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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Six allowed to meet outside from Monday, says https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...t-outside-under-new-measures-to-ease-lockdown
Does this mean small very spaced group rides become legal?
Does this mean small very spaced group rides become legal?
- Location
- Glasgow
I think my own quote is from last month.The death total that has now just become an after thought as if it's normal that's still sadly increasing.
As of this morning the known deaths of health and social care workers now stands at 240.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Milzy
Guru
Asked a nurse what she thought about this. Her reply was well we've got loads of spare beds up and down the country now so it's ok, we should just crack on. I was like WTF? Expecting her just to say ohhh it's too soon. Some nurses are so cold but I expect they have to deal with bad things so it's how they are.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Everyone braced for scam texts/calls on your mobile asking for mobile and email contact details of everyone you've met in the last 14 days?
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
There were 30+ teens on the school playing field hidden away from general view having what looked like a picnic/BBQ and a mass party with music on Tuesday. We only saw them because we were walking on a rarely used bridleway that skirts the school boundary.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...nce-on-transmission-of-covid-19-28-april-2020
Think this was posted 20 pages back but worth a flick through after Vallance talked about it today.
Think this was posted 20 pages back but worth a flick through after Vallance talked about it today.
In parks the average size group was probably already 6 to 8 for a week or so. I see several groups of 15 to 30 in parks each day. It's creeping upwards each day.
It's not just the size of the groups, but that the last few days there seems to be no social distancing. The groups are generally sat 50cm to 1 metre apart, although in quite a few cases despite being even closer people are sat side by side which carries a lower risk than if literally facing at the same distance. On the other hand I circle back later and some groups are still there 2 hours later. The closeness, length of time and size of group mean if you go through any of SAGE's tables it's fairly sizeable. I have even seen the same groups together on different days.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Anyone planning to meet up outside might like to download the excellent pttdroid (Push To Talk anDROID) app for Android and set one of their phones as a wifi hotspot, then launch the app on all phones. It's less effort/risk than shouting at each other and doesn't lag as much as using mobile data (because the transmission is line of sight not around base stations and faraway interconnects).
Sadly, I don't know if there's a similar wifi walkie-talkie app for iPhones, let alone if there's a compatible one.
https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/ro.ui.pttdroid
Based upon the total collapse of adherence or caution I witnessed from normally sensible people yesterday, (10 people from 5 households having a barbecue, and not socially distancing, 2 high risk people and 1 who works in a care home) I'm revising my original estimate from months ago of "tens of thousands" to "hundreds of thousands".
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Sadly I think you may be right.Based upon the total collapse of adherence or caution I witnessed from normally sensible people yesterday, (10 people from 5 households having a barbecue, and not socially distancing, 2 high risk people and 1 who works in a care home) I'm revising my original estimate from months ago of "tens of thousands" to "hundreds of thousands".
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
Based upon the total collapse of adherence or caution I witnessed from normally sensible people yesterday, (10 people from 5 households having a barbecue, and not socially distancing, 2 high risk people and 1 who works in a care home) I'm revising my original estimate from months ago of "tens of thousands" to "hundreds of thousands".
The preferred solution for the Government has always been herd immunity, and now that the PM and Boris, I mean Cummings, have recovered from it they don't give a hoot. Not that they ever did of course, but the smaller the herd, the quicker they'll achieve their objective. Who cares about the death rates, you can only die once so they'll come down eventually...
Political ambitions put before public health.
Bastards.
