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Yes fwippers.
Because people are too dumb for their own good, and ours. The people who ignore the basic rules of keeping their distance and wearing masks.
Joss
Current car: BMW X2 sDrive 20i M Sport 5dr Step Auto In metallic Portimão Blue. 04:10:2025
Previous car:Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.Just found this from 2006. An interesting read…
Most interesting thing, Wigwam, is that it was produced as a countermeasure to the possibility of bio-terrorism attack using viruses. Can’t say that hadn’t occurred to me about Covid.
On a lighter, but still worrying note, my GP’s surgery has stopped doing any face-to-face work with patients. I was due to go in for regular COPD check, was just about to phone and cancel (thought the risk too great) when they phoned me to call it off.
Yes fwippers. Because people are too dumb for their own good, and ours. The people who ignore the basic rules of keeping their distance and wearing masks.
Always the Gentleman, I would have put it somewhat stronger than that.
@Mike 700
My mind would agree with you Mike but my hands over rule and type something else
Joss
Current car: BMW X2 sDrive 20i M Sport 5dr Step Auto In metallic Portimão Blue. 04:10:2025
Previous car:Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.The wife and I on many occasions have discussed, if everyone adhere as strictly as humanly possible to the measures put in place we would not need a lockdown, what has happened to common sense.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
is there more lockdown comming at the end the week
Quite probably.
Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. (Redd Foxx 1922-1991)
in the meantime im happy to conform (JS 1973-as long as bloody possible)
iv got a good condition cheque from motability £600 my banks in glasgow outwith my area north lanarkshire
i thought i could but it in the bank after the 16th but now i dont know , if lockdown continues ill not be able to put it in ,will i
I have been posting Cheques to my bank for a while but they now offer a photo service where I simply scan the Cheque through the banking App. (First Direct)
I would argue that paying money into my account was essential and travelling to do it was unavoidable. Presumably you don’t have a local branch?
Prior to Covid I also used to pay cheques in at the Post Office, they cover most banks. https://www.postoffice.co.uk/everydaybanking
i am a bookkeeper and do accounts for several companies and do their banking at the post office for hsbc,santander and others. for hsbc the post office have dedicated envelopes for you to use.
No Wigwam the evidence against lockdowns does not keep piling up. Whilst there are invariably disadvantages to lockdowns logic dictates that if you have a highly contagious virus cutting back on social interaction will help to slow down transmission. This in turn will allow the NHS to regroup and provide frontline staff with some respite
I would implore everyone on these forums to be very careful what they post. It’s all very well standing up for free speech but when comments made are palpably wrong, such as downplaying the dangers of the pandemic or the efforts to combat it then that needs to be called out. The USA has shown what can happen to sensible discourse if overwhelmed by inaccurate paranoid comments. Let’s all do our best to prevent that happening on this forum.
I entirely disagree with you Daf.
The view that a lockdown is the answer to everything is what is scaring people, it’s what caused people to blame a couple taking a stroll and stopping to drink a coffee for the lack of progress in reducing the rate of infection. It’s what allows people to blame the behaviour of other people for the inability to bring this virus under control. It’s what is causing mental illness and deprivation. The bogey man is out there, let’s hide from it. It’s not working and it won’t work.
There are other views and realities out there that you want to deny people from reading about and understanding. Sorry Daf, but no.
I entirely disagree with you Daf.
WOW! I did not see that coming!
My good condition bonus was paid direct to my bank account no cheques.
My good condition bonus was paid direct to my bank account no cheques.
+1
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
I agree with Daf, Lockdown works, but only if people don’t flagrantly break the rules.
Look at New Zealand, South Korea, that’s how effective lockdowns can be.
Compare to here where people still think it’s okay and essential to pop out for a newspaper, a Costa coffee, a packet of cigarettes or a bag of sweets.
They’re the sort of people I’ve been serving this afternoon in the Sainsbury’s petrol station I work in. They’re coming in just for these items, not fuel!!
Last lockdown, we served only fuel for a couple of months, and I hope we go back to that in the next few days.
It’s time the government grew a pair and started more rigourous measures for compliance.
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