So now we've leapt from 'easter will be hugely better' to 'confident we can be back to normal before 2022'.
They really don't have an exit strategy do they?
Question 1- why was the approach road blocked off to stop access to fire engines
Question 2- who exactly did marstons sell it to that they won't reveal
Question 3- who did the new owner pay to torch it?
Well I'm sat on a train and I'd say percentage wearing masks lower than I've seen in ages. Maybe 50-50. Good to see the train actually quite busy as well....
You know the most offensive bit of a truly crap year? When they actually chained the swings up and put barbed wire on the kids playground on my road.
I mean talk of sledgehammer to crack nut territory. And how to psychologically damage kids
@UsforThemUK
@Arwenstar
True with the exception they want to send others to war. Just like they wanted to send others to amazon warehouses or jobs at deliveroo to preserve their embourgeoised lifestyle
Hi
@WaspsRugby
, in complete solidarity with you, just checking I won't be lynched if I turn up tomorrow in my
@WorcsWarriors
shirt? And let's hope both our clubs can find a way forward?
2045 GCSE history paper.
1) what made the population give up their freedoms so easily
2) What tactics did governments use to keep restrictions ongoing and why? Discuss their effectiveness (using sources)
@JamesMelville
I think libertarian/authoritarian has replaced the left/right divide as the main division right now. Unfortunately this pandemic has revealed many on the left to be rather lured towards authoritarian ideas
@AbiChippindale
Best one was my colleagues all blubbing because they want them to go back 2 days a week and it's 'not safe' yet they all met in a crowded pub to discuss tactics and for someone's birthday..... Methinks safety isn't the real underlying reason....
If an individual pupil had been out of school half of the time the 'average' pupil has missed in terms of school days since September, social services would be involved. We're destroying kids education on the altar of saving their granny
If/when this is all over, 2 things urgently need looking at.
1- our paranoid fear of our own mortality. death is fact, why so scared to confront that?
2- overfocus on longevity above quality. Being happy to lock ppl away in the care system with zero life quality but 'alive'
@hughosmond
Honestly think there is a horrid puritanical holier than thou element to lockdown supporters. They'll propose next locking up swings in parks going beyond this crisis every Thursday at 8 to worship the demagogue that is our nondescript health service
So Johnson now saying the return to school is, and I quote, made possible by the 'pace of the vaccine programme'
So if there was no vaccine, and no vaccine on the horizon, kids could never go to school until when, exactly?
Perhaps this might show the lockdown zealots that there is a difference between free from, and free to. And being free from viruses isn't a realistic goal if we want a life where we are free to do the things that make being alive worthwhile
@ollysmithtravel
The only difference it made was to help improve some people's mental health at a difficult time so absolutely stays as a net positive imo
@leoniedelt
@GilesPalaeoLab
Parents (or good parents) should be shielding their kids from fear, not projecting their own paranoia onto their children. To do the latter is psychologically unhealthy
@KingBobIIV
Firstly, so so sorry you went through all that on point 5. Secondly, these folk would defend Ian Watkins if they thought he was somehow 'on their side'. Sickens me how perceived 'one of us' status is such a cover for really abhorrent behavioue
What's irritating is how it seems that rather than the Xmas party affair making all realise that the rules were ludicrous, it seems to be making so many folk double down that rules are there to be followed....
Every aspect of life should be about managed risk. It's that which makes life liveable and you know, fun. Why oh why do we have to be so utterly risk averse
@MrsSMHI
@Streakyblue1951
@SimonCalder
@BBCBreakfast
I'd be overseas like a shot. Even to a hotspot like, say Brazil. The governments drunkenness on power concerns me far more than a virus that statistically I'd be over 99% likely to be fine with
So many people seem to think the role of a government is to keep them safe. And that a government will prioritise that out of duty.... Both are very flawed assumptions
@LarsenDisney
Absolutely sick to the teeth with products marketing with their purported ethos and views (or rather what they think the customer wants to hear) rather than actually selling the product by explaining why we actually need the product
@DPJHodges
Ah yes. Let's join in with another American/nato genocide because they're always on side of right. Unless you happen to be ordinary people on the receiving end
From a neutral (well
@WorcsWarriors
) fan view that was absolutely enthralling really.
@WaspsRugby
36
@SaintsRugby
40 very much turned on the red/penalty try and it's made me long to be back at Sixways more. Thanks for having us wasps, and good luck with your situation
#rugbyfamily
100,000 people is 0.14% of the population. Yes it's sad. But ffs can't we focus on the 99.86% of the population who haven't died of covid and stop this excessive government overreach that's ruining lives and livelihoods? Whatever happened to for the many.....
@EssexPR
I didn't even know this was a thing until someone was the other day in a meeting whilst they were in their own home. I honestly couldn't take a word he said seriously after that
Quite amusing those thinking (rightly) we should boycott China for their abhorrent human rights abuses yet still saying we should follow their model in locking down for a relatively mild virus in the most Chinese model of authoritarianism possible
@KonstantinKisin
Honest answer is, no idea because unlike so many I never got addicted to the testing constantly malarkey. I mean I've felt unwell 4 or 5 times but with what? Who knows and really, who cares?
Seeing a huge correlation between support for Palestine and extreme covid doomer twitter. Perhaps it's just a left wing thing cause of the day thing, but perhaps something more to it?
@Psycobunny
@fairyknuff
Also, if you don't need to isolate if testing positive, surely it's time to save taxpayers a hell of a lot of money by ending 'free' testing? If we're treating this like the flu, last I checked you don't constantly test for that....
@9SquirrelsBrew
Quality beer is quality beer however its served. Cask, keg, bottle, can. I'm far more bothered about the standard of the beer than how it's dispensed
Dangerous seems to be the new go to insult.... I'll take it as a complement.
Was it refused once sang, we could be dangerous, art as a real threat.....
There is no real courage unless there is real danger
When they call me dangerous, just remember that three million people have no voice right now, no money, no hope....I choose to speak for them...there is no mental health without food and housing.
@kerrysmith654
@joeolivermd
Influencer is such a non-job
I'd rather meet with a bad case of influenza than come across such a pointless wasteperson as someone who identifies as an influencer
So hold on a minute. London has the lowest rate of covid in the UK. And the highest rate of mobility over the last few weeks.
And all those pictures of people not socially distancing.....
I smell something rather rodent like
@LockdownNo
On to best pub in Manchester. And on the top 5 in the country
@TheMarbleArch
. Brilliant beer choice, cracking interior, sloped floor and lovely staff. Basically anything you could want anywhere
@MilesTheWiz
I don't think they'd care- indeed I think they wanted the building out of the way for whatever they'll build next. What would be funny is if it was ruled they had to rebuild it brick by brick
Last year when Spain, Italy etc started reopening it was huge news
This year the lockdown narrative has gone so far that shifts towards opening in France, Italy are being completely ignored. This is a huge concern
@Dr_Ellie
Just waiting for a creature to respond 'but if we'd got it under control, they could have'.
Well, if we let it run its course as a low risk group we'd be doing a lot more for child protection
Some of us on the left can work, drink, go home, cook and identify what a woman is. And recognise lockdown was wrong. Ashamed of so many others on my ideological side
@LockdownNo
@Vicster82
Actually think there are some supporting lockdown who almost think that,who believe that it is about some kind of penance that we have to endure.And worse still that suffering somehow brings us together.screw that and screw their lifestyle choices they want to inflict on everyone
@skepticalzebra
The sudden love of the left for closings borders is really one of the most bizarre things of this whole sorry episode... I thought it was the right who saw incomers as bad....
Your reminder that 2 years ago, you'd probably have had to book to go into a pub and attending football was a no no. Gigs were almost a year off.
Never ever gonna love like that again
Somewhat perplexed it's fine to keep using terms like Indian variant or Nigerian variant yet apparently it's racist to use the term China virus? Surely it's one rule or the other?
@LeoKearse
It really doesn't get much better on reading the article. 'She associates the gym with Trumps victory because the manager bet her Trump would win'? Seems a tad extreme. There's certainly more than one gym
Meanwhile, this train journey just got more fun cos quite a few Coventry city fans on way back from reading. And it seems they had a really good day. Actually they're cracking bunch tbf
Emergency operation tomorrow then. Bit tearful actually. Never even been under general anaesthetic before and not going to lie I'm ever so slightly scared
@princessjack
@LucyGoBag
The worst bit of this? Having at times over lockdown been at the utter depths of despair, I can actually say that meeting for a coffee or something of that nature can actually be a life saver (and they're talking about takeaway coffee....). Cracking piece too, thank you for this
Stuns me that ten years ago, London was prepared to riot over the shooting of a drug dealer yet now meekly accepts a government taking away all their freedoms?
@AlbertB24642636
'My children will have to grow up in a normal area because i can afford to send them to private school'. Notwithstanding the presumed typo in that sentence, diddums
@justthevax
@jonlis1
Given the level of trust I'd place in
#depfeffel
attempt to screw the whole country with his tax evading power grab, i think clinging to the hope he does is the best hope we have
@Vicster82
The problem is, so many people when someone announces it, fawn over the 'supposedly ill' person rather than telling them to stop feeling sorry for themselves
@Vicster82
@ProfKarolSikora
It's blatant kidology and it reminds me of parents trying to get their kids to eat their greens.
Just one more mouthful. It doesn't taste that bad. Just another two weeks. Think of the (exaggerated) benefits
@adrianwallis_uk
@lyndsay_hopkins
Fear that they've chosen the wrong decision and knowledge that they were coerced into it, with resentment that others stood up to that coercion I'd say?
Just imagine if Thomas Edison had been as risk averse as SAGE.... Well it's 99.7% likely that electricity is safe but you know, we'd better not take the risk and continue living in unenlightened darkness
Tell you what, I miss the pre-covid era when we didn't give so much leverage to introverted geeks and their vision to stop everyone from having fun because of their fear of missing out
@JamesMelville
In exactly the same boat as you on this James, and frustrated at the left, who i thought valued civil liberties being so tacitly supportive of this government overreach
@GeordieStory
And the most painful bit is they'll claim noone could have foreseen this. They've sold a whole generation down the river because they can't cope with their own mortality. sickening
Person A wants to go out and live life, asks nothing of Person B. Person B is scared and wants Person A to stay in so that they feel safe. And demands restrictions to force them. Why is it that so many have for the last 2 years labelled Person A, not Person B as the selfish one??
@simondolan
So what could they possibly find that would violate social distancing measures through body search?
Honestly the overreach in all areas under the aegis of 'because covid' is getting silly now
@leoniedelt
This. 100x this.
2 years we'll never get back in the name of what? Trying to outrun nature? Losing our shit about the fact we are mere mortals.
You can't cheat death. You can make the most of what time is left. We've totally lost sight of this fact and it makes me so angry
@seventiessally
One other phrase in there....
At the start of lockdown she said 'welcome to my life, that's how it's been for me for years'. Can't help but think even if subconsciously there's an element of glib delight at dragging others down to the same level
@guy_robbo
Wish I shared your optimism there. Although a work colleague who was massively pro lockdown private messaged me to say he now thinks it's ludicrous and he won't obey a single second longer.... On the plus I think Saturday has turned more ppl against restrictions
@ollysmithtravel
Isn't the concern being likes of Greece saying will reassess in September? Sure we've won the battle but with that sceptre hanging over us