serious gaylord posted:

I got my areas mixed up, its Upton not Hamworthy but its still the same thing.

Also its just stupid isn't it. All those people that work in those stores will be travelling into tier 4 to do their work, but they cant shop there. Stupid system.

CyberPingu posted:

My boss' house is in a tier 2 area (before everywhere became tier 4). But again, it's on a region boundary so technically if goes to the end of the road he's in a tier 4.

kyojin posted:

Raids on differently tiered areas presumably count as buccaneering?

ronya posted:

the Tories hung themselves on the hope of Test and Trace to resolve the risks they were taking - if anything they were too optimistic on the potential to identify a light-touch solution

and the rhetoric always exposed a kind of unreal regard for it as a panacea - let's say it does work in its optimal scenario, i.e., before mass community transmission, when a new single cluster is identified. And then what? Who hauls all the contacts to isolation for fourteen days?

never mind China, is one even just prepared to be the totalitarian dystopia that is Australia? And if not, why not?

ronya posted:

the Tories hung themselves

crispix posted:

Are they seriously going to gently caress with the vaccine dosing

Mebh posted:

Yep. It's insane. loving insane.

Mebh posted:

Yep. It's insane. loving insane.

Ewan posted:

Are there other pages in between?

crispix posted:

Les Dennis for Labour leader imo

OUR SURVEY SAYS

*ping*

hehehehehehehhhhehe

REMEMBUUR t'ninetehs??!? eh??? d'ya remembuur?

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

I wonder if the dire news from the hospitals will spook people into doing what nobody in the public sphere has even attempted to encourage them to do.

hemale in pain posted:

id suck a dick a day instead of paying rent

but i like sucking dick

crispix posted:

what if it's attached to one of the mutants pictured :/

and/or is a really quite bad and gross willy

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Shout-out to no-one in government or media doing anything to stop "children don't get covid symptoms" being interpreted as "children don't get covid" or even attempting to encourage children to wear masks. I have seen a couple of kids wearing masks around here, but otherwise not one child at the nearby school or around the neighborhood, even up to college/sixth form age has been wearing one, nor their parents, nor when they get on public transport. They seem to literally believe that they are completely exempt. I wonder if the dire news from the hospitals will spook people into doing what nobody in the public sphere has even attempted to encourage them to do.

Jose posted:

Admittedly it's on twitter but a Labour minister in actually doing something shocker

https://twitter.com/peterkyle/status/1345286875611869184?s=19

Jose posted:

Admittedly it's on twitter but a Labour minister in actually doing something shocker

https://twitter.com/peterkyle/status/1345286875611869184?s=19

stev posted:

Does linking to the Mail constitute 'doing something' now?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/government-faces-major-revolt-on-schools-reopening-in-england-over-covid-fears posted:

The National Education Union (NEU), which represents the majority of teachers and more than 450,000 school staff in the UK, will inform its members that it is not safe for them to return to school until mid-January at the earliest.

It expects most of its members will follow its advice, forcing most schools to switch to online learning for the majority of their pupils.

domhal posted:

quote:

It was only as lockdown was eased that compliance began to decrease. Partly, people felt the situation was safer. But other factors contributed too. For many, the new rules were simply too complex to understand. While during lockdown 90% of adults in the UK reported feeling they understood the rules, by August this figure was just 45% in England. Conflicting rules across UK nations, frequent changes to rules, and confusion about dates of announcement (as opposed to dates of implementation) exacerbated the situation.

But the message from the government about adherence also changed after the revelations about the actions of Dominic Cummings, which were followed by a decrease in compliance. Returning to a single event might seem like bearing a grudge, but it was pivotal for many reasons. During lockdown the message on compliance was clear: social restrictions were vital to stop the spread of the virus, so everyone had to play their part; no excuses, no exemptions. But Cummings changed the tone: if you could find a loophole in the rules, it somehow became acceptable (and defensible) to break them. The enemy changed from being the virus itself to being the measures designed to curb the virus.

This shift in tone did not go unnoticed, as our research at UCL showed. The same sacrifices people had willingly made in the spring as part of a collective social responsibility suddenly seemed less necessary. Goodwill turned to anger and upset, largely targeted towards the government that defended Cummings’ actions. Trust in the government to handle the pandemic took a sharp downward turn in England, from which it has not recovered since. Trust is crucial, as research has shown that it is one of the largest behavioural predictors of compliance during this pandemic: larger than mental health, belief in the health service or numerous other factors. As humans, we need to trust our authorities if we are to follow what they tell us to do.

Mebh posted:

Whoops hosed up the links. Fixed now!

I don't even know how to process it. It's like. Even though I knew they'd gently caress it up, I didn't think they'd gently caress it up THIS badly.

Every time we think we've hit the bottom...

Convex posted:

Also I agree with the sentiment of this:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/02/follow-covid-restrictions-break-rules-compliance

Jose posted:

The twitter thread calls for specific action

Ewan posted:

Decent article.

I'd be all for a complete refresh and simplification of the rules. The tiers are a shitshow. They simply do not work when they change every 3 days and when they are based on arbitrary council boundaries that give rise to issues such as someone posted here where one side of the road is a different tier than the other. And it does not help that there is a very vague and inconsistent mixture of law vs guidance.

Just put in a March/April-style national lockdown, with simple clear (and strict, enforced) rules, for a 4 week time period with a set review after, say, 3 weeks. At that review tell people a) lockdown will end as planned with some less strict, but national restrictions/guidance or b) it will be extended for a further set time period with another set review date. And as far as possible, this approach should be coordinated w/ the devolveds.