Barry the Badger

You have to email them to transfer and the deadline is today. Frustratingly it says on the website that if anything isn't 100% correct they just wont do it rather than query, which means you have no way of knowing whether they've just not got to you yet, or you got something wrong and they aren't going to do it.

Sorry it went on Monday.

It is at the moment yep! Let me know if you want it.

I've got a spare on its own in the chapel. Block 18 Row X. Face value if anybody wants it £40. Just have to arrange the transfer with the club so you'll need an account which meets the criteria (purchase history)

I think my mate and I might've both bought tickets from the exchange, just waiting to confirm with him. Am I right in thinking you can't return them to the exchange but I could sell (at face value) on here and transfer to somebody legitimately on the app?

They can test positive because all NHS staff are being tested at least twice weekly pro-actively.

Fair enough, that’s what I was missing then!

Ah thanks, that makes sense but pretty useless on their part (not that I’m surprised) to get it so wrong and give completely the wrong impression.

I see the media are leading with the headlines of hospital numbers being their highest since March. It's an attention grabbing headline but the numbers have barely risen over the past 2 weeks despite the panic predictions. Also as far as I can see, this is innacurate https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-number-of-people-in-hospital-with-coronavirus-in-england-hits-highest-level-since-march-12504769 " The number stood at 8,474 as of 8am on Monday, according to NHS England. This is up 27% from a week earlier and is the highest number since 5 March, when the country was under tough lockdown restrictions." https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare According to the 'patients in hospital' graph here though, it looks to me that it's only the highest since 16th November. Also last Monday the figure was 7825, so 8474 is about an 8% rise not a 27% rise. Am I missing something here?

For once I actually think he's doing the right thing. It would've been wrong to introduce a lockdown based on worst case scenarios, given that we know how hard lockdown impacts people, mental health and businesses (probably even more so at Christmas). Seems like a genuinely sensible approach to keep a close eye on the stats and wait and see this time, then react quickly if it does actually seem like hospitalisations are increasing (the national stats show no signs of this yet).

Once again they fail to report on how many tests gave that result, making it impossible to know whether the prevalence seems to be going up or down. # of cases is a somewhat useless stat on it's own, so it annoys me that everybody continues to cling to it.

Sorry to break it to you mate but we never will

Well, positive tests are up certainly, whether that actually means there's more covid out there is debatable. 16th November - Tests taken 807,598, positive tests 45,444 (5.6% of tests positive) 16th December - Tests taken 1,598,910, positive tests 76,329 (4.7% of tests positive) Cases in the UK | Coronavirus in the UK (data.gov.uk) You could argue that more people are taking tests because there are more people with symptoms, but equally it could be people taking tests ahead of travelling for christmas, or driven by the fear over omicron. I'm not convinced that the cases hitting record highs is a sign of there being more covid out there, just of people panicking and taking tests (or at least that's a major factor)

Feels like sage are losing the plot to be honest. Seems as though they're so worried about it turning out they should've recommended a lock down but didn't, they now go into panic mode every time anything happens and making ridiculous worst case predictions. Remember in early/mid October they were crapping themselves about rising cases and throwing around scary numbers? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/22/act-early-on-rising-uk-covid-cases-rise-or-face-harsher-measures-experts-warn What happened then? People in hospital went up from about 7000 to about 9000, hardly worth the panic was it!

I am no fan of VAR but they have to draw a line somewhere so that doesn’t sound like lunacy to me