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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Sooperhoop, Feb 8, 2020.

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  1. Woodyhoopleson

    Woodyhoopleson Well-Known Member

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    You can leave home to go to work if you cannot work from home and it is essential that you work. Different from being an essential worker.
     
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    That's half the country moving around spreading the virus then
    The bills will still arrive after they are dead
     
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  3. QPR999

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    As it stands ... Stay at home, which I've been doing, except for one period of exercise or for essential shopping, which I've been doing. No interaction with anyone outside of your family inner circle of less than two meters ... check.

    The shops that are open near me ( I live in what is classed as a village ) are the small supermarket, the chemist, the hardware store, the newsagents and the offie. This stops the need for large numbers to visit the superstore supermarkets, which I can't remember the last time I did... Two weeks ago maybe?
     
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  4. QPR999

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    What's he doing wrong outside of the govt guidelines? If he's in a car by himself or with family members he's not interfering with anyone else. The 'essential travel' is the misnomer that the authorities are using to impose draconian laws at the moment.

    If you're in your car travelling fifty miles and not in direct contact with anyone, how is that worse than someone allowed to travel on the tube or one of the British Rail services? Or an aeroplane?
     
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    The guidelines sound a bit lax
     
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  6. Woodyhoopleson

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    He was well within, I told him he should have challenged the police. I want my car back, so that I can look at it for 6 months.
     
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  7. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    83 new cases
    451 in total
    12 in hospital
    2 in icu
    1 serious on a ventilator
    50 recovered
    No deaths yet
     
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  8. Turkish" Premier" Hoops

    Turkish" Premier" Hoops Well-Known Member

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    The guidance is clear “essential travel only” driving 45 miles up to the Peak District for a walk is not essential travel, that’s where the restrictions apply, it also states exercise must be taken close to home.
     
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  10. QPR999

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    If you're in your car and you're not interfering with anyone else and abiding by the guidelines, what's the problem? It doesn't matter if you're traveling one mile or fifty or seven hundred. Planes are still landing from the most affected countries. People are still travelling on public transport.
     
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    Anyway, I'm off to bed. There's some extreme gardening taking place in this fine English weather. The garden is getting tackled. A hazelnut tree and an apple tree will no longer exist by six o'clock tomorrow.
     
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    Save the trees! I'm sending Swampy round.
     
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    May need those apples mate!
     
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  14. NigsyHoops

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    Spot on Staines. I could see what was coming when the poison dwarf was taking over. Got offered early up in 2005, couldn't wait to get out the door. Sad to leave so many great people behind, it was a great company.
     
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  15. ELLERS

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    IC apparently have said that the lockdown is working and according to modelling there maybe as little as 6k deaths according to one of the papers today.
    Remembering 8k die every year from flu and 600k die annually in this country.

    Something interesting they said yesterday in the reporting the number of deaths. We report after the death certificate and after family has been informed. This means that some of the deaths reported could be 2-3 days old... obviously this can mean two things, we have low numbers or we high but the daily figures are not the exact daily amount.
     
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  16. Bwood_Ranger

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    Thought this was quite funny. Possibly not to everyone’s tastes.

     
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    Sorry mate as soon as I saw it was from the Guardian I didn’t bother.
    They have done nothing but knock the government at every opportunity.
     
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    There are enough media outlets happy to fawn over them. Maybe they won’t cheer next time they choose to not give nurses a wage rise. Probably still will.
     
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  19. Uber_Hoop

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    There were 28,330 deaths from ‘flu complications’ in the U.K. in the 2014/15 winter period according to government figures, but only 1,692 in 2018/19, so can be quite a swing according, presumably, to the voracity of the virus in any given season and, again presumably, to the country’s preparedness as far as jabs are concerned.

    The 2014/15 figure is massive, but I don’t recall much attention on the scale at the time.
     
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    From memory the 2018 figures are not for the whole flu season
     
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