comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 53 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 5 hours, 58 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 4 hours, 5 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 3 hours, 41 minutes ago
Data should be based on hospital provision + the backlog
Id rather we had restrictions in place till next summer if it meant smashing in to this 5 year backlog in the NHS...
Anti-lockdown folk driving that waitlist up by letting it get so feckin bad everytime before admitting things need ramping up again ffs
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Businesses can’t survive that though, hospitality and travel especially, are the government seriously going to give those industries what they need for another whole year?
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Are we seriously going to suggest that potentially hundreds of thousands of people dieing are acceptable to open things up any further?
This is before the removal of masks in public settings, it's going to facking skyrocket if we take them off now.
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I’m talking about full lockdown, but you can’t simply ignore people’s lives and livelihoods, even another two weeks of restrictions means 50,000 weddings cancelled, and there are hundreds and of pubs and clubs who even at this point will never open again. It’s destroying people.
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Weddings are going ahead still, with fewer guests, your big day doesn't have to have 100 people in attendance.
Also it's not just covid killing pubs sizzle, plenty were going to the wall before this, we lost three local pubs after a wetherspoons opened here, and my favourite pub in town (in the good beer guide every year since it opened) has closed because the landlord put the rent up *TWICE* during lockdown while it was closed.
I can't justify the idea that businesses (which can be mothballed) are more important than tens of thousands of lives, there is financial support available, and ultimately if these spaces are required, and there's a market for them, they will come back regardless.
You cant have pro capitalists arguing that poverty wages are justifiable because when you start a business you assume all the risk with your money. But also subsequently argue that we should eliminate all risks tbh.
It's tragic, for many, but perhaps they will learn to support the safety net, understand how it's been destroyed, and ultimately should receive support in reopening their business after the pandemic, which shouldn't be hard if it was viable.
All we are doing is perpetuating the pandemic, it will be 3-6 months before we can start vaccinating against delta, how many more vaccine resistant strains will we have by then if we continue to allow augc massive spread, if we continue to allow new variants to spread here.
We cannot allow this suffering to perpetuate for political ideals, especially not late stage capitalist ones.
I'm in no way suggesting we go back to full lockdown, but we were beating the virus back still before the last lifting of measures.
Perhaps we need to go back to that, and yes, full local lockdowns need to be kept on the table, to protect other NHS services.
Mental health and cancer services can't take much more of this, we need to protect them.
For the hundredth time, local lockdowns don’t work.
Doesn't matter if they work to stop spread,
They work to reduce pressures on the local NHS service, through accidents etc and allow other services to stay open longer because you need less staff Manning your A+E
Well it’s pretty obvious Johnson is going to postpone for another four weeks and f*fk over millions of people’s plans.
I had a quick skim of the other thread, amazing to see how few people have grasped the lag tbh, 43 deaths in 10k cases.. we have 30k active cases, a doubling every week means we potentially have 120k active cases two weeks from now even on the current trajectory..
The toll on the 10k closed cases is yet to be fully realised, you can conceivably add another 129 deaths for the current cases, and if the exponential growth does bear out, that 120k will yield a tragic 480 more deaths the following two weeks.
That's only going to raise faster with increased viral load from masks
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted less than a minute ago
Well it’s pretty obvious Johnson is going to postpone for another four weeks and f*fk over millions of people’s plans.
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This was coming two weeks ago,
A) he should have given more notice
B) your loved ones dieing ruin your plans too,
C) the only thing left to open that can't is nightclubs, not worth speeding this thing up, and both killing people, and shutting down cancer services and other life saving operations again.
Well I suppose nobody knows what to think anymore, we’re just existing like f*cking zombies.
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well I suppose nobody knows what to think anymore, we’re just existing like f*cking zombies.
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Like I said the other day mate, it depends how you have used the lockdown.
If you are at home waiting to go out to a nightclub then perhaps you are, but if that's someone's only idea of living then I'd suggest that they were always zombies living for the weekend.
Meanwhile everything else in life can be enjoyed outside, or inside with masks and distancing. So I'd imagine that 99.9% of people are far from living like zombies and are probably revelling in spending time with friends and families now.
This should have been stamped out by Christmas, instead we have opened the door and invited it back in. There will be another variant by Christmas, and we will lose the three best days of the year again..
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well I suppose nobody knows what to think anymore, we’re just existing like f*cking zombies.
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Like I said the other day mate, it depends how you have used the lockdown.
If you are at home waiting to go out to a nightclub then perhaps you are, but if that's someone's only idea of living then I'd suggest that they were always zombies living for the weekend.
Meanwhile everything else in life can be enjoyed outside, or inside with masks and distancing. So I'd imagine that 99.9% of people are far from living like zombies and are probably revelling in spending time with friends and families now.
This should have been stamped out by Christmas, instead we have opened the door and invited it back in. There will be another variant by Christmas, and we will lose the three best days of the year again..
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Well I guess some people are better at existing under these restrictions than others, in fact I get the feeling some people are quite enjoying it.
If we can’t even open up for summer then what is winter and flu season going to be like? Are we going go have to exist like this for another year?
This isn’t living.
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well I suppose nobody knows what to think anymore, we’re just existing like f*cking zombies.
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Like I said the other day mate, it depends how you have used the lockdown.
If you are at home waiting to go out to a nightclub then perhaps you are, but if that's someone's only idea of living then I'd suggest that they were always zombies living for the weekend.
Meanwhile everything else in life can be enjoyed outside, or inside with masks and distancing. So I'd imagine that 99.9% of people are far from living like zombies and are probably revelling in spending time with friends and families now.
This should have been stamped out by Christmas, instead we have opened the door and invited it back in. There will be another variant by Christmas, and we will lose the three best days of the year again..
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Well I guess some people are better at existing under these restrictions than others, in fact I get the feeling some people are quite enjoying it.
If we can’t even open up for summer then what is winter and flu season going to be like? Are we going go have to exist like this for another year?
This isn’t living.
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If we have to exist like this for another year, it's only because the anti-lockdown skeptics are furthering the kangarooing of the infection rate.
I can't say I'm enjoying the restrictions, they have ruined my job as a postman and led me to break a bone in the bottom of my foot. But I have learnt to live with them, and have found new hobbies that I can do, am enjoying, and will probably replace a few of my less healthy hobbies from the before time (such as £180 a month on cinema trips)
Humans are good at dealing with adversity and adapting. The plethora of open air gyms, cinemas etc that have popped up are evidence of this, new businesses have sprung up out of covid, my best mate moved to Scotland a year before covid, and I didn't manage to get to see him once, we kept in contact by text, but our group of friends have a fortnightly "pub night" on zoom now, a vast improvement!
It's about finding the silver linings. But restrictions more importantly are about saving lives.
There were 8,000 positive cases yesterday, and it's rising each week. Around 33 of those people will be dead in three weeks. That number is rising all the time. Everyone needs to ask themselves how many deaths are acceptable.
Aren’t you still working? Postmen are still delivering?
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Aren’t you still working? Postmen are still delivering?
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Yeah, but we have had double the operational capacity for the whole pandemic, untill the easing about 6 weeks ago,
It's been so bad on parcels all our reserves were stuck doing that, and if you didn't work your day off you had to do two days work on your day back in, two days of double capacity work.
It's been absolute hell for 18months, I've crushed a sesamoid in my foot from overuse, an injury that won't ever properly heal and means I can't bend my big toe properly. Just paid out £500 for one set of specialised insoles to cushion it.
The jobs are irrevocably changed, there's been barely any customer complaints about failed walks and the company have run with that to OFCOM to try and change the universal service agreement (delivery to your house 6 days a week) with a view to sacking 20% of posties, delivering letters every other day and parcels the rest of the time.
They used social distancing to make our start times much later, we used to all start around 6am, it's now 7.30 or 9am now.
Who knows if it will go back, or if we can stave off job losses, but I would happily take that double workload again if it means we can save 10s of thousands of lives
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
I had a quick skim of the other thread, amazing to see how few people have grasped the lag tbh, 43 deaths in 10k cases.. we have 30k active cases, a doubling every week means we potentially have 120k active cases two weeks from now even on the current trajectory..
The toll on the 10k closed cases is yet to be fully realised, you can conceivably add another 129 deaths for the current cases, and if the exponential growth does bear out, that 120k will yield a tragic 480 more deaths the following two weeks.
That's only going to raise faster with increased viral load from masks
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This has been an issue from the start, and it’s surprising that so few people seem to have managed to grasp the concept still.
The response now is, “but the vaccines!” but if two doses of AZ is only 60% effective against Delta, that isn’t going to be enough to prevent it, for example, tearing through care homes again.
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Aren’t you still working? Postmen are still delivering?
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Yeah, but we have had double the operational capacity for the whole pandemic, untill the easing about 6 weeks ago,
It's been so bad on parcels all our reserves were stuck doing that, and if you didn't work your day off you had to do two days work on your day back in, two days of double capacity work.
It's been absolute hell for 18months, I've crushed a sesamoid in my foot from overuse, an injury that won't ever properly heal and means I can't bend my big toe properly. Just paid out £500 for one set of specialised insoles to cushion it.
The jobs are irrevocably changed, there's been barely any customer complaints about failed walks and the company have run with that to OFCOM to try and change the universal service agreement (delivery to your house 6 days a week) with a view to sacking 20% of posties, delivering letters every other day and parcels the rest of the time.
They used social distancing to make our start times much later, we used to all start around 6am, it's now 7.30 or 9am now.
Who knows if it will go back, or if we can stave off job losses, but I would happily take that double workload again if it means we can save 10s of thousands of lives
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I’m really sorry to hear that, Insert.
I knew it had been a really tough year for you work-wise, but didn’t know about your foot. I know from direct experience that foot and ankle injuries are an absolute pig - hope yours continues to improve and you heal up OK
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Aren’t you still working? Postmen are still delivering?
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Yeah, but we have had double the operational capacity for the whole pandemic, untill the easing about 6 weeks ago,
It's been so bad on parcels all our reserves were stuck doing that, and if you didn't work your day off you had to do two days work on your day back in, two days of double capacity work.
It's been absolute hell for 18months, I've crushed a sesamoid in my foot from overuse, an injury that won't ever properly heal and means I can't bend my big toe properly. Just paid out £500 for one set of specialised insoles to cushion it.
The jobs are irrevocably changed, there's been barely any customer complaints about failed walks and the company have run with that to OFCOM to try and change the universal service agreement (delivery to your house 6 days a week) with a view to sacking 20% of posties, delivering letters every other day and parcels the rest of the time.
They used social distancing to make our start times much later, we used to all start around 6am, it's now 7.30 or 9am now.
Who knows if it will go back, or if we can stave off job losses, but I would happily take that double workload again if it means we can save 10s of thousands of lives
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Ah ok, that’s sounds pretty grim.
comment by rosso - time to #takefootballback (U17054)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
I had a quick skim of the other thread, amazing to see how few people have grasped the lag tbh, 43 deaths in 10k cases.. we have 30k active cases, a doubling every week means we potentially have 120k active cases two weeks from now even on the current trajectory..
The toll on the 10k closed cases is yet to be fully realised, you can conceivably add another 129 deaths for the current cases, and if the exponential growth does bear out, that 120k will yield a tragic 480 more deaths the following two weeks.
That's only going to raise faster with increased viral load from masks
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This has been an issue from the start, and it’s surprising that so few people seem to have managed to grasp the concept still.
The response now is, “but the vaccines!” but if two doses of AZ is only 60% effective against Delta, that isn’t going to be enough to prevent it, for example, tearing through care homes again.
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60% Efficacy means you cannot get herd immunity against it. If you assume 10% of your population won't/can't be vaccinated then 75% Efficacy is the absolute minimum needed to get herd immunity
Which of course didn't work in Manaus, and hasn't worked in the Seychelles.
We are going to need yearly boosters, and we are probably going to have to accept that NHS provision will need to be seriously ramped up to cope, now that there's 0 chance of this ever being eradicated.
Also: thanks for the kind words RE: My foot, I'm back at work on light duties and have built up to two hours walking.. progress
What happened to that special US relationship?
https://twitter.com/alexisconran/status/1403750201534341125?s=21
comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted 4 hours, 16 minutes ago
What happened to that special US relationship?
https://twitter.com/alexisconran/status/1403750201534341125?s=21
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We lost it in the Brexit divorce of course
Posties and couriers are, alongside call centre sales folk, the non-NHS heroes that heve kept the country ticking over.
Good luck insert with your sore foot!
Just a wee shout out to the caretakers and contract cleaners re: social housing, who have been cleaning the communal areas, the lifts and corridors, the doors and light switches from day 1 of lockdown.
Minimum wage, maximum exposure.
The binmen, the road sweepers, the grocers, the police, the bus drivers etc. Every job we take for granted..
Thank you!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/12/brexit-bust-up-torpedoes-johnsons-bid-to-showcase-global-britain
This is what holding a politician to account looks like
https://twitter.com/ukiswitheu/status/1403775184537018372?s=21
comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted 9 minutes ago
This is what holding a politician to account looks like
https://twitter.com/ukiswitheu/status/1403775184537018372?s=21
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comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 53 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 5 hours, 58 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 4 hours, 5 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 3 hours, 41 minutes ago
Data should be based on hospital provision + the backlog
Id rather we had restrictions in place till next summer if it meant smashing in to this 5 year backlog in the NHS...
Anti-lockdown folk driving that waitlist up by letting it get so feckin bad everytime before admitting things need ramping up again ffs
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Businesses can’t survive that though, hospitality and travel especially, are the government seriously going to give those industries what they need for another whole year?
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Are we seriously going to suggest that potentially hundreds of thousands of people dieing are acceptable to open things up any further?
This is before the removal of masks in public settings, it's going to facking skyrocket if we take them off now.
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I’m talking about full lockdown, but you can’t simply ignore people’s lives and livelihoods, even another two weeks of restrictions means 50,000 weddings cancelled, and there are hundreds and of pubs and clubs who even at this point will never open again. It’s destroying people.
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Weddings are going ahead still, with fewer guests, your big day doesn't have to have 100 people in attendance.
Also it's not just covid killing pubs sizzle, plenty were going to the wall before this, we lost three local pubs after a wetherspoons opened here, and my favourite pub in town (in the good beer guide every year since it opened) has closed because the landlord put the rent up *TWICE* during lockdown while it was closed.
I can't justify the idea that businesses (which can be mothballed) are more important than tens of thousands of lives, there is financial support available, and ultimately if these spaces are required, and there's a market for them, they will come back regardless.
You cant have pro capitalists arguing that poverty wages are justifiable because when you start a business you assume all the risk with your money. But also subsequently argue that we should eliminate all risks tbh.
It's tragic, for many, but perhaps they will learn to support the safety net, understand how it's been destroyed, and ultimately should receive support in reopening their business after the pandemic, which shouldn't be hard if it was viable.
All we are doing is perpetuating the pandemic, it will be 3-6 months before we can start vaccinating against delta, how many more vaccine resistant strains will we have by then if we continue to allow augc massive spread, if we continue to allow new variants to spread here.
We cannot allow this suffering to perpetuate for political ideals, especially not late stage capitalist ones.
posted on 12/6/21
I'm in no way suggesting we go back to full lockdown, but we were beating the virus back still before the last lifting of measures.
Perhaps we need to go back to that, and yes, full local lockdowns need to be kept on the table, to protect other NHS services.
Mental health and cancer services can't take much more of this, we need to protect them.
posted on 12/6/21
For the hundredth time, local lockdowns don’t work.
posted on 12/6/21
Doesn't matter if they work to stop spread,
They work to reduce pressures on the local NHS service, through accidents etc and allow other services to stay open longer because you need less staff Manning your A+E
posted on 12/6/21
Well it’s pretty obvious Johnson is going to postpone for another four weeks and f*fk over millions of people’s plans.
posted on 12/6/21
I had a quick skim of the other thread, amazing to see how few people have grasped the lag tbh, 43 deaths in 10k cases.. we have 30k active cases, a doubling every week means we potentially have 120k active cases two weeks from now even on the current trajectory..
The toll on the 10k closed cases is yet to be fully realised, you can conceivably add another 129 deaths for the current cases, and if the exponential growth does bear out, that 120k will yield a tragic 480 more deaths the following two weeks.
That's only going to raise faster with increased viral load from masks
posted on 12/6/21
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted less than a minute ago
Well it’s pretty obvious Johnson is going to postpone for another four weeks and f*fk over millions of people’s plans.
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This was coming two weeks ago,
A) he should have given more notice
B) your loved ones dieing ruin your plans too,
C) the only thing left to open that can't is nightclubs, not worth speeding this thing up, and both killing people, and shutting down cancer services and other life saving operations again.
posted on 12/6/21
Well I suppose nobody knows what to think anymore, we’re just existing like f*cking zombies.
posted on 12/6/21
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well I suppose nobody knows what to think anymore, we’re just existing like f*cking zombies.
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Like I said the other day mate, it depends how you have used the lockdown.
If you are at home waiting to go out to a nightclub then perhaps you are, but if that's someone's only idea of living then I'd suggest that they were always zombies living for the weekend.
Meanwhile everything else in life can be enjoyed outside, or inside with masks and distancing. So I'd imagine that 99.9% of people are far from living like zombies and are probably revelling in spending time with friends and families now.
This should have been stamped out by Christmas, instead we have opened the door and invited it back in. There will be another variant by Christmas, and we will lose the three best days of the year again..
posted on 12/6/21
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well I suppose nobody knows what to think anymore, we’re just existing like f*cking zombies.
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Like I said the other day mate, it depends how you have used the lockdown.
If you are at home waiting to go out to a nightclub then perhaps you are, but if that's someone's only idea of living then I'd suggest that they were always zombies living for the weekend.
Meanwhile everything else in life can be enjoyed outside, or inside with masks and distancing. So I'd imagine that 99.9% of people are far from living like zombies and are probably revelling in spending time with friends and families now.
This should have been stamped out by Christmas, instead we have opened the door and invited it back in. There will be another variant by Christmas, and we will lose the three best days of the year again..
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Well I guess some people are better at existing under these restrictions than others, in fact I get the feeling some people are quite enjoying it.
If we can’t even open up for summer then what is winter and flu season going to be like? Are we going go have to exist like this for another year?
This isn’t living.
posted on 12/6/21
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well I suppose nobody knows what to think anymore, we’re just existing like f*cking zombies.
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Like I said the other day mate, it depends how you have used the lockdown.
If you are at home waiting to go out to a nightclub then perhaps you are, but if that's someone's only idea of living then I'd suggest that they were always zombies living for the weekend.
Meanwhile everything else in life can be enjoyed outside, or inside with masks and distancing. So I'd imagine that 99.9% of people are far from living like zombies and are probably revelling in spending time with friends and families now.
This should have been stamped out by Christmas, instead we have opened the door and invited it back in. There will be another variant by Christmas, and we will lose the three best days of the year again..
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Well I guess some people are better at existing under these restrictions than others, in fact I get the feeling some people are quite enjoying it.
If we can’t even open up for summer then what is winter and flu season going to be like? Are we going go have to exist like this for another year?
This isn’t living.
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If we have to exist like this for another year, it's only because the anti-lockdown skeptics are furthering the kangarooing of the infection rate.
I can't say I'm enjoying the restrictions, they have ruined my job as a postman and led me to break a bone in the bottom of my foot. But I have learnt to live with them, and have found new hobbies that I can do, am enjoying, and will probably replace a few of my less healthy hobbies from the before time (such as £180 a month on cinema trips)
Humans are good at dealing with adversity and adapting. The plethora of open air gyms, cinemas etc that have popped up are evidence of this, new businesses have sprung up out of covid, my best mate moved to Scotland a year before covid, and I didn't manage to get to see him once, we kept in contact by text, but our group of friends have a fortnightly "pub night" on zoom now, a vast improvement!
It's about finding the silver linings. But restrictions more importantly are about saving lives.
There were 8,000 positive cases yesterday, and it's rising each week. Around 33 of those people will be dead in three weeks. That number is rising all the time. Everyone needs to ask themselves how many deaths are acceptable.
posted on 12/6/21
Aren’t you still working? Postmen are still delivering?
posted on 12/6/21
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Aren’t you still working? Postmen are still delivering?
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Yeah, but we have had double the operational capacity for the whole pandemic, untill the easing about 6 weeks ago,
It's been so bad on parcels all our reserves were stuck doing that, and if you didn't work your day off you had to do two days work on your day back in, two days of double capacity work.
It's been absolute hell for 18months, I've crushed a sesamoid in my foot from overuse, an injury that won't ever properly heal and means I can't bend my big toe properly. Just paid out £500 for one set of specialised insoles to cushion it.
The jobs are irrevocably changed, there's been barely any customer complaints about failed walks and the company have run with that to OFCOM to try and change the universal service agreement (delivery to your house 6 days a week) with a view to sacking 20% of posties, delivering letters every other day and parcels the rest of the time.
They used social distancing to make our start times much later, we used to all start around 6am, it's now 7.30 or 9am now.
Who knows if it will go back, or if we can stave off job losses, but I would happily take that double workload again if it means we can save 10s of thousands of lives
posted on 12/6/21
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
I had a quick skim of the other thread, amazing to see how few people have grasped the lag tbh, 43 deaths in 10k cases.. we have 30k active cases, a doubling every week means we potentially have 120k active cases two weeks from now even on the current trajectory..
The toll on the 10k closed cases is yet to be fully realised, you can conceivably add another 129 deaths for the current cases, and if the exponential growth does bear out, that 120k will yield a tragic 480 more deaths the following two weeks.
That's only going to raise faster with increased viral load from masks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This has been an issue from the start, and it’s surprising that so few people seem to have managed to grasp the concept still.
The response now is, “but the vaccines!” but if two doses of AZ is only 60% effective against Delta, that isn’t going to be enough to prevent it, for example, tearing through care homes again.
posted on 12/6/21
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Aren’t you still working? Postmen are still delivering?
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Yeah, but we have had double the operational capacity for the whole pandemic, untill the easing about 6 weeks ago,
It's been so bad on parcels all our reserves were stuck doing that, and if you didn't work your day off you had to do two days work on your day back in, two days of double capacity work.
It's been absolute hell for 18months, I've crushed a sesamoid in my foot from overuse, an injury that won't ever properly heal and means I can't bend my big toe properly. Just paid out £500 for one set of specialised insoles to cushion it.
The jobs are irrevocably changed, there's been barely any customer complaints about failed walks and the company have run with that to OFCOM to try and change the universal service agreement (delivery to your house 6 days a week) with a view to sacking 20% of posties, delivering letters every other day and parcels the rest of the time.
They used social distancing to make our start times much later, we used to all start around 6am, it's now 7.30 or 9am now.
Who knows if it will go back, or if we can stave off job losses, but I would happily take that double workload again if it means we can save 10s of thousands of lives
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I’m really sorry to hear that, Insert.
I knew it had been a really tough year for you work-wise, but didn’t know about your foot. I know from direct experience that foot and ankle injuries are an absolute pig - hope yours continues to improve and you heal up OK
posted on 12/6/21
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Aren’t you still working? Postmen are still delivering?
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Yeah, but we have had double the operational capacity for the whole pandemic, untill the easing about 6 weeks ago,
It's been so bad on parcels all our reserves were stuck doing that, and if you didn't work your day off you had to do two days work on your day back in, two days of double capacity work.
It's been absolute hell for 18months, I've crushed a sesamoid in my foot from overuse, an injury that won't ever properly heal and means I can't bend my big toe properly. Just paid out £500 for one set of specialised insoles to cushion it.
The jobs are irrevocably changed, there's been barely any customer complaints about failed walks and the company have run with that to OFCOM to try and change the universal service agreement (delivery to your house 6 days a week) with a view to sacking 20% of posties, delivering letters every other day and parcels the rest of the time.
They used social distancing to make our start times much later, we used to all start around 6am, it's now 7.30 or 9am now.
Who knows if it will go back, or if we can stave off job losses, but I would happily take that double workload again if it means we can save 10s of thousands of lives
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Ah ok, that’s sounds pretty grim.
posted on 12/6/21
comment by rosso - time to #takefootballback (U17054)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
I had a quick skim of the other thread, amazing to see how few people have grasped the lag tbh, 43 deaths in 10k cases.. we have 30k active cases, a doubling every week means we potentially have 120k active cases two weeks from now even on the current trajectory..
The toll on the 10k closed cases is yet to be fully realised, you can conceivably add another 129 deaths for the current cases, and if the exponential growth does bear out, that 120k will yield a tragic 480 more deaths the following two weeks.
That's only going to raise faster with increased viral load from masks
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This has been an issue from the start, and it’s surprising that so few people seem to have managed to grasp the concept still.
The response now is, “but the vaccines!” but if two doses of AZ is only 60% effective against Delta, that isn’t going to be enough to prevent it, for example, tearing through care homes again.
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60% Efficacy means you cannot get herd immunity against it. If you assume 10% of your population won't/can't be vaccinated then 75% Efficacy is the absolute minimum needed to get herd immunity
Which of course didn't work in Manaus, and hasn't worked in the Seychelles.
We are going to need yearly boosters, and we are probably going to have to accept that NHS provision will need to be seriously ramped up to cope, now that there's 0 chance of this ever being eradicated.
posted on 12/6/21
Also: thanks for the kind words RE: My foot, I'm back at work on light duties and have built up to two hours walking.. progress
posted on 12/6/21
What happened to that special US relationship?
https://twitter.com/alexisconran/status/1403750201534341125?s=21
posted on 12/6/21
comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted 4 hours, 16 minutes ago
What happened to that special US relationship?
https://twitter.com/alexisconran/status/1403750201534341125?s=21
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We lost it in the Brexit divorce of course
posted on 13/6/21
Posties and couriers are, alongside call centre sales folk, the non-NHS heroes that heve kept the country ticking over.
Good luck insert with your sore foot!
Just a wee shout out to the caretakers and contract cleaners re: social housing, who have been cleaning the communal areas, the lifts and corridors, the doors and light switches from day 1 of lockdown.
Minimum wage, maximum exposure.
The binmen, the road sweepers, the grocers, the police, the bus drivers etc. Every job we take for granted..
Thank you!
posted on 13/6/21
Hec
posted on 13/6/21
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/12/brexit-bust-up-torpedoes-johnsons-bid-to-showcase-global-britain
posted on 13/6/21
This is what holding a politician to account looks like
https://twitter.com/ukiswitheu/status/1403775184537018372?s=21
posted on 13/6/21
comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted 9 minutes ago
This is what holding a politician to account looks like
https://twitter.com/ukiswitheu/status/1403775184537018372?s=21
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Yes saw that!
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