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I see that Tory MP Johnathan Gullis has responded to the governments call for ex-teachers to return to the profession to help cover for staff off with Covid by offering to work one day a week at a school in his constituency.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-s ... e-59944448

Whilst this is clearly a bit of good PR for Gullis I'm not sure if it is really a great idea for somebody to spend 4 days a week in London where Covid levels are still very high before then spending one day a week in a school with a thousand pupils and a hundred members of staff.

satnav wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:13 pm ... a thousand pupils and a hundred members of staff.

No one with a basic grasp of maths would go within a million miles of this plague pit.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... h-toll-ons

Set up the tea cakes and bunting, we must hold a parade to commemorate Bozza's superb achievement!

Oblomov wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:41 pm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... h-toll-ons

Set up the tea cakes and bunting, we must hold a parade to commemorate Bozza's superb achievement!

That's now more than the population of Peterborough, or if you prefer, Sunderland..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-59991762

Australia takes COVID seriously and sends away egotistical man-children who don't.

Oblomov wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:47 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-59991762

Australia takes COVID seriously and sends away egotistical man-children who don't.

One for a future Question of Sport.

Which tennis player lost a championship due to two missed shots?

Is anyone else having trouble inputting results from the new LFT tests onto their records?

davidjay wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:03 am Is anyone else having trouble inputting results from the new LFT tests onto their records?

I haven’t though they mailed me out of the blue an extra box of LFT for no reason.

So all restrictions bar the need to isolate will be removed next week.

The need to isolate will be ended on the 24th of March and not be renewed if not sooner.

The country still has 100,000 the pandemic worldwide is still killing hundreds of thousands and why is he doing this?

Because he is a corrupt lying fraud who is flatlining as leader.

Does he expect other countries not to react, I was hoping to be able to travel next year.

Foreigners don't vote here.

Angry people pissed off at foreigners for ruining their holiday plans do, and are likely to vote for his lot.

The BMA are not impressed.

But what do they know about viruses and pandemics and stuff, right kids?

Consensus among my department directors (not experts in medicine but we design elfin safety frameworks for some pretty big cheeses so tend to err on the side of caution) is that the pork haystack is basically throwing us all under the bus as a distraction from his day-to-day calamities and so he can preen and grandstand about being "the great liberator" from COVID restrictions.

We will continue to wear masks and take other precautions for the foreseeable future.

Totally. By "taking all responsibility" he means taking all the credit for the good stuff, and sacking whoever he decides was responsible for any cock-ups.

D-i-l #3 and #1 grandson both tested positive this morning. We were with them at the weekend.

Mrs A & I tested negative.

That leaves us, #3 son and #2 grandson who haven't had it since December...

Oblomov wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:38 am We will continue to wear masks and take other precautions for the foreseeable future.

Remaining mandatory here for the foreseeable.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:55 am Totally. By "taking all responsibility" he means taking all the credit for the good stuff, and sacking whoever he decides was responsible for any cock-ups.

The famous principle: Deputy heads must roll.

Oblomov wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:38 am Consensus among my department directors (not experts in medicine but we design elfin safety frameworks for some pretty big cheeses so tend to err on the side of caution) is that the pork haystack is basically throwing us all under the bus as a distraction from his day-to-day calamities and so he can preen and grandstand about being "the great liberator" from COVID restrictions.

We will continue to wear masks and take other precautions for the foreseeable future.

Yes, I'm inclined to see the "All restrictions off" as leaving us with out pants down and cocks in our hands when the Mu variant arrives.

There's also the "No restrictions, so what's the point of doing these tests".
Which feeds on to few samples to the labs, so late detection and analysis of the incoming Mu.

And then a mad scramble to get all that testing back up to previous levels which could take precious weeks...

Oblomov wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:23 pm And then a mad scramble to get all that testing back up to previous levels which could take precious weeks...

Absolutely:

Thre's massive difference:

1. Detecting a variant early, tracing back to case zero, IDing all carrriers, and installing all precautions. (Though the UK gov't would never do the later).

2. Observing that patients are dying at an increased rate, panicking, and cobbling a "let's do the show right here" response. (The sort of response you expect from "invisible hand" fans).

Also with 2, pausing while deciding how to monetize / politicize the situation.

"The prime minister considers the Coronavirus matter closed."