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Well yes, they are. Literally anyone who enters the country is going to be using our shops, public transport and whatever else. We're trying to get things as close to normal as possible but it needs to be done carefully and with the right priorities. By sacrificing travel to unvaccinated parts of the world, you basically mean all of it, apart from maybe the USA and Israel. Personally, I'd happily wear a mask for ten minutes in B&Q if it meant I could go on holiday again but to each their own. I really can't understand your last sentence, it honestly baffles me. Thanks to our vaccination success, we're opening everything up whilst the rest of Europe is locking down. Boris has literally just said we can open pubs (outdoors) hair salons etc. next week and you're somehow managing to pretend that isn't happening, so you can call it a waste of time.

Because most of the world won’t have been vaccinated within the next year and there are a reasonable number for whom the vaccine won’t be effective anyway. If we want to start allowing travel between countries which are well behind us, we’re going to have to try and limit the spread of infection wherever possible.

Pretty good lesson in how to not look interested in a game, at Molyneux.

Dawkins best described it as the non-random survival of random variations within the gene pool. In other words, Dave being able to run faster than Steve is just random chance; the fact that Dave is more likely to evade predators is not random.

You do understand that there’s a difference between simply being asked to wear a mask and total worldwide lockdown? I mean, you do understand that going to a shop wearing a mask and not being able to go to a shop are actually two different possibilities?

You guys should Skype each other.

Nothing says, "we’re going to scythe down a ten point deficit," quite like collapsing to defeat against an out of sorts Villa, with no Grealish and nothing to play for.

Switching off. Useless bunch of w*nkers.

Happy Easter Saints fans.

Don’t we normally do that at half time anyway?

Bit harsh on McAdams, guessing he thinks Redmond will be sharper.

I often used to watch him play and think, ‘he couldn’t trap a two tonne bag of Charlie’.

TBH the way you two go on about it, I’d swear you’d been sh*gging each other at some point.

Standard negotiation technique. Whatever City have got planned, they won’t be replacing Aguero with Danny Ings.

And on the third day he arose from his tomb and said unto his disciples, "I want some f**king Mini Eggs you c**t!"

It is now. A couple of weeks before that picture it was an area of rainforest, which was cleared to make room for a mass grave.

You only said China to scare people. You could also expect something like this from South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, NZ or Singapore, where restrictions have been much more stringently enforced and as a result they've had much more freedom in the long run.

I reiterate;

That’s a straw man which nobody of any sense is attempting to argue. The answer is a very precarious balancing act between public health and the capacity of the NHS, with a desire to live life normally and open everything up. The governments current plan of cautious easing seems largely sensible to me. What isn’t sensible are large anti-lockdown protests, which are the one thing most likely to lead to more lockdowns.

I’ve supported all the lockdowns so far, even though I’m under 40 and have no known underlying health problems.

That first sentence may well be true and it would level out at around 70 per day if it was the case; a slight increase on the current rate. The second sentence is complete conjecture, the current lock down came in to force to put the brakes on an outbreak which, at it's peak, was killing 1,800 per day and left hospitals and their staff unable to cope.

Now is different. Now we have 30 million of our eldest and most vulnerable vaccinated we should indeed, slowly and cautiously, be able to edge towards some sense of normality. Unfortunately vaccinations require a certain threshold of the population to be vaccinated to be completely effective and we aren’t quite there yet. Hence caution and not making promises, especially regarding international travel.

No, the virus (before anyone had been vaccinated) created a world where if we didn’t lock down, people would lying dead on the pavements outside hospitals, unable to get inside. Even if they did there would scarcely be enough doctors and nurses to brush past one in a corridor, let alone receive any medical treatment. If you think this has all been scare mongering, here’s a photo from Brazil where their nutcase of a leader has tried to crack on as normal. Looks more like something you’d find outside Ypres, not a hot country where the virus supposedly can’t survive anyway.

Sounds like something that would also make your laundry whiter TBF.

What's your point? When a crime is alleged, you're innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof lies with the person making the claim.