Weston Super Saint

Ah, yes, that makes sense. That must be the new breed of 'shy, retiring, scared of the limelight, not keen on intimidating anyone, afraid of confrontation' racists that we've heard so much about. Almost like a 'woke' racist. Just like these guys?

It will only have students left to infect by then, so probably some time after noon.

You couldn't possibly have known that with the first post you made on the subject which was a facbook screenshot of a twitter post! One question I have about the letter, presumably the only way you would know that someone living at a certain address is 'johnny foreigner' is because you live locally (next door, same street, round the corner etc). So why would they send a small piece of paper with a badly written sentence (that's another crime in this scenario), put it in a massive envelope, pay for a stamp and then post it in a postbox for the Royal Mail to deliver! Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to when they could have just posted the envelope through the door couldn't they?

How do you know she was born abroad? She may have been born in the UK and just be shit at spelling. You've jumped to a racist conclusion without knowing all the facts. Classy 👍

You can't identify jumpers using colour!

Absolutely! Wish it would make it's mind up though as it told us mid July if we didn't extend the lockdown.

My point was that it is illegal to ride a bike on the pavement (if it isn't a designated shared cycle path). What you've raised is a completely seperate issue. Where I live there are many footpaths / pavements that have had a little blue sign stuck on them to designate that they are a shared cycle path. In the vast majority of cases these have been planted to meet some kind of target and are not fit for purpose for either pedestrians or cyclists. Then the cycle path will suddenly end and either force the cyclist to break the law and ride on the path or move out onto the busy road (usually at an inappropriate place causing traffic problems).

August the 1st for the 3rd wave? Convenient date and one that will coincide with not ending lockdown measures that have recently been delayed until the end of July. I'm assuming there is no tangible evidence for the 1st of August, no credible modelling, just a random date to start the scaremongering all over again.

I'd hope that everyone that rides a bike would know it's more than 'generally accepted' to ride on the pavement, it's against the law - maximum £500 fine!

There were bicycles before cars. Technically cars are driving on cycle paths and horse tracks.

That just leaves the pavements though. We've spent decades trying to re-educate drivers to drive slowly in built up areas and spent billions trying to make cars safer when they inevitably collide with pedestrians. To allow motorised scooters on the pavements with kids would be ludicrous - pointy handlebars and head height! Are the helmets to be compulsory for the scooter riders or pedestrians?

Excellent idea but no way to safely implement. They can't go on the roads as there will be too many fatalities, which leaves the footpaths which are barely fit for purpose for pedestrians, let alone kids hurtling around without any common sense at 15 - 20mph. Would need a major infrastructure upgrade across the country, but the cost would far outweigh any benefits. Not that anything I've said will make a blind bit of difference - already seeing plenty of them everyday and they are still technically illegal to use in public (unless part of the trial in very limited areas).

Lol The first time aintclever actually climbs off a fence and this happens! His woke meter will have a melt down!

It's why Soggy is now so angry all the time, all the humiliation of his past.

Or playing five a side....

It can take up to four weeks for the vaccines to reach their full effectiveness (90+%). Plus those figures don't indicate how old the people who died were, what was the reason for their death (it just means they tested positive before they died), nor does it factor in 'false positives' (although you would hope they would have double checked with a dead person, but you never know!).

They can have all the treatment they need, right up until someone who has had the vaccine needs it, then they can go and wait in the corridor. It's a moot point anyway as the whole country gets just another couple of weeks to make sure they stay safe.

Heard on the radio this afternoon that the delay is being agreed because there are over 2 million over 50s who haven't had the vaccine. Really? We're delaying so we can protect some selfish cunts that have refused to have the one thing that will protect them!

Just another four weeks then! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57464097

I think the department of health and social care have lost their minds! As per the image below (taken from here), they want us to believe that we are already on course to hit over 40k infections per day by early July (that's my guess of the date as they conveniently don't label the scale after the 21st June!). That would put us on a par, infection wise, with the 2nd of January (a week after the lockdown was introduced!), at a time when barely anyone had received their vaccination. No idea how they've reached this conclusion!

Not sure where you get your figures from but stats were released last week that said 80% of the adult population have antibodies due to vaccine or previous infection. That's before we look at the road map that was released in Feb and didn't take into account the success of the vaccination programme. The road map was also based on one vaccination being circa 60% effective but current studies are showing that one dose is in the region of 80-85% effective. The number of hospitalisations is key. That number is still very low and predominantly made up of people who have been offered a vaccine but not had one. Those people are not going to change their minds in the next five weeks!!

I've previously stated that infections will continue until that point. The point regarding lockdowns was that they were only put in place to protect the NHS from collapsing. We've reached the point where ALL vulnerable people who are likely to overwhelm it are now vaccinated. There could be a million infections a day but if that doesn't result in hospitalisations there is no need for a lockdown...

The giraffe would eat the lemon tart There are NO stupid questions

And after that we'll be told that it won't be safe until everyone has had two jabs, so just a couple more months.

You're conflating two issues. Fundamentally flawed would indicate that there isn't an answer. Whether or not a question 'warrants' an answer is completely subjective and a question you feel may not warrant an answer may be one that everyone else demands to be answered. You've also lost sight of the fact that 'there are no stupid questions'.