| Chris Whitty 19:01 - Apr 22 with 3008 views | vapour_trail |
Just pretty much confirmed that social distancing is with us for a minimum of twelve months.
So in terms of the elderly and vulnerable, are we anticipating that they will be asked to pretty much isolate at home for that period? |  |
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| Chris Whitty on 19:04 - Apr 22 with 2476 views | Lord_Lucan |
Mother won't stand for that, she'll end up looking like a mid 80's Billy Connolly |  |
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| Chris Whitty on 19:15 - Apr 22 with 2419 views | Ace_High1 |
Its a grim prospect isn't it and to think just 4 months ago the world seemed "normal"!?
Imagine back at Christmas if someone had of predicted this, we would all have laughed our heads off. |  | | |
| Chris Whitty on 19:17 - Apr 22 with 2402 views | giant_stow |
| Chris Whitty on 19:04 - Apr 22 by Lord_Lucan |
Mother won't stand for that, she'll end up looking like a mid 80's Billy Connolly |
Mine neither - pretty sure she'd rather have the virus than lock away for a year. |  |
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| Chris Whitty on 19:25 - Apr 22 with 2360 views | vapour_trail |
| Chris Whitty on 19:17 - Apr 22 by giant_stow |
Mine neither - pretty sure she'd rather have the virus than lock away for a year. |
Mine is the opposite. She is viewing every other human as her mortal enemy. | |
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| Chris Whitty on 19:27 - Apr 22 with 2353 views | Ftnfwest |
No footy then |  | | |
| Chris Whitty on 19:42 - Apr 22 with 2308 views | GeoffSentence |
| Chris Whitty on 19:15 - Apr 22 by Ace_High1 |
Its a grim prospect isn't it and to think just 4 months ago the world seemed "normal"!?
Imagine back at Christmas if someone had of predicted this, we would all have laughed our heads off. |
normal but wet |  |
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| Chris Whitty on 19:45 - Apr 22 with 2291 views | PhilTWTD |
Hmm, think we have have got on to Ulrich Le Pen's best Town XI by that time. |  | | |
| Chris Whitty on 19:46 - Apr 22 with 2281 views | vapour_trail |
| Chris Whitty on 19:45 - Apr 22 by PhilTWTD |
Hmm, think we have have got on to Ulrich Le Pen's best Town XI by that time. |
His best eleven minutes? | |
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| Chris Whitty on 19:47 - Apr 22 with 2280 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Chris Whitty on 19:17 - Apr 22 by giant_stow |
Mine neither - pretty sure she'd rather have the virus than lock away for a year. |
Same with mine, given the choice she would just say feck it but we are insisting on her isolation.
Having said that, by the end of May I think we may have to look at her general imprisonment. | |
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| Chris Whitty on 19:49 - Apr 22 with 2269 views | peterleeblue |
Well what he did say was this calender year for no Vaccine and SD will have to remain in place.
For me like it or lump it but no Pubs, Restaurants and bars and certainly no large scale events Football concerts etc.
What a F****n clusterf**k! |  | | |
| Chris Whitty on 19:51 - Apr 22 with 2257 views | vapour_trail |
| Chris Whitty on 19:49 - Apr 22 by peterleeblue |
Well what he did say was this calender year for no Vaccine and SD will have to remain in place.
For me like it or lump it but no Pubs, Restaurants and bars and certainly no large scale events Football concerts etc.
What a F****n clusterf**k! |
I think he said for at least the next calendar year but I may have that wrong. | |
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| Chris Whitty on 20:19 - Apr 22 with 2137 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Chris Whitty on 19:45 - Apr 22 by PhilTWTD |
Hmm, think we have have got on to Ulrich Le Pen's best Town XI by that time. |
And the next week it will be Mark Fish’s turn. A team that picks it’s self. |  |
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| Chris Whitty on 20:21 - Apr 22 with 2123 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Chris Whitty on 19:51 - Apr 22 by vapour_trail |
I think he said for at least the next calendar year but I may have that wrong. |
Thought he said a calendar year. | |
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| Chris Whitty on 20:30 - Apr 22 with 2086 views | BloomBlue |
Wasnt that always the expectation especially those with existing conditions ie they have to isolate until a vaccine is available? |  | | |
| Chris Whitty on 20:31 - Apr 22 with 2076 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Chris Whitty on 20:21 - Apr 22 by Pinewoodblue |
Thought he said a calendar year. |
A calendar year is a calendar year. It doesn't start and end in any month other than January to December. | |
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| Chris Whitty on 20:49 - Apr 22 with 1990 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Chris Whitty on 20:31 - Apr 22 by Lord_Lucan |
A calendar year is a calendar year. It doesn't start and end in any month other than January to December. |
Exactly so I took it to mean social distancing for another 12 months. | |
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| Chris Whitty on 20:54 - Apr 22 with 1976 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Chris Whitty on 20:49 - Apr 22 by Pinewoodblue |
Exactly so I took it to mean social distancing for another 12 months. |
No. The calendar year ends this coming December. | |
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| Chris Whitty on 20:57 - Apr 22 with 1965 views | JeanManuelThetis |
| Chris Whitty on 19:45 - Apr 22 by PhilTWTD |
Hmm, think we have have got on to Ulrich Le Pen's best Town XI by that time. |
Would genuinely enjoy a Ulrich Le Pen interview though! |  | | |
| Chris Whitty on 21:25 - Apr 22 with 1890 views | ElderGrizzly |
Social Distancing can come in many forms though.
What we have now won’t still be in place, but like Germany and other countries tentatively opening up we will have most businesses open just limits on capacity/proximity used etc.
I wouldn’t imagine they will legislate for older people to stay in isolation, but there will be very strong guidance based on those countries slightly ahead of us.
The Government also have a habit of laying out the worst case to then look like ‘heroes’ when it isn’t as bad as initially predicted.
We still won’t see any pubs, football with fans in attendance etc until 2021 though.
And hopefully, the end of Ryanair who have said they’d not fly if they are told to space out people on planes
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/22/ryanair-boss-says-airline-wont- |  | | |
| Chris Whitty on 21:32 - Apr 22 with 1866 views | xrayspecs |
No great surprise I am sad to say. Until we have a vaccine or effective medicines to treat those who get this bad, then this is not going to go away. I posted a week or so ago that an effective vaccine within 12 months is the absolute best case scenario, it has never been done before. Also worth knowing that we have yet to successfully develop a vaccine for any of the other coronaviruses, including MERS and SARS.
There are early reports that the virus is mutating so as fast as we figure out how to treat the existing version, we will have a new version to deal with. A virologist friend of mine was speculating about next years version being a totally different version to what we have today, so any vaccine is not going to work for the new strains of the virus. Historically, viruses tend to become more benign over time but this is not going to be a quick process.
A little bit like the world wars, I can see football suspended for years not weeks. |  | | |
| Chris Whitty on 00:20 - Apr 23 with 1643 views | factual_blue |
| Chris Whitty on 20:31 - Apr 22 by Lord_Lucan |
A calendar year is a calendar year. It doesn't start and end in any month other than January to December. |
This is the correct answer. |  |
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| Chris Whitty on 07:08 - Apr 23 with 1483 views | WeWereZombies |
| Chris Whitty on 20:19 - Apr 22 by Pinewoodblue |
And the next week it will be Mark Fish’s turn. A team that picks it’s self. |
I think we will see Rod Belfitt's before that, will be a reel interesting line up... |  |
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| Chris Whitty on 09:08 - Apr 23 with 1368 views | GeoffSentence |
| Chris Whitty on 20:57 - Apr 22 by JeanManuelThetis |
Would genuinely enjoy a Ulrich Le Pen interview though! |
He could probably go through his entire playing career, minute by minute, in detail. | |
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| Chris Whitty on 13:20 - Apr 23 with 1256 views | ElephantintheRoom |
social distancing means what you want it to mean. aready across the world countries are opening restaurants and bars - IF they closed them in the first place.
When people accept 700 deaths a dayin this country as the new norm.... and the government begins to feed back in the deaths that have already happened as a ' 'flattening of the curve' then things will relax in this country.
You dont see much social distancing in tesco today in the bbq section for example.
Granted international travel might be a thing of the past.... but 'social distancing' has always been a pretty loose concept in this country largely created to deflect from the inadequacy of our healthcare system after a decade of misjudged austerity.
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| Chris Whitty on 13:30 - Apr 23 with 1222 views | StokieBlue |
| Chris Whitty on 21:25 - Apr 22 by ElderGrizzly |
Social Distancing can come in many forms though.
What we have now won’t still be in place, but like Germany and other countries tentatively opening up we will have most businesses open just limits on capacity/proximity used etc.
I wouldn’t imagine they will legislate for older people to stay in isolation, but there will be very strong guidance based on those countries slightly ahead of us.
The Government also have a habit of laying out the worst case to then look like ‘heroes’ when it isn’t as bad as initially predicted.
We still won’t see any pubs, football with fans in attendance etc until 2021 though.
And hopefully, the end of Ryanair who have said they’d not fly if they are told to space out people on planes
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/22/ryanair-boss-says-airline-wont- |
Only trouble with Ryanair going under is that there are a lot of smaller European towns who have built their entire local economies around the fact their tiny little airport now gets a flight from the UK.
Ryanair are obviously awful but it would devastate many places if they went under.
On pubs etc, you are likely right but it's going to be a hard sell if schools are open and people are at work. If neither of those things happen it will be awful - kids won't have played with other kids for 9 months.
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