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[screwy]

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Are you stealing my FB posts....first the poem now this....

[screwy]

I blame the new mutation on all the migrants.! If Stephen and Gill manned the Kent beaches it wouldn’t have happened...Let’s face it, one wrong word and they would have paddled back sharpish.

I am only joking.

[Stephen]

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Are you stealing my FB posts....first the poem now this....

No. Someone sent them to me and I use them. So sue me

[Onelife]

Some thoughts from a non scientific person.

First a couple of facts.

• The Covid virus has mutated in London/South of England.
• Most Western European countries are seeing a spike in the number of Covid infections.

Could it be that other countries also have a mutation that has not been identified as quickly as the UK one has?

Could the European mutated virus(es) also be contributing to the current spike in the South of England?

I would have thought both are highly possible David. I do wonder if the culling of mink that has taken place in the Netherlands has something to the mutation progress of this virus?

[oldbluefox]

I blame the Southerners. They're a huggy, kissy, mwah-mwah lot down there!!!

[david63]

Oh goody, goody - the police are not going to enforce the rules in London over Christmas

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Police won’t be checking up on people’s Christmas celebrations in London, according to the chairman of the Met Police Federation.

The UK government has introduced strict coronavirus measures in south-east England which means residents will only be allowed to celebrate Christmas with members of their own household and support bubbles.

On Sunday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was the job of the police to enforce the law.

However, Ken Marsh told the BBC News Channel: "It’s not a tough ask for us because it won’t be happening."

He said his colleagues "won’t be knocking on people’s doors at all", unless there is a large group - such as a party - but "there is no way" the force would be dealing with smaller gatherings.

Marsh said it was always the job of the police to "police the law" but it has to be something "we can police, it has to be something we understand, and it has to give us time to digest what is being put in place".

He added that the laws were changing "on a daily, weekly basis making it very, very difficult" and some of them were "not obtainable" in terms of what the police were being asked to do.

That's just given carte blanche to the brain dead idiots to party

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Are you stealing my FB posts....first the poem now this....

No. Someone sent them to me and I use them. So sue me

I'll come down there and Box your ears ...Oh no i wont, your in tier 4 opposed to my tier 2...

[Ray B]

Some thoughts from a non scientific person.

First a couple of facts.

• The Covid virus has mutated in London/South of England.
• Most Western European countries are seeing a spike in the number of Covid infections.

Could it be that other countries also have a mutation that has not been identified as quickly as the UK one has?

Could the European mutated virus(es) also be contributing to the current spike in the South of England?

We have some of the best scientists and researchers in the world working at institutions across the country. The new variant is the first to have its lineage to be recorded and thus the scientists can track its course. An outbreak in a food factory can be traced thru the workers, if the DNA of the virus is the same then one person may have introduced it into the factory.
In another outbreak it may have come in from a different part of the country or indeed brought in from another country.
The thing is, thru genome investigation and sequencing they are able to track the virus back to were it came from and get an idea of what is the course of an outbreak.

[Stephen]

Are you stealing my FB posts....first the poem now this....

No. Someone sent them to me and I use them. So sue me

I'll come down there and Box your ears ...Oh no i wont, your in tier 4 opposed to my tier 2...

F.......off

[screwy]

I’d love to, to a nice sun soaked Island, but the plague ridden south as put the kaibosch on that....thanks..

[barney]

According to Rueters, this new strain started in North Africa and was carried into Spain via migrant workers fruit picking, and from Spain into the U.K. by tourism.
International travel eh?
Who’d have thought it?

[Mervyn and Trish]

Yesterday ministers and supermarkets were assuring us there were plentiful supplies to ride out the 48 hour French closure of the cross channel routes.

Today some bright spark at Sainsburys decided to announce there would be empty shelves. A guarantee to encourage panic buying. If I can't get sprouts or toilet paper tomorrow heads will roll.

[Gill W]

I blame the new mutation on all the migrants.! If Stephen and Gill manned the Kent beaches it wouldn’t have happened...Let’s face it, one wrong word and they would have paddled back sharpish.

I am only joking.

In Kent, it was north Kent that originally saw the most infections, so unless the migrants were ignoring the channel coast and sailing into the Thames Estuary, then down the Medway to Chatham, I don't think this is down to the migrants !

[Stephen]

Yesterday ministers and supermarkets were assuring us there were plentiful supplies to ride out the 48 hour French closure of the cross channel routes.

Today some bright spark at Sainsburys decided to announce there would be empty shelves. A guarantee to encourage panic buying. If I can't get sprouts or toilet paper tomorrow heads will roll.

Have a word with Onelif Merv. I believe he’s set up shop from his garage.

[Gill W]

We have a Sainsbury's delivery between 8 and 9 this evening. The email said everything was in stock, so I am beyond excited that I will get my rocket leaves (I love rocket). The email was timed at 5.45 this morning, so I think all the orders are picked before the store opens

[Whynd1]

Mines coming in the morning. Will await my email.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Ours is due tomorrow. Fingers crossed. Our email usually comes first thing too. There's a lot in the list this week but not much fresh and nothing crucial except sprouts and King Edwards

[Manoverboard]

We have a Tuesday 10-11am delivery and usually a 06:00 am e-mail ... I'll be awake early in the morning

Waitrose on the other hand do their pick just a few hours prior to delivery or collection.
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[screwy]

We have a Sainsbury's delivery between 8 and 9 this evening. The email said everything was in stock, so I am beyond excited that I will get my rocket leaves (I love rocket). The email was timed at 5.45 this morning, so I think all the orders are picked before the store opens

I take it you haven’t been to the supermarket lately.? I do the Tesco run on Wednesday and Saturday about 9 am, you can’t move for all the order pickers and their trolleys.

[screwy]

I blame the new mutation on all the migrants.! If Stephen and Gill manned the Kent beaches it wouldn’t have happened...Let’s face it, one wrong word and they would have paddled back sharpish.

I am only joking.

In Kent, it was north Kent that originally saw the most infections, so unless the migrants were ignoring the channel coast and sailing into the Thames Estuary, then down the Medway to Chatham, I don't think this is down to the migrants !

They don’t all come by boat.! And I did say I was joking.

[Onelife]

Yesterday ministers and supermarkets were assuring us there were plentiful supplies to ride out the 48 hour French closure of the cross channel routes.

Today some bright spark at Sainsburys decided to announce there would be empty shelves. A guarantee to encourage panic buying. If I can't get sprouts or toilet paper tomorrow heads will roll.

Have a word with Onelif Merv. I believe he’s set up shop from his garage.

I could certainly help him out with some sprouts Stephen, I could also help him out with a selection of his and her wrist watches if he’s interested

[Stephen]

I feel sorry for all these truckers either stacked up along the motorway or in the port waiting and waiting for this mess to be sorted out. Not to mention the amount of perishable goods that are going to have to be dumped. Comfy cab or not, it must be horrible.

Covid-19: UK and France aim to restart freight as queues grow https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55405299

[david63]

The stupid thing about all of this is that listening to the news last night the virology experts are of the opinion that most countries in the world have got this mutated Covid virus - it's just that we are suffering because we are better, and quicker, than other countries at detecting it.

I noticed at Boris's press conference last night that selfishness was prevalent in the southern half of the country with questions like "Now the new virus is in other parts of the country should they not be moved into tier four?" - it was not a problem when other parts of the country were in a higher tier than London even though London had a higher infection rate.

And "Now there is a higher infection rate in the south should the vaccination policy be changed to target the south?" - no those who are the most vulnerable live in all parts of the country not just the south.

[Mervyn and Trish]

I agree. The new strain appears to be a factor, though the scientists are still divided on how much, but the pictures from London showed that so was stupidity.

[Onelife]

It was reported on the news this morning that executives at a Birmingham hospital had helped themselves to the vaccine saying they would have gone to waste if they hadn’t used them…I don’t know all the circumstances but I would have thought they could have found more vulnerable recipients in a Hospital?