COVID - general discussion - Temp Locked

Well I'm sure LLM is big enough to speak for himself, but ...

(a) Ah yes, so not the post he quoted then! Yes, may I should have expressed that differently in my reply to JVB. I admit I sometimes get frustrated by some folk's slavish endorsement of how this government has handled the pandemic

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(b) I gave no indication of any correlation, simply stated two well publicised quotes and today's sad death statistics.

Yes it is disgraceful what was provided but tonight I saw what should have been provided against what was and there were a few discrepancies.

They should have got some meat, more tomatoes and a few other items, the original did not have pasta. 

What some people think children eat is beyond me but its not what was provided in that parcel. 

By the way its supposed to be for 5 lunches not 7 meals  if they are to get £15 worth of vouchers a week then a clever Mum/Dad could easily  make some very good 'meals' for that. If there were 2 or 3 children in the household getting £15 each then I think they would be able to provide lunch and dinner quite easily. 

Having worked in various school kitchens when we lived overseas its amazing how much more you can provide as the numbers go up.

The saying 2 can live as cheap as one isn't to far removed from the truth were food is concerned IMO.

In reference to your first paragraph,

When you consider that the UK deaths for today are greater than the combined totals of Germany, Italy France and Spain, you realise that we could hardly do worse.

Spot on EasyT, although I would suggest that many of the deaths reported today and those that will be reported for some days even weeks, to come were baked into the system before the new lockdown began.  Of course the indications from the rise and fall of daily test results is a more immediate measure the progress of the virus.

PS I did not mistake the post.  The sarcasm was in the second paragraph and the "mistake" in the first.  

There are states of emergency being declared around the world just now, Covid is proving a very tough virus to overcome.

Well we in Scotland have been told we are going into further restrictions come the end of the week.

The overall numbers in Scotland are pretty static, while in some regions they are going down (ours is one) the main cities/regions all have high numbers but nothing like parts of England are showing, then again we don't have  densely populated areas apart from Glasgow and Edinburgh. 

Today we learnt of more Covid deaths and outbreaks in local care homes, the homes had all had their first round of vaccinations so a cruel twist of fate. 

Rarely see folk in shops without a mask, quite a few we see are wearing them in the streets and cars. Wasn't always like that though its not that long ago I complained about shoppers not masking up.

Dr John Campbell👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

It just amazes me that covidiots like Martin and O'Leary can hold so much store amongst some of our population!

Not sure who you mean but if it's the one I found on YouTube I found him very irritating .  15 seconds was enough for me! 

Although the UK's figures are terrible, your statement is incorrect, or your maths are not as good as you think.  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

UK 1564

Germany 1201

Italy 507

Spain 195

France 229

Total 2132

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3 day totals

UK 3336.        Others 6355