Andyp wrote:And the authorities are happy to allow people to use their common sense. I hate that phase, there is nothing common about sense and never will be.
Mine is 'Lessons must be learned'.
They never are.
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Andyp wrote:And the authorities are happy to allow people to use their common sense. I hate that phase, there is nothing common about sense and never will be.
"Bit late in the day but I received a letter from the NHS Foundation Trust today classing me as a “person of risk for a severe illness”"
Andyp wrote:Indeed. there is not a government in the world who have not come under criticism from their own populations.
Woodbloke wrote:Andyp wrote:Indeed. there is not a government in the world who have not come under criticism from their own populations.
I suspect there's been very little criticism of the way Jacinda Arden has handled the C19 pandemic in NZ - Rob
SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:"Bit late in the day but I received a letter from the NHS Foundation Trust today classing me as a “person of risk for a severe illness”"
My father is 86, is the only member of his family in Northern Ireland, has C.O.P.D. (53% lung function) and a dicky ticker; these and associated secondary issues mean he can barely walk 50m before halting to rest. He has tried three times - via his G.P. - to get on the much vaunted 'vulnerable' list to qualify for home delivery. He was told (by the practice asthma nurse) "you are not sick enough"...
Given Rod's experience, and my oul' fella's continuing farce, I do question the competency and connection to the real world of at least two N.H.S. trust employees....
Sam
Andyp wrote:I wont argue that the NZ PM wins hands down on the popularity stakes but governing an isolated island (Ok, islands) with a population of less than 5 million with a population density of just 15 per sq km is a lot simpler than the more cosmopolitan, heavily and densely populated northern hemisphere nations with their sprawling metropolitan areas and reliance on public transport.
I wouldn't mind betting that more people travel by public transport dailiy in London then there are people in New Zealand.
Could you get your/his MP involved ?
Malc2098 wrote:I'm already convinced, Michael. I stay at home making my guitar for as long as I can. I haven't been to see my new granddaughter, over two months old now.
Notwithstanding what's happening in the country to the police, their lack of political support, especially in London, to cities where historical statures are pulled down, proposed to be taken down or are boarded up, I have no doubt that there will be a second wave, and it wouldn't surprise me from all the disorder and early relaxation of lockdown that it'll be just as bad as the first wave.
I'm staying locked down in Mid-Devon.
Malc2098 wrote:.... I have no doubt that there will be a second wave, and it wouldn't surprise me from all the disorder and early relaxation of lockdown that it'll be just as bad as the first wave.
I'm staying locked down in Mid-Devon.
Woodbloke wrote:Malc2098 wrote:.... I have no doubt that there will be a second wave, and it wouldn't surprise me from all the disorder and early relaxation of lockdown that it'll be just as bad as the first wave.
I'm staying locked down in Mid-Devon.
I think you're right Malc. I was reading yesterday on the Beeb I think that some medical professor reckoned there would be another wave sometime within the next two weeks; certainly by the end of the month.
I'm staying locked down in Salisbury, unless I can be convinced that it's safe (within reason) to venture further afield - Rob
Edit - Hadrian's Wall was built (if memory serves) by the Roman Legionary who, as far as I understand, weren't slaves, though I do stand to be serverially corrected - Rob
RogerS wrote:I'm really confused now. Reading the paper today, they are now saying that it 'probably' is OK to relax the 2m rule down to 1m. So what has changed ? If 1m is OK now then why was it not OK last week ? Or the week before ?
Has the virus changed its infectiousness ? I don't think so.
RogerS wrote:I'm really confused now. Reading the paper today, they are now saying that it 'probably' is OK to relax the 2m rule down to 1m. So what has changed ? If 1m is OK now then why was it not OK last week ? Or the week before ?
Has the virus changed its infectiousness ? I don't think so.
RogerS wrote::text-bravo:
Thanks, Steve...a voice of sanity in these troubled times.
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