At least with PCR testing you’re getting some work for your money. The LFT photo upload is (was) the biggest scam of all. You are shipped an LFT kit (50p + £1 postage + £1 fulfilment), and upload it to My First Webpage with an awful form with a messed up tab order. Price = £15. Profit = £12.50. Coul...

You say “outside of Pres”, but I wonder how many Metropol members have only a passing (if that) interest in TV Presentation? I will take a passing interest in presentation if I happen to be watching TV, but 1) that is rare these days, and 2) I haven’t followed a TV rebrand in years. As for other int...

I think perhaps if we try to focus on some of the smaller things, like the travel tests I’ve done quite a few of these and it’s amusing how shady some of these providers are. One called Expert Medicals has a form which has a note that it only works with Chrome, which is a blast from the past (I hal...

The response to future potential threats is the thing that concerns me the most. If hasty border closures are a good policy for Omicron, it follows that they should also have been imposed for Swine Flu. With hindsight, that would have been a monumentally expensive error, both socially and economical...

We're all back to debating the merits of masks, and at the review in 3 weeks regardless of whether masks stay or masks go again in England there will be fury amongst those with strong views on masks whichever way the decision goes. It's somehow all become about masks. And yet whilst everyone's havi...

If it wasn't for my inability to wear masks, I'd be in the US this weekend I’m sorry to hear it’s messing about with your life this much. If you’re really not comfortable declaring an exemption, then I’d look for a more breathable one you can tolerate. People don’t care what you wear. pre-departure...

gottago wrote: ↑Sat 04 Dec, 2021 12.58I'm impressed by how many people in London have gone back to wearing them when compliance was low towards the end previously.

How many people are properly wearing an effective mask? <50%, in my observation. I therefore think most people are indifferent.

What I did imagine might happen is that by now the bar for taking action would have been raised, and keep being raised until a Western country finally says enough is enough and does not reintroduce any measures Given the sustained case/death rates, about which nobody is complaining, the bar has abs...

It says it all that JPMorgan Chase think it's a better bet to start from scratch and follow the Starling/Monzo/Revolut digital-only model than to take over a business like TSB. The only problem with the challenger banks is that they seem just as eager to charge loads of tiny little fees as the lega...

Oh goody. I’d missed this cheerful thread.

Genius idea there. GPs famously haven't had much on in the last couple of years. Good to give them a bit of admin. I think there could probably be a middle ground between "GP note" and "say you're exempt". An online declaration perhaps. This might actually help those with exempt...