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Post by bpg on Apr 28, 2021 20:18:20 GMT
That's us curfew 10pm to 5am until numbers drop below 100 for 5 consecutive days. 9pm to 5am in the city centre, masks compulsory in Central areas not limited to public transport or confined spaces.
With hotels not allowed visitors for recreation reasons not sure why anyone would want to travel.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2021 7:46:54 GMT
I don't understand how curfews over night can have anything but a minuscule impact. Seems a bizarre approach.
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Post by WDB on Apr 29, 2021 7:54:48 GMT
Similar in France, I think. Does seem odd when you think about it, although maybe less so as evenings get warmer and people are tempted to congregate in parks and squares.
Not much congregating here yesterday. I had my first meal out since — when? September? So it was my fault that after three dry weeks it rained all evening. Not sure how the restaurant did out of it. I rang in the afternoon to check their bad weather arrangements. They told me they were expecting five tables and could cover them all — and, true enough, they had seven or eight tables under a big awning. But only two other parties turned up, and neither lingered for long, so for most of two hours it was just us. Nice dinner all the same.
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Post by EspadaIII on Apr 29, 2021 10:55:04 GMT
I have booked Son #1 on a trip to Israel for August so he can attend a wedding. Reports are that Israel will be open to all vaccingated tourists by July and if they do I will be on a plane there...
In the meantime, another Holyday comes up on May 17th, so just as we will be permitted to have two families inside... Hooray (I hope).. We can be entertained indoors.
It appears that we are reaching a plateau in terms of numbers of positive tests although the decline in hospitalisaitons continues. Clearly vaccination works and works well. Even JVT commented that the Third Wave will be more like a ripple. I do wonder how many of those people who are dying now 'with Covid' either tested within 28 days or simply noted in the Death Certificate died because of it or simply with it? In other words, Covid is no longer any form of killer in the UK, especially if you have had at one jab?
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Post by Rob on Apr 29, 2021 18:28:33 GMT
The official figure released daily is died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19. So if you had a heart attack and got Covid-19 in hospital but died because of the heart attack you'd be in the statistics. Likewise someone who tested positive dying in a road traffic accident or anything else (but not Covid-19) would also be in the stats.
So I don't think the figure will ever be zero. Not for a while at least.
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Post by WDB on Apr 29, 2021 19:48:25 GMT
...well, for at least 28 days.  |
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Post by WDB on Apr 30, 2021 12:26:41 GMT
Getting braver. The first weekend after galleries and museums are allowed to reopen, MrsB1 and I are going to London for a Tate exhibition. (May be a first proper outing for the new i3.) Then, on a Friday night in June, I got lucky(ish) enough to snag two seats in a remote corner of the National Theatre for Under Milk Wood, and got so carried away that we now have a hotel room for the night and tickets for another exhibition on the Saturday. If I'm honest, the bit I'm most looking forward to is the hotel breakfast.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2021 12:33:54 GMT
Got a ticket for Shed Seven in London in December.
Got a ticket for England v Scotland at Wembley on June 18th, don't know if I'll be allowed to attend, don't know if I would if was.
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Post by WDB on Apr 30, 2021 22:16:45 GMT
The government still has a decision to make over full attendance at sports events. The boys and I have tickets to a day of the Edgbaston Test match against New Zealand the weekend before your football. The venue emailed last week to warn that it’s far from certain we’ll actually be allowed to go — although nothing will deter us if we are.
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Post by Humph on Apr 30, 2021 22:26:10 GMT
It must be quite difficult to get excited at a cricket match. Or even to stay awake come to think.
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Post by WDB on May 1, 2021 7:21:42 GMT
I can understand why you might feel that way about a sport that requires a bit of intellectual investment. Beethoven can be difficult if you’re used to Britney Spears. 😛
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Post by Humph on May 1, 2021 14:30:26 GMT
Intellectual? Everyone gets into fancy dress. One bloke chucks a ball, another bloke hits it with a piece of wood. A third bloke tries to catch it or run after it. Not much more to report or understand is there, well, apart from the subtleties of grasping why the other blokes are interminably standing around doing not much? Oh and if it rains, apparently it all becomes impossible.
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Post by bpg on May 1, 2021 17:05:47 GMT
You'd think it would take off in America what with two meal breaks included in the game.
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Post by WDB on May 1, 2021 18:14:58 GMT
Not in our Covid version. We get 25 min between innings to consume whatever we’ve brought along. Hardly convivial but safe.
Doesn’t any game look absurd to the uninitiated?
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2021 8:28:09 GMT
Been down to spend the afternoon with my Mum in her garden over the weekend. There and back in a day is a bit of chore, but hey ho. And of course it rained. And the price of petrol. My God. The Leaf can't come back from the bodyshop quickly enough. I don't want to have to buy another tankful of that stuff. And isn't it a faff having to go to a specialist shop to buy it, amongst all those other people, instead of just trickling fuel into the car overnight at home? The humanity.
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