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Post by Rob on Nov 30, 2021 17:49:24 GMT
Nu would also be to similar to Mu. What happens when we get to Omega?
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Post by WDB on Nov 30, 2021 18:02:30 GMT
A lot of people will pronounce it wrongly.
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Post by bpg on Nov 30, 2021 20:11:57 GMT
Seeing the resistance to immunisation, imagine trying to rollout sanitation in 2021:
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Post by dixinormus on Nov 30, 2021 22:22:35 GMT
As WdB said above, travel is way too much of a faff at present. Who is masochistic enough to take on the form-filling, keep up with the daily rule-changing, and pay the extortionate fees for various tests and swabs? Maybe that’s what They wanted to achieve? It used to be the airports and car parks that fleeced us gullible travellers...
With the explosion in cheap long haul travel these past 25 years, if a virus or its variants were a serious deadly threat to us all then wouldn’t we already have succumbed to something?
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Post by bpg on Dec 1, 2021 5:23:44 GMT
It's possible to offset one cost (tests) against another (fuel) but not if you are directly reliant on carbon.
Starting on a level playing field would help but is never going to be the case.
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 1, 2021 6:11:14 GMT
If we’re listing miscreant states, where’s Israel? 😛 Naughty! |
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 1, 2021 6:13:56 GMT
Will the Swiss watch company complain when we get to Omega, or will the virus simply stop when we run out of letters?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2021 8:52:41 GMT
I will now be collecting Mrs A Snr from the airport, where we have a drive-through PCR test booked, then I'll drive her straight home, and come back home directly from there. Yes, Humph, I'll use the Civic for this one. It'll be a long day. Just got to jiggle some annual leave from work. I'll LFT myself after all that.
What a palaver. On balance I think we're actually exposing ourselves to greater risks overall by doing this (i.e. road accidents) than we are doing anything useful to protect others from a virus. Never mind. Never mind. Sigh.
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Post by WDB on Dec 1, 2021 8:59:55 GMT
Will the Swiss watch company complain when we get to Omega…? No. They’ll just give it to James Bond. |
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Post by bpg on Dec 1, 2021 9:04:20 GMT
Could be a good run to give the Toy Yoda a shake down Al.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2021 10:02:30 GMT
Nah. I'll give the job to the Civic. Not prepared to take the risk of the Yoda letting itself down on such a journey, also the Civic is a bit nicer place to be at 70ish MPH for an entire day. And bluetooth and mod cons and all that.
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 8, 2021 19:17:16 GMT
Really?? A form of lockdown again?? The measures will have little effect as those who have wanted to work from home or are still required to work from home by their employers will still do so, and those of us who feel the need (or have no option but) to 'go to work' will still do so.
At least the roads will be a bit quieter for those us who do actually 'go to work'.
Pathetic. The vaccine booster programme should be taken off whoever is organising it now and handed back to those people who organised the first two jabs. Get all the kids sorted asap, because you know where they are (in school) and open up more vaccine centres. So many friends who are able to vaccinate are willing to volunteer to help and yet they are turned away.
We were doing so well....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2021 8:58:55 GMT
Not sure I quite understand your first comment...if it's not going to make a difference to who is commuting to a workplace, how come the roads will be quieter? They certainly were for me this morning. So anecdotally I'd say many people have reverted to home working already. Good. The real shambolic bit is "work from home, but go to Christmas parties". FFS. Unbelievable.
Agree on the vaccines, but for heaven's sake we neeed to get poorer countries vaccinated too, as we can see from the new strain having developed in a part of the world with little vaccination. Let a coronavirus spread and it will mutate, often, and may defeat all our efforts and expenditure here by producing a vaccine resistant strain.
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 9, 2021 10:13:28 GMT
A few more are now WFH so even today roads a little quieter.
New rules are so contradictory I really don't understand what is going on.
And yes, we need to jab the poorer countries, but inherently that is difficult do to access and lack of systems. But it shouldn't stop us trying.
However, those countries are supported by the wealthier countries and they have reduced money... Travel and trade are needed to boost economies.
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Post by Rob on Dec 9, 2021 17:40:09 GMT
For some reason roads local to me this morning and up to around 12:30 were very busy - certainly not working from home. I don't work Thursdays so after the gym this morning we went into Manchester on the tram for a lunchtime concert at Chetham's School of Music. When we got back a little earlier the local roads were very busy. But I think that's a knock on effect of the M60 and M56 having problems. Google maps just shows it as busy rather than accidents.
My conclusion is people are not staying home. Tram back was packed too - last time we'll go into Manchester for a while.
As for jabbing the poorer countries - I think the west should have invested more in vaccines that were much easier to administer where refrigeration is a problem. And don't get me started on the temperatures Pfizer needs. Don't get me wrong we have done amazingly well but we could have kept going to find more appropriate vaccines for nations that have high populations in poorer, remote areas. There was talk of freeze drying Pfizer so it could be kept at any temperature and then it would just need rehydrating (or something like that).
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