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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 25, 2020 11:50:51 GMT
That's my local in a nutshell
I've got to know the owners well
The regulars are a lovely bunch
I always go on a Tuesday night with a few friends. We've carried on the Tuesday nights on Zoom. We're all hoping to get back to our pub in a week and half.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 11:54:13 GMT
I'm fairly satisfied with Nicola Stugeon's handling of Covid in Scotland. The greed of the Tories seems to supersede peoples lives but is this hardly surprising? Nail on the head mate. Scotland, Wales and NI have made a better job of handling covid, us in England, well we've been mishandled, misled and generally shit on by hapless, self serving, tory bastards. I don't envy you having Johnston in charge, he's just a single minded Little Englander. Nothing supersede human life when it comes to the virus. It IS a serious health hazard despite the selfishness and greed of the Tories. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 12:04:07 GMT
DM I reckon a lot of it will be unenforceable especially when the 2m rule is dropped and it'll degenerate into mass drunkenness as punters overdo it. I'll be looking for a wee quiet pub and/restaurant however once the initial beer greed does down. I think there'll be an almighty rush for the pubs, people who don't give a fuck about anyone else will do as they please and not respect anyone's space or safety (just look at the twats flocking to beaches in their masses right now) and those trying to stay safe will quickly become disillusioned with the situation and probably retreat from the pubs.
Finding somewhere quiet run by switched on owners is probably your best bet. I hope you find somewhere like that Rogue  I mean look at the way that people are treating beaches and parks? It's disgusting. If there's a second spike and Covid develops a more dogged strain then it's the so called'carefree' who it'll spread like wildfire amongst. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 25, 2020 12:05:52 GMT
I'm certainly not going to defend England's handling of the crisis - it has been poor. For now though, it looks as though they're going to get away with it...
Despite packed beaches, BLM marches etc a few weeks back there has not been a second spike which suggests that the virus does not thrive in warm weather. We know it is killed very fast in open air, so that makes sense.
It appears that the next possible crisis point will come in the Autumn.
Will the Govt be ready by then?
Will track and trace be working efficiently?
Will there be a comprehensive testing programme?
Let's hope so.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 12:27:33 GMT
Clinically very little is actually known when it comes to temperature other than the NHS are preparing for a second spike in late Autumn in order to(also) administer flu jabs for the elderly and housebound
Its very possible that it might not thrive in hot weather but it's too early to say.
I think the Tories are hoping that we develop some 'herd'immunity but this is dangerous especially if Covid develops seasonal aberrations as virus' by and large are incurable.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 13:51:55 GMT
That's my local in a nutshell I've got to know the owners well The regulars are a lovely bunch I always go on a Tuesday night with a few friends. We've carried on the Tuesday nights on Zoom. We're all hoping to get back to our pub in a week and half. Sounds like you've got it sussed, a good place and a good bunch of people. Nice one. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 13:52:37 GMT
I mean look at the way that people are treating beaches and parks? It's disgusting. If there's a second spike and Covid develops a more dogged strain then it's the so called'carefree' who it'll spread like wildfire amongst. Yep, we took the dog for a walk down by the harbour last night and while it was nice to see people enjoying themselves it was evident from the litter that more people are getting out and about.
Regarding a second spike, the trouble is that that as well as spreading it amongst their own they'll infect others too...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 15:00:40 GMT
Yes, I'm no kill joy and I can understand people being pissed off after being in the house for so long but there is a selfish streak in a lot of people who would risk the health of other people so they could get their beer and pish like KFC and McDonald's.
Ignorant people just generally tend to leave their rubbish at their arses.
Sad
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 28, 2020 6:20:31 GMT
In the past few days, one thing has become depressingly clear: the riddling and misleading communication that has characterised this government’s failure to control the pandemic will not find an antidote in the near future.
On Wednesday in parliament the prime minister was asked a simple question by Peter Kyle, Labour MP for the seaside constituency of Hove. It was certain, Kyle noted, that with the relaxing of restrictions on socialising, coastal towns like his would become dangerously packed with visitors. “What will the prime minister do in the absence of the promised [track and trace] app to make sure these communities are destinations for investment and not destinations for covid?”
Boris Johnson replied with typical scattergun harrumphing: “I will be calling on local representatives such as himself to show some guts and determination and champion their communities as venues for people to return to and support!”
Those guts were everywhere on display on beaches by Thursday. Social distancing now designated at “one metre plus” had predictably collapsed to one metre minus. But still, given the prime minister’s exhortation to Kyle at the dispatch box, the people who crammed the beaches – 500,000 in Dorset alone – on the hottest day of the year could justify their day trips with the belief that they were simply doing their national duty. If they were to take Johnson at his word, drinking and barbecuing – and brawling and littering – was the new clap for carers. I was just musing whether crammed beaches, wild celebrations outside Anfield, illegal raves, and people generally ignoring social distancing now, was an inevitable part of easing lockdown, or whether this has been badly mismanaged.
What do you think?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 8:52:59 GMT
Completely, look at the difference between Scotland and England?
The Covid spread has been minimised to such a degree that for the second day theres been no deaths and infections have been contained mostly.
Don't get me wrong we have our fair share of complete arseholes(look at the recent events in Kelvingrove Park and Loch Lomond)but it's nowhere near the predominant chav mentality of which populates southern England.
The 1 metre rule is a farce and makes social distancing almost negligible and that's what the Tories want-an 'acceptable number' of deaths so wage slavery can continue.
We'll see what happens in the run up to winter but for all the chavs who polluted lovely Dorset I have no sympathy.
If the NHS in England gets overwhelmed this winter you'll know who to blame.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 28, 2020 9:09:40 GMT
Donkeys led by donkeys?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 9:33:49 GMT
Possibly, it's their attitude towards the NHS which infuriates me.Clapping every Thursday(when it was acceptable to do so)then treating it(and workers within it)as if it's their own private health service.
These are people who knowingly voted in a government who, before the pandemic had promised to cut funding to the NHS and during it have rewarded NHS workers by offering them a wage freeze!
Taking drugs, fighting each other, pissing and shitting in gardens and not giving a fuck about the pandemic and the consequences of their actions.
This is modern England.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 28, 2020 9:36:27 GMT
It's not a pretty picture
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 9:58:08 GMT
It's a far cry from the camaraderie that existed during the Miners Strike, Poll Tax Rebellion etc.
You can thank Thatcher and Blair for that.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 30, 2020 11:33:43 GMT
The person who cuts my hair has just rung up
I'm booked in for Wed 8th July - can't wait
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