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Awesome news for Santa's grottos and carol singers, still not good for the entire hospitality industry! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55123490

Medicine https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2022125

I don't think the CIA are military, which is probably why there hasn't been any reports of an outbreak of civil war in the US military...

Rice - and many more foodstuffs. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/25/food-brands-racist-mascots-sports-teams

Really? Protests in London on Friday 12th and Sat 13th June but they started on the 31st May. Colston's statue was toppled during a protest on 7th June. Lockdown was lifted on 23rd June : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-easing-of-lockdown-restrictions-23-june-2020

You keep telling yourself that

It's not my definition it's the definition of marinedevelopments.blog that I posted the other day. I believe they defined them as UK fishing vessels, but feel free to discover more... https://marinedevelopments.blog.gov.uk/2018/09/27/mmo-fisheries-statistics-2017-eez/

We seem to be forgetting or ignoring the fact that more than 80% of the fish caught by UK fishers are caught in UK waters. That doesn't leave a great deal to be tit-for-tatted about, especially given that most of the remaining 20% will be caught in international / non EU waters...

The industry seems to be reducing by a factor of ten every day 😳 Previously you've stated you've been following this thread, this post suggests you haven't 😉

That's the spirit, jump to conclusions as usual. I've not said it was for 30 years, I said it 'was' enough 'in the 80's'. To be honest, I don't think I've even considered Maradonna for more than about 10 minutes since 1987. Maybe the odd snigger when reading about his fall from grace over the years, hardly the xenophobia you've got a wet, sticky patch in your pants about.

Surely you can't have substance addiction without first having substance abuse? Anyways, he was Argentinian and he cheated in the 80's, that was enough for me to dislike him.

No way!

Money! Without Christmas and the excesses that it brings, most retailers and hospitality venues won't survive a normal year, let alone one with lockdowns. If Boris cancelled Christmas this year he would certainly be condemning many businesses to the scrap heap. At least this way he is giving them a glimmer of hope and some might make enough money to survive. Then there's the added bonus of tax revenue to swell Rishi's coffers a little. No coincidence that the second lockdown happened when it did (they could have waited at least a couple of weeks for most areas as hospitals weren't really under pressure if they had turfed out the 'non-covid' patients), so we are back up and running again just in time for the Christmas madness and shopping glutiny. The hospitality industry is still fucked though as Christmas parties will be a non event this year. They may make enough money with people deciding to 'do it themselves' and ignore the rules...

It is, just not in the public sector and certainly not during a global pandemic. I wonder why the government felt it necessary to legislate against the lengthy procurement process in March? https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/analysis/public-procurement-covid-19-pandemic

Yep, you're right, they should have undertaken a complete a thorough tender process during the global pandemic, it should be just about concluding by now and enabling us to place our first order for rubber gloves

Correct. I guess a lot of people have forgotten that these contracts were given during a global pandemic when every man and his dog were scrabbling around trying to get their hands on PPE etc. I guess these people don't understand the absolute rudimentaries of 'supply and demand' and the effect that has on price. No doubt these are also the same people who were baying for blood back in March, shouting at whoever would listen that the same Government weren't doing enough to source PPE.

Not sure what the issue is with this, apart from the crazy system we have in place that doesn't make any sense... His wife may have been informed by test and trace that she has to isolate as she is a 'contact' of someone who has tested positive, her husband is presumably not a contact of that person so won't have been informed to isolate. Not saying it makes sense, just pointing out that he was potentially not doing anything wrong. My daughter (and the rest of her year) was told to self isolate for two weeks because a kid in her year (that she has never even spoken to in nearly five years of secondary school) tested positive. Mrs WSS and I (and the parents of all the other kids in the year) were not told to isolate.

Well, one man's 'insignificant' is apparently another man's 'fundamentally wrong'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55064019 Don't know what all the fuss is about, after all, the cut is an insignificant 0.2% of the national income

I'd argue, along with marinedevelopments.blog.gov that the overwhelming majority of fish caught by UK fisherman is in UK waters https://marinedevelopments.blog.gov.uk/2018/09/27/mmo-fisheries-statistics-2017-eez/ 80% of the industry doesn't sound like it's 'insignificant' to me...

That Harold was a fantastic doctor as well. All those patients he cured, clouded by a couple of corpses. Can't have it all. RIP.

Hang on a minute, which one is it, do we fish in EU waters or in Norwegian or Icelandic waters?

They don't, the discussions will continue! Just look at MMR where there was a backlash about 10-15 years ago with people refusing to immunise their kids. Hey presto this was followed by measles outbreaks! People are stupid. Isn't it best to start from that assumption and plan for the worst?

Yep. I'll be way down on the list though, so probably between Easter and summer for me. Why wouldn't I take it?

Even assuming that all of those groups are completely seperate from one another and would have their own 'stand alone' circle in a venn diagram, that would still leave 67% of the population that would be vaccinated and immunised. Given that herd immunity is expected to happen when between 60 and 70% of the population have antibodies, that will eventually see the virus 'die out' based on your figures. Not only that, the percentages you've given don't take into account people that have already been infected - some of them will have natural antibodies and will statistically have to sit within the 10% that can't take the vaccine and the additional 10% for whom the vaccine doesn't work as well as the (potential) 20% of anti vaxers. Which would of course increase the 67% of immune people who are vaccinated.....

Looks like good news for this group... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55022288