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Damn those parents wanting their kids to receive an education - especially the parents of Y11 and Y13 kids.

Do you have the answer for how to save everyone?

It's not just the kids' education though is it? For some families one parent may have to stop working to look after their child(ren), there is no financial assistance if they are forced to do this. For some this may mean a stark choice between paying rent / mortgage / bills and eating food. Financial pressure will add stress / anxiety to the family. All of a sudden it doesn't seem quite so selfish for them to be a bit upset about it....

Just asked my daughter if her school will be holding her classes online from Monday - like lots of other schools up and down the country! Apparently they aren't. The reason for this is due to "safe guarding". No further explanation given as presumably everyone in the world will know why that would cause issues at her school but not at all the others! We shall be back to the tried and tested method of the kids being given a little bit of home work on Google classroom and we will only be informed what work (if any) they should have completed, sometime the following week when it will be too late to do anything about...

Good luck - I'd rather risk a limb or two than sit on the turbo! Mind numbing!

When they shut the schools (if indeed they are doing so to protect the teachers), are they saying that the lives of teachers are more important than bin men / women and recycling workers?

You didn't miss much, it was pretty grim out there!!! I waited about 2 hours longer than normal to head out to allow the ice on the roads to melt - still some twitchy moments even staying within a couple of miles of the sea! Got home just as it started raining / sleeting. Forecast is better for tomorrow and shouldn't be icy.

Is this any good if you are completely crocked like me? Back and knees are ruined so I have to rely on cycling for cardio (haven't been able to run more than 20 yards for 20 odd years as the knee pain is horrendous) and 2/3 sessions a week in the gym for strength training.

That's a bit harsh! Four of them are women!

To be fair, lockdown 1 only happened because of London, so at least they're being consistent!!

Just a shame you didn't consider both sides of the story so vigorously during the second trial. But, why would you, you'd already made your mind up.

Only 1 EU flag in that clip. 7 years later and the band wagon has changed massively : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9vKh2UzaXk

Trojan horse

Don't you dare! Nige is English through and through!

Demand for printer cartridges drying up

Staying in tier 3

Money talks, always has, always will. Doubtless there will be plenty of 'profiteering' from it. The only hope is that the companies that are making the vaccines use the additional money they make to fund distribution in poorer countries.

Is it just me or does anyone else think the Nightingale hospitals have been created 'back to front'? The whole purpose of the Nightingales was to increase capacity to treat Covid patients. However, Covid patients require lots of intensive care in hospital - respirators, intensive nursing etc. Simply put we don't have enough trained specialists to staff regular hospitals as well as the Nightingales. Shouldn't they use the Nightingales for the non urgent, non surgical, non Covid patients - the people who cannot be safely discharged but don't actually need a lot of medical intervention? Staffing them to fit the needs of these patients would be an easier task than staffing them with specialists.

If we have the capacity to give 2 million vaccinations per week (no idea if that is possible but would probably take some time to reach in the same way testing took time to increase capacity), we would only 'effectively' be vaccinating 1 million people per week. Six weeks would only see 6 million vaccinations - if the starting point were 2 mil per week - probably not enough to bring the R rate down with no other measures.

Rightly so.

When I heard it during the match yesterday I thought, wtf! It's not like footballers are at any serious risk. Then, thinking about it, why not? They're going to get it eventually anyway, so why not bump them to the front of the queue. However, I would put a caveat on them receiving the jab (out of turn). Firstly, work out the cost of one jab (including transport, storage, personnel involved etc) and charge them 1,000 times the cost per footballer, so effectively each footballer that gets the jab early is paying for 1,000+ (taking into account cost of scale) people to be vaccinated. Don't give a monkeys whether this comes out of their wages, the club pays, sponsors pay or some one else that has more money than sense coughs up, as long as some one does. I think that would be fair.

Looks like China haven't been totally honest with their reporting, who knew https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55481397

Looks like the Russians haven't been totally honest, who knew https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55474028

Anyone know where I can get an update for my Netscape 4.0 that the EU insist we should use as a 'modern' communication tool? Mine hasn't been updated since before the milennium bug was a non issue

Have a word with aintclever, he's the one denying he's even written such cobblers.