OV9

DeskJockey wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:23 am

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:17 am I've just gone for a grade 0 all over - no haircut issues for me...#baldy

All over?

oooh, cheeky...

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:25 am

DeskJockey wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:23 am

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:17 am I've just gone for a grade 0 all over - no haircut issues for me...#baldy

All over?

oooh, cheeky...

Figured you might be going for the racing snake look?

DeskJockey wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:30 am

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:25 am

DeskJockey wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:23 am

All over?

oooh, cheeky...

Figured you might be going for the racing snake look?

with all of the lockdowns it's closer to a snake half way through swallowing a large meal....

V8Granite wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:03 am

dinny_g wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:55 am Real insight to the mind of my 14 year old...

“What??? Why are they opening the barbers 5 weeks after the schools?? That makes no sense!!”

I told him he should have let me cut it at Christmas...

Man buns for all

Dave!

He’s nearly there - but he won’t let me blade 1 the back and sides

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:35 am

DeskJockey wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:30 am

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:25 am oooh, cheeky...

Figured you might be going for the racing snake look?

with all of the lockdowns it's closer to a snake half way through swallowing a large meal....

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:35 am

DeskJockey wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:30 am

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:25 am oooh, cheeky...

Figured you might be going for the racing snake look?

with all of the lockdowns it's closer to a snake half way through swallowing a large meal....

I bet you can still run a marathon quicker than most of us could run 5K!

Delphi wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:15 am

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:35 am

DeskJockey wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:30 am

Figured you might be going for the racing snake look?

with all of the lockdowns it's closer to a snake half way through swallowing a large meal....

I bet you can still run a marathon quicker than most of us could run 5K!

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!

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:20 am

Delphi wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:15 am

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:35 am with all of the lockdowns it's closer to a snake half way through swallowing a large meal....

I bet you can still run a marathon quicker than most of us could run 5K!

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!

Oh shit, yeah! Sorry Rich, I was thinking of Rich MacDowell (Turboferret)!

ZedLeg wrote: Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:42 pm I wonder if it's psychosomatic, none of the covid vaccines are live.

Not if people are getting testing positive afterwards because of the antibodies

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...

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.

duncs500 wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:32 am 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.

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.

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)

Broccers wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:54 am

duncs500 wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:32 am 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.

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.

No. The metric they are using is hospitalisations.

duncs500 wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:32 am 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.

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/

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).

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.

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