(25-03-21, 01:17 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: With more and more talk now of vaccine passports for the pub or footy
I think this is just another bit of rhetoric that will be quietly forgotten about once the headlines have died down.
It will discriminate against people who can't have the vaccine for medical reasons, younger people who simply haven't been offered the vaccine yet, those who (as is their right, even if I think it's stupid) decline the jab, people who don't want to have their names added to another government database...
Non essential shops given the all clear to open for extended hours and councils instructed to not but unnecessary barriers in the way for it to happen.
I never understood the rationale behind the choice to reduce opening hours last year. It just forced more people in the shops in a smaller shopping window.
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
So new council tax bill tipped up yesterday, spotted a £150 COVID relief/hardship entry, reducing the amount I have to pay. Anyone else had this or something like it..?
(27-03-21, 11:31 AM)fazersharp link Wrote: You are by doing the shopping
That's based on the presumption that people are going to rush back out to their high streets, instead of sticking with the more convenient online shopping they've got used to...
(27-03-21, 12:10 PM)Grahamm link Wrote: [quote author=fazersharp link=topic=26604.msg324151#msg324151 date=1616841113]
You are by doing the shopping
That's based on the presumption that people are going to rush back out to their high streets, instead of sticking with the more convenient online shopping they've got used to...
[/quote]But more and more people will be returning to jobs when non essential and indoor hospitality returns so people won't be at home so much to receive deliveries.
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(27-03-21, 03:09 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: But more and more people will be returning to jobs when non essential and indoor hospitality returns so people won't be at home so much to receive deliveries.
Well, yeah, a bunch of them will be forced to work until 10pm in shops probably by bosses who will tell them that they won't get paid any more and, if they say they can't do it, well, there's plenty of other people who are desperate for a job...
Its been 30 hours since my jab and so far i have had zero side effects, apart from it feels like may of stuck a needle in my arm but im not convinced they did.
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(28-03-21, 05:46 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: Over 30 million UK first vaccinations administered now and more than 3.5 million second doses.
What a fantastic success story .
Yes I think I was number 30 million.
I see the EU wanted the UK to export vax to them -or threatened to blockade manufacturers based in EU form sending it to us. So Boris is doing just as he has been told by the EU and is sending 3M doses to the EU -- Ireland :rollin
They don't like it up em :rollin
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What I can't work out is from what I've read there are astrazeneca manufacturers here in the UK as well as in Europe, we are getting vaccines sent in from the Europe plant and the EU are demanding we export some out to them..... so unless I'm missing something, why don't we primarily use the stuff made here and they use the batches made there??
28-03-21, 11:08 PM (This post was last modified: 28-03-21, 11:09 PM by fazersharp.)
(28-03-21, 10:02 PM)Dudeofrude link Wrote: What I can't work out is from what I've read there are astrazeneca manufacturers here in the UK as well as in Europe, we are getting vaccines sent in from the Europe plant and the EU are demanding we export some out to them..... so unless I'm missing something, why don't we primarily use the stuff made here and they use the batches made there??
I don't think the uk plants can make enough so the AZ plants based in the EU have to chip in, we also get some from India.
But yeh doesn't make sense we get say 5 million from EU based factories and in return they want us to send them 5 million.
This being the vaccine that the EU have done their best to discredit and has resulted in a lot of the population refusing to have it anyway.
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Quote: What I can't work out is from what I've read there are astrazeneca manufacturers here in the UK as well as in Europe, we are getting vaccines sent in from the Europe plant and the EU are demanding we export some out to them..... so unless I'm missing something, why don't we primarily use the stuff made here and they use the batches made there??
The majority of UK consumption is sourced from the Netherlands and India. The EU has exported 70 million doses, 20 million doses to the UK. We have exported nothing. No wonder the EU is pissed off. Can you imagine the uproar here if it was the other way round.
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