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 #3440 21 Jul 2020 at 10.59pm | |   |
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Just driven back from the south of France today , a sensible amount of people were wearing face masks probably 60 - 70 % at supermarkets shops etc !
Can't remember seeing any UK cars in the area of the Dordogne that i was in , when usually it's every other car !
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#3439 18 Jul 2020 at 5.12pm | | |
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In reply to Post #3437
@ocelot I was referring to the fudging of the numbers/false recording
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#3438 18 Jul 2020 at 1.54pm | | |
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In reply to Post #3436
You mentioned what was going on mate? Reasons for potential false recording of COVID-19 cases or furlough fraud.
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#3437 18 Jul 2020 at 1.47pm | | |
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I did imagine how smug you must’ve been feeling while hearing and reading this the past few days
It’s obvious really, apart from being a nation of slightly more rotund people there is little reason we should suffer so much more than neighbouring countries.. unless our nhs and care homes failed to shield the vulnerable and made characteristic **** ups with routine care, which no doubt is Boris’ fault
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#3436 18 Jul 2020 at 1.19pm | | |
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In reply to Post #3434
I mentioned I had heard this was going on about 500 posts ago so not surprised at all
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#3435 17 Jul 2020 at 3.57pm | | |
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The furloughing scams are out of order as it is only firms that can actually do it. An employee can't furlough themself.
But I guess no employee is going to blow the whistle are they?
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#3434 17 Jul 2020 at 1.58pm | | |
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Mate those figures and stories will all come out in the wash. We had a knock up amongst our dart team now pubs are open and some of the stories are worrying. Ones a caretaker at a home, he reckons they were putting down "COVID-19 symptoms" on death certificates cause the home got extra funding if they did. Ones an undertaker and he was saying that they were getting that put on the certificate cause it speeded up the burial process. Ones a heavy goods driver, worked all the way through but now on 3 weeks holiday he's accrued, his firm are claiming it back as if he's on furlough. 2 are landscape gardeners and they've worked all the way through but their boss has claimed they were furloughed, same with a kitchen fitter from our B team.
It's an expensive shambles and it's firms at it more than employees.
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#3433 17 Jul 2020 at 1.32pm | | |
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Check with the ONS first if they will be collated into Spain’s CV deaths 😀 apparently the way this country have been catorgorised is wrong, so if you tested positive in April and recovered then in July hit by a bus you are still a CV death because you tested positive at some stage!
I don’t expect a big downgrade in numbers but it needs to be revisited who died with or because of CV Or because they tested positive at some stage 🤷🏼♂️
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#3432 17 Jul 2020 at 11.06am | | |
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100,000 mink at a farm in Spain to be culled after farm workers test positive for COVID-19. The majority of the mink tested positive also.
Who's infecting who? 
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#3431 16 Jul 2020 at 12.19pm | | |
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12137955/one-in-three-firms-lay-off-staff-furlough/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly
and that's on top of 650,000 that have already gone...
terrifying prospect for so many people. and that's before the knock on effects - less people in jobs means less money spent everywhere - so more job cuts. childcare providers hit as newly unemployed parents keep pre school kids at home with them - resulting in more job losses in that sector. supposed 'flagship' industries hit undermining post brexit trade power (who's going to be buying all the new british cars...?)
sorry for a depressing read
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#3430 15 Jul 2020 at 3.02pm | | |
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They'll be no surprises if some of those stats are cherry picked by others to suit their agenda 
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#3429 15 Jul 2020 at 12.18pm | | |
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where I live...
https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/14/blackburn-implements-stricter-measures-avoid-leicester-style-lockdown-12990055/?ito=push-notification&ci=22973&si=9412819
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#3428 15 Jul 2020 at 12.14pm | | |
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Latest independent stats analysis Link
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#3427 14 Jul 2020 at 8.52am | | |
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Where I live ... https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-with-the-scars-of-loss-still-raw-in-bergamo-it-prepares-for-the-virus-to-return-12027955
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#3426 13 Jul 2020 at 10.52pm | | |
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U turn number 246..
Face coverings now to be mandatory.
Why so long?... Must've been difficult for Cummings to find a mate to give a contract to I suppose.
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