Politics aside, I must say the vaccination centre (racecourse), is being operated extremely efficiently.
Little or no waiting, the stewards being friendly and helpful to those who fall into the "fragile" group.

History will certainly clarify why there is such a disparity in numbers between close European countries. Each country's equivalent to the Office of National Statistics will at some stage look back at overall death figures. Whereas UK is counting every death within 28 days of a positive test as being Covid - regardless of the fact a person dies in a car accident or of cancer or any other terminal illness there are many countries that have not used this methodology and their figures look astonishing in comparison with ours.

Anyone else who uses Firefox finding that the browser now blocks this site as a security risk??

By the way James, never said. I was in the same year as your brother ar Falkland. If it is who I think you are. May he rest in peace.

Racist *******.. you will be saying next all these new Corona virus outbreaks have a common denominator....

The Ocado delivery depot is in Stanford in the Dale near Faringdon and they operate the Morrisons delivery service from there, a bit like the Waitrose set up.

It doesn't have to be a purpose made face "mask", it just has to be a face covering.
A scarf or such will do.

People should not be allowed out unless wearing a full bio hazard suit. If its airborne you are going to get it anyway once winter comes. It thrives at 4c.

Have you seen the price? From a unit price of 50p.for something that is at best of partial use and worse of no use at all.

Looks like another wave might be on its way.

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So.... Where do all the Morrisons delivery vans that I see quite often come from?

So good to know Sainsburys, Tesco etc use more ethical suppliers....

Thoroughly disgusting scenes in London today. Stop it!

At last a piece of useful advice........Have you considered sitting on the SAGE committee? No one will listen to you but at least you will get a gong and a fat pension. May see you, or someone like you, at my next jolly to the food bank.

So decided to do my outside hour in the sun allocation queuing at Tesco, London rd. yesterday and for the benefit of those unfamiliar with the layout the "snake" circumnavigates round a covered trolley bay that in turn has a metal handrail. 70% of the great unwashed used said rail to support their obviously frail bodies, which allowed me to the back of a fag packet calculation that if one person per day is infectious and has touched it then over the next 48 hours, (active effectiveness of C 19), it is safe to assume that at a rate of 50 customers an hour , (simple hypothesis), then 2 or 3 hundred people are putting themselves at risk. Now my understanding is that west berkshire has a low infection rate and therefore only one per week may inadvertently carry the virus but it does highlight that people are dying because of basic stupidity and that frightens me more that the bloody virus.
Yes Tesco do have a hand sanitiser dispenser at the door but the damage has been done.

But, if those that could work from home did so then the office could be smaller, cost savings. Move to hasten the end of the paper, then you could close the office entirely. More efficient, less stress, less pollution, what's not to like?

Several points. First one, is there any reason why your firm actually needs to be located in Weston ? Would it be possible for you to relocate ? The Green Party would advocate these options which ought to eliminate any need for staff transport. Then, are all the processes such that even with collaboration technology staff can't work from home? This has to come from the top, and even I was pleasantly surprised when our, apparently atypical sleepy management went for it wholeheartedly! So there's hope for you yet.

Well you get on a train at Newbury Railway Station and get off at Maidenhead Railway Station. Although, horror of horrors, you usually have to change trains at Reading! Very unrealistic?

Going to be a lot more working from home and a lot less hot desking in the future. "Sorry, you don't get a company car, not if you're working from home". I see a lot of office space going begging with no-one to fill it, it's certainly enough to worry some people.

Going to be a lot more working from home and a lot less hot desking in the future. "Sorry, you don't get a company car, not if you're working from home". I see a lot of office space going begging with no-one to fill it, it's certainly enough to worry some people.

Lack of testing is actually only one, and possibly only a subsidiary reason. The elderly patients discharged were in hospital for other reasons. There is regular traffic between Care Home and Hospital. Even in normal circumstances, hospital bed occupancy needs to be carefully managed and as soon as any patient is fit for discharge, they must go home. So, if you are in because of your heart problem, out you go when you are stable. No testing is going to pick up an infection that happened in previous hours. Sadly, the biggest issue is procedural - any patient arriving back needed isolating. Further, the perfectly acceptable care home staff practice of working unconstrained in several settings is now serious issue. There are also procedural issues with who is told of a care home patients medical history. And so on. The care home issue is very sad indeed but the reasons for it and what needs to be done is far more complex than the populist shout that is all the Governments fault for not testing! Arguably the media peddling this simplistic view is insulting and distressing.

Anyone who claps the NHS ought to be aware that the majority of victims don't get near a hospital.

All remainers and lefties are the same.