A large rise in Covid cases mixed with a large swathe of the populace who don’t want to follow rules anymore, emboldened by what they think happened in Sri Lanka and Holland (I know the Holland thing is supposedly about farmers pushing back against Net Zero targets but it’s all one big fight against the ‘system’ for these protestors).
How is this going to play out? Mass civil disobedience? It’s easy to say ‘we have to learn to live with it’ but that’s hard to do when hospitals are overrun which looks like might just happen. The vaccines have been very useful but it doesn’t take too many hospitalisations to cripple a health service. It’s winter here and things are looking a bit shady. NZ are going back into restrictions again.
Can the genie be put in the bottle and will people accept any possible future mitigation strategies or are we entering the most dangerous part of the pandemic - the bit where people give up just when we need the opposite?
Going to be a difficult winter methinks
posted on 14/7/22
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Personally my real term income has gone down and costs up but will manage. My parents gonna pay like 400 a month for gas alone which is madness.
Something will have to give!
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Just get another job. That’s your solution to people being poor
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If I needed extra income I’ll. open my own school of bumming
There’s a job for you and KLS
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We don't need school for bumming. Comes naturally. Born to bum
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Bruce Bumstein.
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posted on 15/7/22
I continue to pray for the jabbed.
posted on 15/7/22
Mandatory fourth jab for everyone has been announced here in Spain. Masks still required on trains, buses, health centres, pharmacies, etc. Requirement never went away.
posted on 15/7/22
There will surely need to be some major updates to the vaccines, given it's a very different virus to the original (or at least the one the vaccine was originally designed for).
Although I guess we'll never actually be able to be ready for roll outs of new vaccines before new strains are already out, just makes sense to a layman that having something at least significantly closer would be more effective
posted on 15/7/22
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I continue to pray for the jabbed.
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Don’t worry tux, you can tell no one that you were right when you stand alone in the devastation when the world collapses. Plus for a limited time you can get better 5g reception by standing close to the dead bodies that were vaccinated so you can also post ‘I told you so’ on Twitter for no one to see. Maybe somewhere out there there will be other members of the tin foil hat brigade who can immortalise your struggles in the post apocalyptic world by making a film about you called’i am b3llend’
posted on 15/7/22
Chortle.
posted on 15/7/22
Wholesale petrol prices have fallen in recent weeks and for the past three days have been at 80p per litre or below, down from a peak of 100p, according to motoring body the AA.
However, most petrol stations have failed to pass on the savings to customers and have been accused of profiteering.
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Some very simple rules can and should be put in place to minimise profits on energy, but do we expect any MPs to do anything about it?
posted on 15/7/22
comment by Busby (U19985)
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Wholesale petrol prices have fallen in recent weeks and for the past three days have been at 80p per litre or below, down from a peak of 100p, according to motoring body the AA.
However, most petrol stations have failed to pass on the savings to customers and have been accused of profiteering.
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Some very simple rules can and should be put in place to minimise profits on energy, but do we expect any MPs to do anything about it?
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half of them sit on petrochemical company boards as non exec directors, etc
ofcourse they wont do anything about it
they profit bigtime from this
posted on 15/7/22
I really don’t understand the OP’s obsession with Covid. There are far more worrying things like fuel costs, energy costs, hyperinflation, rising interest rates. Not to mention that the Euro and Sterling are collapsing before our eyes.