[Boiler]

I'm waiting for some bonehead to dial 911 in an emergency.

[MisterMuncher]

From a mobile, there's already a fail-safe that routes the call to 999.

[Nigredo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57438745

Local health leaders are urging for total lockdown lifting to be delayed.

[Nigredo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57464097. ... m=referral

And it's happened.

Not that it'll effect Terry from Basildon's actions much.

[Nigredo]

[AOB]

Wording of statements and articles, as Governments and newspapers know all too well, cover a whole manner of bases without actually meaning how they are intended to be interpreted. The Government, we are told, are to offer all adults first jabs by 19 July. They will. Offer that is. It doesn't mean they will get it by then, but it is intended to be interpreted as "needles in arms" by 19 July to make the Government sound good.

I'll have to remember that one for work. "I can offer to do what you ask by next Friday". Then on the Thursday offer to have whatever it is done in three months. " I did say I'd offer before Friday!"

[Cyclist]

Meanwhile, on the other side of The Pond...

The number of Americans who have died from Covid-19 has reached 600,012 - the most of any nation - according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The US also ranks highest in total number of recorded cases, with nearly 33.5 million infections since 2020...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57473436

But it's a hoax and started deliberately by George Soros / Bill Gates / The Illuminati to depopulate the world.

[Bones McCoy]

Meanwhile, on the other side of The Pond...

The number of Americans who have died from Covid-19 has reached 600,012 - the most of any nation - according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The US also ranks highest in total number of recorded cases, with nearly 33.5 million infections since 2020...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57473436

But it's a hoax and started deliberately by George Soros / Bill Gates / The Illuminati to depopulate the world.

And Johns Hopkins University are Marxists trying to make Murica look bad.
They don't even have a top-8 basketball team.
How much more Un-American can you get.

[kreuzberger]

That's me, just 13 and a bit days now from indestructibility. It's something of a relief.

[Youngian]

No, Mr Springsteen isn’t an antivaxxer. ‘Man appearing at theatre complies with the regulations’ is the flimsy story behind the headline.

Fans who had AstraZeneca vaccine won’t be allowed into Bruce Springsteen’s New York concerts


The intimate five-night run at the St James theatre will be the first Broadway show to reopen since last March and will require attendees to show proof of vaccination, reports The Telegraph.

However, the list will be limited only to jabs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration - Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/a ... 41311.html

[mattomac]

Apparently it’s been reversed for international fans, I’m wondering why any of them are over there anyhow.

Anyhow something isn’t adding up to me, open for 6 weeks and then a rocky winter ahead, why? I don’t get why we are having a rocky winter ahead?

[Cyclist]

The gravy train keeps on running. Serco have just "won" a contract worth up to £322 million to run 20% of England & NI test and trace centres for the next 12 months.

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/ ... 8.html?amp

[Bones McCoy]

Randroid "Saj" wants to abolish all restrictions.
Mentalists on twitter are delighted.
As are fans of death and plague.

[AOB]

22k positive results yesterday which is a bit worrying. I noticed on Monday the dashboard did say they didn't have all the weekend's results so it would be added onto Tuesday's total.

I've seen a couple of reports in the media that say the Zoe App says that 3 in every 4 cases are for people not vaccinated. I've not been successful on finding that page in the Zoe website though, that reports that.

Why is Ibiza on the green list from today? I wouldn't have thought opening up a nightclub destination conducive for reducing positive cases.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Spike reports that her class has 50% attendance today, due to pupils isolating or infected. The head has reinstated a 100% mask mandate.

[Bones McCoy]

Football linked to 2,000 Scottish Covid cases

Nearly 2,000 Covid cases in Scotland have been linked to people watching Euro 2020 football matches.

Public Health Scotland said two thirds of the 1,991 cases were people who travelled to London for Scotland's game with England on 18 June.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57667163

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Mrs (Dr?) Bones must be almost bald from tearing her hair out.

[Bones McCoy]

Mrs (Dr?) Bones must be almost bald from tearing her hair out.

Yes Doctor.

Attitude so far is "You ain't seen nothing yet" as she hears the ideas of Javid and Williamson to abolish all restrictions (protections).

Yes: They wield no authority in this kingdom.
No: We won't receive any additional finding for protection here if England has abandoned it.

[Cyclist]

At the Compulsory Attendance skype meeting this morning we were told three Phase 2 trainees had tested positive and 92 trainees and instrutors are now isolating. There will be three Mobile Testing Units on camp, and everyone *must* go and get a test.

The twice-weekly tests are conducted by the army, and we get the text and email with the results within three hours. The tests we had today were done by SerCo, who "aim to give you the results within two days."

This must be the greater efficiency the Tories tell us we get from the private sector, and for which SerCo were recently given £322 millions of public money.

[Andy McDandy]

Farm it out to their private sector mates, wait for them to balls it up, pay them compensation, and get the army in to sort it out.

Brilliant, really - their mates get paid for doing a half arsed job, while the government get a bit of reflected glory off Our Boys (see also the 2012 Olympics).