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Poppy
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10 minutes ago, Meantime said:
Were you thinking of a certain navigation authority?
Amongst others.....
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19 minutes ago, vanessan said:
It’s because the rules for this lockdown are different in many ways to the previous lockdown rules. Many more businesses remain open this time.
Somehow V, there are a number who can't seem to understand that.
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Meanwhile, the schools remain open. My five year old grandson is again in isolation (second time this term, he only started in September) because another in his school 'bubble' has contracted the condition !
OK, kids seem not to suffer badly with covid if and when they get it, but they sure as hell can transmit it. Oh, and he, along with his class mates can't have a test.....
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Those who claim that we should not visit our boats, even for winterising may care to reflect on the fact that this morning in Great Yarmouth both Argos and Tapis Carpets and Flooring on the Pasteur Retail Park considered themselves to be 'essential' and were open and trading !
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2 hours ago, Vaughan said:
CC, I thoroughly agree with you, but perhaps I should quote the rest of MM's option 3/ :
See people die who wouldn't otherwise have done so.
That includes those whose treatment for other ailments such as cancer, heart disease, liver and kidneys, have had their treatment put into abeyance in specialised hospitals such as Addenbrookes.
I am not an expert but I am very objective. I see things as they are, in front of my face. My great concern is, what is going to be the end of all this, and what will be left, of what we like to call humanised society?
We can't just all scuttle off down our own little rabbit holes saying "stay at home and save lives". There are too many other things about our lives, and our way of life, that we are destroying in the process. If we are not very careful, we may never live our lives again, in the way that we used to.
Excellent post !
My mother in law suffers from glaucoma, a condition of increased pressure within the eyeball which can lead to blindness. She is regularly seen at her local hospital for the problem to be monitored, a visit which amongst other things involves measuring the pressure in her eyes. . She has now been told that her next appointment will be " a telephone consultation". We await with interest to find out how the phone will be used to measure eye pressure.
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2 hours ago, floydraser said:
The law doesn't say you have to wash your hands.
The law doesn't say that when out walking and you have to open a gate, you can't then scratch your nose.
The law doesn't say you have to wipe down supermarket food which may have been handled on the shelf.
The law doesn't say the post you just received has to be clean.
Some people are so obsessed with the law that are ignoring the greater danger from the virus.
Helioproctosis I'm afraid.
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SAILING
Sailing alone soothes me because the wind is fair, not cruel...
It judges only your ability.
It does not care who or what you are.
It does not ask your age, color, sex, address, sexual orientation, education or IQ, but only your competence.
It requires only that you can sail.
If you can, you survive.
If you can't, better stay ashore.
That's fair, more fair than most of us experience on land...-
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10 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:
Turning an ignition key, and maybe pressing the starter button, is surely a day's exercise for some!
You are surely forgetting repeatedly bending the arm and lifting it mouthward.
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2 minutes ago, rightsaidfred said:
No but likewise is there a definitive difference between manually and mechanicaly propelled boats for the purpose of exercise.
Fred
Together with mental and physical exercise....
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3 minutes ago, ChrisB said:
That's nothing. You must have never seen a 22 stone lass, covered in tattoos, smoking a Woodbine untipped and drinking from a 2 litre bottle of White Lightening filling the front well of a Ricko's bathtub. Even the cattle on the marshes break into a gallop away.
There are loads of 'em too on Yarmouth seafront in the season. Usually with a bag of chips in the hand not holding the White Lightning, not forgetting the battered sausage
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13 hours ago, marshman said:
Well well well - another classic case of the BA seemingly getting the total wrong end of the stick!!!!! Its no good the BA covering up their shiny trousers by just saying that DEFRA said so - especially as we have no idea what the question was asked of DEFRA? Perhaps now they now need to get together rather urgently and get another statement out saying exactly what is what! Any chance this time of them agreeing whats what - shame they do appeared to jump the gun - again!!
Or I suppose it isn't important enough to try and do it by the weekend? Or have they perhaps a National Parks meeting to go to instead? So are they going to apologise for perhaps putting the wrong slant on the original information, if indeed it is wrong and perhaps now tell us we CAN winterise our boats? And indeed use them? And what about Broadsedge - an embarrassing climbdown or did the key get dropped in the dyke?
Perhaps they would like to let us know what we can or cannot do? Or do we have to go the Sport England to get somewhere nearer the true facts?
So , come on the BA - did you jump the gun by interpreting the information wrongly or have I totally misread the Sport England statement? Or are you going to do what insurance companies do and find some other justification giving you wriggle room? Perhaps some of you may have noticed the head of steam building up from me? Perhaps I am being overdramatic but to winterise my boat in the timescale , given other commitments wasn't easy and am I now to be told it wasn't necessary after all?
THANKS...
Come on Broadland Tom - WASS GOIN OON ?
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4 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:
Quite a few that I know! Their season ends, like the BA's yacht stations, at the end of October. Their boats are either slipped and into storage, or winterised, during November before the first heavy frosts come. This is especially so where varnish work is concerned.
Most Broads yachts come out around now - even in a 'normal' year. For me and probably a number of others my insurance requires the boat to be ashore from mid November until March.
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19 hours ago, grendel said:
unfortunately its a genuine government site, and indicates a path down which they are treading, any further comment by me would become far too political to be uttered upon here, but shades of George from 26 years back.
Then perhaps the government should be taking notice itself of this https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/osr-statement-regarding-transparency-of-data-related-to-covid-19/
And this "The prediction of up to 4,000 deaths a day is the kind of thing that brings government communications into disrepute. No country has hit such a rate. 4,000 deaths per day is three times higher than peak death tolls in India whose lockdown policies have collapsed and which has a population 20 times the size of ours. According to the July document from SAGE leaked to The Spectator, SAGE is working on a case fatality rate of 0.7%. So 4,000 deaths per day equates to about 4 million new cases per week. These are Noddyland numbers. They are designed to frighten, not to inform."
It is worth remembering that the SAGE minutes recorded back in March that their opinion was that the government messages need to convey a greater level of threat to the general public so they fear for their own safety.
In this they appear to have been very successful !
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It's my assertion that such as 'could' and 'may' are very far from 'false information ' .
However, the suggestion that Trump could be included with 'the greatest amongst us' most cetainly is .
(IMHO of course )
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1 minute ago, grendel said:
did you check on the government checklist whether you are allowed to say that? :-)
That lookas like a 'spoof' site in itself
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4 minutes ago, Ray said:
Speculation is not misinformation, it is by definition speculative and not presented as fact.
What next? The Thought Police!
Thank you. Pehaps I am not as much of a Pollyanna as most here ( and not just on this topic. )
Be prepared is my stance.
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2 minutes ago, psychicsurveyor said:
You haven't criticised the furlough scheme extension, just used it as a means to suggest that lockdown will go on and on and on.
An unfounded suggestion.
We shall have to see, won't we?
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12 minutes ago, psychicsurveyor said:
What a strange conclusion to reach. The effects on the economy will extend past the 2nd December and any support for businesses until March can only be a good thing for employees.
Can you point out where I have criticised any extension of the furlough scheme? I was unaware that I had,either actually or by inference.
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24 minutes ago, Meantime said:
I think you will find that relates to furlough, not the lockdown. The previous lockdown was eased in June with hospitality reopening at the start of July, but the previous furlough scheme wasn't due to come to an end until the end of October.
There will be many people already depressed at the thought of lockdown, let's not depress them any further unduly.
Of course it does ! My point is that he wouldn't be extending the furlough scheme unless there were plans afoot to extend lockdown.
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Looks like the Lock down wil go on .. and on.. and on...
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There are many things that are 'crass and stupid' .
For example. Our 'local' started take away fish and chips in the last lock down. It's still doing so, We ring up and order for a particular time, go along and collect them.
If I want a beer too, I may not enter the premises according to the regulations, I can order that by 'phone ,announce my arrival and have it passed to me through the window of my car ! https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2020/11/03/What-are-the-rules-on-takeaway-drinks-from-pubs?utm_source=copyright&utm_medium=OnSite&utm_campaign=copyright
We are ruled by b***dy idiots !
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"However, at this moment in time it is Natural England’s view that any fishing outside of the permitted area could cause disturbance to the waterfowl."
The would have to prove it. I would suggest that willful obstruction of fish breeding (bream) is much more of an issue !
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1 hour ago, chameleon said:
fat chance of that
GOOD !
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The Unknown Warrior
in The Broadscot Lounge
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I'd like to know what those sources are. This paper claims veryc onsiderably less rates than that.
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/discover/2020/06/coronavirus-risk-for-older-people-updated/
"Age 90 and over, it’s 18 people in every 1,000 people." That's 1.8% .