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Gooner
23 March 2020 21:26:10


 


No they’re not.  Most office based businesses are being run from dining rooms across the country!


Originally Posted by: John p 


We supply paint to the door and window industry ( joinery ) they are all still working , not sure everyone understands the full message 


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Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
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Jonesy
23 March 2020 21:26:56
Post offices be open? Classed as essential?
Medway Towns (Kent)
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David M Porter
23 March 2020 21:27:06


 


In case you haven`t noticed most businesses are already shut!! Do keep up.


Originally Posted by: springsunshine 


Given the way things have developed since early March, it may have been an idea to have asked most businesses to start closing their doors three weeks ago.


Don't get me wrong; I absolutely applaud the decision that Johnson has taken tonight. I only hope though that with the way the spread of the virus has escalated recently, it doesn't turn out to be a case of making it too late.


We live in hope though!


Lenzie, Glasgow

"Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom, and we must always be ready to listen and respect other points of view."- Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Brian Gaze
23 March 2020 21:28:08

If west Europe manages to get this under control and the opposite happens in the USA what will happen? Trump is making noises about letting it rip and already it appears out of control in some states. 


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David M Porter
23 March 2020 21:28:23


 


Hi David - no, neither of us has any underlying health issues we are aware of - we have just been following the advice given, keeping away from family and friends. Have had to make a couple of trips to the supermarket for essential items and to get the tyres replaced, but that is it.


Sorry to hear you have IBD - take care and keep safe.


Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 


Thanks Richard, likewise to you and your family also.


Lenzie, Glasgow

"Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom, and we must always be ready to listen and respect other points of view."- Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Saint Snow
23 March 2020 21:28:37

And although trivial in comparison, my car told me last week 'your brakes are getting low -get them checked". My mechanic mate been round tonight (earliest hecwas free) to look, says the back ones are particularly low. One of my tyres just the right side of legal, too. He was going to replace the brakes this weekend, and I was going to get the tyre changed sometime this week. 


But that's buggered up now. And I need my car to shop not just for us, but the parents too. The missus (NHS) needs her car.


I f***ing hate all this.



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Maunder Minimum
23 March 2020 21:29:41

N.B. right on cue, winter starts with spring. Will the forthcoming cold snap affect the spread of the virus?


It is always the same when we have a rotten non-winter - it starts when the blossom is coming out. Why in the name of heaven can't we have proper winter in the winter proper instead?


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New world order coming.
Gooner
23 March 2020 21:30:32

The Met Police are not happy at all with the measures taken by Boris

Originally Posted by: Gavin D 


They must have discussed it surely ??


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David M Porter
23 March 2020 21:30:48


If west Europe manages to get this under control and the opposite happens in the USA what will happen? Trump is making noises about letting it rip and already it appears out of control in some states. 


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


Sounds rather like what has happened here in the past three weeks.


I have a few friends whom I knew at secondary school in the 1990s whom now live in the USA. One lives in Illinois, which I think went into lockdown at the weekend just gone.


Lenzie, Glasgow

"Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom, and we must always be ready to listen and respect other points of view."- Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Heavy Weather 2013
23 March 2020 21:31:35
What about those country hotels with bars and restaurants.


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Brian Gaze
23 March 2020 21:31:38


N.B. right on cue, winter starts with spring. Will the forthcoming cold snap affect the spread of the virus?


It is always the same when we have a rotten non-winter - it starts when the blossom is coming out. Why in the name of heaven can't we have proper winter in the winter proper instead?


 


Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 


I was wondering about this earlier. Alternatively will the higher temperatures tomorrow and Wednesday help it spread? I've not been keeping an eye on weather conditions in Italy during the last few weeks.


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DEW
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23 March 2020 21:32:03


If west Europe manages to get this under control and the opposite happens in the USA what will happen? Trump is making noises about letting it rip and already it appears out of control in some states. 


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


To my surprise, my Utah correspondent tells me that supermarkets are being stripped there - I thought it was purely a British disease.


War does not determine who is right, only who is left - Bertrand Russell

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xioni2
23 March 2020 21:32:39


 I was wondering about this earlier. Alternatively will the higher temperatures tomorrow and Wednesday help it spread? I've not been keeping an eye on weather conditions in Italy during the last few weeks.


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


Bad/cold weather should help keep people inside.

xioni2
23 March 2020 21:33:41

They are not the same type of lockdowns of course, but here is a comparison of start dates:


China: 23 Jan 17 deaths


Italy: 9 March 463 deaths


Spain: 15 March 288 deaths


France: 16 March 148 deaths


UK: 24 March 335 deaths

Quantum
23 March 2020 21:34:25

Just a warning to everyone.


Do not take the piss. Because this is only the beginning.


Do you want tanks outside your house and millitary style checkpoints? Because it will get worse if you don't comply.


 


2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)

Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.

2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)

Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.

2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.
Gooner
23 March 2020 21:34:52


 


Bad/cold weather should help keep people inside.


Originally Posted by: xioni2 


Going to be high pressure dominated so dry 


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Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
378 feet A S L


xioni2
23 March 2020 21:35:09

What about those country hotels with bars and restaurants.

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 


They will be turned into morgues.



(with apologies)

David M Porter
23 March 2020 21:35:28


N.B. right on cue, winter starts with spring. Will the forthcoming cold snap affect the spread of the virus?


It is always the same when we have a rotten non-winter - it starts when the blossom is coming out. Why in the name of heaven can't we have proper winter in the winter proper instead?


 


Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 


Looks like turning colder for sure, but at least there might be a bit more sunshine to boost our vitamin D levels, if we are allowed to go outside and enjoy it.


Hopefully if the weather can settle down and remain settled as we go through April, then as the weather gets warmer it may help in te battle against this virus. That is what one of two health experts I have seen interviewed on TV recently have said anyway.


Lenzie, Glasgow

"Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom, and we must always be ready to listen and respect other points of view."- Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
David M Porter
23 March 2020 21:36:55


 


I was wondering about this earlier. Alternatively will the higher temperatures tomorrow and Wednesday help it spread? I've not been keeping an eye on weather conditions in Italy during the last few weeks.


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


Can't speak for all of Italy. However, whenever the BBC has been reporting from Rome over the past week or two, it has always been sunny with clear blue skies.


Lenzie, Glasgow

"Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom, and we must always be ready to listen and respect other points of view."- Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Gooner
23 March 2020 21:37:17


They are not the same type of lockdowns of course, but here is a comparison of start dates:


China: 23 Jan 17 deaths


Italy: 9 March 463 deaths


Spain: 15 March 288 deaths


France: 16 March 148 deaths


UK: 24 March 335 deaths


Originally Posted by: xioni2 


That's astonishing 


Remember anything after T120 is really Just For Fun



Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
378 feet A S L


Brian Gaze
23 March 2020 21:38:32


Just a warning to everyone.


Do not take the piss. Because this is only the beginning.


Do you want tanks outside your house and millitary style checkpoints? Because it will get worse if you don't comply.


 


Originally Posted by: Quantum 


To be fair I think virtually everyone here was already complying. The one member who boasted otherwise is currently taking an enforced holiday from TWO. I still have hope he was on a wind-up.  


Brian Gaze
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Gooner
23 March 2020 21:38:39


 


Looks like turning colder for sure, but at least there might be a bit more sunshine to boost our vitamin D levels, if we are allowed to go outside and enjoy it.


Hopefully if the weather can settle down and remain settled as we go through April, then as the weather gets warmer it may help in te battle against this virus. That is what one of two health experts I have seen interviewed on TV recently have said anyway.


Originally Posted by: David M Porter 


I was listening to someone on the TV the other day and they said high temperatures haven't been proven as a killer for the virus ?


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Marcus
Banbury
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RobN
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23 March 2020 21:40:01


Just a warning to everyone.


Do not take the piss. Because this is only the beginning.


Do you want tanks outside your house and millitary style checkpoints? Because it will get worse if you don't comply.


 


Originally Posted by: Quantum 


We don't have enough tanks or military to staff checkpoints. We have no national guard to call up. We have to do this by ourselves.


Rob
In the flatlands of South Cambridgeshire 15m ASL.
Maunder Minimum
23 March 2020 21:40:43


Just a warning to everyone.


Do not take the piss. Because this is only the beginning.


Do you want tanks outside your house and millitary style checkpoints? Because it will get worse if you don't comply.


 


Originally Posted by: Quantum 


My main gripe with the Government, has not been with the way they have gradually ratcheted up the measures at home, but that they refused to use border controls to prevent the virus gaining such a strong foothold in the first place. Why would it have hurt them to advise against going skiing a few weeks ago at half-term? - that might have halved the current incidence of the disease for all we know. Why not insist that everyone (whether a citizen or a foreign visitor) should have to go through mandatory testing and at least a 7 day quarantine on arrival, even if returning from a holiday? Such measures would have made a difference to the overall penetration and spread of the virus. Plus, Liverpool appears to have dodged a very dangerous bullet with Atletico Madrid - I can only surmise that the Spanish supporters largely kept themselves to themselves - but, given that Madrid is a hot cluster for the virus, I would bet there was a lot of cross infection amongst the Spanish supporters themselves during that visit and flights.


 


New world order coming.
xioni2
23 March 2020 21:41:18


Do you want tanks outside your house and millitary style checkpoints? Because it will get worse if you don't comply.


 

Originally Posted by: Quantum 


You are right in your sentiment of course, but we obviously don't have the armed forces for anything like it.


As for tanks we have 225, little Greece has 1,345 tanks.

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