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Giles Brandreth on This Morning just started a campaign to solve the Christmas lockdown issue by changing it for one year to 25 March to coincide with Jesus's 'real' birthday after calendar adjustments. Good luck with that one being accepted.
 
Healdplace said:
Giles Brandreth on This Morning just started a campaign to solve the Christmas lockdown issue by changing it for one year to 25 March to coincide with Jesus's 'real' birthday after calendar adjustments. Good luck with that one being accepted.
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Two birthdays? If it's good enough for the Queen, it's good enough for The King.
 
Healdplace said:
Giles Brandreth on This Morning just started a campaign to solve the Christmas lockdown issue by changing it for one year to 25 March to coincide with Jesus's 'real' birthday after calendar adjustments. Good luck with that one being accepted.
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Too close to my birthday. I don’t want to be one of those who have to make do with a xmas present and birthday present combined. No thanks.
 
johnnytapia said:
Maybe something of a government quid pro quo - you want Christmas with your families, well, we need the numbers to be x and to achieve that we believe closing schools will help us achieve that.
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A quid pro quo in a pandemic? Just fuck Christmas off for this year and concentrate on getting the case numbers right down until the vaccines are on stream.
 
lancs blue said:
A quid pro quo in a pandemic? Just fuck Christmas off for this year and concentrate on getting the case numbers right down until the vaccines are on stream.
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Politicians, generally, will do what they can to stay elected, pandemic or no pandemic.
 
Pablo1 said:
Haha! Chris played for our 7 a side team with his two sons in Tenerife for a few years whenever they were over. Never knew he was born on Xmas day but remember saying ‘Jesus Christ’ a few times to him on the pitch!! :-)
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Had a chat with him at Norwich away the 6-1, was having a beer on the concourse and a really nice waft of aftershave caught my nose, it was him. Nice guy, put up with a load of pissed up blues and kept smiling.
 
carlosthejackal said:
Over fifty thousand deaths and people worried about a turkey dinner !! I’d like to say unbelievable but looking back at the last few years it isn’t.
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Cases are currently falling, the government has the opportunity to prepare the groundwork for the run up and the christmas week to allow for christmas to be held relatively normally.

If they don't do this then many people will lose their jobs, billions will be lost from the economy however the end result will be that people will ignore the rules anyway and cases will still rise.

They need to facilitate through guidelines and rules how people can mitigate their risk to others. They should stipulate how to mitigate risk through prior self-isolation, place limits on how many households can gather and set the time period to a few days maximum (24th, 25th, 26th).

If cases are low enough then the effect this will have on new cases is irrelevant compared to the risk you currently face by going to work or your kids going to school from now until mid-December.
 
Scotland data up first as usual:

50 deaths, tragically high and up on last week

1089 cases

at 4.6 % positive

1212 Patients - down 29

85 on icu ventilators - down 3. Though these numbers will be impacted by the sadly high death total.
 
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