ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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All politics aside, this is grim reading in human terms. That said, it shows the extent of misdirection.
https://www.ft.com/content/67e6a4ee-3d05-43bc-ba03-e239799fa6abSue Nicholas- Location: river
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Bob it’s on River Village Community page .Maybe Chris our administrator can give you the=link.
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Sue Nicholas wrote:Bob it’s on River Village Community page .Maybe Chris our administrator can give you the=link.
Unfortunately it's a private group so we can't link to it.
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Weird Granny Slater
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Reginald Barrington wrote:The daily mail WGS? I thought better of you!
Can you imagine the furore if they hadn't implemented a lockdown and the nhs had gone into meltdown? At least this way they only have to fend off the whingeing left for not having implemented it soon enough.
Personally I'm with you and we have been needing a population reduction for some years now.
Also The Telegraph today, RB, and probably many more besides. I picked the Mail out of the ones I'd seen because it had rather more direct quotation and rather less summary. (Being non-aligned myself, I'm not really much fussed about party alignment, so long as I can find something factual there.) You're not saying that you haven't noticed much of the media subtly changing their positions as it becomes clearer that the whole thing's a disaster and they try to distance themselves from it?
Yes, the Left have been rather a disappointment, maybe a predictable one, as they've clamoured for more state intervention and restrictions.
As regards 'needing a population reduction', I do hope that's not a smear, since that's not my thinking at all.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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“By the way, I have no doubt that the vast majority of people do 'take responsibility for [their] health and behaviour', and don't require a finger-wagging policeman (or pseudo-policeman) to remind them to do so.”
You might change your opinion if you were in M&S on Monday morning, judging by the fact that most of the customers were obviously over 70. Most of them seemed unaware as to what 2 meters means.
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Bob Whysman
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Pablo said :
You might change your opinion if you were in M&S on Monday morning, judging by the fact that most of the customers were obviously over 70. Most of them seemed unaware as to what 2 meters means.
They were probably taught imperial measurements at school Pablo and possibly not familiar with the continental spelling of metres!
They also have one meter for gas and one for electricity and had left them at home................sorry.
...........Off for a lay down in a dark room now!!
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Sue Nicholas wrote:Bob it’s on River Village Community page .Maybe Chris our administrator can give you the=link.
Thank you
Chris wrote:Unfortunately it's a private group so we can't link to it.
Thank you both for your replies. I understand if your youth was too risqué to share on an open forum Sue.
I had toyed with the idea of pitching a tent on your front lawn to gain residential status but felt that joining a ‘private group’ might be more than I could cope with at my age!
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Button
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Pablo wrote:“By the way, I have no doubt that the vast majority of people do 'take responsibility for [their] health and behaviour', and don't require a finger-wagging policeman (or pseudo-policeman) to remind them to do so.”
You might change your opinion if you were in M&S on Monday morning, judging by the fact that most of the customers were obviously over 70. Most of them seemed unaware as to what 2 meters means.
Or in Tesco, or generally walking around and shopping in Whitfield. Of course, it depends on one's definition of 'vast'; I reckon 90% observance on good days, rather less (but still over 50%) on less-good days. One thing that makes me roll my eyes is a queue of people 2 metres apart... within touching distance of another queue 2 metres apart.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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I love that Bob.I have not got to my teens yet?Let you into why I’m called Sue.My birth name is Sylvia but when I worked in Slough the GPO engineers called me Susie Wong as I used to wear a tight fitting dress with slits up the side .like Chinese girls wear .When I’m made a Dame I shall be known as Dame Sylvia sounds more regal .Pigs might fly
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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#428.
I wa too late to alter it back to
American from continental spelling.
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SUE!! All that information.........and hours before the watershed too!
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Captain Haddock
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> 40k capacity for tests
> 22k carried out yesterday.
Why aren't people coming forward?
Choice between 14 days on sofa watching Netflix V greater than 50% chance of being sent back to work?
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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They'll be testing anyone within a twenty mile radius of a testing site soon, just to hit the 100,000 number. You'd think they would learn from the "immigration down to the tens of thousands" nonsense that arbitrary numerical targets can only ever cause grief.
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Button- Location: Dover
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Neil Moors wrote:They'll be testing anyone within a twenty mile radius of a testing site soon
And indeed are.
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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It’s just politics Neil.........you can count on that!
The National deaths from Coronavirus are shocking but those that occur closer to home make you realise that numbers don’t enter the equation.
They are human beings with families and having lost 2 close neighbours, both long standing friends, over the Easter weekend it really brings it home to you.
One of the village care homes is also rife with the disease with another life lost so far.
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Jan Higgins
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Luckily I have not heard of any deaths among those I know but do know someone I see very often who is just about recovering from Covid19, a family man with three young children. Speaking to him yesterday how this virus affected him and he still feels a little weak, it is absolutely horrible.
The more that get tested the better, thank goodness my still working pregnant family medic at WHH gets tested everyday.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Yeah. Complicated isn't it. Except we are about to get to 100,000 tests whereupon every Muppet with access to a computer or a column in a national newspaper who knows f**k all about anything will 'obviously' point out either
1. They are the wrong sort of tests.
Or
2. They are the right sort but 'obviously' the Government should have introduced them earlier.
Meanwhile 251(?) Procurement Managers from NHS trusts are applying for early retirement with an index linked pension.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And now the Leader of the Free World recommends mainlining Dettol while on a sunbed?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Strewth, even Heineken would be preferable!
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