pearl
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I went there yesterday and not a bog roll in sight ... went to the main branch today and had a choice of 9 rolls, 16 rolls or small boxes of sheets. I opted for the sheets, couldn't face walking down the road with 9 rolls
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I went there yesterday and not a bog roll in sight ... went to the main branch today and had a choice of 9 rolls, 16 rolls or small boxes of sheets. I opted for the sheets, couldn't face walking down the road with 9 rolls
Where is the additional 10 deaths info coming g from.
pb21
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Nobby
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It was from the Beeb. But it may just have been bad grammar and there were no deaths yesterday
All a bit immaterial anyway in the grand scheme.....
Yes it is immaterial to a point but with people on edge facts are important and that would've been a massive change.
I was just curious as I thought I had missed something as also read the beeb story and didn't remotely think it suggested that figure had doubled
Albion Dan
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That;s not true according to this. It's 10 total. No increase from yesterday.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
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I went there yesterday and not a bog roll in sight ... went to the main branch today and had a choice of 9 rolls, 16 rolls or small boxes of sheets. I opted for the sheets, couldn't face walking down the road with 9 rolls
If you've got the sheets, maybe you should go for the 16 rolls
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Sounds like either the white flag going up or they think the number may induce panic.
Our truthless lot in charge would love to do that.
Blimey, not one to mince her words!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...085e564ad83a2f#block-5e6ba9178f085e564ad83a2f
A councillor in an English village where one of the first UK cases of coronavirus was confirmed has described the government’s strategy of tackling the disease as “a crime against humanity.”
Samantha Flower, who is a member of Boris Johnson’s ruling Conservative Party and also a social care manager for Sheffield City Council, said: “I’m very concerned. They [the UK government] are saying they want as many people to get this disease to create a herd immunisation. But it won’t. My suspicion is that they don’t have the money for social care or NHS so that the weak and the old die.
“I’m saying that as a Conservative councillor and I don’t care if I get sacked. You judge a society by how they treat their vulnerable people. You judge leadership by how it treats its most vulnerable people.
“How do we care for them – by saying it would be better for pretty much everyone to get this disease when we know that our loved ones are going to die? It’s not okay.”
Flowers is a Conservative councillor on High Peak Borough Council and represents the Derbyshire village of Burbage, where one of the first known UK cases of Coronavirus was confirmed. Burbage primary school and a nearby medical centre were temporarily closed after a parent tested positive for the virus on 27 February, when just 15 cases had been confirmed in the UK.
She added: “We could follow the World Health Organisation’s advice and stop this now but the government’s chosen not to. Our prime minister has just said to us ‘your loved ones are going to die’ and that’s not okay. It’s abhorrent. It’s a crime against our country. We have the measures and capabilities to prevent this.
“I’m not trying to be an alarmist but the World Health Organisation has set very comprehensive guidance and we’re not following it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...085e564ad83a2f#block-5e6ba9178f085e564ad83a2f
A councillor in an English village where one of the first UK cases of coronavirus was confirmed has described the government’s strategy of tackling the disease as “a crime against humanity.”
Samantha Flower, who is a member of Boris Johnson’s ruling Conservative Party and also a social care manager for Sheffield City Council, said: “I’m very concerned. They [the UK government] are saying they want as many people to get this disease to create a herd immunisation. But it won’t. My suspicion is that they don’t have the money for social care or NHS so that the weak and the old die.
“I’m saying that as a Conservative councillor and I don’t care if I get sacked. You judge a society by how they treat their vulnerable people. You judge leadership by how it treats its most vulnerable people.
“How do we care for them – by saying it would be better for pretty much everyone to get this disease when we know that our loved ones are going to die? It’s not okay.”
Flowers is a Conservative councillor on High Peak Borough Council and represents the Derbyshire village of Burbage, where one of the first known UK cases of Coronavirus was confirmed. Burbage primary school and a nearby medical centre were temporarily closed after a parent tested positive for the virus on 27 February, when just 15 cases had been confirmed in the UK.
She added: “We could follow the World Health Organisation’s advice and stop this now but the government’s chosen not to. Our prime minister has just said to us ‘your loved ones are going to die’ and that’s not okay. It’s abhorrent. It’s a crime against our country. We have the measures and capabilities to prevent this.
“I’m not trying to be an alarmist but the World Health Organisation has set very comprehensive guidance and we’re not following it.”
Both, I think. Our "state epidemiologist" says the numbers are probably the tip of an iceberg with widespread community contagion and that the exact number no longer matters.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Just had a company wide email go round stating as from Monday, all employees will be temperature tested on arrival, and anyone with temperature of 37.8+ will be denied access and sent home to self-isolate for 7 days.
Local elections postponed for a year over coronavirus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-polit...-U4YIJusCEYCoAVcPzt4mm6XRwnPx18SGH3zsM_coLxAc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-polit...-U4YIJusCEYCoAVcPzt4mm6XRwnPx18SGH3zsM_coLxAc
They are going to take your temperature as you arrive at work? WOW
Fancy a week off work? Jog the last few hundred metres.
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
With one of the ray guns that are well known to be widely inaccurate unless an expensive model and used correctly, I expect.
MattBackHome
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