Popular Post leicsmac 4,702 Posted 27 November 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 25 minutes ago, BKLFox said: Look about 6 posts up from yours, @leicsmac lives in SK & they did much of what your preferable path would be but its still there & rising currently yes they have a little more freedom currently but its not a case of ying & yang on how much of this is panning out. The up shot of all this is that there are 2 options lockdowns or no lockdowns both come with their own set of problems. To add further clarity to this and my own posts above, what Korea did well right at the start was hunting down the first outbreaks and jumping on them as soon as they first arrived, and having a Track and Trace system all ready to go to back it up. Through that, they've been able to get through all this without anything approaching what could be called a lockdown because the number of cases has never really got out of control. There has been a certain amount of economic damage, but not nearly to the degree of other placesand a lot of businesses have survived - some through timely government help. Of course, we're currently hitting what would be called a third wave and things could yet spiral (especially as this particular one isn't quite so localised as the others have been) but the authorities over here have been doing the right thing so far in terms of being able to balance fighting this thing while keeping the economy at least viable. 3 minutes ago, Harrydc said: It's amazing how people think this is all we want. I haven't been able to work properly since March. When I did get the opportunity to work again, my shifts were cut down massively and I hardly had any money coming in. Then, we shut down again when we went in to Tier 3 to then go in to another lockdown. After the lockdown, we are still in Tier 3 so yet again I cannot go to work - even if its for my own sanity of getting out the house. That is a problem with government aid to business, not an argument that restrictions aren't necessary to contain the virus itself. What should be done? 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Samilktray 3,913 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 Have they turned off the track & trace app now? I haven’t had a phantom notification in weeks disappointingly, always found it quite exciting when 1 came through. Have I or haven’t I been around the infected, what a bloody rush 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rain King 1,571 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 2 hours ago, Samilktray said: Have they turned off the track & trace app now? I haven’t had a phantom notification in weeks disappointingly, always found it quite exciting when 1 came through. Have I or haven’t I been around the infected, what a bloody rush Same. I had a stage where I got the 'nothing to worry about' notification about 10 times in a two week period. Had nothing since. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Costock_Fox 11,720 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 18 minutes ago, Rain King said: Same. I had a stage where I got the 'nothing to worry about' notification about 10 times in a two week period. Had nothing since. Means you have everything to worry about. COVID-19 ITS COMING FOR YOU Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alf Bentley 10,860 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 23 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said: Means you have everything to worry about. COVID-19 ITS COMING FOR YOU "Coming for you"? If COVID-19 is basing its pursuit on the SPURS-16 virus, we have nothing to worry about.... 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
String fellow 354 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 32 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said: Means you have everything to worry about. COVID-19 ITS COMING FOR YOU Does this message mean that I'm no longer scaremonger-in-chief? Btw, why do reporters bother reporting from borders between two areas in different tiers? The tiering system inherently involves having borders. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Costock_Fox 11,720 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 26 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said: "Coming for you"? If COVID-19 is basing its pursuit on the SPURS-16 virus, we have nothing to worry about.... Well if it finishes 3rd I’m not looking forward to the other 2 that beat it. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Leicester_Loyal 4,872 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-what-counts-as-a-substantial-meal-how-rules-on-pub-drinking-could-work-in-tier-2-12143814 'However, on Friday an official spokesperson for the prime minister said drinkers will have to leave the premises once they have finished their food.' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Samilktray 3,913 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 3 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said: https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-what-counts-as-a-substantial-meal-how-rules-on-pub-drinking-could-work-in-tier-2-12143814 'However, on Friday an official spokesperson for the prime minister said drinkers will have to leave the premises once they have finished their food.' Gonna have to work your way through about 10 plates of cheesy chips just to have a substantial night out Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Leicester_Loyal 4,872 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 2 minutes ago, Samilktray said: Gonna have to work your way through about 10 plates of cheesy chips just to have a substantial night out Or be the worlds slowest eater Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StanSP 26,516 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 R rate between 0.9 and 1. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Costock_Fox 11,720 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 49 minutes ago, Samilktray said: Gonna have to work your way through about 10 plates of cheesy chips just to have a substantial night out Should be how a substantial night is normally defined imo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StanSP 26,516 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 6 hours ago, Samilktray said: Have they turned off the track & trace app now? I haven’t had a phantom notification in weeks disappointingly, always found it quite exciting when 1 came through. Have I or haven’t I been around the infected, what a bloody rush Maybe because of this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55107272 Another mess. Quote Hundreds of people have been wrongly told they have coronavirus by NHS Test and Trace after a laboratory error. More than 1,300 people who gave samples between 19 and 23 November received positive results, when the tests were actually void. All of those affected will be told to take another test, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said. Duncan Larcombe, whose daughter received the wrong result, said it was "more than an inconvenient mistake". The PR company director, from Maidstone, Kent, said his two children, aged 14 and nine, were both sent home from school to self-isolate and he was unable to work. His said his 14-year-old daughter had not left her bedroom for four days, with meals being left outside her door, until the family learned the result was void on Thursday. "We were taking it very seriously," he said. Mr Larcombe, a former royal editor at the Sun newspaper, said the mistake "brings into question for me whether or not this testing system is competent". "The entire economy is relying on the competence of the testing laboratories and if they are not doing their job they need to be held to account," he said. DHSC said it was an "isolated incident" caused by an "issue with a batch of testing chemicals" which had affected tests taken across the UK. It is "being fully investigated to ensure this does not happen again," the department said. Mr Larcombe's daughter has now received a negative result after taking a second test on Thursday. "Given that [the government] have just decided to put the whole of Kent in tier 3, you just wonder, is their modelling flawed," he said. DHSC has been asked to comment on whether the 1,311 incorrect results would affect regional figures for infection rates, which are represented as the number of cases per 100,000 people. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bmt 742 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, BKLFox said: Look about 6 posts up from yours, @leicsmac lives in SK & they did much of what your preferable path would be but its still there & rising currently yes they have a little more freedom currently but its not a case of ying & yang on how much of this is panning out. The up shot of all this is that there are 2 options lockdowns or no lockdowns both come with their own set of problems. As in South korea? More freedom, 500 deaths on a population of 50 million and a strong economy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/16/coronavirus-covid-economic-impact-recession-south-korea-success/ https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-how-south-koreas-track-and-trace-system-has-kept-death-count-below-500-12103124 https://undark.org/2020/10/05/south-korea-covid-19-success/ As leicsmac has said, perhaps they are having a third wave but they've made it to vaccines being a reality with limited economic and mortality impact compared to other places. Edited 27 November 2020 by bmt 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wymsey 4,603 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 Are barbers and allowed to open in tier-3 areas? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Leicester_Loyal 4,872 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 19 minutes ago, Wymsey said: Are barbers and allowed to open in tier-3 areas? Yes mate. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nod.E 2,162 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 Been off work today with what feels like a stinking hangover. No I wasn't drinking yesterday! No cough or loss of taste or smell. Covid? Or just run down? I have been working too much but it's unusual for me to completely shut down like this for a whole day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post UpTheLeagueFox 9,618 Posted 27 November 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 Doing the rounds on whatsapp... New restrictions as of December 2nd EAST MIDLANDS LEICESTER Area TIER 3 LOCKDOWN PROTOCOL BEAUMONT LEYS - You are able to fight your neighbour providing you wear a mask and social distancing rules are adhered to. ST MATTHEWS - Burgling homes in your local area is still permitted providing you sanitise before and after the offence. Track and trace technology must also be used. SAFFRON LANE - You can only visit your dealer when collecting your children from school. The dealer should wear a face visor and make sure all bags are sanitised. EYRES MONSELL- Having sex with your sister is still permitted but you must be home before 10pm and use approved lubricant. NORTHFIELDS - Vigilante groups of no more than six allowed outdoors and socially distancing between the hours of 10pm - 2am only. You must wear suitable PPE for any physical contact. HIGHFIELDS - Prostitute services are still permitted to remain open, this is now classed as essential services for fear of the economic collapse of the town. Entry from the rear only OADBY AND WIGSTON- Now declared a NO GO ZONE (in 1984), if you must travel to this area please follow all diversions, traffic cones and signals, remain in your car, do not abandon your car, masks are not required as nothing is open COALVILLE- Everyone must remain at home and self isolate until manufacturers can distribute gloves with 6 fingers. Please do not go to A&E for digit removal as they are a tad busy. BRAUNSTONE- Do as you want, even Covid wouldn’t go to BRAUNSTONE!! Stick to these guidelines and we'll get through it together. All in this together folks 🙄👉🏾🗑 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nick 8,534 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 New restrictions as of December 2nd EAST MIDLANDS LEICESTER Area TIER 3 LOCKDOWN PROTOCOL BEAUMONT LEYS - You are able to fight your neighbour providing you wear a mask and social distancing rules are adhered to. ST MATTHEWS - Burgling homes in your local area is still permitted providing you sanitise before and after the offence. Track and trace technology must also be used. SAFFRON LANE - You can only visit your dealer when collecting your children from school. The dealer should wear a face visor and make sure all bags are sanitised. EYRES MONSELL- Having sex with your sister is still permitted but you must be home before 10pm and use approved lubricant. NORTHFIELDS - Vigilante groups of no more than six allowed outdoors and socially distancing between the hours of 10pm - 2am only. You must wear suitable PPE for any physical contact. HIGHFIELDS - Prostitute services are still permitted to remain open, this is now classed as essential services for fear of the economic collapse of the town. Entry from the rear only. OADBY AND WIGSTON- Now declared a NO GO ZONE (in 1984), if you must travel to this area please follow all diversions, traffic cones and signals, remain in your car, do not abandon your car, masks are not required as nothing is open COALVILLE- Everyone must remain at home and self isolate until manufacturers can distribute gloves with 6 fingers. Please do not go to A&E for digit removal as they are a tad busy. BRAUNSTONE- Do as you want, even Covid wouldn’t go to BRAUNSTONE!! Stick to these guidelines and we'll get through it together. All in this together folks 🙄👉🏾🗑 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StanSP 26,516 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 Fvck it I might as well post it too. New restrictions as of December 2nd EAST MIDLANDS LEICESTER Area TIER 3 LOCKDOWN PROTOCOL BEAUMONT LEYS - You are able to fight your neighbour providing you wear a mask and social distancing rules are adhered to. ST MATTHEWS - Burgling homes in your local area is still permitted providing you sanitise before and after the offence. Track and trace technology must also be used. SAFFRON LANE - You can only visit your dealer when collecting your children from school. The dealer should wear a face visor and make sure all bags are sanitised. EYRES MONSELL- Having sex with your sister is still permitted but you must be home before 10pm and use approved lubricant. NORTHFIELDS - Vigilante groups of no more than six allowed outdoors and socially distancing between the hours of 10pm - 2am only. You must wear suitable PPE for any physical contact. HIGHFIELDS - Prostitute services are still permitted to remain open, this is now classed as essential services for fear of the economic collapse of the town. Entry from the rear only. OADBY AND WIGSTON- Now declared a NO GO ZONE (in 1984), if you must travel to this area please follow all diversions, traffic cones and signals, remain in your car, do not abandon your car, masks are not required as nothing is open COALVILLE- Everyone must remain at home and self isolate until manufacturers can distribute gloves with 6 fingers. Please do not go to A&E for digit removal as they are a tad busy. BRAUNSTONE- Do as you want, even Covid wouldn’t go to BRAUNSTONE!! Stick to these guidelines and we'll get through it together. All in this together folks 🙄👉🏾🗑 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DennisNedry 1,035 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 I'm still allowed to take my car in for it's service in a couple of weeks, nip into town and go Christmas shopping... ...but I can't go with my wife to her 12 week scan of our first child. Both gutted and furious. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Legend_in_blue 1,664 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 2 minutes ago, DennisNedry said: I'm still allowed to take my car in for it's service in a couple of weeks, nip into town and go Christmas shopping... ...but I can't go with my wife to her 12 week scan of our first child. Both gutted and furious. It's a disgrace. And people are accepting of it, or seem to be. Sage are stringing the govt along and the mass testing/vaccination agenda will rumble on as long as they can keep it so. There's more to this than what the govt want us to see and hear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Leicester_Loyal 4,872 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 1 hour ago, DennisNedry said: I'm still allowed to take my car in for it's service in a couple of weeks, nip into town and go Christmas shopping... ...but I can't go with my wife to her 12 week scan of our first child. Both gutted and furious. Sickening, it really is. All the best to you both and your future newborn. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
leicsmac 4,702 Posted 27 November 2020 Report Share Posted 27 November 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Legend_in_blue said: It's a disgrace. And people are accepting of it, or seem to be. Sage are stringing the govt along and the mass testing/vaccination agenda will rumble on as long as they can keep it so. There's more to this than what the govt want us to see and hear. ...you do realise this sounds a mite anti vaxxer/tinfoil hat unless very well substantiated, yes? As well discussed above, that the UK government response has been incompetent doesn't mean there isn't a public health issue out there and that it should be allowed to run amok with all that entails. (And by well substantiated, we're not talking about one or two mavericks with YouTube videos, just for clarity.) Edited 27 November 2020 by leicsmac Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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