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Ok then, but let's look at them in conjunction with the dates quoted in the Times piece : 5 weeks after Jan 24 is Feb 28. Two weeks later, human to human transmission was confirmed.... Surely he had every reason to be, given the WHO hadn't even gone to China by then.... As already quoted above. However, they also did that on 17th July 2019 regarding Ebola but the Times don't seem to be lambasting the Government for not shutting down the country and ordering vast amounts of PPE last summer.... Pretty good really as this is part of the 'pandemic planning' for a pandemic that wasn't to be announced until over five weeks later! Nice one Jeremy - I assume in early Febraury, if not late January, Jeremy was on the phone day and night to the WHO giving them the benefit of his insights? Presumably he made sure he got himself a seat on the plane for this : Although, they appear to have missed his name out of the report : https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf?sfvrsn=fce87f4e_2 So, what was the point of that WHO mission to China you ask? Well, good question and one that is answered in the document : SO between 16th and 24th February the WHO were identifying the steps that countries need to take in order to protect themselves, but the Times article seems to think this should have all been sorted a month earlier on the 25th of January! For the record, the graph that they have shown further up the page - which for some reason isn't able to be copied - shows no 'new cases' in the UK until over two weeks later on the 11th of March. Sorry, they might well regret the decision with what? Oh, that's right, HINDSIGHT!!! Odd that this is contrary to the graph they have posted - perhaps it refers to cases of people travelling in to the UK who were already infected? And yet, still NINE days before the WHO declared that there was a pandemic : What I find quite odd is that the same people who were trumpeting the research of the Cambridge scientists which has formed the basis of the Government's response from day 1 are now complaining that the Government didn't do enough because of an article in the Times - which itself refers to the benefit of hindsight! But what about the warnings from Italy I hear you ask??? Nothing came out of Italy until FOUR weeks after that first Cobra meeting : Exactly what warnings from Italy should we have heeded in order to be more prepared in those "lost five weeks from January 24" when not even a single person had died from the virus in Italy until the 22nd of February! Like I said, 20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing!

Seems like the perfect time to re-evaluate your business's strategic priority to ensure it is stronger moving forward, maybe even prioritise which customers you will service once things start to return to normal.

The same WHO who said we shouldn't stop air travel, that one?

Another spin on it.... Now that most businesses are closed down, isn't it the perfect time for a 'reset' and reallignment of strategies so when they do re-open they will know what they need to achieve?

Do you say this because you genuinely believe that all EU countries are going to reach an agreement on a deal or because you hope it will buy time to call the whole thing off?

It can't possibly be a binary deal, Shurlock has already stated that there will be a deal that is 'diametrically opposite' to a 'no deal'. Still waiting for the dinlo to enlighten us as to what that entails but he's gone quiet for now, not sure why....

Shurlock.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52318539 You'd have to be a right proper dinlo to believe Coronavirus was developed as a weapon, not sure we've got anyone quite that stupid on this forum, oh, no, wait.....

Crack on. Way too Freudian for me.

I don't drive to the same workplace every day - I have several that I need to visit - I therefore drive in different areas of Avon and Somerset on different work days. It's not a game of 'risk' with the police, merely an observation that even with the amount of driving that I have had to do, I've not been stopped by the police. It's not that hard to understand, but it seems you had trouble, hopefully this clears it up for you and gives you an insight into my fascinating life.

Nah, not worth it, you've not grasped basic ice cream sales yet, that stuff will be way beyond you. Unbelievable.

Ah yes, your completely irrelevant quote about people driving for no good reason where you quoted mine that stated I drive for work every day. There was no 'misrepresentation', I put a number of question marks so you could explain but you chose not to....

My counting isn't great, but is that a classed as a gathering of more than two people - the burning question, should they be fined for disobeying the legislation?

I see irony is lost on the hard of thinking! And talking of sharpest tools in the box, why on earth would an ice cream man be out and about during the 'work day', doesn't it make more commercial sense for an ice cream man to be plying his trade when people aren't at work and more likely to buy his wares? Tune in next week folks as we'll be explaining the supremely tricky commerce concept of 'buy one get one free' to tamesaint the dullard!

Oh, I see, your hilarious joke is that I'm an ice cream man. You should be on stage.

Evidence?

Really? Surely they attract more than two people - thus breaking the legislation that restricts gatherings of two or more. Unbelievable!

????? There was a clue in there - 'work day' - I'll let you get there slowly.

I drive every work day - barely been looked at by Avon and Somerset Constabularly, let alone stopped by them...

Ooooppppssss, damn those internal police memos With the motorways empty like they currently are, that is theoretically in the region of 60 miles from home. So is that the 'acceptable' distance before the fines are dished out?

Commute is actually enjoyable - for those that still have to do it. Fuel is getting cheaper. Mrs has done all the ironing

Unless you're 50+ at which point you have statistically ever increasing chances of not surviving....

To be fair, that was the question I was asking. The argument seems to have been that 200 miles is unacceptable but 'local' is no problem at all - I'm just after a definition of 'local' which appears to be about 48 miles!

According to turkish, just one line like 'thou shalt not kill' is meaningless..... Besides, doesn't that relate to 'mankind' rather than god himself to whom the rules don't apply - as MLG has been pointing out for days now....