immortalpuppet

I am guessing most people got infected on Friday as did I and a lot of work colleagues. Thankfully mild and nothing more than a sweaty sleep and bit of a bark. Most of my coworkers work outdoors and in pairs and those that have it are taking precautions. Those wearing masks have reported being heckled quite a bit which hasn’t been seen since the start of the pandemic. Symptoms have all but gone for most of us which is why I am assuming it was Friday when collectively we likely picked it up.

It’s fairly subjective, moving from London back to IOM is very different from moving back from somewhere like rural Wales. Low crime rate, great sense of community, rich history and always things to do if you look. That’s what brought me back years ago.

Liz gives them City status and all of a sudden one of the bellends wants a republic! Good luck with that one.

I have the TT+ thing as part of an IPTV package, the quality is spot on as you would expect. Whilst the footage from around the course is good, I was expecting more footage due to the number of camera stands and Bluewave FWA dishes dotted around the place. Maybe more for race week? it’s interesting comparing the bray hill pavement footage from a few years ago to this year, night and day!

James bay was a great gig, plenty of people but not rammed, conservative estimate around 2500/3000. There was a lot on last night (Thursday) and crowds in bushy’s, along the prom, up at trackside aswell as out of town.

I looked at going to see the killers early June and the tickets were £105. I think the pricing for TT week is good especially as it will be (in relative terms) a smallish stage/gig. Sitting on the prom just won’t have the same atmosphere or energy as being in front of the stage. I hope it’s a massive success and opens the door to a more permanent venue or at the very least a high calibre of acts for future TT’s

Not the first time Dr drama would have been wrong in her opinion. As others have said, I had family who were really ill at the back end of 2019 after they had not long traveled back from Europe and have not managed to pick up Covid or test positive for it anyway.

Thus not taking sick days and on paper having a much better record from a HR point of view or for those self employed & customer facing - lost revenue

It’s been the topic of discussion at work for a while as the landscape has changed a little for those who are customer facing. usually, a bit of a cough wouldn’t mean someone calls in sick, they would lash some cough medication in them and crack on. Now there is a worry that if they come into work, they might have covid and spread it around not to mention from a customers point of view they maybe worried that they will be infected by a staff member with a cough. Sickness days are expected to rise as a result for those of us that can’t work from home is the bottom line.

Yeah because that happens every day.

I often wonder why more advertising wasn’t a thing for the horse trams. Sponsor a tram for a season, lots of publicity, more so than a digital sign above everyone’s eyeline in the street. I don’t understand the purpose of a modern carnival, there are bits through the year with parades showing off dancers, motorbikes, tractors. I understand pride to be fair, a celebration and big turn out to get out there as a community.

Time is ticking on and no sign of a decent size bin for recycling if that’s the strategy DBC wants people to get on board with. If the cost of supplying a 2nd bin for recycling exceeds £25k someone needs binning off the panel

I don’t think it’s covered in the report but how was this cretin allowed to remove his vehicles from the pound and the same ones be pulled for not having tax? I am assuming they left the pound untaxed by the report. If they were taxed for a year and they lapsed again, still a dickhead but at least they left the pound taxed. If they are not taxed, they are likely uninsured aswell. Lash some breadcrumbs and seeds on the roof/bonnets and let the shitehawks cause havoc with the paintwork.

Like a hippo’s yawn

Isn’t this the one that’s up for £30,000,000 ETA - it’s not, that one is Arragon Mooar

Shit Craig David song.

Makes sense to me, there will be a period after all restrictions are lifted and the world isn’t back to normal where things might change at a very rapid pace. Having information to hand to put fast mitigations in place seems quite normal.

We are in the habit, that’s the point. Recycling isn’t new, a bin instead of a box will help but there is still 2 weeks of rubbish to fit into a bin on top of our normal recycling.

Don’t understand “it’s the same amount of collections, just split between rubbish and recycling” either. We have had kerbside recycling for years, that’s a box or 2 every fortnight. Weekly rubbish is a full bin that’s going to still be full but an additional week of non recycling rubbish.

Can’t say I am looking forward to this! Glad to hear containers for recycling are being looked at after so long. Our estate has a lot of young families and there is rarely space in our bins after a week, most people here have more than one green container for recycling aswell. Bigger bins is a good shout, there was a family of 8 up the road who had a bigger bin so maybe that’s a possibility for people who are going to struggle.

I’m using an iPhone and Gmaps, gives an error that location sharing is not available in this country (IM) help pages are the usual unhelpful wall of text. Tried on WiFi and Mobile network.

Headline data is still available for those that want to manage risk according to what’s being reported. The problem of course is that there is still an under current of people not reporting their results. Having the test volume and working out the positive % seems like a nonsense to me but that’s what the crusty miserable lizards on Twitter seem to want. I believe that we are at the point where we understand on the whole where it’s appropriate to manage risk and put in mitigations (care settings, vulnerable people). I think that will be with us for the foreseeable future and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Did I imagine reading somewhere local that someone was calling to test waste water for a more accurate picture of who has what/surveillance testing?

I was happy with what Alf said about reporting numbers but hadn’t considered that the knock on effect may be people relying on the figures to make informed choices. What’s the compromise? A state of alertness/number trigger like a traffic light system maybe (Red +3000 active cases etc etc)

I have to say I don't really follow the numbers in the UK anymore but there does seem to be a focus on case numbers rather than deaths. More sensationalism in numbers being higher I suspect. Same here to a degree, fixation on case numbers and active cases which I totally get from a point of view of the impact this may have on people isolating or looking after kids who are isolating meaning some places/services are going to struggle in the short term. What we need is a numbers man to make some wild predictions using an incorrect R number so we can all point and wave or use up our daily emoji count.