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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Ethan said:
Again, you offer this as a choice between public health or the economy. This is the mistake that has caused so much damage. Both of these go together.

An abundance of caution does not necessarily mean lock down again. It could mean properly police the borders, rather than abandon the red list and quarantine, it could mean more extensive Covid passports and less tolerance of bullshit exemption claims, and could mean MPs showing an example to the population in their behaviour and attitude.

But if we carry on with the half-arsed strategy, then it will be lock-down again, and those of you who have called for it will be responsible for it.

This idea of living with it is nonsensical. There is only one strategy that will work, push vaccination and boosters until the number of vulnerable people are too few to maintain outbreaks, and then the level of endemicity is very low. So if you think that saving the economy is the priority, you should have been writing to John Redwood demanding more focus on vaccination, Covid passports, mandatory NHS staff vax and all that jazz.

As for mental health, people manning that they are stressed or can't stand WFH any more is not mental health issues.
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Agree with all that, except the emphasis on "properly police borders.....quarantine "
Once it is here then infections are increased by the populace predominantly more than anyone coming in. ( horses ,stable doorsetc) .Omicron was acted on very quickly, could say as quickly as logistically feasible, yet it took an inexorable hold and increase once one or two cases were "in"
 
Don't half feel sorry for the hospitality industry, they're being completely hung out to dry during what should be their busiest time of the year.

Boris says that they're not going to stop anyone going out whilst Whitty tells everyone not to mix and ruin their Christmas. Whilst there are no rules to say that people should not being going to pubs/restaurants etc there is no compensation to be paid but obviously you've got the chief scientific advisors saying don't do it!

Tom Kerridge on Twitter today reckoned he had just under 700 cancellations across his places alone.
 
Had a nice Indian meal lined up for the sales team this evening at a local restaurant. Was going to be a good little get together with the ladies from admin coming along.
Service manager bubbled us to the directors who have put the block on it.
Cushty...????
 
road2ruin said:
Don't half feel sorry for the hospitality industry, they're being completely hung out to dry during what should be their busiest time of the year.

Boris says that they're not going to stop anyone going out whilst Whitty tells everyone not to mix and ruin their Christmas. Whilst there are no rules to say that people should not being going to pubs/restaurants etc there is no compensation to be paid but obviously you've got the chief scientific advisors saying don't do it!

Tom Kerridge on Twitter today reckoned he had just under 700 cancellations across his places alone.
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No rules only common sense.
 
Smiffy said:
Had a nice Indian meal lined up for the sales team this evening at a local restaurant. Was going to be a good little get together with the ladies from admin coming along.
Service manager bubbled us to the directors who have put the block on it.
Cushty...????
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I don’t see how your employer can dictate your life outside of working hours.
You could go just not on company coin!
 
road2ruin said:
Must be nice for restaurants to see people using common sense whilst getting no financial support.
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Wonder how many restaurants hold deposits. Should be standard practice. £20 a head reserve the table this time of year then if you cancel you know the policy

I mean the airlines have their refund policy
 
pauljames87 said:
Wonder how many restaurants hold deposits. Should be standard practice. £20 a head reserve the table this time of year then if you cancel you know the policy

I mean the airlines have their refund policy
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Yeah, agree, shouldn’t be up to them to take all the risk. I’d happily pay that when booking although I’ve never not turned up. Would at least help minimise the damage.
 
BrianM said:
Have felt like s**t since having my booster yesterday, was a long day at work today.
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Unrelated/Totally off-topic response - did you ever get yourself sorted with work? Vattenfall just got the go ahead for the Boreas windfarm off the north Norfolk coast and assume that Vanguard will follow. Scottish Power and East Anglia Hub ongoing off the coast out of Great Yarmouth.
 
My niece works on a covid ward in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness - she’s telling her dad that things are ‘terrible’. Don’t know how bad that actually is but it doesn’t sound great. She graduated with her Glasgow Uni nursing degree last week - some start to her nursing career ?
 
Boosted today but will be keeping a low profile in the run upto Christmas as I don't want to spend 10 days in isolation. Winter Wonderland cancelled, football cancelled and more stuff next week. On the plus side more time for golf and the weather looks dry until Boxing Day (y)

I've got little time for hospitality as they've had a lot of help and have shown a lot of arrogance. If a pub or restaurant implemented vaccine passports out of choice I'd be far more inclined to go there, as would almost everyone I know. The only people put off are the nomarks of society who are usually broke and don't spend much. They make up the majority of anti vaxxers too. The vast majority of people are double jabbed or boosted and have money to burn, the pubs are ignoring that and favouring letting any old person in. Totally the wrong approach and people are cancelling and avoiding said places now. Total own goal for short term greed.
 
Due to play in a regional bowling comp on Friday. Cancelled. A member of one of the squads has it. A per procedure here, full comp cancelled just in case another squad member has it and slipped through the testing net.
 
Smiffy said:
It wasn't on company coin, we were paying for it ourselves..
They felt that if somebody went down with covid it would have wiped out the sales department with everyone having to self isolate...
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My mate moaned like merry hellfire about working in the motor trade. I think this revelation would tip him over edge.
 
4LEX said:
I've got little time for hospitality as they've had a lot of help and have shown a lot of arrogance. If a pub or restaurant implemented vaccine passports out of choice I'd be far more inclined to go there, as would almost everyone I know. The only people put off are the nomarks of society who are usually broke and don't spend much. They make up the majority of anti vaxxers too. The vast majority of people are double jabbed or boosted and have money to burn, the pubs are ignoring that and favouring letting any old person in. Totally the wrong approach and people are cancelling and avoiding said places now. Total own goal for short term greed.
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Absolute nonsense.
 
ColchesterFC said:
Unrelated/Totally off-topic response - did you ever get yourself sorted with work? Vattenfall just got the go ahead for the Boreas windfarm off the north Norfolk coast and assume that Vanguard will follow. Scottish Power and East Anglia Hub ongoing off the coast out of Great Yarmouth.
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Certainly did, working on the Moray East Wind Farm project, thanks for asking ??
 
4LEX said:
Boosted today but will be keeping a low profile in the run upto Christmas as I don't want to spend 10 days in isolation. Winter Wonderland cancelled, football cancelled and more stuff next week. On the plus side more time for golf and the weather looks dry until Boxing Day (y)

I've got little time for hospitality as they've had a lot of help and have shown a lot of arrogance. If a pub or restaurant implemented vaccine passports out of choice I'd be far more inclined to go there, as would almost everyone I know. The only people put off are the nomarks of society who are usually broke and don't spend much. They make up the majority of anti vaxxers too. The vast majority of people are double jabbed or boosted and have money to burn, the pubs are ignoring that and favouring letting any old person in. Totally the wrong approach and people are cancelling and avoiding said places now. Total own goal for short term greed.
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Have you been to pubs? They are busy. Like a mask free haven. A safe refuge and a bastion of normality.

Bide your time you can go when they bring back table service and it has a dull atmosphere.
 
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