Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Billy Jean King]

Because once they have the data, they can sell it?
They won't be long term.

I take it from recent posts you are in favour of vaccine passports.

[Honest_Man#1]

7 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

One of the early guys made me laugh. 

Hw went with something along the lines of "as a super important key worker, I read your tweets"

 

Two thoughts.... Its not relevant to the point m8, or to anything actually that you were classed a key worker. That status will be a memory soon, to the tears of some apparently. 

And if you could auto tweet back to every reply with "she's no gonnae shag ye m8" you would be bang in context 99.8% of the time

I was classed as a key worker, and realistically it was a ludicrous stretching of the definition. Some people were wanking themselves silly over being classed as one (half the time they’d just classed themselves as one) which was a bit embarrassing.

[Billy Jean King]

It's been widely alluded to tbf. But I don't think anyone expected her cataclysmic downfall to come as early as it did.
Leitch next, please.

What's happened ?

[Billy Jean King]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9428665/amp/Covid-passport-trials-begin-Boris-Johnson-set-unveil-test-scheme-venues-Monday.html?__twitter_impression=true
Vaccine passport to be confirmed on Monday. 

All restrictions scrapped by mid June....as they introduce new ones in April !!! No way is this being introduced for literally weeks given it's cost. New normal hurtling towards us unfortunately.

[Gaz]

2 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

I was classed as a key worker, and realistically it was a ludicrous stretching of the definition. Some people were wanking themselves silly over being classed as one (half the time they’d just classed themselves as one) which was a bit embarrassing.

I particularly liked that when supermarkets started giving discounts to NHS staff the amount of 'key workers' who were up in arms because they couldn't get the discount even though they worked in the Spar for (15 hours a week so they could still get their tax credits).

[Todd_is_God]

16 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

11 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

Because once they have the data, they can sell it?
They won't be long term.

I take it from recent posts you are in favour of vaccine passports.

No.

But I can see what the UK Gov would have to gain from bringing them in short-term.

[davidkennedyshand]

I was classed as a key worker, and realistically it was a ludicrous stretching of the definition. Some people were wanking themselves silly over being classed as one (half the time they’d just classed themselves as one) which was a bit embarrassing.

I remember standing in a queue in Morrisons when the whole key worker arguments started. Some seagull voiced obese midden had been refused her trolley full of pasta and bog rolls as they had started rationing and she was standing there with packet of pasta in hand shouting how she's a key worker and needs to feed her weans.

[Bairnardo]

I particularly liked that when supermarkets started giving discounts to NHS staff the amount of 'key workers' who were up in arms because they couldn't get the discount even though they worked in the Spar for (15 hours a week so they could still get their tax credits).

Shop workers in particular seemed remarkably keen to get up on their cross throughout.

As an aside, my neck could never bear the minter of skipping a queue under any circumstances. We actually had such a system at my old works canteen. During a particular set of circumstances, myself and those on the same "team" as me would be far too busy to get a proper lunch and were supposed to skip the queue by waving a "fast pass" in folks faces [emoji23]

Absolute OFTW behaviour which I only seen deployed once to major hilarity.

How many P&B key workers brassed their way to the front of a queue, and are the willing to admit it here?

[Todd_is_God]

15 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

9 hours ago, Lyle Lanley said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9428665/amp/Covid-passport-trials-begin-Boris-Johnson-set-unveil-test-scheme-venues-Monday.html?__twitter_impression=true
Vaccine passport to be confirmed on Monday. 

All restrictions scrapped by mid June....as they introduce new ones in April !!! No way is this being introduced for literally weeks given it's cost. New normal hurtling towards us unfortunately.

It's quite clear that BJ intends to lift gathering size and Social Distancing in mid-June as planned.

This vaccine passport nonsense is a way to allow that whilst getting the hysterical "experts" off his back about it being too soon and damgerous.

Once it is shown that there is no risk of a "ThIrD wAvE!!1!" in a highly vaccinated populatiin, the scheme will be dropped.

His pals will still make money from the contract, and the UK Gov will have an incredible amount of personal data that they can sell off or otherwise do what they want with.

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On 30/03/2021 at 15:01, WATTOO said:

You responded to my post with simply "shut up". That's abuse in my book, if you said that to most people in the street you would likely face a right hook and rightly so.

Thanks goodness you don't make our laws then.

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58 minutes ago, madwullie said:

The guy has a point. This is exactly why my in-laws won't phone a takeaway, and some parents won't let their kids touch a swing, primary schools are quarantining letters home for 72 hours before sending etc. 

It's totally fair enough that the science would move on, but they need(ed) to signal that more clearly, rather than a tiny paragraph tabloid apology style announcement, or worse, just stop mentioning it rather than say they'd fucked up 

The problem is way back at the start they didn't really have any idea what Covid would lead to so they do tests to see how long it can survive on surfaces and put this is the public domain so folk clean hard surfaces more during the peak(s) the press then boot the fucking arse out of this and then when the science moves on the press don't care and don't report it unless of course someone has fucked up and they can jump up and down on their head.

I expect Boris Johnson Pret saviour and handshaker in chief will avoid all scrutiny.

Edited April 2, 2021 by 101

[Todd_is_God]

23 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Shop workers in particular seemed remarkably keen to get up on their cross throughout.

You mean they weren't really "risking their lives on the front line" like they would claim at every opportunity?

Edited April 2, 2021 by Todd_is_God

[hk blues]

15 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Shop workers in particular seemed remarkably keen to get up on their cross throughout.

As an aside, my neck could never bear the minter of skipping a queue under any circumstances. We actually had such a system at my old works canteen. During a particular set of circumstances, myself and those on the same "team" as me would be far too busy to get a proper lunch and were supposed to skip the queue by waving a "fast pass" in folks faces

Absolute OFTW behaviour which I only seen deployed once to major hilarity.

How many P&B key workers brassed their way to the front of a queue, and are the willing to admit it here?

I was in a Burger King a few weeks back in my place.  They have priority lines here for Old Timers and Disabled (good idea) and have now added frontline workers (means hospital staff here)  to the category. A young female came in with her boyfriend (they weren't working as not in uniform) and they both went to the priority line to get served first.  It wasn't even that busy so they maybe saved 2 minutes.  I'd not have had the neck to do that.  

 

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

24 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Shop workers in particular seemed remarkably keen to get up on their cross throughout.

As an aside, my neck could never bear the minter of skipping a queue under any circumstances. We actually had such a system at my old works canteen. During a particular set of circumstances, myself and those on the same "team" as me would be far too busy to get a proper lunch and were supposed to skip the queue by waving a "fast pass" in folks faces

Absolute OFTW behaviour which I only seen deployed once to major hilarity.

How many P&B key workers brassed their way to the front of a queue, and are the willing to admit it here?

Wouldnt jump a queue but was working 6 days a week for a bit last year and the local tesco offered some out of hours shopping for a few different groups, that was a bit of a lifesaver as our wee boys nursery was shut so could avoid having to take him to the shops when the lines were massive (would have been a disaster). 

[Billy Jean King]

No.
But I can see what the UK Gov would have to gain from bringing them in short-term.

Which is ?

[Honest_Man#1]

2 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

32 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

No.
But I can see what the UK Gov would have to gain from bringing them in short-term.

Which is ?

He’s said quite a few times already what he thinks on it.

25 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

His pals will still make money from the contract, and the UK Gov will have an incredible amount of personal data that they can sell off or otherwise do what they want with.

[Billy Jean King]

It's quite clear that BJ intends to lift gathering size and Social Distancing in mid-June as planned.
This vaccine passport nonsense is a way to allow that whilst getting the hysterical "experts" off his back about it being too soon and damgerous.
Once it is shown that there is no risk of a "ThIrD wAvE!!1!" in a highly vaccinated populatiin, the scheme will be dropped.
His pals will still make money from the contract, and the UK Gov will have an incredible amount of personal data that they can sell off or otherwise do what they want with.

It was all restrictions gone by mid June not just SD. It's supposed to be rolled out once everyone has had two doses with a pilot for that first so no idea where you are getting your take on things. It's a new restriction one that will be in conjunction with many others as BJ heads to the new normal or as close to normal, word it how you like.
Anyone who genuine believes we are going back to how we were this year has quite frankly been had going by the direction of travel. You constantly criticise the like of Leitch for his "close to normal " talk while endorsing it from Bozo under your guise of "short term". Double standards. Time will tell who's right here I suppose but I can see nothing close to normal on the horizon as it stands.

[WhiteRoseKillie]

Wouldnt jump a queue but was working 6 days a week for a bit last year and the local tesco offered some out of hours shopping for a few different groups, that was a bit of a lifesaver as our wee boys nursery was shut so could avoid having to take him to the shops when the lines were massive (would have been a disaster). 

Aye, I took advantage of Asda letting selected folk in an hour early on Sundays due to me holding an HMPPS ID card, even though I'm no longer operational, but mostly office based. I felt a bit guilty until I saw some of the other customers who I (probably biased) would have struggled to call "key". In honesty, the place was probably more crowded than normal, with massive checkout queues (because the checkouts couldn't open till ten). It just meant I got the shopping done earlier and kept the rest of Sunday free.

[Bairnardo]

3 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

Wouldnt jump a queue but was working 6 days a week for a bit last year and the local tesco offered some out of hours shopping for a few different groups, that was a bit of a lifesaver as our wee boys nursery was shut so could avoid having to take him to the shops when the lines were massive (would have been a disaster). 

I don't have an issue with the out of hours thing. Ifnits specifically for certain workers then of course, use it. Brassing it past a queue of people because you work in B&M is a bone marrow deep minter though. 

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New countries added to the red list, in a week's time lol.