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Are we doing enough around the coronavirus outbreak? 
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52677194

Why in [LIFTED]'s name should we carry on easing restrictions just because we believe this rise is in care homes? The staff in care homes have families and go shopping like everyone else!

Only today have they announced that care home staff will all be tested 'by June'. That was from Matt Hancock, the man who has already been caught falsifying his own test figures and then couldn't even maintain the charade. The man who told the shadow health secretary off saying he didn't care for her tone when it looked like he might have to answer an awkward question about dead care staff.

The app that won't solve [LIFTED] isn't ready. We're banging on about a so-far pie in the sky antibody test that won't mean a thing because you can be infected twice, or still a carrier. We're still missing testing targets. Still falsifying the headlines over care home deaths. And so on...

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Fri May 15, 2020 5:21 pm
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... kdown.html

And originally from The Times... If I was a minister I'd have quit long ago and dropped them all in it. Hell, as a precaution if nothing else!

You wouldn't know if Boris is that thick, if he's trying to pass the buck, or asking in a semi-sarcastic way.

But it does seem utterly mad how many roles Sedwill has. How could he possibly focus on that many big jobs?

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Coronavirus: 'Start public inquiry now to prevent more deaths'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53009946

This. 100% this.

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Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:24 am
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -back.html

Lol, won't anyone think of the overpriced food and drink outlets Boris apparently doesn't want you visiting in case you're fat when you catch the virus...

Sorry, but there's far too many takeaway outlets of every description as it is, there's little reason to be in the office in 2020, thousands won't be polluting every day, and they'll likely be a f'sight more relaxed all round. Especially when they realise their coffee bill alone was frigging ridiculous.

I suspect that story is more about folks not buying the Daily Mail on their way to work....

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TBH the working from home has been successful for a lot of businesses. It shows that not everyone needs to commute, to have an office/desk/IT setup etc. For many people it will be a relief. For others, the escape from home is a welcome break so being stuck at home all the time might not be so great.

Fewer people having to go "into" work means - less pollution, and less demand for office spaces. A friend working in one of the major banks tells me there has been a push to do have fewer staff in their branches, with fewer branches. This has been going for over a year, so certainly I can see high streets changing.

As for "the high street in decline" - they've been saying that since I was a teenager. First it was car park charges. Then there was the rise of out-of-city-centre retail parks. Then there was online shopping. Whilst the high street has changed over the last 20 years, it's still there and will probably be still there in the next 20 years. A lot of shopping that SWMBO does has been spur-of-the moment, decisions made whilst in store and browsing. She buys some clothes online but because of size or fit issues, we send back probably two thirds of what she buys.

I do think we should all continue to wear masks. My greatest concern is the second peak, which invariably will occur with winter flu season. Good hygiene practices could help stem both flu and covid.

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TBH the working from home has been successful for a lot of businesses. It shows that not everyone needs to commute, to have an office/desk/IT setup etc. For many people it will be a relief. For others, the escape from home is a welcome break so being stuck at home all the time might not be so great.

Fewer people having to go "into" work means - less pollution, and less demand for office spaces. A friend working in one of the major banks tells me there has been a push to do have fewer staff in their branches, with fewer branches. This has been going for over a year, so certainly I can see high streets changing.

As for "the high street in decline" - they've been saying that since I was a teenager. First it was car park charges. Then there was the rise of out-of-city-centre retail parks. Then there was online shopping. Whilst the high street has changed over the last 20 years, it's still there and will probably be still there in the next 20 years. A lot of shopping that SWMBO does has been spur-of-the moment, decisions made whilst in store and browsing. She buys some clothes online but because of size or fit issues, we send back probably two thirds of what she buys.

I do think we should all continue to wear masks. My greatest concern is the second peak, which invariably will occur with winter flu season. Good hygiene practices could help stem both flu and covid.

Honestly think working from home should have been much more normalised before now. Couldn't give a fiddler's what it does to the local economy, long-term it's better for savings, stress, the environment, your waistline, just about every type of consumption in fact...

The queueing business means I only go into two stores now, three if I'm in town. Standing outside in the rain isn't fun, standing there with a soggy mask would be even less so. Here it's currently only on public transport do you need a mask. There was nobody on buses during the wider crisis so it'll be interesting to see the knock-on effect.

If Stormont decides we need masks to basically go out I'll simply do everything online. On it's own they're fine, but standing in queues in Belfast's muggy/p'ing down jungle weather? Nope.

I know the evidence wasn't really there, but the psychological time to make masks compulsary was at the beginning when it wasn't actually going to do any harm. Introducing it now when the vast majority feel/behave that they're currently safe, when you're trying to jumpstart the economy? That's absolutely ignoring basic behaviour at a time when many are realising working from home is really beneficial, that you can order most things online, that they were in Tesco 3 times a week needlessly and so on.

I'm not against masks in principle, but the timing is awful and I have the online option, so...

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -week.html

Lol, the cheek of Mr I wasn't at the crisis meetings... And IDS has the moral authority of a plague rat.

"We need you all to go shopping so the wider shares market doesn't bring me down to my last million. Plus I've lined up that cushy little board job, and..."

I get the side of it for passports or whatever, but we need you buying overpriced coffee and sandwiches while complaining about obesity? Get f****d.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... no-10-says

Yeah, that makes all the sense.

We'll have achieved herd immunity by the time the Tories are kicked out.

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... dApp_Other

Jesus [LIFTED] Christ.

In other news, the anti-obesity drive has been given to Ronald McDonald, and Jedward have taken education.

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Things aren't getting back to normal until we get a vaccine. I'm guessing Q3 2021 at the earliest.

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Things aren't getting back to normal until we get a vaccine. I'm guessing Q3 2021 at the earliest.


So long as you keep buying overpriced cups of coffee you shouldn't worry yourself about it ;) , here, have a sandwich too... That'll be a tenner.

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Yeah, like I can afford over priced coffee these days (Thanks Covid).

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Yeah, like I can afford over priced coffee these days (Thanks Covid).


My credit card company is making all the F ups so I've no idea if I can afford one either!

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https://amp.theguardian.com/business/20 ... y-more-tax

Or you could just get in the sea? Like the bottom feeders you are? Had to read that twice and check the source, this pandemic displays inherent tendencies like nothing else. From b(w)ankers to 'scientists' who missed their calling as sci-fi villains.

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https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/11/staff-who-work-from-home-after-pandemic-should-pay-more-tax

Or you could just get in the sea? Like the bottom feeders you are? Had to read that twice and check the source, this pandemic displays inherent tendencies like nothing else. From b(w)ankers to 'scientists' who missed their calling as sci-fi villains.
wait, let me get this right … here we are working from home, not commuting in, not burning diesel/petrol and contributing to climate change and some [LIFTED] for brains thinks we should be punished (under the guise of tax) for it?

So never-mind that I don't go out and buy food during my shift (because nowhere is open during the night), never-mind that I'm spending more on heating my home and using electricity to run computers/screens that I wouldn't normally be running, never-mind that I'm not eating any more than I would be whilst actually going in to the office, therefore not actually contributing anything more to the local economy. Some complete and utter ballbag thinks I should be taxed more and have that tax subsidise the lower paid works whose employer is too greedy to pay it's workers a decent wage in the first place?

It isn't the place of the workforce to prop up the underpaid, it should be companies that are forced to pay a proper wage in the first place. It should be the billion-dollar companies forced to pay their share in taxes that help provide for the underprivileged.
Just because some of us are fortunate enough to be able to do our job from home does not mean we are actually any wealthier because of it.

I think the author of this report is bitter that they had to go in to the office every day and decided to stick it to their colleagues that got to WFH.
I can see no other basis for something so [LIFTED] to come out at a time like this.

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