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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 28, 2020
  • #26,146
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Maybe you’ll be back teaching in the class room within a month? Would you be comfortable with that or do you personally think it’s too early
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I've thought it's more workable to either have them all back or none of them. I hope for some time with the exam classes before summer but I've got concerns about how that will work alongside remote teaching for the younger years. If we have some guidelines or suggestions it's a starting point. I think some forget that we've had to turn education on its head at pretty short notice so think it's important in particular for those senior classes
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • May 28, 2020
  • #26,147
oakey said:
Sums it up really. Ratings and opinion polls matter more than the body count.
Popularity v people's lives.
Shameful.
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spot on.
 

covmark

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  • May 28, 2020
  • #26,148
Brighton Sky Blue said:
To get to a country with hardly any new infections and which has managed the outbreak much better than we have and which will have something close to a normal tourist experience. You go on about the airports but the week spent in Greece will probably be safer than a week here if we're on about infections. We're also on about some point in mid July when even we should be out or nearly out of the woods.
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I'm not talking about Greece. You have to use a British airport, with British tourists.

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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 28, 2020
  • #26,149
covmark said:
I'm not talking about Greece. You have to use a British airport, with British tourists.

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Since this virus became active I have been using British supermarkets filled with British people not following the guidelines. Going for exercise in British open spaces with more British people not following the guidelines. Add all that time up and the time spent in a heavily distanced airport and plane on the way there and back, and the risk is acceptably low. Particularly, and I keep making this point, as it's to spend a week somewhere much safer in terms of Covid than this country is. We're also talking around 6-7 weeks on from the initially proposed return date to schools.

If it was anywhere else, we'd have cancelled already.
 

chiefdave

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  • May 28, 2020
  • #26,150
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Maybe you’ll be back teaching in the class room within a month? Would you be comfortable with that or do you personally think it’s too early
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Not sure there would be a great deal to gain by getting everyone back in for a couple of weeks before the summer holiday.

Just checked the schools local to me and they all seem to be saying they can't take all pupils back while maintaining social distancing. So its either continuing to act essentially as child care for essential workers or rota students part time.
 

covmark

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  • May 28, 2020
  • #26,151
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Since this virus became active I have been using British supermarkets filled with British people not following the guidelines. Going for exercise in British open spaces with more British people not following the guidelines. Add all that time up and the time spent in a heavily distanced airport and plane on the way there and back, and the risk is acceptably low. Particularly, and I keep making this point, as it's to spend a week somewhere much safer in terms of Covid than this country is. We're also talking around 6-7 weeks on from the initially proposed return date to schools.

If it was anywhere else, we'd have cancelled already.
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Fair enough mate.

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clint van damme

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,152
covmark said:
People should do time for this shit. It's a national fucking disgrace.

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be interesting to see the detail of this and who responsibility can be pinned on.
I wonder, if after all the Cummings stuff, Johnson needs a sacking under his belt.
 

David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,153
SkyBlueDom26 said:
What is wrong with you? We can’t sit in lockdown forever!!! We need to find a safe balance and now SAGE have advised that they have been met and we can slowly reopen the economy, nowhere else has had this second spike every Twitter ‘expert’ seems to think will happen
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Yes a safe balance.

What the hell is wrong with you? You seem so desperate to end the restrictions you don't care if people die

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shmmeee

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,154
chiefdave said:
Not sure there would be a great deal to gain by getting everyone back in for a couple of weeks before the summer holiday.

Just checked the schools local to me and they all seem to be saying they can't take all pupils back while maintaining social distancing. So its either continuing to act essentially as child care for essential workers or rota students part time.
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From a parents POV as well, if I’m not getting enough childcare to go back to work full time, is it worth sending my kid to (her words) “basically a prison” (because of distancing measures) for a few weeks when I’ve got the other one at home anyway?

I just don’t see this great clamour for schools to reopen now for a month or so, at all this effort for so little reward. Seems entirely built around “the other kids are allowed” type thinking.

We’ve decimated public services for a decade and now act like we can match the likes of Denmark for space and staff. It’s utterly delusional.
 
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clint van damme

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,155
SkyBlueDom26 said:
What is wrong with you? We can’t sit in lockdown forever!!! We need to find a safe balance and now SAGE have advised that they have been met and we can slowly reopen the economy, nowhere else has had this second spike every Twitter ‘expert’ seems to think will happen
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yes they have, and some have reimposed restrictions.
 

jordan210

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,156
Not sure if this got posted.

 

shmmeee

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,157
jordan210 said:
Not sure if this got posted.

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Fuck me they’re scraping the barrel. Haven’t read it yet but is it complete shite like literally every other Guido story?

Edit: yep. Yep it is.
 
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jordan210

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,158
shmmeee said:
Fuck me they’re scraping the barrel. Haven’t read it yet but is it complete shite like literally every other Guido story?
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Its a true Story about our very own Lego head.
 

shmmeee

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,159
jordan210 said:
Its a true Story about our very own Lego head.
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Yeah it’s CWR retweeting a tweet Gilbert deleted and reposted with more clarity. It’s hardly watergate.


My general rule of thumb that Guido is a bag of shit holds.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,160
shmmeee said:
Yeah it’s CWR retweeting a tweet Gilbert deleted and reposted with more clarity. It’s hardly watergate.


My general rule of thumb that Guido is a bag of shit holds.
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Shame he only clarified once they published that mind you.
 

David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,161
shmmeee said:
Yeah it’s CWR retweeting a tweet Gilbert deleted and reposted with more clarity. It’s hardly watergate.


My general rule of thumb that Guido is a bag of shit holds.
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Aye it's guido

Not a real news source

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David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,162
clint van damme said:
yes they have, and some have reimposed restrictions.
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Exactly even the much vaunted South Korea are having to tighten.

Dom is a walking talking study in confirmation bias

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David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,163
Deleted member 5849 said:
Shame he only clarified once they published that mind you.
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His original tweet wasn't even that misleading.

There's many things to beat Gilbert for but this isn't one.

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clint van damme

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,164
shmmeee said:
Fuck me they’re scraping the barrel. Haven’t read it yet but is it complete shite like literally every other Guido story?

Edit: yep. Yep it is.
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Independent SAGE getting mixed up with official SAGE.
Gilbert sloppy as usual. Not a communist conspiracy as suggested by some of the replies.
 
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jordan210

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,165
shmmeee said:
Yeah it’s CWR retweeting a tweet Gilbert deleted and reposted with more clarity. It’s hardly watergate.


My general rule of thumb that Guido is a bag of shit holds.
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took him a few times to delete it. At first he kinda tired to style it out. By replying under it with vague clarification. Then deleted it.

ultimately poor journalism from him and Guido
 
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shmmeee

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,166
jordan210 said:
took him a few times to delete it. At first he kinda tired to style it out. By replying under it with vague clarification. Then deleted it.

ultimately poor journalism from him and Guido
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Not defending Gilbert, just saying picking up on minor errors by local journalists to have a stick to beat the BBC with is scraping the barrel
 

David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,167

Seems the concerns that the government wanted to reduce the furlough payment they were making to 60 percent were true.

Asking employers with no income to pay 20 percent plus ni contributions will lead to more jobs gone

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David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,168
shmmeee said:
Not defending Gilbert, just saying picking up on minor errors by local journalists to have a stick to beat the BBC with is scraping the barrel
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Yep we all know Gilbert is a poor journalist.

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David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,169
Coronavirus updates: Schools close again over South Korea virus spike - BBC News

The WHO don't think the virus is just going away

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ajsccfc

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,170
I bet even the most rabid Cov fan that Gilbert has had to deal with pales into comparison with the BBC tinfoil loons.
 
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SkyBlueDom26

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,171
David O'Day said:

Seems the concerns that the government wanted to reduce the furlough payment they were making to 60 percent were true.

Asking employers with no income to pay 20 percent plus ni contributions will lead to more jobs gone

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Can’t see him doing that, it would be crazy and millions will be without a job, they need to keep the 80% for companies with no income and reduce for companies who are resuming work....

Are they basically saying we’ll pay 60% and if the employee wants the other 20% the company will have to pay it? How will people afford 60%
 

David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,172
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Can’t see him doing that, it would be crazy and millions will be without a job, they need to keep the 80% for companies with no income and reduce for companies who are resuming work
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Well there are multiple reports now that this is what they plan.

His tweets as pointed out to you st thevtimecof his commons statement said employers would have to pay a part of the furlough money.

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SkyBlueDom26

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,173
David O'Day said:
Well there are multiple reports now that this is what they plan.

His tweets as pointed out to you st thevtimecof his commons statement said employers would have to pay a part of the furlough money.

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I can’t see how people will be able to pay bills on 60%, it’s obvious companies with no income won’t be able to pay the 20%
 

David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,174
SkyBlueDom26 said:
I can’t see how people will be able to pay bills on 60%, it’s obvious companies with no income won’t be able to pay the 20%
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He said it himself at the start of may as per below this would happen


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SkyBlueDom26

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,175
David O'Day said:
He said it himself at the start of may as per below this would happen


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Well millions will end up unemployed if that’s the case, how can you expect companies with 0 income to pay people’s wages.... it should deffo be the case that people who can work shouldn’t be on furlough! This is why we have to get the economy going again and things back to normal
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,176
SkyBlueDom26 said:
I can’t see how people will be able to pay bills on 60%, it’s obvious companies with no income won’t be able to pay the 20%
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Practically, government isn't a bottomless money pit. Time to raise taxes to pay for the state aid.
 

SkyBlueDom26

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,177
Deleted member 5849 said:
Practically, government isn't a bottomless money pit. Time to raise taxes to pay for the state aid.
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Why we have to start getting the economy going again and lifting the lockdown safely
 

jordan210

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,178
ajsccfc said:
I bet even the most rabid Cov fan that Gilbert has had to deal with pales into comparison with the BBC tinfoil loons.
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Some of the shite that Laura kuenssberg has to put up with, generally make you feel sorry for her. even tough she can be annoying as hell
 

Ian1779

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,179
jordan210 said:
Some of the shite that Laura kuenssberg has to put up with, generally make you feel sorry for her. even tough she can be annoying as hell
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As Secretary of State for Propaganda- she deserves no sympathy.
 

David O'Day

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  • May 29, 2020
  • #26,180
ajsccfc said:
I bet even the most rabid Cov fan that Gilbert has had to deal with pales into comparison with the BBC tinfoil loons.
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They aren't mutually exclusive

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