Alert Mongoose Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 3 minutes ago, jamamafegan said: Hotel quarantine: 'It'll cost us thousands and we'll be miles from home' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56070698 Got my tiny violin out for these folk coming back from the UAE. This was undoubtedly my favourite. "I think they are overreacting. Putting Chile in the same bracket as Brazil is like putting the UK in the same bracket as Russia. It's a four-hour drive from here to Rio." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Jesus wept. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 2 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said: This was undoubtedly my favourite. "I think they are overreacting. Putting Chile in the same bracket as Brazil is like putting the UK in the same bracket as Russia. It's a four-hour drive from here to Rio." I preferred the guy that wanted his kids to quarantine at their boarding school. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 Going back to the chat about religious groups and Covid, saw this article about the impact of Covid on Haredi Jews in London. https://unherd.com/2021/02/have-londons-orthodox-jews-reached-herd-immunity/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 3 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: 26 minutes ago, strichener said: Those six or seven weeks in the summer must be murder for them. Yet somehow they manage year after year. A terrible point, considering 6 or 7 weeks at any point of the year under current restrictions is wildly different from any 6 or 7 weeks you care to choose in living memory. I am not sure what point you are trying to make considering that I was responding to a claim that kids were missing the routine and interaction of school after a grant sum of 4 weeks of remote learning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 17 minutes ago, strichener said: So what is the actual problem? Missing school, having to remote learn (they are not home schooling) or shit weather? Some re-adjustment from your original claim that they are missing routine and interaction. Once more, might it just be possible, that these things can all combine in different permutations for different kids, having different impacts? Seriously, why this quest for a single simple explanation for things that are clearly complex and nuanced? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 I am not sure what point you are trying to make considering that I was responding to a claim that kids were missing the routine and interaction of school after a grant sum of 4 weeks of remote learning.Being off school in a normal summer holidays is completely different in every conceivable way to what's happening now, so them "managing it year after year" is completely irrelevant to, well anything really. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Has it? What research paper was this as the only thing that I saw was that it had been tested on younger people and did not stop mild symptons.I'm not sure of the specific research paper but I read about it in a South African newspaper which says it failed to protect against mild to moderate disease.The point being, variants do have an effect of efficacy so it's not unreasonable for people to entertain the thought that further mutations might result in a strain which ends up causing illness in already vaccinated people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 2 minutes ago, strichener said: I am not sure what point you are trying to make considering that I was responding to a claim that kids were missing the routine and interaction of school after a grant sum of 4 weeks of remote learning. It's five weeks. As others have pointed out for you, the current situation is very different from a summer holiday. Even summer holidays are difficult for some kids though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 14 minutes ago, jamamafegan said: Hotel quarantine: 'It'll cost us thousands and we'll be miles from home' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56070698 Got my tiny violin out for these folk coming back from the UAE. This wouldn't be happening if folk didn't just sack off the self-quarantine at home tbf. There was an article in the local press last week with a UAE-based businessman moaning that his daughters need to quarantine for 10 days before they can go to their private school should they return to the UK. Surely taking them out the country is a known risk given current circumstances? You were putting yourself at risk from inconvenient arrival processes long before hotel quarantine were being demanded. I get it's highly annoying, but you ought to be aware of the risks you're taking. As someone said earlier, the public here really do believe that their lives are so difficult compared with those of everyone else. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Aldo Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 I'm not sure of the specific research paper but I read about it in a South African newspaper which says it failed to protect against mild to moderate disease.The point being, variants do have an effect of efficacy so it's not unreasonable for people to entertain the thought that further mutations might result in a strain which ends up causing illness in already vaccinated people. This was discussed previously. If it still prevents severe illness and death then its doing its job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said: I'm not sure of the specific research paper but I read about it in a South African newspaper which says it failed to protect against mild to moderate disease. The point being, variants do have an effect of efficacy so it's not unreasonable for people to entertain the thought that further mutations might result in a strain which ends up causing illness in already vaccinated people. It's also not unreasonable to entertain the thought that an asteroid might hit the earth. But we don't bang on about it daily. Not because it wouldn't be devastating, but because it isn't very likely. Edited February 15, 2021 by Todd_is_God 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 12 minutes ago, Left Back said: I preferred the guy that wanted his kids to quarantine at their boarding school. My favourite was the description of having to isolate in a 5 bedroom house for 12 days as 'pretty horrific'. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 I was under the impression most kids were just going about their lives normally these days. I see/hear teams of the wee c***s out together in Dumbarton and they appear to use the trains as some sort of holding pen. Are the majority actually sitting at home on their own rather than being out with their mates? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Michael W said: This wouldn't be happening if folk didn't just sack off the self-quarantine at home tbf. Maybe, but then the Government didn't help themselves by essentially not following up on it. Three unanswered phonecalls before we send the police round was bad enough as it gave plenty time to get home, but between my wife and I we received zero contact attempts in 14 days. Edited February 15, 2021 by Todd_is_God 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 53 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: 1 hour ago, Todd_is_God said: All the parents of school age kids I know are unanimous that the kids are bored stiff. I suspect a fair chunk would like to get back if only to alleviate that boredom. The key word in the above 'woe is us' tale - which really should be in bold, 72-point font - being of course 'parents'. I'm sure that judgment has got absolutely nothing to do with their sense of injustice about having to look after their own kids, as well as a laughable, sepia-tinted view of how engaging 30 hours of school really is for the overwhelming majority of children. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Just read on BBC Ross Greer saying if footballers cant respect the rules, then fans shouldnt be allowed back to stadiumsFirstly.... Lolwut? Secondly though, the Greens can absolutely go and f**k themselves. Another party with a snobbish attitude to football and its fans. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 41 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: Aye as they don't have to home school then and the weather ain't snow and snotters outside ! They ain't been on holiday (well bar a few days half term) since Christmas I assume you noticed. Lol wut They've been on a glorified holiday for the bulk of the time since March last year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) It's taken 6 months but I'm pleased that viking-ton and Todd are finally just saying schools closed, pubs open rather than dancing around it. Edited February 15, 2021 by Detournement 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Vaccine appointment tomorrow. Nurse, I’m ready. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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