I've only seen one person not wear a mask. It's not compliance that's causing it to spread, it's the rules that allow some transmission. It's a difficult balance to strike & I think the government has got many things wrong, but it's a tricky balance to make.

BREXIT. The countdown has begun. 🤗

Are you sure? Still seems to be a couple of inhabitants expressing the voice of dissent. Maybe if we grovelled to that nice Monsieur Macron he would still let us rejoin his little club, subject to a little ridicule and a lot of euros, then everyone will be happy.
Well apart from the majority of the British public who openly told the Brussels bullies to eff off.

Are the French still sending their migratory jetsam across the channel does anyone know? Seems to have gone a bit quiet on that front.

#brexitisland

Anyone regretting voting for these idiots yet? Exaggerate a new strain to justify the Christmas about turn and we end up under virtual siege.

On a not dissimilar theme Royal Mail has been awarded a contract to distribute and collect Covid19 test kits. So what? I hear you cry as that's what they do, don't they.
Well yes but this "nice little earner" is worth a mouth watering 500 million.
If I was a still working full time I think I would be checking the gas oven by now.

So now we are "enjoying" the privilege of being in Tier 4. So devastating is this virus that Whitty and the Wanders, (the present day pied pipers), are so concerned of people are dropping dead in the streets they have to introduce a new level of control.
Mutation of the virus they scream. Well most viruses do this, it is part of their construction.

Quick straw poll of those who care to read this; how many people do you know who have actually been hospitalised, or worse, over the last month? I am expecting a figure of between 1 and 3 depending on the total number of individuals you actually know
Now take away the over 70's, (includes me), those with underlying problems and I think the figure will be at a level you may start to question the current approach.
I will try to adhere to the present guidelines, (if I could understand them), but I do worry for our future with such individuals in charge.

Maybe, just maybe the increase in positive test results has more to do with an increase in testing as opposed to an increase in infection?
Has the hospitalisation rate increased? Certainly the death numbers are not rising or the press would be screaming from the pulpit.
Considering that seasonal influenza is also a "Corona" virus and it has already been established that our testing system is anything but "world beating", (Boris speak), I wonder how muddy the water is.

Still with xmas cancelled it will save telling the carol singers to bugger off.

If the vaccination rate is anything like the rest of this debacle then I can see you being offered it in April 2028. (Yes twenty eight!)
Vaccination good.....Waiting months to receive it, not so good.

Where are all the "not my President riots?"

I can confidently predict he will step down, thusly giving the USA their first female of colour president. If she comes out tomorrow as gender neutral she could be in the chair by February...... Democrats.

Imho, what the country needs next time is an electoral pact to deliver PR. We shouldn’t have to put an with another extreme government (left or right).

One can debate till the cows come home the pros and cons of present government strategy but anyone want to argue with the Lancet?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/a...1201-0/fulltext

Maybe it's time we started taking this a little more seriously?

Don't give up the day job.

Quite the best response I’ve ever seen on here, seriously!

A common sense approach to the issue has been overwritten by those who believe that modern technology is the answer to EVERYTHING let alone this little exercise. Little doubt in some sectors of society this can be a useful tool, but as the case with any implement, it is only as good as it's weakest part. And as far as I can ascertain it has completely overlooked that section that are the most vulnerable; the elderly. There are countless thousands of pensioners who do not own a mobile phone, let alone a "smart" one and have no wish too, assuming they could afford one. As happened at the start of this pandemic they have once again been thrown "under the bus" when it comes to protecting them. The rise in infection may now be with the younger demographic but it is still the elderly that are succumbing.
But of course they are the right wing, brexit loving, white supremacy bigots that society could well do without.

Does any Government sponsored IT development ever work properly? It seems that the much delayed App doesn’t work on older (in some cases by 18 months) ‘Smart’ phones. Still, it’s only little people disadvantaged by this. Government for the few takes off!

To our younger viewers Eddie Merckx was a Belgian road racer., and quite a good one at that.

I agree that if the world was spherical at least some would fall off it.

Testing centres have not started popping up everywhere. MTU's both drive-in and hybrid have been established for months. Maybe if we stop testing, the virus will go away. I seem to remember another idiot saying something similar.

I genuinely think that as far as online goes, we’re so divided that any thread will descend into enmity. Not just this forum btw. I suspect in the real world we’dprobably all get on ok.

Spot on gentlemen!

It’s taken me awhile to realise all this woke stuff might have something in it. I’m BAME, child of economic migrants from Germany to escape Roman wars. So you need to treat me with respect!