They're going to be striking for a very long time if they're holding out for a 15% rise.
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This whole situation depresses the hell out of me, I can see my life turning awful within months. This is the view inside my head.
July: Re-opening happens and people make their own decisions, which inevitably leads to the infections graph going vertical.
August: Following lengthy arguments and probably a failed strike, people return to a full office with no social distancing. Infections still rising.
September: After several scares, I get Covid. It's not too bad, but I'm still off work for a week. Infections still rising.
October: Still feel exhausted from Covid. There's talk about another lockdown but the government plays it down.
November: Don't feel exhausted by Covid, but just fed up and depressed. Calls for lockdown grow further. The country is classified as a high-risk location by almost everywhere in the world, so it now looks like it'll be three years before I can go overseas. Government insists it's a temporary blip.
December: A temporary two week circuit breaker lockdown is called to reduce cases before Christmas. It inevitably extends beyond Christmas.
January: Lockdown still in effect, but compliance is very low because nobody cares and it doesn't really make much difference other than another round of businesses going to the wall.
February: I didn't get as far as booking holidays as the only places that don't classify the UK as a high-risk country is Kyrgyzstan and Somalia and we're still in lockdown anyway. I think I've got Covid again. Infections remain consistently high and a few more people I know are dead.
March: To tidy things up before the financial year end, I put a Master System Light Phaser in my mouth and pull the trigger. It doesn't work.
Then again, I'm a pessimist so maybe Covid will be gone by the end of the week.Comment
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Queenie awarded the NHS a medal and said everyone is doing jolly well and working their socks off, so they're happy now and have cancelled the strike: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57714088Originally posted by MartyG View PostComment
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I've liked that, [MENTION=7652]Hirst[/MENTION], but I don't like it, just agree with you.
I've always said we're operating a two-tier system: Those who give a ****, and the rest that don't.
I still think that's the case. I think the thing I'm most worried about is that people are going to be shaming people into not wearing masks, even though they're the easiest way to stop transmission.
This pandemic has really shown some people's true colours.
The government are giving up, thinking the vaccine is the only solution and Sajid Javid's focus seems to be opening everything back up, rather than saving lives. "We are going to have to learn to accept the existence of COVID and find ways to cope with it - just as we already do with flu," he said.
The government are leaving it to "personal responsibility", which is a great way to wash your hands of any problems.
The comparison of flu has been criticised:
"It's like having a government that thinks road safety should be completely up to 'individual responsibility': no traffic lights, no highway code, no law about driving on the left, no crash barriers," tweeted health psychologist Robert West.
I think we're going to be all going off in our own regions, spreading it about with our own mutations, then having events where everyone passes their regional variants forevermore.Comment
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On the instruction of Boris, honestly, the transparency of their moves almost gives me a headache.Comment
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We had ours on between two shops yesterday and some people loudly said (in that "we're talking to each other but it's for other people to hear" way, an ancient art only mastered by chavs and, seemingly, schoolyard bullies) "dunno why they're wearing masks, not Halloween yet".Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
This is going to happen.Comment
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This feels very, very plausible.Originally posted by Hirst View Post
Unfortunately
Although I hope you don't get COVID, Hirst, let alone twice.Comment
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Surely a government that's made bad decision after bad decision around the pandemic isn't going to make another bad decision?Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
All well and good having personal responsibility, but that doesn't account for morons and employers coercing people back into offices - this is herd immunity plan number 2.Comment
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I'm seeing all this stuff that Savid Javid is an Objectivist.Comment
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Just Googled it. His favourite book and film is The Fountainhead. Jesus Christ. A vile philosophy.Comment
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We need to open up more, as fast as poss, coz, sandwiches. And football. Or the dream...sandwiches at the football!
Meanwhile
"The only areas in the table outside the UK are Nur-Sultan City in Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation's capital, Moscow."
Oh dear.Comment
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Care Minister Helen Whately refuses to say COVID is under controlComment
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Next year we will be black listed by most countries so the government will change the way covid cases are recorded to cheat the numbers and get visitors again. Just you wait.Comment
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"Scotland's national clinical director, Jason Leitch, said a lack of "natural immunity" in the population was behind the high rates."Originally posted by wheelaa View PostWe need to open up more, as fast as poss, coz, sandwiches. And football. Or the dream...sandwiches at the football!
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"The only areas in the table outside the UK are Nur-Sultan City in Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation's capital, Moscow."
Oh dear.
That explains it. Nothing to do with playing-up like total wazzocks during the football?Comment
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Take your pick, when it's all 'gross negligence', 'acceptable death rates' etc you know it reeks of an absolutely top tier Tory planComment
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