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Inspire you

Inspire you

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I like many can't go another year of patchy work.

Either live with or go somewhere else & get out of my way in order to be able to work & pay the bills.

Eat healthily, get regular sunshine & exercise. Another renegade Rat-Lord from the Master pond of scum.

11-Jan-2021 12:32:37

Megycal
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Megycal

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I heard tonight that someone we know has covid and is self isolating. She works as a doctor and lives on her own ( with her dog ) just round the corner from us. I hope she won't be very ill and will recover soon.

11-Jan-2021 21:27:38

Barry195

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FiFi LaFeles said :
@ Barry

Yes, I entirely get that NZ is less of a 'hub' than the UK and with a very much smaller population - however, until very recently people were, and had been for a long time, coming into the country as visitors, on business, returning from foreign holidays etc. with no requirement of proof of health not even the most rudimentary 'temperature checks' at airports etc.

Just told to go home and self-isolate. Yeah great idea.

Even now, with a new strain absolutely ripping through our population we are still not insisting that persons without proof of health are contained for an incubation period. Bonkers.

Yeah, I don't understand how the government is being so incompetent about this. Its interesting to see the difference in how the government handles the virus in a place like Israel, which has now vaccinated up to a million people and I believe is about to get another million people done shortly when more vaccines arrive. Meanwhile most of the countries, like the U.S and U.K, just can't seem to get their act together.

On a side note, I am lucky I did not take a part-time job during the holiday break that I was interested in as I learned last night that an employee came down with Covid. So, I would have possible caught it and brought it back to my family if I went through with it.

11-Jan-2021 23:41:27

Dong U Dead

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England is an isolated country too, just like New Zealand. England does have a huge population unlike New Zealand. New Zealand's largest city has over 1.6 million people, New Zealand's capital has just over 200k <- when Covid hit our shores last year, we worked hard as a nation, we didn't pull out of lockdown too early, we were actually in lockdown way longer than what was needed <- this is how we beat it, how we got on top of it. We all worked together as a nation, we all did what was asked of us, minus a handful of people here and there who broke the rules; the rule breakers were spoken to by the police, fined and even one or more went to jail I believe. I feel all countries could achieve this.
If fat means flavour then I'm ******* delicious!

12-Jan-2021 05:07:01

Megycal
Sep Member 2005

Megycal

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Two million people have had the vaccine in England. This is a link to a video on the BBC news website
Edit to add: I can't get the link to work so just copied and pasted it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-55619562

12-Jan-2021 11:24:02 - Last edited on 12-Jan-2021 11:25:19 by Megycal

2_Tron

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Dong U Dead said :
England is an isolated country too, just like New Zealand. England does have a huge population unlike New Zealand. New Zealand's largest city has over 1.6 million people, New Zealand's capital has just over 200k <- when Covid hit our shores last year, we worked hard as a nation, we didn't pull out of lockdown too early, we were actually in lockdown way longer than what was needed <- this is how we beat it, how we got on top of it. We all worked together as a nation, we all did what was asked of us, minus a handful of people here and there who broke the rules; the rule breakers were spoken to by the police, fined and even one or more went to jail I believe. I feel all countries could achieve this. LOL, ... what an utter bullshit. Every day, 20 planes land in Amsterdam, all from the UK. You do the math. :P :P

12-Jan-2021 11:58:33

ToP BaSS

ToP BaSS

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Dong U Dead said :
England is an isolated country too, just like New Zealand.

Errrm, not quite.
What is nearest country of any size to New Zealand - UK's is about 21 miles.

There are many millions of tons of goods transported into and out of UK annually.

In fact, the Strait of Dover has special mention in the Guinness World Records, which states, “The Dover Strait is the world’s busiest shipping lane. 500-600 ships a day pass through the narrow strait between the UK and France. Cargoes include oil from the Middle-East to European ports, and various commodities from North and South America to European customers. In 1999, 1.4 billion tonnes gross, carried by 62,500 vessels passed through the Dover Strait. ”

12-Jan-2021 12:22:31 - Last edited on 12-Jan-2021 12:27:21 by ToP BaSS

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