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matticus
Guru
I think some of you here are underestimating how serious the situation is now. Luckily the Daily Mirror is on hand:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...oses-border/ar-BB1a3bcK?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=wispr
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...oses-border/ar-BB1a3bcK?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=wispr
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Wonder if I should burst her bubble completely and tell her I can't stand these programmes!
pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
Who thought involving yet another layer of elected clowns would make time critical public health innervations quicker and easier ?
So now we have government ... ummm ,ummmm, maybe we need to do something. Think Sage sent us a memo (go off and rummage in the bin) Great found what's it say ? ...... FFS do something.
Local mayors ..... Oh no you don't not on our watch.
Councils .... Think we have a problem , Government and local mayors ....go away we are handling this.
Now look it's your fault , no it's not it's your fault oh no it's not , yes it is , we want more money , you can't have any , why not, because oh by the way we will just do want we want anyway, oh ok well we are still going to sulk because we want to do it.
Ok you can Push this big red button. Oh what's it do ? It makes it look like we are all going something. Oh great now let's vote on who pushers it. Oh FFS when you work it came back and let us know
Mr Covid .... carry on boys this is such an easy gig it's like money for old rope.
So now we have government ... ummm ,ummmm, maybe we need to do something. Think Sage sent us a memo (go off and rummage in the bin) Great found what's it say ? ...... FFS do something.
Local mayors ..... Oh no you don't not on our watch.
Councils .... Think we have a problem , Government and local mayors ....go away we are handling this.
Now look it's your fault , no it's not it's your fault oh no it's not , yes it is , we want more money , you can't have any , why not, because oh by the way we will just do want we want anyway, oh ok well we are still going to sulk because we want to do it.
Ok you can Push this big red button. Oh what's it do ? It makes it look like we are all going something. Oh great now let's vote on who pushers it. Oh FFS when you work it came back and let us know
Mr Covid .... carry on boys this is such an easy gig it's like money for old rope.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Broadly comparable with the Schengen border controls.
pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
Wonder if I should burst her bubble completely and tell her I can't stand these programmes!
You can add me to the list.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Covid's hit the caramel chocolate brownies in Quality Street! https://www.theguardian.com/busines...rites-missing-as-covid-19-disrupts-production
Government guidance updated now includes Long covid
COVID-19: epidemiology, virology and clinical features
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ology-and-clinical-features#clinical-features
COVID-19: epidemiology, virology and clinical features
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ology-and-clinical-features#clinical-features
classic33
Leg End Member
Made not far from here. For now!
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I really don't think that's the problem. If there was clear division of responsibilities, then it could be TEAM = "Together Everyone Achieves More"... but the split between NHS (national-led) and public health (county/region-led) was never clear since it was last reformed by Cameron in 2012, with the national-local split being resettable each year in a letter from the health minister. That's no way to run a long-term service.
At the start of this pandemic back in April, gov.uk really messed with the local-national split, basically giving Public Health England a far bigger role and chopping the legs off local public health directorates, who understandably tried to stand their ground despite no longer having legs, while PHE could point at their growth pains and the lack of local cooperation, and so it became TEAM = "Terrific! Everyone Avoids Monitoring!"
Again, look at Germany. I think they've as many elected politicians involved as any layer of England and there have been some grumbles about the local differences early on, but by and large, the communities, states and federal government seem to have worked well together and avoided getting in each others' way. Maybe @Unkraut and @Andy in Germany will now correct me and say there's been blazing turf wars screwing things up, but it doesn't seem to have been on their TV news much!
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
It's like the Hokey Cokey up in Gtr Manchester this afternoon. Oh Teir 3, teir 3, teir 3....... in, out, shake it all about.
stowie
Legendary Member
Hang about... wasn't this show supposed to be about celebrities pitting their skills in a remote jungle or something? And this is now going to be located in Wales? I mean, I am sure it will be exciting to see if the celebrities will be able to manage the 6 mile journey from the castle to Rhyl McDonalds, but it just doesn't seem to have the same air of adventure as the Australian Jungle.
And they may have to relocate again? Where to? Basildon? Maybe they could locate to Milton Keynes and challenge the celebrities to navigate successfully through the bike paths without going round and round in circles. Because I never managed it....
Wobblers
Euthermic
- Location
- Minkowski Space
It's quite wrong to assume that this sort of behaviour is limited to the young. I've seen no shortage of older people acting similarly - for that matter I'm still seeing lots of social visits to the houses around here - when all indoors mixing between households has been banned. Again, that's something that all demographics are indulging in. The resurgence in CV19 can't be blamed on just the young - or indeed on any single group.
