Is this the end of lockdown

[gsgsgs]

Do not question my knowledge and don't try to lecture me by applying your limited understanding. I am now losing patience! Just step down from your ladder and accept that other people do have far more knowledge in certain fields than you are ever likely to acquire, and you are actually coming over as being very silly.

I couldn't possibly question your knowledge as it is lacking in so many ways, as you continue to prove so eloquently. I agree, I have very little understanding of the COVID-19 virus I am not a trained professional in this field, that is why I take my information from legitimate sources.

I have no ladder to step down from, and willingly accept that people do have far more knowledge in certain fields than I do, safe in the belief that you most certainly are not one of them.

Whether or not I am coming across as being very silly in trying to educate you in the dangers of breaking government guidelines is for others to make their own mind up, frankly I don't care. I am confident in the belief that you come across as far sillier in almost every post you make either on this subject or most of your other posts & threads.

[silver fox]

Do not question my knowledge and don't try to lecture me by applying your limited understanding. I am now losing patience! Just step down from your ladder and accept that other people do have far more knowledge in certain fields than you are ever likely to acquire, and you are actually coming over as being very silly.

Your knowledge????????? if you knew half as much as you think you know, then you would know ten times more than you actually know.

Your avalanche of facts, statistics, over many threads and posts, which of course only you can access and assess, have been shown and proved to be wrong more than the combined total of every other poster on here combined, then you TELL the rest of us not to question YOUR KNOWLEDGE.

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Your knowledge????????? if you knew half as much as you think you know, then you would know ten times more than you actually know.

Your avalanche of facts, statistics, over many threads and posts, which of course only you can access and assess, have been shown and proved to be wrong more than the combined total of every other poster on here combined, then you TELL the rest of us not to question YOUR KNOWLEDGE.

No one could seriously question that level of knowledge, it would be like plaiting sawdust on a windy day, far far beyond me.

[Alikado]

I think I’ve worked it out...

* 4 year olds can go to school, but university students who have paid for the tuition they haven’t had and the accommodation they aren’t living in, can’t go to university.

* A teacher can go to school with many 4 year olds that they are not related to, but can’t see one 4 year old that they are related to.

* You can sit in a park, but not tomorrow or Tuesday but by Wednesday that’ll be fine.

* You can meet one person from another household for a chat or to sunbathe, but not two people so if you know two people from another household you have to pick your favourite. Hopefully, you’re also their favourite person from your household or this could be awkward. But possibly you’re not. But as I can’t go closer than 2m to the one you choose anyway you wouldn’t think having the other one sat next to them would matter - unless two people would restrict your eyeline too much and prevent you from being alert.

* You can work all day with your colleagues, but you can’t sit in their garden for a chat after work or sit next to them on the bus or travel to work in the same car.

* You can now do unlimited exercise when quite frankly just doing an hour a day feels like you are some kind of fitness guru. I can think of lots of things that I would like to be unlimited but exercise definitely isn’t one of them.

* You can drive to other destinations, although which destinations is unclear.

* The buses are still running past your house, but you shouldn’t get on one. We should just let empty buses drive around so bus drivers aren’t doing nothing.

* It will soon be time to quarantine people coming into the country by air... but not yet. It’s too soon. And not ever if you’re coming from France because... well, I don’t know why, actually. Because the French version of coronavirus wouldn’t come to the UK maybe.

* Our youngest children go back to school first because... they are notoriously good at not touching things they shouldn’t, maintain personal space at all times and never randomly lick you.

* We are somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.5 on a five point scale where 5 is all of the virus and 1 is none of the virus but 2,3 and 4 can be anything you’d like it to be really. Some of the virus? A bit of the virus? Just enough virus to see off those over 70s who were told to self isolate but now we’ve realised that they’ve done that a bit too well despite us offloading coronavirus patients into care homes and now we are claiming that was never said in the first place, even though it’s in writing in the stay at home guidance.

* The slogan isn’t stay at home any more, so we don’t have to stay at home. Except we do. Unless we can’t. In which case we should go out. But there will be fines if we break the rules. So don’t do that.

Don’t forget...

Stay alert... which Robert Jenrick has explained actually means Stay home as much as possible. Obviously.

Control the virus. Well, I can’t even control my dogs and I can actually see them. Plus I know a bit about dogs and very little about controlling viruses.

Save lives. Always preferable to not saving lives, I’d say, so I’ll try my best with that one, although hopefully I don’t need telling to do that. I know I’m bragging now but not NOT saving lives is something I do every day.

So there you are. If you’re the weirdo wanting unlimited exercise then enjoy. But not until Wednesday. Obviously.

[The PNP]

I think I’ve worked it out...

* 4 year olds can go to school, but university students who have paid for the tuition they haven’t had and the accommodation they aren’t living in, can’t go to university.

* A teacher can go to school with many 4 year olds that they are not related to, but can’t see one 4 year old that they are related to.

* You can sit in a park, but not tomorrow or Tuesday but by Wednesday that’ll be fine.

* You can meet one person from another household for a chat or to sunbathe, but not two people so if you know two people from another household you have to pick your favourite. Hopefully, you’re also their favourite person from your household or this could be awkward. But possibly you’re not. But as I can’t go closer than 2m to the one you choose anyway you wouldn’t think having the other one sat next to them would matter - unless two people would restrict your eyeline too much and prevent you from being alert.

* You can work all day with your colleagues, but you can’t sit in their garden for a chat after work or sit next to them on the bus or travel to work in the same car.

* You can now do unlimited exercise when quite frankly just doing an hour a day feels like you are some kind of fitness guru. I can think of lots of things that I would like to be unlimited but exercise definitely isn’t one of them.

* You can drive to other destinations, although which destinations is unclear.

* The buses are still running past your house, but you shouldn’t get on one. We should just let empty buses drive around so bus drivers aren’t doing nothing.

* It will soon be time to quarantine people coming into the country by air... but not yet. It’s too soon. And not ever if you’re coming from France because... well, I don’t know why, actually. Because the French version of coronavirus wouldn’t come to the UK maybe.

* Our youngest children go back to school first because... they are notoriously good at not touching things they shouldn’t, maintain personal space at all times and never randomly lick you.

* We are somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.5 on a five point scale where 5 is all of the virus and 1 is none of the virus but 2,3 and 4 can be anything you’d like it to be really. Some of the virus? A bit of the virus? Just enough virus to see off those over 70s who were told to self isolate but now we’ve realised that they’ve done that a bit too well despite us offloading coronavirus patients into care homes and now we are claiming that was never said in the first place, even though it’s in writing in the stay at home guidance.

* The slogan isn’t stay at home any more, so we don’t have to stay at home. Except we do. Unless we can’t. In which case we should go out. But there will be fines if we break the rules. So don’t do that.

Don’t forget...

Stay alert... which Robert Jenrick has explained actually means Stay home as much as possible. Obviously.

Control the virus. Well, I can’t even control my dogs and I can actually see them. Plus I know a bit about dogs and very little about controlling viruses.

Save lives. Always preferable to not saving lives, I’d say, so I’ll try my best with that one, although hopefully I don’t need telling to do that. I know I’m bragging now but not NOT saving lives is something I do every day.

So there you are. If you’re the weirdo wanting unlimited exercise then enjoy. But not until Wednesday. Obviously.

^That's it, in a nutshell!

[Hamble]

I think I’ve worked it out...

* 4 year olds can go to school, but university students who have paid for the tuition they haven’t had and the accommodation they aren’t living in, can’t go to university.

* A teacher can go to school with many 4 year olds that they are not related to, but can’t see one 4 year old that they are related to.

* You can sit in a park, but not tomorrow or Tuesday but by Wednesday that’ll be fine.

* You can meet one person from another household for a chat or to sunbathe, but not two people so if you know two people from another household you have to pick your favourite. Hopefully, you’re also their favourite person from your household or this could be awkward. But possibly you’re not. But as I can’t go closer than 2m to the one you choose anyway you wouldn’t think having the other one sat next to them would matter - unless two people would restrict your eyeline too much and prevent you from being alert.

* You can work all day with your colleagues, but you can’t sit in their garden for a chat after work or sit next to them on the bus or travel to work in the same car.

* You can now do unlimited exercise when quite frankly just doing an hour a day feels like you are some kind of fitness guru. I can think of lots of things that I would like to be unlimited but exercise definitely isn’t one of them.

* You can drive to other destinations, although which destinations is unclear.

* The buses are still running past your house, but you shouldn’t get on one. We should just let empty buses drive around so bus drivers aren’t doing nothing.

* It will soon be time to quarantine people coming into the country by air... but not yet. It’s too soon. And not ever if you’re coming from France because... well, I don’t know why, actually. Because the French version of coronavirus wouldn’t come to the UK maybe.

* Our youngest children go back to school first because... they are notoriously good at not touching things they shouldn’t, maintain personal space at all times and never randomly lick you.

* We are somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.5 on a five point scale where 5 is all of the virus and 1 is none of the virus but 2,3 and 4 can be anything you’d like it to be really. Some of the virus? A bit of the virus? Just enough virus to see off those over 70s who were told to self isolate but now we’ve realised that they’ve done that a bit too well despite us offloading coronavirus patients into care homes and now we are claiming that was never said in the first place, even though it’s in writing in the stay at home guidance.

* The slogan isn’t stay at home any more, so we don’t have to stay at home. Except we do. Unless we can’t. In which case we should go out. But there will be fines if we break the rules. So don’t do that.

Don’t forget...

Stay alert... which Robert Jenrick has explained actually means Stay home as much as possible. Obviously.

Control the virus. Well, I can’t even control my dogs and I can actually see them. Plus I know a bit about dogs and very little about controlling viruses.

Save lives. Always preferable to not saving lives, I’d say, so I’ll try my best with that one, although hopefully I don’t need telling to do that. I know I’m bragging now but not NOT saving lives is something I do every day.

So there you are. If you’re the weirdo wanting unlimited exercise then enjoy. But not until Wednesday. Obviously.

Wow!
If ever a nasty highly infectious virus comes to the UK I can see you will be up there with the stay safe splaining.

[silver fox]

Wow!
If ever a nasty highly infectious virus comes to the UK I can see you will be up there with the stay safe splaining.

Explanation just as clear as the "official".

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It is entirely obvious that coming out of a simple stay at home lockdown gradually will produce ambiguities.

Almost every country is doing it.


How could any government produce a personal written method statement for every idiot which it appears they want.

There are 67 million of us ffs there is bound to be conflictions.

Stay alert there are fools about.

[silver fox]

It is entirely obvious that coming out of a simple stay at home lockdown gradually will produce ambiguities.

Almost every country is doing it.


How could any government produce a personal written method statement for every idiot which it appears they want.

There are 67 million of us ffs there is bound to be conflictions.

Stay alert there are fools about.

Very true, particularly your last line.

It is most certainly much more difficult to bring the country out of restrictions than to put them in place, the damn virus is still very much out there, but obviously some think they are invulnerable, apparently unaware that even if they don't catch the thing, they can still spread it around.

[local]

The constant whining from people obsessed with picking at the people who are trying to manage the country's biggest disaster since WW2 is so wearing.

Even the most blinkered left wing bigot surely doesn't think any member of the government or the advising scientists are actively trying to make the situation worse.

The reality is the whole world is struggling with this especially if they were previously "open to the world" as we were.

Some countries are now getting relapses.

[sandGroundZero]

The comment

"Even the most blinkered left wing bigot surely doesn't think any member of the government or the advising scientists are actively trying to make the situation worse."

…evades the real charges against this and preceding governments including that ideological preoccupations left the country ill-prepared.

[Kippax]

Even the most blinkered left wing bigot surely doesn't think any member of the government or the advising scientists are actively trying to make the situation worse.

Of course not, they are in a very difficult position trying to balance getting the economy moving again against risking the health of the public.

Personally I think that the other home countries have got it right at this moment in time, leave things as they are for another couple of weeks and monitor what’s happening in some of the other countries that have relaxed lockdown. See if the expected second wave happens, then make a decision whether or not to relax things here.

But the pressure to get people back to work seems to have outweighed the risk to public health.

[silver fox]

The constant whining from people obsessed with picking at the people who are trying to manage the country's biggest disaster since WW2 is so wearing.

Even the most blinkered left wing bigot surely doesn't think any member of the government or the advising scientists are actively trying to make the situation worse.

The reality is the whole world is struggling with this especially if they were previously "open to the world" as we were.

Some countries are now getting relapses.

This isn't some left wing, right wing situation, people of all political persuasions have concerns when it comes to safety, I'm fairly sure the virus doesn't differentiate according to politics.

Sadly far too many of right wing persuasion see any voiced concern as left wing disruption, any statement of fact which doesn't tally with government statements is regarded as whinging, whining, deliberate disruption, it isn't.

I would believe that the majority would love a return to normality, but not at the expense of increased illness and/or deaths.

[Alikado]

Of course not, they are in a very difficult position trying to balance getting the economy moving again against risking the health of the public.

Personally I think that the other home countries have got it right at this moment in time, leave things as they are for another couple of weeks and monitor what’s happening in some of the other countries that have relaxed lockdown. See if the expected second wave happens, then make a decision whether or not to relax things here.

But the pressure to get people back to work seems to have outweighed the risk to public health.

The Government is too London Centric, they are only experiencing a handful of new cases daily little moire than Sefton but has 40 times the population and it's the London situation that is the driving force behind easing the lockdown.

[Toodles McGinty]

Do not question my knowledge and don't try to lecture me by applying your limited understanding. I am now losing patience! Just step down from your ladder and accept that other people do have far more knowledge in certain fields than you are ever likely to acquire, and you are actually coming over as being very silly.

This post gave me the best laugh I've had in weeks. Even better than 'Virus Wipe', which had me in stitches.

'Do not question my knowledge'. Priceless.