Comrade 86 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 8 minutes ago, 1of4 said: Don't be so down, of cause we've learned something during the pandemic. We've learned if you donate to the tory party, you'll be given millions of pounds of taxpayers money in return. Joking aside, I honestly can't help it bud. It's depressing AF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksRam Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 13 hours ago, Bob The Badger said: The wife had to leave her ward to walk over and get her flub jab today. She said there were 20 ambulances in line to drop patients off with Covid and paramedics were having to deal with some. I'm not sure how she knew and she's not home yet to ask, but she's no BSer, she leaves that to me. This hasn't gone away. No, it certainly hasn't. Heard from another mate last night that his son,who is at the same school as my daughter, but different year, has just tested positive. I seem to have a cough this morning (been niggling for a few days though) but taking a LFT this morning, it says I'm negative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob The Badger Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 9 hours ago, 86 Hair Islands said: Ah, but back then it was 'politicising the pandemic' and anyone guilty of this heinous crime was quite rightly derided ? It's a genuine tragedy that it's taken 100 thousand deaths for us all to arrive at at something vaguely akin to a consensus, but in broader terms, nothing has really changed. Climate change is the next hill on which we'll die and in our millions too, because we've learned nothing from this pandemic, nothing at all. We are already dying in our millions because of climate change. Just not here. Yet. Eddie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Git Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 On 12/10/2021 at 13:38, ariotofmyown said: For the next crisis, is it too much to ask that we have people in charge like former CEOs of large companies? Or people who have led major organisations, either public or private? Our once enviable democracy doesn't really seem fit for purpose at the moment. I propose the former CEO's of HBOS and Carillion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthram Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 16 hours ago, Grumpy Git said: I propose the former CEO's of HBOS and Carillion. Haven’t heard much about Fred Goodwin since he was booted out of RBS so he could be available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksRam Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 On 13/10/2021 at 08:02, BucksRam said: No, it certainly hasn't. Heard from another mate last night that his son,who is at the same school as my daughter, but different year, has just tested positive. I seem to have a cough this morning (been niggling for a few days though) but taking a LFT this morning, it says I'm negative. Ok scratch that. Still have a cough. Test done this morning and it's now positive ? As is my wife and other daughter, so we are officially a plague house. Just been and had a drive-in PCR test. Fortunately my wife and I have both been double jabbed so fingers crossed the symptoms we have, which are essentially cough (for me only), a stuffy head, stiff necks and some breathlessness (for my asthmatic wife) are manageable. If this is the worst we get having been jabbed, then I'll take that (remembering how ill we both were in Jan '20 before COVID was a thing, with my wife ending up in hospital). Saddest thing is my wife had a booster jab booked in for Saturday which she'll now need to cancel. Stive Pesley, ariotofmyown and GboroRam 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 2 hours ago, BucksRam said: Ok scratch that. Still have a cough. Test done this morning and it's now positive ? As is my wife and other daughter, so we are officially a plague house. Just been and had a drive-in PCR test. Fortunately my wife and I have both been double jabbed so fingers crossed the symptoms we have, which are essentially cough (for me only), a stuffy head, stiff necks and some breathlessness (for my asthmatic wife) are manageable. If this is the worst we get having been jabbed, then I'll take that (remembering how ill we both were in Jan '20 before COVID was a thing, with my wife ending up in hospital). Saddest thing is my wife had a booster jab booked in for Saturday which she'll now need to cancel. Hope you two buck up soon ? Angry Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksRam Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 5 minutes ago, i-Ram said: Hope you two buck up soon ? Cheers @i-Ram Appreciated ? i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 3 hours ago, BucksRam said: Ok scratch that. Still have a cough. Test done this morning and it's now positive ? As is my wife and other daughter, so we are officially a plague house. Just been and had a drive-in PCR test. Fortunately my wife and I have both been double jabbed so fingers crossed the symptoms we have, which are essentially cough (for me only), a stuffy head, stiff necks and some breathlessness (for my asthmatic wife) are manageable. If this is the worst we get having been jabbed, then I'll take that (remembering how ill we both were in Jan '20 before COVID was a thing, with my wife ending up in hospital). Saddest thing is my wife had a booster jab booked in for Saturday which she'll now need to cancel. Hope you're all feeling better soon mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjam Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Good News story for a change ? Mostyn6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1of4 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 17 minutes ago, maxjam said: Good News story for a change ? Always pleasing to hear good news during these turbulent times. Just hope that his along with all those other new companies are still flourishing this time next year. Or it may have been better if he'd spent his money on training as a HGV driver. I hear companies are prepared to pay drivers up to £70,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archied Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 6 minutes ago, 1of4 said: Always pleasing to hear good news during these turbulent times. Just hope that his along with all those other new companies are still flourishing this time next year. Or it may have been better if he'd spent his money on training as a HGV driver. I hear companies are prepared to pay drivers up to £70,000. Given the training of hgv drivers was halted, the massive backlog in processing licience mainly due to the stay home brigade , I’m not so sure he may have?♂️ Angry Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Ram Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 We’ve got plenty of HGV drivers but they spend most of their day sat doing nothing either waiting to load or unload. It’s taking 6 to 8 hours to get a container off the docks.. And that’s just to pull the bloody thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 59 minutes ago, Angry Ram said: We’ve got plenty of HGV drivers but they spend most of their day sat doing nothing either waiting to load or unload. It’s taking 6 to 8 hours to get a container off the docks.. And that’s just to pull the bloody thing. My wife's firm has £120k of lockers awaiting unloading, already months late. Moored up outside the port, awaiting a slot to dock and unload, and have been for weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Ram Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 3 minutes ago, Rev said: My wife's firm has £120k of lockers awaiting unloading, already months late. Moored up outside the port, awaiting a slot to dock and unload, and have been for weeks. Nothing is more poorly run than a British port.. Felixstowe is so out of date. Rev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1of4 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 2 hours ago, Angry Ram said: Nothing is more poorly run than a British port.. Felixstowe is so out of date. So it's not lack of drivers, that's holding up the supply chains. It's the ports being unable to process the shipping containers from ship to lorry quick enough. Is this due to the inability of the cranes, shunting trucks, ect. to move the containers fast enough or is it like with many businesses, down to the amount of paperwork that has to be completed before anything can happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 If we don't make masks mandatory by the end of the month, we will end up with another lockdown by the end of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariotofmyown Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 45 minutes ago, 1of4 said: So it's not lack of drivers, that's holding up the supply chains. It's the ports being unable to process the shipping containers from ship to lorry quick enough. Is this due to the inability of the cranes, shunting trucks, ect. to move the containers fast enough or is it like with many businesses, down to the amount of paperwork that has to be completed before anything can happen? I know the whole B word debate is in the past, but whichever way you voted, the implementation has been dire. The lack of planning is just abysmal. Starting to consider leaving this country, but not sure where too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G STAR RAM Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 55 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said: I know the whole B word debate is in the past, but whichever way you voted, the implementation has been dire. The lack of planning is just abysmal. Starting to consider leaving this country, but not sure where too. I saw on the news last night that America are having exactly the same problems as us, have they left the EU too? I would have thought the pandemic was the more likely link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G STAR RAM Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 1 hour ago, sage said: If we don't make masks mandatory by the end of the month, we will end up with another lockdown by the end of the year. Based on? Didn't we have to lockdown even when masks were mandatory? Archied 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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