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- Fri 09 Dec, 2022 20.59
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: What do you not like about the forum?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4826
Re: What do you not like about the forum?
Crap threads like this
- Sat 09 Jul, 2022 18.37
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Coronavirus - Strange times
- Replies: 635
- Views: 190298
Re: Coronavirus - Strange times
Why are we banging on about this again? Because it came back into the news again for a while. Sky News even had some ridiculous analysis piece about 'rethinking the living with Covid strategy' over case numbers last week. Where would that mood music have gone to if it wasn't checked quickly by some...
- Fri 08 Jul, 2022 22.55
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Coronavirus - Strange times
- Replies: 635
- Views: 190298
Re: Coronavirus - Strange times
Rather than quote bits and make arguments that have been made before I'll just sum this up. Do we 'just' let people die? No. Absolutely not. But the tiny proportion of the population at risk of death from Covid with no other chronic health condition that was going to kill them anyway cannot ever be ...
- Fri 08 Jul, 2022 22.17
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Coronavirus - Strange times
- Replies: 635
- Views: 190298
Re: Coronavirus - Strange times
The media seem to be hyping the rise in Covid cases but surely given we've had various big events like Glastonbury, the Jubilee, Hoopla it doesn't really surprise me. I suspect the official response will be recommendation rather than enforcement. I did respond to this post a few days ago then thoug...
- Sat 04 Jun, 2022 11.03
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Public Transport in your particular part of the region
- Replies: 584
- Views: 237644
Re: Public Transport in your particular part of the region
First have introduced a tap on/tap off system on the buses. You tap in with your bank card on the reader next to the driver, and they press a button but don't give you a ticket; then when you're leaving you tap a different reader on the other side above the luggage rack. Except when I did that, the...
- Sun 22 May, 2022 13.22
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Coronavirus - Strange times
- Replies: 635
- Views: 190298
Re: Coronavirus - Strange times
we can’t dismiss the worst case scenarios because they didn’t happen, when we threw the kitchen sink at stopping them from happening. This point alone undermines a lot of what you are saying. I think for me though the key thing to consider is whether the worst case scenarios would have happened wit...
- Sun 22 May, 2022 08.11
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Coronavirus - Strange times
- Replies: 635
- Views: 190298
Re: Coronavirus - Strange times
The things is, epidemics and pandemics are the classic example of the self-defeating prophecy. Because it wasn't as bad as you thought it might be, Sorry but you can't have that. If the worst case modelling predicted the death of tens of percent of the population then the action taken would be just...
- Sat 21 May, 2022 23.25
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Coronavirus - Strange times
- Replies: 635
- Views: 190298
Re: Coronavirus - Strange times
It is interesting how much the silence is deafening in this thread (and society generally) from the pro-restriction brigade now they aren't entirely sure that what they have done was right. Nor can they hide behind the shield of hindsight when it was called out 2 years ago. I will never again have a...
- Sat 14 May, 2022 09.55
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Coronavirus - Strange times
- Replies: 635
- Views: 190298
Re: Coronavirus - Strange times
Looks like they're further winding down the reporting of stats, having previously just not reported over weekends. Presumably the next stage will be once a week reporting, before only once or twice a month. I'm actually not sure that's necessary now. A few months ago it was something which needed t...
- Wed 11 May, 2022 20.44
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
- Replies: 2158
- Views: 873281
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
That doesn’t sound right. Licensing is done locally and so it’s unlikely that multiple councils have decided to revoke their licenses all at once. Could be it’s more a case of due diligence by Morrisons themselves as advised by their own lawyers, but I would assume that premises supervisors would s...
- Wed 11 May, 2022 13.50
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
- Replies: 2158
- Views: 873281
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
A number of local live sites now reporting that as a result of the Morrisons prepack deal, McColl's have lost their alcohol licences and have had to suspend alcohol sales. Apparently Morrisons are aware of the issue and working to fix it If true (seems a bit odd, I've seen many shops change hands wi...