Another Crazy Rule From Government

[teacake44]

You can have a wedding, but not with more than 30 people attending, including catering staff. But you can have 250 people crammed onto a plane for 2/3 hours to fly away on holiday, and another 2/3 hours return. With those sort of rules in place we will all be back in lockdown.

[teacake44]

NJ, I don't think they use A380 for a short haul to Spain, so your comment a little over the top I would say.

[fiction-factory]

Are you suggesting flights should be limited to 30 people or weddings should be expanded to 250 (wearing masks)? Or should weddings and flights both be banned for a while longer?
I wouldn't go on a flight at the moment but many would.
I suppose the importance of air travel to the economy is a factor too.

[237SJ]

^ I don't think they'll be using A380s for very much. Most of them will be binned, along with the 747.

[teacake44]

16.07, Show me were I said it would stop you catching it? I've always said it helped stop the spread, and if it helps stop the spread, then less people will catch it = less people will die. So if everyone was made to wear one then perhaps we wouldn't have the highest death rate. Or is it, you like Boris and his government can't admit when you're wrong?

[teacake44]

22.22 You're suggestion is silly ff.

[fiction-factory]

Can I take it you don't have a suggestion then- it's just a whinge?

[teacake44]

My suggestion is no (holiday )flights in or out of the UK, for the rest of the year. Business/ cargo only. OK?

[dannyk13]

TC, Your suggestion would leave all our passenger airlines bankrupt. Not OK.

[teacake44]

Less pollution, less people dead, great! Take a look at what's happening in the US by ignoring the virus, rampant and getting worse, and they will be flying over here on holiday, bless em, idiots!

[teacake44]

11.14 If only you knew how many times that's been said on here, its getting really boring. See if you can find a new one.

[dannyk13]

TC,so the airlines go bankrupt and the economy collapses.What a brilliant idea,not.

[teacake44]

Keep fighting to get the virus under control in the UK, going in and out of lockdown, but then keep importing plane loads of infection. Brilliant idea, not.

[New Judge]

//Keep fighting to get the virus under control in the UK, going in and out of lockdown,...//

How long do you supposes businesses can tolerate going "in and out of lockdown", teacake? You can see what the businesses in Leicester have suffered by being re-closed (or not allowed to open on Saturday as planned). I really don't know what you must be thinking to simply say "going in and out of lockdown" as if it's turning the lights on and off.

The virus will not be "brought under control." All that will happen is that attempts to prevent its spread will simply cripple business, slaughter the economy and see the entire nation in Carey Street. In the last 24 hours at least 10,000 job losses have been announced. That's 10,000 people on the dole, just like that, in just one day. And that's for starters.

The government cannot protect everybody from everything and the population must accept that from time to time bad stuff happens.

[david small]

Today at Thomson’s garden centre they refused to take £100 in cash as payment for items I wanted. Card only.
Next shop took my cash happily. Inconsistent behaviour drives me loopy.

[teacake44]

19.57 This is how silly its getting, lots of jobworths, they have got no right to refuse cash. What's so crazy about this is that in a supermarket, or any shop for that matter, you are picking up the goods, taking them to the checkout, and the casher picking them up ( after you have handled them) putting them through the scanner, but won't pick up your cash. Anyone who refuses my cash, then I leave the goods at the till and walk out, they can stuff them.

[Cloverjo]

Teacake, I’m with you. It’s all a bit mad.
You can have your cleaner or nanny in your house but you have to pick your favourite grandparents to have the same honour. The other ones can wait til.. well.. who knows?

[Cloverjo]

I’ve paid with cash throughout the crisis. No one made any fuss.