Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 2 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: I know it's the Express but it is also Simon Calder and Paul Charles who are usually good about these things. https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1475417/Travel-holidays-traffic-light-rules-scrapped-quarantine-testing-september-october “I think we might see the traffic light system effectively being scrapped particularly with thankfully vaccination rates in the UK now being so high,” Simon explained. "It will just be assumed that everyone is vaccinated and therefore wherever you are going, perhaps with a relatively small list of places, you won't need to quarantine.” He continued: “I just think for the UK the game is up." “We have had such incredibly laboured explanations as to why places have been moved from one category to another which don't quite seem to tally with reality." “I think everyone is just exhausted and if they can just say basically go where you like but you are going to be tested and you have got to be fully jabbed I think that would be [it].” While co-host Paul Charles, CEO of the PC Agency, said he “agreed” change is set to come, he believes “October 1” will be the key date. “I think it could come on October 1, which is the next milestone date in the review of the travel Task Force,” he said. “They always need to announce something at these big reviews.” “Some have been arguing, including myself, that we should follow the US system outbound, which is essentially that you let your fully jabbed citizens go wherever they are allowed to go, and then just take a pre-departure test when they come back to the US and not have to quarantine,” he said. “If it works for the US it should work here." “[We have the] same vaccines. Maybe not AstraZeneca but certainly Pfizer and Moderna." “The US is getting on with it. They have found this happy medium between the health priorities and the economic needs that all the airlines and travel industry need.” Simon Calder has been wrong on every single traffic light prediction. Paul Charles has an even worse record. Hey even a broken clock gets the time right but he’s not as clued in as he portrays. Consider him the travel journalist version of Devi. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 15 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: Simon Calder has been wrong on every single traffic light prediction. Paul Charles has an even worse record. Hey even a broken clock gets the time right but he’s not as clued in as he portrays. Consider him the travel journalist version of Devi. TBF to Calder he says what should happen because of the numbers and admits he hasn't a clue how the government come to their decisions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Forfar still has some Covid signs up on the lampposts. What? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 6 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Forfar still has some Covid signs up on the lampposts. What? Linlithgow likewise, plus the specially widened pavements to make social distancing easier makes driving through the town a pleasure and a joy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Masks must be worn at all times in the internal areas of Easter Road as per Government guidelines and personal sanitisers will be allowed to be brought in. We also urge supporters to use the sanitization stations provided around the stadium. We ask supporters not to congregate in the concourses, to avoid crowded spaces, and to keep to the left on the stairs, passageways and the vomitories. Social distancing is gone so why is the club still doing these social distancing rules apart from the masks of course. https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/supporter-information-ahead-of-kilmarnock 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 18 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Linlithgow likewise, plus the specially widened pavements to make social distancing easier makes driving through the town a pleasure and a joy. The car drivers don't appear to be particularly challenged -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Just now, Cosmic Joe said: The car drivers don't appear to be particularly challenged Not the best image as in that one it's just a bus stop that's been filled in. Further down the road they took a bite out of the main carriageway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 6 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said: Masks must be worn at all times in the internal areas of Easter Road as per Government guidelines and personal sanitisers will be allowed to be brought in. We also urge supporters to use the sanitization stations provided around the stadium. We ask supporters not to congregate in the concourses, to avoid crowded spaces, and to keep to the left on the stairs, passageways and the vomitories. Social distancing is gone so why is the club still doing these social distancing rules apart from the masks of course. https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/supporter-information-ahead-of-kilmarnock Box ticking. Then, when you get to Easter Road, it’ll be ignored, won’t be enforced, and like any football match, they’ll really only be interested in getting a crowd in, and ninety minutes later, out again. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 33 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Forfar still has some Covid signs up on the lampposts. What? Steal it, it will be worth a fortune to some internet nutters in about 50 years time. See "Keep Calm and Carry On" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 1 hour ago, pozbaird said: Current British Airways disembarkation process. Instead of every chunt undoing their seatbelt and starting to leave their seat before the plane has even stopped, much less been attached to the airbridge, now everyone stays seated and they do it in rows of ten at a time. It works, it’s quicker, we aren’t all standing up squashed together in the aisle trying to extracate hand luggage from the overhead bins, despite not being able to go anywhere anyway. That's a properly good idea, hopefully continues well into the future. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cairn Terrier Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Simon Calder has been wrong on every single traffic light prediction. Paul Charles has an even worse record. How can he be worse than getting everything wrong??[emoji848][emoji848] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lubo_blaha Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 To the best of knowledge Up Helly Aa is an outdoor event and ehm we've had vaccines for over a year by that point. Bed shitting of the highest degree * * I didnt read the article so I may be wrong and it's not cancelled due to covid at allThe procession and boat burning are outdoors. The subsequent 12 hour party with 1000+ people drinking, dancing and moving between 10+ public halls is very much an indoor event. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 27 minutes ago, Snafu said: But they keep the Lovejoy's happy - and that's what counts! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Lyle Lanley said: Social distancing is gone so why is the club still doing these social distancing rules apart from the masks of course. 1 hour ago, pozbaird said: Box ticking. Then, when you get to Easter Road, it’ll be ignored, won’t be enforced, and like any football match, they’ll really only be interested in getting a crowd in, and ninety minutes later, out again. This. Nothing more than "things we need to put in place" to get the green light for more than 5,000 people, but which, should people choose to ignore, are completely unenforceable in reality. Same as the TRNSMT LFT requirement. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Forfar still has some Covid signs up on the lampposts. What? Same here in south Ayrshire at the car parks. If we're waiting on the council to remove them I'm sure theyll still be up in 10 years time 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 3 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said: This. Nothing more than "things we need to put in place" to get the green light for more than 5,000 people, but which, should people choose to ignore, are completely unenforceable in reality. Same as the TRNSMT LFT requirement. Indeed. Imagine us, as individuals, making decisions based on personal risk assessment to the situation we find ourselves in. Crazy concept. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 2 hours ago, welshbairn said: TBF to Calder he says what should happen because of the numbers and admits he hasn't a clue how the government come to their decisions. 1 hour ago, Cairn Terrier said: How can he be worse than getting everything wrong?? Calder has been making incorrect proclamations about which countries will go green/red etc and caused a bit of panic with a red list prediction which was presented as almost certain. Hes been very cautious since as there were a lot of people angry having changed holidays etc as he portrays himself as a guru doing q&a’s etc. So Calder has changed his outlook to be slightly more ‘im only a journalist dont blame me’. Paul Charles has continued to get everything wrong, to a spectacular degree and doubled down on the ‘ive got a source who says’ type stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 No dissent allowed. -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 13, 2021 Author Share Posted August 13, 2021 Man literally living under a rock gets vaccine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 3 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Man literally living under a rock gets vaccine. TBF he probably shares that cave with bats, better safe than sorry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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