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If the vaccine is only effective for 3 months, then won`t there become a time when those vaccinated will become vulnerable again, to those who have been recently vaccinated ?

5 minutes ago, Max Power said:

No LB, the insurance company will have accrued for potential claims arising from that incident. They have some complex formulas for working these things out. It is quite rare luckily, that there are unusual claims such as this. Injuries and deaths of competitors do not attract massive payouts from the event insurance.  

I think courts are tending to take a view that you must take reasonable precautions for your own safety just lately? 

"Reasonable precausions your own safety", how does that realate to travelling down bray hill at 180 mph, does that mean you need to go slower, or is that ment for the "spectator" to take precautions for own safety ?

17 hours ago, Happier diner said:

Especially if they are on a big pension

So who is actually responsible for the end bill ?

Just now, Max Power said:

The increase relating to that incident will have been imposed over the following years. It will have no effect on the current and future insurance position.  

But will it not increase the current / future insurance premium ?

On 2/15/2021 at 8:27 AM, Zarley said:

For what it's worth...

I know three marshals. One comes over every year for the FoM (race week only), and the other two are a married couple who come over for both, for the whole fortnight in both instances.

The fella who comes for the FoM loves the island and is very dedicated to marshalling. He and his wife would like to move here eventually and even got married on the summit of Snaefell a few years ago.

He'd like to see marshals being granted free travel as encouragement to come over. 

The couple started out only doing the FoM, but in recent years have come over for both. They also do some marshalling at meets across and he does some racing himself as well (not here though).

They would like to see both travel and accommodation part subsidised, but not paid for entirely. Their thinking is perhaps 50% towards travel and £10-£20 towards accommodation per night. I don't think that's unreasonable.

They'd be happy with any help to defray the cost but don't expect a free ride. They figure it's what they choose to use their holiday entitlements for, but would like to be shown some appreciation for what they do. I don't blame them.

They have also been thinking of moving over and they are both in jobs that are in demand here. They were actively pursuing a move when the pandemic hit, but that's on hold for now. 

 

Im sure the insurance payout by Auto Cycle Union Ltd, from the incident at the bottom of bray hill, ( which is still ongoing ), http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=55894&headline=TT crash victims claim damages&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2020 which has resulted in ( *currently only one claim so far ) will have massive increase in the insurance premium, so may well make the running of the TT un-economical / un realistic in financial terms/

On 2/11/2021 at 7:11 PM, joebean said:

In my opinion the MGP/Classic TT will not go ahead for all the reasons already stated in this thread with the addition that the TT Course has not been set up for the TT. The August event usually rides on the shoulders of the TT as the course safety equipment is already set out. Any visitors attending the August event are a bonus given that the costs of course set-up have already been incurred. The costs of doing this are hardly justified by the comparatively smaller numbers of visitors attending in August. 2021 is a write-off for road racing. Effort needs to be concentrated on making 2022 viable.

Will the prom be finished for 2022 ?

On 2/16/2021 at 6:24 PM, TheTeapot said:

I saw a photo from the MR thing - Gawne, Brown, PK, Josem, Scales - was that it or were there more? Any women? Or even life? Cos that's a pretty awful line up (no offence to Jayman)

Does Josem have a Australian accent ?

On 2/15/2021 at 8:33 PM, Anyone said:

Well I half agree , Paul makes it all about the music and I guess as you suggest stays in the background but in my view a good way. Agree on Espay , Kermode etc as some of the other shows ( farming , brass , news and sport are really good and what makes the £800,000 a year worth it ). Sorry , Tiley or whatever his name is just reminds me of Smashy & Nicey , but shoutierl and he does shout his show as we are all deaf.

Is tyley the one who does the betting on the gee gees on a friday morning ?

On 2/14/2021 at 10:01 PM, Anyone said:

Must have been Mr Wint then.

They have some so good presenters , use them better. Names who , I know.

I wish they would bring back the jolly bodies.

11 minutes ago, AcousticallyChallenged said:

Free E-class with every 100 minibuses.

Must be getting close to the Free E Class then!

8 minutes ago, Non-Believer said:

Historically, Snake Oil salesmen have an outstanding record in their dealings with our leaders....

Not to mention the Space Shuttle at Jurby, Were we not going to be the 5th most likely Nation to go into Space ?

On 1/8/2021 at 3:20 PM, Non-Believer said:

I'm just of the opinion that the story is complete bullshit and warrants further investigation by the authorities. They can start by looking to see what vessels were off the Northern coast of the Island at that date and time, assuming of course that they had the AIS switched on.

Then they can find out what happened to the full rucksack. If it was just clothes and footwear, where are they and the rucksack?

Have you asked that to question to police head quarters Q ?

3 hours ago, AcousticallyChallenged said:

Stay at home, 2m social distancing, no gathering outside of the household.

Outside for exercise once a day, with people from your household.

Avoid crowded areas, and you must wear a face covering.

No weddings or worship. Funerals down to 10 people with face coverings and social distancing

Work from home by Thursday, employers must facilitate.

No non-emergency construction. Manufacturing needs to have social distancing and other measures in place.

Closure of schools and nurseries, with hub schools for vulnerable and essential by the end of the week. School attendance is no longer mandatory.

Hospitality closed from 00:01 Thursday. Takeaway. Non essential shops closed at the end of business tomorrow.

Hardware and garden centres can stay open. Everywhere else bar pharmacies and supermarkets must shut.

 

Where did it all go wrong ?

3 hours ago, jaymann said:

Circuit break lockdown!

Where has this new case come from ?

4 hours ago, the stinking enigma said:

If howie and ashie dont go cap in hand to dr glover now they both need sacking. Time for a bit of genuine leadership

Dr Glover for next PM i say.

4 hours ago, AcousticallyChallenged said:

Ramsey barber who is always rammed is closed with immediate effect. I believe he's related to, possibly the brother of, the owner of Truth.

 

Related to a key worker, or student ?

3 hours ago, Non-Believer said:

For the collection of Roquefort...? 😁

What is Roquefort ?

3 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

Visited chippy, chinese, cafe and a bar all in same day.

That narrows it down to a fatty on the island.

So only around 18,300 suspects left then.

So if you have been to all those venues Albert, is there any chance you can post your pic, so that i know if i have been in contact with you, at any of those venues ?

3 hours ago, Gladys said:

Out of interest, what is the capacity of 1886, less than a party in Jersey?

1886 just seem to have the capacity  to be able attract bad publicity, in the paper every week, with some sort of fight / scuffle/ assult, and now this.

On 12/15/2020 at 6:37 PM, Annoymouse said:

 

Its likely he had a Jerry can with him, that would’ve been enough, nobody would do that journey without doing a little bit of research. The Journey also took 3 hours not 4.5 hours, he left at 8pm and arrived at 1am, well that’s one one article stated, the one above is different no chance it took 4.5 hours.

I do call bullshit on the walk though, there is no way someone has the stamina to ride for 3 hours solid, then walk over an hour over (the climb out of Ramsey being an absolute killer), then meet up with his lass who was none the wiser (surely he’d be a sweaty mess), then go out for the evening, then no doubt making up for some lost time, christ some stamina that fella!

To be fair the girl is at least quite attractive, I’m quite surprised no-one has made a meme about her parents being out and she’s home alone yet.

 

Why would he take a jerry can of fuel with him, if he thought it was only a 40 minute journey ?

On 12/15/2020 at 6:34 PM, The Old Git said:

Don’t know what the weather was like that day, but you can often see Scotland from the Point of Ayre, so he might have just aimed for the island with no need to navigate. 

You could say the same about traveling to the Moon ?

On 12/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, AcousticallyChallenged said:

Didn't he get done? He got a reasonably strict penalty for it didn't he?

Jetski chappy must've entered the island after leaving, otherwise, he'd not be doing his 4 weeks at her majesty's pleasure. But the odds of it being on a jetski in the Irish Sea in winter? They've got to be slim.

You have to wonder if it's being taken at face value for other reasons. The drugs supply over here must be drying up now with all the postal seizures and lack of people coming to and fro. Lots of money to be made by finding other ways in. Maybe he took a similar route.

I think there used to be, in times gone past, a lot of smmugler`s cave on the island, were they used to land illicit goods, Port Grenaugh, i think was one, i am not sure  of how many others there are, were you could sneak in and out without being noticed, and also ( mates hiding you in the sleeper cab / bunk on a removal truck on the Ben ) which is not unusual, or certainly wasen`t in my day.

On 12/15/2020 at 9:49 AM, Roger Mexico said:

Actually they did say in the news release:

Three new cases of COVID-19 have been detected in the Isle of Man. 

All three individuals were already self-isolating having travelled to the Island. Their period of isolation has now been extended by a further 14 days. 

Contact tracing has been completed. 

The number of active cases on the Island is four.

So these cases look to be unconnected with the roofer on the jet ski.

Roofer, looking for work, have Jet Ski, will travel, distance no object.

On 12/15/2020 at 8:19 AM, Lagman said:

Hmmn, we went from one covid case to four over the weekend -

https://covid19.gov.im/general-information/latest-updates/

 - without saying (they often do say) where the three new cases came from.

They might not have anything to do with it but then again, if some of the story is true it could be the guy, the girl and maybe an occupant of the house (perhaps a child?) if he was staying with her.

If she really was unaware he hadn't isolated, that could be her family having to isolate over Christmas now.

I wonder if there is any connection with the "Jet Ski Man", and with the body found on the beach in Ramsey earlier in the week ?

22 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said:

According to an FoI earlier this year:

More than £3.3m has been spent on track renewals on the Manx Electric Railway over the last three years.

Figures released under Freedom of Information show that a further £1.6m is due to be spent this year.

So about £5 million to 'renew' a heritage railway (which of course then stops it being a heritage railway, judging by what came out over the keyworkers and what they did).  From that article this seems to be designed to go on forever at around £1 million a year, though nowhere does it state why this 'renewal', rather than normal maintenance, is needed.

As with practically everything to do with the DoI this seems to be entirely about spending money and giving contracts to the right people.

Just out of interest, what is the income of the MER ?,  i assume the revenue / income / profit, is considerable higher than the costs of track renewals / outgoings / running costs, making it a viable / profitable business ?