Honey Honey

Apparently the only difference between this vaccine and others in development is they haven't bothered with full testing and seemingly they're not going to bother.

Were you furloughed for a period of 3 of more weeks at any point before June 30th? If yes you should be eligible for partial furlough, 80% pay of the missed hours. Your employer needs to submit the paperwork for this. If you normally work mon-wed, but instead now work mon-tue, you'd be furloughed on Wed. So 80% of Wed pay will come from furlough scheme. You'd get 100% od mon-tue pay.

Could be touching the doors in and out of the building. I feel a high risk taker everytime I open the door to get to the milk in the fridges at Lidl

If it was just about a shop that's closing down for good then why don't they say that instead of saying this is so we can sign Willian like they did in their statement?

Basically the £2m in savings to the wage bill will go straight to the agent of 32 year old Willian.

Anyone in the North West privy to any local analysis on why it has had the worst COVID figures in the country? More deaths than any other region. Worst ratios. Haven't been able to get daily cases below 100-150 when London has been at around 50 for 2 months. Walked straight into a 2nd wave. If we just go by national TV interviews of locals you'd assume it's because few in the Greater Manchester area can think for themselves. What's the real reason?

Local lockdowns didn't work months ago because testing wasn't readily available. They failed in both China and Italy. I also know someone who went to Spain at the time it was blowing up in Madrid and said it's fine the cases aren't where he's going. He caught COVID. Local lockdowns were one of the biggest failures of the early pandemic days. Your city might not have had many cases precisely because of lockdown.

Harrogate lead 2-0

We used to have two Liverpool fans from Harrogate. Italian lads. Going back years now.

Paul Scholes apparently breaking the rules this weekend throwing a massive party. Does he live on your street @DeadLinesman

Did you eat it?

Da youth are being blamed by the WHO. The virus starts with 20-24 year having unprotected handshakes. The risk is under 44 tend to be asymptomatic so probably arent getting tested. If there is a spike in cases many more are likely to be infected.

Dunno about big outbreak but it's going to be interesting in October when cold and flu season is back. The amount of tests required will be massive. What will everyone do the moment they get the first symptom? Immediately isolate whole household and get tested? Unlikely.

The first few months were spent debating whether masks work or not. Evidence was mixed. Studies since have found it to be effective for Coronavirus. The World Health Organisation only last month changed its guidance to say everyone should be wearing masks rather than their original stance of everyone infected should wear a mask. A part of the shift to masks is because you can have it and spread it and not know. Despite mass protests, big beach crowds and Liverpool title celebrations there was no spike in cases. You can say that's luck and chance falling kindly or that the virus doesn't spread well outdoors, or both. What we do know is the virus is spreading in enclosed places of poor hygiene and conditions. Slaughterhouses, factories, farm housing. Generally the population, myself included, are becoming less and less risk averse as time goes on.

Think I saw somewhere face masks reduce your chance of infection by 30% and your chance of infecting someone else by 80% Not sure what that would be for a piece of cloth but if it's even just a quarter of that statistically it will be worth it.

You wont even need a face mask just a face covering. Which means you can put your t-shirt or scarf over your nose and mouth. Guess it's the same as Rando said about another rule a month or two back, it's delayed to give the police time to get ready for enforcement. Maybe shop staff and security as well. They need time to determine approach when someone is breaking the rules.

Masks are mandatory on public transport at the minute, yet there seems to be men who don't think it applies to them. Why is it always men? Granted some are exempt from mask wearing for medical type reasons but surely the numbers I'm seeing not wearing one aren't all medical reasons.

Domestic standards aren't being dropped. Subsidies will be structured with the aim of encouraging more farms to be organic, environmentally conscious and adopt higher animal welfare standards in order to receive more government funds. The part causing rebellion from the countryside is that the UK's standards aren't protected in the bill. Meaning importing lower standard products could be on the table in any trade negotiations. Which is clearly about the US. It risks a two tier market where UK products are undercut in price by those not held to the same standards. Tories seem to be banking on their "consumer choice" philosophy in which they think you simply won't buy the worst standard goods. I've been trying to get meat eaters I know to at least only buy organic and highest stsndards on offer for a couple of years and they are ooh yeah I should at first and then never really follow through for long. Love for a bargain is strong.

Using a sample of 61k it is estimated that only 5% of Spain have COVID antibodies.

Is it bad that I'm looking forward to your rants if not locking down Merthyr Tydfil backfires

Poor factory conditions being blamed on Leicester's spike in cases

Imperial College expect our 2nd wave to be October to December. Not to ruin your holiday hopes

Lleida in Spain now back in lockdown.

Looks like more than Leicester should be in lockdown. @DeadLinesman 's street a hotbed for the virus

I'm sure your home games can be played at the City Ground instead.