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Figured you might be going for the racing snake look?
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with all of the lockdowns it's closer to a snake half way through swallowing a large meal....DeskJockey wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:30 amFigured you might be going for the racing snake look?
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I bet you can still run a marathon quicker than most of us could run 5K!
If you get all wobbly-lipped about the opinion of Internet strangers, maybe it's time to take a bath with the toaster as you'll never amount to sh1t anyway.
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you're confusing me with another Rich! I haven't run 26 miles if you added together every mile I've ever run in my life!
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Oh shit, yeah! Sorry Rich, I was thinking of Rich MacDowell (Turboferret)!
If you get all wobbly-lipped about the opinion of Internet strangers, maybe it's time to take a bath with the toaster as you'll never amount to sh1t anyway.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/0 ... asinggrow/
Pretty certain there is no good case for delaying people being able to see loved ones until after Easter (which obviously for people with families that aren't local means weeks after that if you have to book holidays to travel). We are three weeks ahead of (the dubious) modelling so if the models were used to justify the dates of reopening then said dates should be moved forward. Simple as that.
It makes me wonder whether the relevant laws used to set the timetable are implemented by secondary rather than primary legislation and therefore subject to judicial review. Its certainly possible to make a case for the dates being an irrational use of delegated power under primary legislation if we're locking people in their houses at a time when Covid deaths are very low and all the vulnerable have been vaccinated - the rationale they have set out is to help hospitals cope, not to reach zero covid remember...
Pretty certain there is no good case for delaying people being able to see loved ones until after Easter (which obviously for people with families that aren't local means weeks after that if you have to book holidays to travel). We are three weeks ahead of (the dubious) modelling so if the models were used to justify the dates of reopening then said dates should be moved forward. Simple as that.
It makes me wonder whether the relevant laws used to set the timetable are implemented by secondary rather than primary legislation and therefore subject to judicial review. Its certainly possible to make a case for the dates being an irrational use of delegated power under primary legislation if we're locking people in their houses at a time when Covid deaths are very low and all the vulnerable have been vaccinated - the rationale they have set out is to help hospitals cope, not to reach zero covid remember...
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Isn't part of the point of the gaps between each phase to assess the effects of the previous phase though? So we've got schools back next Monday then they're going to look at the effects before opening the next phase. Hence the gap.
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SO kids are going back and being forced to test pushing the numbers up again? Yes? No? I am guessing the rising numbers of folk thinking this is a load of bollocks is rising quickly.
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Furlough - now if the budget leak is to be believed I actually think extending this until September is good. Will dilute the unemployment numbers from a sudden jump in May (end of current furlough is April in case of you fact checkers out there ask why May)
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If you've evidence of the vaccine being effective in reducing serious cases and deaths to very small numbers I think that even that is overcautious but it is a fair point. If in the following 3 weeks there's no significant uptick of ICU admissions or deaths, however, then it should lead to a general and immediate reopening.
That takes you to 29th March so the week ahead of Easter. That's also in line with Carl Henegan's thinking on this. Post Easter is not justifiable without such an uptick, which we've no evidence to suggest will happen now that the vaccines have been administered to the at risk groups.
What you're left with at that point is at most, a casedemic.
ETA: Lilico also pulls apart the requirement for the 5 week period here https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/0 ... -lockdown/
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I suspect as much as anything they got pilloried for opening up too quickly last time, so they figure doing it again would be a bad move politically.
I'd love to open up sooner, but I sense that caution has a lot of public support (if not majority then very vocal minority).
I'd love to open up sooner, but I sense that caution has a lot of public support (if not majority then very vocal minority).
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The way cases are dropping is pretty amazing though. The case rate per 100k in my area is almost half what it was back in the days when we were in tier 2 and beer gardens were still open.
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Ours in Stockton-on-Tees is still above national average, 129/100,000 vs average of 77/100,000. Neighbouring Middlesbrough was quoted as highest rate in country last week