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Manc33 wrote:Let's just ignore it and have the usual Christmas. I certainly will be.

But given that you ignore all scientific evidence that doesn’t surprise me.

In this case your wilful ignorance will kill.

Northumberland has a rate of infection of about 20 on 100,000, less than the UK average but it has been locked down because it is next to the Tyneside conurbation which has a rate of round 120 in 100,000.

No, I don't get it.

mjr wrote:

mercalia wrote:About time that shops were required to stop people not wearing face masks from entering their premises?

There are too many exemptions for that to be practical, plus asking someone if they are exempt is basically asking them to reveal their medical history, which is a bit iffy.

Now, if you were to propose tasering space invaders, I'd be quite happy with that because I can't think of a medical reason why someone needs to push past me and the guy two in front walking with a stick in a slow-moving shop exit queue just to get back slightly quicker to their van parked in the "pick-up/drop-off zone" (and then set the alarm off when they tried to start it - almost justice!).

well I see many healthy looking people in my local lidl not wearing masks - slim fit muscular shapely young people who clearly therefore must have serious health problems, not. Its the law. a person who has lung heart issues tends to walk slowly with deliberation. easy to spot. asthmatics may be diffrent but they normaly have an inhaler to show. these are bad times we are living thru. atleast the others should be forced to lie.

Oldjohnw wrote:Northumberland has a rate of infection of about 20 on 100,000, less than the UK average but it has been locked down because it is next to the Tyneside conurbation which has a rate of round 120 in 100,000.

No, I don't get it.

Surely if one area has a spike, neighbouring areas will also be in danger because people, and infection, cross boundaries. It only takes a few people from Northumberland to venture into Newcastle for the night and the spike will spread to other nearby areas. Better to get the measures in place before the spike becomes apparent rather than responding too late.

Oldjohnw wrote:Northumberland has a rate of infection of about 20 on 100,000, less than the UK average but it has been locked down because it is next to the Tyneside conurbation which has a rate of round 120 in 100,000.

No, I don't get it.

It can be seen as a failure of having large unitary authorities, if Northumberland had the old structure of Berwick, Blyth, Alnwick, Morpeth District Councils it'd be easier to isolate those districts. Now discrete areas are harder to define. It's the same in Durham - used to have seven districts - now one amalgamated authority.

pwa wrote:

Oldjohnw wrote:Northumberland has a rate of infection of about 20 on 100,000, less than the UK average but it has been locked down because it is next to the Tyneside conurbation which has a rate of round 120 in 100,000.

No, I don't get it.

Surely if one area has a spike, neighbouring areas will also be in danger because people, and infection, cross boundaries. It only takes a few people from Northumberland to venture into Newcastle for the night and the spike will spread to other nearby areas. Better to get the measures in place before the spike becomes apparent rather than responding too late.

There's always a next authority. Durham is included in the shutdown. Its neighbour Teesside has a significantly higher rate but is not. So it works in reverse.

Ben@Forest wrote:

Oldjohnw wrote:Northumberland has a rate of infection of about 20 on 100,000, less than the UK average but it has been locked down because it is next to the Tyneside conurbation which has a rate of round 120 in 100,000.

No, I don't get it.

It can be seen as a failure of having large unitary authorities, if Northumberland had the old structure of Berwick, Blyth, Alnwick, Morpeth District Councils it'd be easier to isolate those districts. Now discrete areas are harder to define. It's the same in Durham - used to have seven districts - now one amalgamated authority.

Agreed. An authority no-one wanted. People from Berwick do not pop into Newcastle for the night either.

Oldjohnw wrote:

Ben@Forest wrote:

Oldjohnw wrote:Northumberland has a rate of infection of about 20 on 100,000, less than the UK average but it has been locked down because it is next to the Tyneside conurbation which has a rate of round 120 in 100,000.

No, I don't get it.

It can be seen as a failure of having large unitary authorities, if Northumberland had the old structure of Berwick, Blyth, Alnwick, Morpeth District Councils it'd be easier to isolate those districts. Now discrete areas are harder to define. It's the same in Durham - used to have seven districts - now one amalgamated authority.

Agreed. An authority no-one wanted. People from Berwick do not pop into Newcastle for the night either.

As Berwick is closer to Edinburgh than Newcastle, and even then it’s over 50 miles, I wouldn’t expect them to travel that far for one night out. I certainly wouldn’t.

I know someone aged 35 who hasn’t been well enough to work for 6 months, my wife took sheltering very seriously, still caught it and now has breathing problems like severe asthma that aren’t going away. It’s not all about dying. It’s a very unjust disease in that people can take all the risks but not take the impact. This reinforces their selfish attitudes and helps them believe they are right to not take things seriously. Maybe they will change their minds when someone they know gets impacted.


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smcknighty wrote:I know someone aged 35 who hasn’t been well enough to work for 6 months, my wife took sheltering very seriously, still caught it and now has breathing problems like severe asthma that aren’t going away. It’s not all about dying. It’s a very unjust disease in that people can take all the risks but not take the impact. This reinforces their selfish attitudes and helps them believe they are right to not take things seriously. Maybe they will change their minds when someone they know gets impacted.

I agree. But I doubt they will get it. The trouble started when Boris and co passed the law about face coverings and it wasnt enforced. I see those so-&-sos in my Lidl every time I visit acting as if it was pre March 2020. if any of them have it they are spreading it around in the close confines of my lidls as they chat on their mobiles or chat to their partner etc

[XAP]Bob wrote:

Manc33 wrote:Let's just ignore it and have the usual Christmas. I certainly will be.

But given that you ignore all scientific evidence that doesn’t surprise me.

In this case your wilful ignorance will kill.

The evidence for this virus is not based in science though. Science involves a dependent and an independent variable, but how can that apply when the testing is skewed from the outset - that is, they are testing for something that's always present in all our bodies all our lives, then claiming to have diagnosed people with something when they find it. That's not science.

Manc33 wrote:

[XAP]Bob wrote:

Manc33 wrote:Let's just ignore it and have the usual Christmas. I certainly will be.

But given that you ignore all scientific evidence that doesn’t surprise me.

In this case your wilful ignorance will kill.

The evidence for this virus is not based in science though. Science involves a dependent and an independent variable, but how can that apply when the testing is skewed from the outset - that is, they are testing for something that's always present in all our bodies all our lives, then claiming to have diagnosed people with something when they find it. That's not science.

Well something filled the hospital my son was working in during April. Are you saying it was something else?

If enough people ignore Covid we will have a proper Lockdown to endure over Christmas.

Manc33 wrote:... that is, they are testing for something that's always present in all our bodies all our lives, then claiming to have diagnosed people with something when they find it.

What's the "something", please?

Thanks

Jonathan

pwa wrote:

Manc33 wrote:

[XAP]Bob wrote:
But given that you ignore all scientific evidence that doesn’t surprise me.

In this case your wilful ignorance will kill.

The evidence for this virus is not based in science though. Science involves a dependent and an independent variable, but how can that apply when the testing is skewed from the outset - that is, they are testing for something that's always present in all our bodies all our lives, then claiming to have diagnosed people with something when they find it. That's not science.

Well something filled the hospital my son was working in during April. Are you saying it was something else?

If enough people ignore Covid we will have a proper Lockdown to endure over Christmas.

And idiotic actions such as this doesn’t help.

Coronavirus: 'Rule-breaking Bolton pub crawl' saw cases rise https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... r-54205353

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