Coronavirus Super Thread ( merged )

[Dazo]

1 minute ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

Anyone else's passport app showing as expired?

Yep. 🙄

[XB52]

13 minutes ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

Anyone else's passport app showing as expired?

Mine too, could be fun tonight 

[Dennis Reynolds]

14 minutes ago, Dazo said:

Yep. 🙄

 

2 minutes ago, XB52 said:

Mine too, could be fun tonight 

 

👍

 

Had a few messages in the group chat saying the same thing so assuming it's having widespread issues. Not great considering there's a full card in the football tonight, although the stewards I've had have barely took more than a passing glance at my phone when going in.

[XB52]

2 minutes ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

 

 

👍

 

Had a few messages in the group chat saying the same thing so assuming it's having widespread issues. Not great considering there's a full card in the football tonight, although the stewards I've had have barely took more than a passing glance at my phone when going in.

I just updated it via Google play store and it's working now

[Dazo]

2 minutes ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

 

 

👍

 

Had a few messages in the group chat saying the same thing so assuming it's having widespread issues. Not great considering there's a full card in the football tonight, although the stewards I've had have barely took more than a passing glance at my phone when going in.

To be fair I could have shown them a picture of a cat and they would have waved me through. Wouldn’t worry about it. 

[Dazo]

Just now, XB52 said:

I just updated it via Google play store and it's working now

Just done the same via App Store and works fine now. 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Same 🤣 I thought my apps updated automatically but apparently not! Will pass this on, cheers.

[Jambo-Jimbo]

2 hours ago, Nucky Thompson said:

All restrictions and isolation requirements to be scrapped in England by the end of this month

 

No that can't be right, as we were reliably informed that once they took away our freedoms they wouldn't give them back.

 

[Footballfirst]

2 hours ago, Nucky Thompson said:

All restrictions and isolation requirements to be scrapped in England by the end of this month

That's the legal element of self isolation being removed but the guidance to self isolate will remain.

 

Earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the government plans to lift England's remaining Covid restrictions - which are due to end on 24 March - a month early.

Asked at the daily lobby briefing if this meant people could go to work if they had Covid, the PM's spokesman said the government would not advise anyone who tests positive to go to work once legal restrictions end.

[Pasquale for King]

31 minutes ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

Same 🤣 I thought my apps updated automatically but apparently not! Will pass this on, cheers.

I’ve just been showing a photo of it, just in case of problems like WiFi etc. 

[Jambo_jim2001]

On 06/02/2022 at 10:16, Rupert Pupkin said:

And just when you thought this thread had been confined to the sands of time (was on page 3) Boosh !!! It’s back..

 

Hopefully it disappears before the rabid slavering masses return . 😂😂😂

You read some of the posts over on the terrace??this is fast becoming the only sane one on here😀💥💥

[ri Alban]

59 minutes ago, Lord BJ said:

Good news and following suit of a number other countries like Denmark. Does feel like we really beginning to put this in the rear view mirror. 
 

Was there any news yesterday from SG when face coverings in schools may be dropped. The only thing I’ve seen is a suggestion scraped after half term in the Sun. 
 

Was looking for something a bit more reliable. 

18th of February, the day they Stick or twist on Masks, bud.

[Hesh]

1 hour ago, Pasquale for King said:

I’ve just been showing a photo of it, just in case of problems like WiFi etc. 

It doesn't need wifi 

[Pasquale for King]

1 minute ago, Hesh said:

It doesn't need wifi 

I have problems getting into apps near the stadium, no WiFi or data so just in case I took a picture.
Thanks for the info though. 

[Hesh]

1 minute ago, Pasquale for King said:

I have problems getting into apps near the stadium, no WiFi or data so just in case I took a picture.
Thanks for the info though. 

👍

[Footballfirst]

Face masks in Scottish schools will no longer be required in class from 28 February.

Edited February 10, 2022 by Footballfirst

[Seymour M Hersh]

30 minutes ago, Footballfirst said:

Face masks in Scottish schools will no longer be required in class from 28 February.

 

Did they mention a year? 

[Dazo]

57 minutes ago, Footballfirst said:

Face masks in Scottish schools will no longer be required in class from 28 February.

But still in corridors and communal areas. Seems a bit pointless but good news for classrooms. 

[Taffin]

'In her interview with Eddie Nestor on BBC Radio London, Dame Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, said it was not the job of officers guarding Downing Street to prevent illegal parties.

 

She would not say whether the police officers who protect the building knew about the gatherings now being investigated by the Met because they seem to have broken lockdown rules. But she went on:

 

"I would say one thing to you, which is that my officers are there primarily, with firearms, to keep people safe from terrorists, from armed attackers and the like. That is their primary job.

 

I do not ask them, and I’m not going to start asking them, to patrol the corridors of Whitehall looking for, you know, what might be going on in offices.

 

That is not appropriate. We don’t do it in any other environment. We wouldn’t come marching into the BBC to do that."'

 

Isn't that literally how the police were enforcing Covid rules? Turning up at people's doors and looking for what was going on.

 

 

Edited February 10, 2022 by Taffin

[Dazo]

2 minutes ago, Taffin said:

'In her interview with Eddie Nestor on BBC Radio London, Dame Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, said it was not the job of officers guarding Downing Street to prevent illegal parties.

 

She would not say whether the police officers who protect the building knew about the gatherings now being investigated by the Met because they seem to have broken lockdown rules. But she went on:

 

"I would say one thing to you, which is that my officers are there primarily, with firearms, to keep people safe from terrorists, from armed attackers and the like. That is their primary job.

 

I do not ask them, and I’m not going to start asking them, to patrol the corridors of Whitehall looking for, you know, what might be going on in offices.

 

That is not appropriate. We don’t do it in any other environment. We wouldn’t come marching into the BBC to do that."'

 

Isn't that literally how the police were enforcing Covid rules? Turning up at people's doors and looking for what was going on.

 

 

I agree with her regarding the armed police, they aren’t there for trivial matters. 

[Taffin]

6 minutes ago, Dazo said:

I agree with her regarding the armed police, they aren’t there for trivial matters. 

 

Protecting people from a supposedly deadly virus that warrants the country being in lockdown?

 

Hardly trivial. Unless they knew all along it was much ado about nothing.

 

Even still, surely they should have been communicating that to their colleagues to attend to.

[The Real Maroonblood]

12 minutes ago, Taffin said:

'In her interview with Eddie Nestor on BBC Radio London, Dame Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, said it was not the job of officers guarding Downing Street to prevent illegal parties.

 

She would not say whether the police officers who protect the building knew about the gatherings now being investigated by the Met because they seem to have broken lockdown rules. But she went on:

 

"I would say one thing to you, which is that my officers are there primarily, with firearms, to keep people safe from terrorists, from armed attackers and the like. That is their primary job.

 

I do not ask them, and I’m not going to start asking them, to patrol the corridors of Whitehall looking for, you know, what might be going on in offices.

 

That is not appropriate. We don’t do it in any other environment. We wouldn’t come marching into the BBC to do that."'

 

Isn't that literally how the police were enforcing Covid rules? Turning up at people's doors and looking for what was going on.

 

 

She's aptly named Dick.

[Victorian]

It's definitely not the job of those firearms officers to actively police what's going on in Downing Street and elsewhere in Whitehall.  Nobody would expect any of those officers to start searching the bevvy suitcases or to chap on the door of No10.  However there would be nothing to prevent them from passing on information to their superior officers.  

 

A blind eye was turned.  Why should those officers put their own positions at risk for the sake of raising concerns?  

[Dazo]

3 minutes ago, Taffin said:

 

Protecting people from a supposedly deadly virus that warrants the country being in lockdown?

 

Hardly trivial. Unless they knew all along it was much ado about nothing.

 

Even still, surely they should have been communicating that to their colleagues to attend to.

Whatever way you cut it armed police dealing with lockdown party’s is completely trivial. Absolutely they should have passed the message on but I can imagine they were just as apathetic to the party’s as the rest of Downing Street as they primary focus was other matters. 

[Taffin]

5 minutes ago, Victorian said:

It's definitely not the job of those firearms officers to actively police what's going on in Downing Street and elsewhere in Whitehall.  Nobody would expect any of those officers to start searching the bevvy suitcases or to chap on the door of No10.  However there would be nothing to prevent them from passing on information to their superior officers.  

 

A blind eye was turned.  Why should those officers put their own positions at risk for the sake of raising concerns?  

 

2 minutes ago, Dazo said:

Whatever way you cut it armed police dealing with lockdown party’s is completely trivial. Absolutely they should have passed the message on but I can imagine they were just as apathetic to the party’s as the rest of Downing Street as they primary focus was other matters. 

 

I don't disagree, I'm not bothered in the slightest by the parties. It just seems odd that turning a blind eye to ignore supposedly really important rules being broken would be the approach.

[Footballfirst]

 

[doctor jambo]

4 hours ago, Victorian said:

It's definitely not the job of those firearms officers to actively police what's going on in Downing Street and elsewhere in Whitehall.  Nobody would expect any of those officers to start searching the bevvy suitcases or to chap on the door of No10.  However there would be nothing to prevent them from passing on information to their superior officers.  

 

A blind eye was turned.  Why should those officers put their own positions at risk for the sake of raising concerns?  

Because they are police?

and that is their job?

and covid killed more people than terrorists ever have?

I do t know many cops who ignore law breaking ,

the cops knew people were breaking the law, and it’s not for them to ignore the law.

they do t decide on which laws to bother with and which are inconvenient- otherwise the law is meaningless

[ri Alban]

Charlie itching to become George, trying to take his Maw out.

[ri Alban]

https://news.sky.com/story/health-minister-gillian-keegan-apologises-for-continuing-in-person-meeting-despite-positive-lateral-flow-result-12537038

[escobri]

Wales to bin vaccine pass from the 18th, I hope Sturgeon continues it up here as my shimmy passing the stewards is nearing perfection. 

[kila]

9 hours ago, escobri said:

Wales to bin vaccine pass from the 18th, I hope Sturgeon continues it up here as my shimmy passing the stewards is nearing perfection. 

 

I always enter with 10 mins to go and the stewards at that point are just wanting to check you have a working phone. I'm sure you could have pornography playing and they'd still wave you in.

 

[manaliveits105]

Nobody gives a monkeys what chief mammy thinks anymore 

[MoncurMacdonaldMercer]

10 hours ago, escobri said:

Wales to bin vaccine pass from the 18th, I hope Sturgeon continues it up here as my shimmy passing the stewards is nearing perfection. 

all these things getting binned? there was talk of a two-tier society based on vaccination status is that all fading away?
 

people on here getting excited about unvaccinated fellow Hearts fans being thrown in “meat wagons” is that all looking like disappearing ?

[escobri]

7 minutes ago, MoncurMacdonaldMercer said:

all these things getting binned? there was talk of a two-tier society based on vaccination status is that all fading away?
 

people on here getting excited about unvaccinated fellow Hearts fans being thrown in “meat wagons” is that all looking like disappearing ?

Tbf we did have it for a while before lft's were added to the vaccine requirements, we might see the meat wagons on Saturday if we get beat 🤣

[MoncurMacdonaldMercer]

10 minutes ago, escobri said:

Tbf we did have it for a while before lft's were added to the vaccine requirements, we might see the meat wagons on Saturday if we get beat 🤣

Moving in the right direction then

 

no chance cup-tie neilson will lose out to a lowly side like livi - meat wagons can remain parked-up for the next wave

[NANOJAMBO]

[Gizmo]

1 hour ago, MoncurMacdonaldMercer said:

all these things getting binned? there was talk of a two-tier society based on vaccination status is that all fading away?
 

people on here getting excited about unvaccinated fellow Hearts fans being thrown in “meat wagons” is that all looking like disappearing ?

I doubt that's at all true. Well, I'd maybe make an exception for two notable throbbers on this thread. 😅

[escobri]

10 minutes ago, Gizmo said:

I doubt that's at all true. Well, I'd maybe make an exception for two notable throbbers on this thread. 😅

1 down 🤣

[MoncurMacdonaldMercer]

56 minutes ago, Gizmo said:

I doubt that's at all true. Well, I'd maybe make an exception for two notable throbbers on this thread. 😅

all true mate but you’re  very welcome to doubt it - promotes debate too which tends to a good thing ✅

[MoncurMacdonaldMercer]

46 minutes ago, escobri said:

1 down 🤣

gizmo will heading over to a leopard is my face to get the full chapter and verse on this delivery of karma

[NANOJAMBO]

@nmdacosta·

2hReplying to @andrew_lilico

 

I was in meeting after meeting with the PM when he went row by row through what was and was not to be allowed. What does it say about us as a Party if what we write in law in minute detail is just for 'others' and by slight of hand we try and make that a 'trivial' thing?

[NANOJAMBO]

5 hours ago, MoncurMacdonaldMercer said:

all these things getting binned? there was talk of a two-tier society based on vaccination status is that all fading away?
 

people on here getting excited about unvaccinated fellow Hearts fans being thrown in “meat wagons” is that all looking like disappearing ?

There wasn't.

Just a sense of victimhood dressed up as "freedom".

I had a good laugh when the "freedom fighters" were saying how having to produce a QR code on their phones would be crazy cause people would be stuck in long queueus.

In the same week I went to the Eitihad - where every single punter has a full body check just like you'd get at airport security.

 

And guess what ?

No one complained and everyone was in their seats for kick off.

Absolutely mental !!

What is going on in this crazy world. 

 

[ri Alban]

[MoncurMacdonaldMercer]

8 hours ago, NANOJAMBO said:

There wasn't.

Just a sense of victimhood dressed up as "freedom".

I had a good laugh when the "freedom fighters" were saying how having to produce a QR code on their phones would be crazy cause people would be stuck in long queueus.

In the same week I went to the Eitihad - where every single punter has a full body check just like you'd get at airport security.

 

And guess what ?

No one complained and everyone was in their seats for kick off.

Absolutely mental !!

What is going on in this crazy world. 

 

there was

 

on this very thread posters salivating about how restricted the unvaccinated would become - all the things they wouldn’t be able to do / all the things they might have to pay for / all the medical treatment they should no longer get

 

the classic “Meat wagon” salivation was on another thread - a bit like a critically claimed production it managed to be extremely funny and extremely sad all in one

[Gizmo]

11 hours ago, MoncurMacdonaldMercer said:

gizmo will heading over to a leopard is my face to get the full chapter and verse on this delivery of karma

That's not how karma works mate. 

If folk choose not to take the vaccine, sure fine. Especially if its an informed decision, less so if they were swept along by anti-science and Q-anon peddling nutters. 

Those who tell others not to take the vaccine because they are political grifters/commentators and are pushing alt-right conspiracy crap or unproven, dangerous alternative treatments, I have less sympathy for them when they fall on their own sword which need never have been there to fall upon. Because they will undoubtedly have influenced stupid people to do similar and, using their following/influence, have caused harm to others.

I have nothing but disgust for those who are almost certainly vaccinated on the quiet but peddle bullshit to "keep their base". **** those guys. 

The only schadenfreude in any of this is when the Peter Hitchins of this world eventually cop to being vaccinated and all their sheeple have a bitch fit when they realise they were being played like a cheap fiddle. 

But none of this is karma, it's just people reaping the consequences of their choices. 

Edited February 12, 2022 by Gizmo

[MoncurMacdonaldMercer]

3 minutes ago, Gizmo said:

That's not how karma works mate. 

If folk choose not to take the vaccine, sure fine. Especially if its an informed decision, less so if they were swept along by anti-science and Q-anon peddling nutters. 

Those who tell others not to take the vaccine because they are political grifters/commentators and are pushing alt-right conspiracy crap or unproven, dangerous alternative treatments, I have less sympathy for them when they fall on their own sword which need never have been there to fall upon. Because they will undoubtedly have influenced stupid people to do similar and, using their following/influence, have caused harm to others.

I have nothing but disgust for those who are almost certainly vaccinated on the quiet but peddle bullshit to "keep their base". **** those guys. 

The only schadenfreude in any of this is when the Peter Hitchins of this world eventually cop to being vaccinated and all their sheeple have a bitch fit when they realise they were being played like a cheap fiddle. 

But none of this is karma, it's just people reaping the consequences of their choices. 

as reported on a leopard is my face which is “where it’s at”

 

 

[Jambo-Jimbo]

33 minutes ago, Gizmo said:

I have nothing but disgust for those who are almost certainly vaccinated on the quiet but peddle bullshit to "keep their base". **** those guys. 

The only schadenfreude in any of this is when the Peter Hitchins of this world eventually cop to being vaccinated and all their sheeple have a bitch fit when they realise they were being played like a cheap fiddle. 

But none of this is karma, it's just people reaping the consequences of their choices. 

 

Like Trump, for example.

[Gizmo]

27 minutes ago, Jambo-Jimbo said:

 

Like Trump, for example.

 

Yeah, heard he got boo'ed at his own rallies when talking up the booster jabs. 

[NANOJAMBO]

3 hours ago, MoncurMacdonaldMercer said:

there was

 

on this very thread posters salivating about how restricted the unvaccinated would become - all the things they wouldn’t be able to do / all the things they might have to pay for / all the medical treatment they should no longer get

 

the classic “Meat wagon” salivation was on another thread - a bit like a critically claimed production it managed to be extremely funny and extremely sad all in one

Absolute garbage. 

[Jambo-Jimbo]

2 hours ago, Gizmo said:

 

Yeah, heard he got boo'ed at his own rallies when talking up the booster jabs. 

 

He did.

 

It's often the case with these people, they preach this or that but often have little to no intention of doing what they preach, as long as the money keeps rolling in they'll keep on telling the gullible whatever they want to hear.