’s actually legal for them to do or not, I’ve heard different things from different people but my accountant has put me in touch with a legal consultant to get more official information.
I’m in the early days of starting my own business so it’s given me that extra bit of motivation to do as much as possible now. Even before this I had a soft aim of leaving there after the summer but now it’s most definitely the plan.
At the moment the wider lockdown is supposed to end on 3rd April but I reckon it’ll go on for another month at least.
 
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lordsummerisle

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,222
mark82 said:
That has to be fake.
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It is, spoof news site, funny though, bestiality still allowed!
 
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djr8369

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,223
Sick Boy said:
Essential businesses are supermarkets, pharmacies, food related factories and warehouses and anything related to medicine.
The law is set to be signed later on today and come into effect from tonight.
A lot of companies are still open with minimal staff in the office itself, this law is to stop that from happening.
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Ah so it’s for companies not following the guidelines rather than a change in what can open?
Would take always remain open for instance?


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wingy

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,224
Coronavirus: Two NHS medics on ventilators after contracting COVID-19 from patients
 

BornSlippySkyBlue

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,225
tisza said:
Belgium Health Minister puts ban on non-essential sexual activities of persons 3 or greater in indoor areas

Not really sure what to say.
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So much to unpick in one headline.

Might move to Belgium.

And presumably you can have a ten person daisy-chain as long as you do it in the garden?
 
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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,226
mark82 said:
That has to be fake.
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Given their other stories Man hospitalized after he believed eating toilet paper could cure him from coronavirus
 
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djr8369

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,227
tisza said:
Belgium Health Minister puts ban on non-essential sexual activities of persons 3 or greater in indoor areas

Not really sure what to say.
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“78% of Belgian couples openly practice wife swapping”




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Sick Boy

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,228
djr8369 said:
Ah so it’s for companies not following the guidelines rather than a change in what can open?
Would take always remain open for instance?


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At the moment there are no guidelines that say all no essential places should close, its said those who can work from home should, so factories, for example, have stayed open.
Takeaways can stay open,yes but restaurants/takeaways are mostly shut as restaurants were ordered to close a week ago or so now.
 

Grendel

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,229
djr8369 said:
Who isn’t accepting that? You’ve spent the last 10 days arguing we’re not on the same trajectory as Italy!


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ive said all along that in terms of number of cases and deaths pretty much every independent assessment is between those ranges - the only thing that can be done is to manage across as long a time period as possible and stretch it out
 

BornSlippySkyBlue

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #6,230
SBAndy said:
I’d always class a threesome as essential (providing it’s not me and another bloke).
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That’d be a twosome, surely?
 
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