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Sqad | 17:54 Sun 21st Mar 2021 | News
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https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/hundreds-protesters-take-newcastle-city-20225754

Forget your summer holidays.
A 4th surge with inevitable lockdown is a racing certainty despite the successful vaccination programme.
Don't blame the Politicians.
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//If you insist on shouting “madness” every time you see a few people together in the street you’d better get used to it because it’s going to happen more and more.//
Newjudge, your confusing a handful of people wanting to go for afternoon tea or to pay bridge or maybe go to the cinema with groups of many hundreds or thousands who ignore any social distancing and put not only themselfs, there famlies and friends at risk but the police too, whilst leaving a trail of empty beer cans and plastic bottles of water .
Sqad, I thought the same last summer after everyone packed onto beaches in the sun. Strangely, though, there were no cases at all

At a guess, the problem arises not in open-air demos so much as in the pub afterwards
//Newjudge, your confusing a handful of people wanting to go for afternoon tea or to pay bridge or maybe go to the cinema with groups of many hundreds or thousands who ignore any social distancing and put not only themselfs, there famlies and friends at risk but the police too, whilst leaving a trail of empty beer cans and plastic bottles of water .//

I'm making no such confusion.

There seems to be a gathering philosophy in this country that it must remain locked down until...until when? I don't know. Every time whatever it is we are locked down for is achieved a new target is devised to retain the restrictions.

People do gather in numbers - large and small - for all sorts of reasons. They've been prevented from doing so (legally) for some time. What I'm suggesting is that the events mentioned in this thread will become increasingly commonplace. The people involved in most of those events have gathered together simply because they've been told they cannot. At some point the government is going to have to accept that the virus is endemic and must be lived with. Being "lived with" does not involve preventing people doing what they normally do. When the restrictions are eventually eased (if they ever are) those gathering together simply because they've been told they cannot will no longer do so.

Perhaps you could help me a little by explaining what the current target is before restrictions can be eased. Infections are very low (but will always be around); deaths are very low (but will always occur); the vaccination programme has achieved a decent level of protection for most of the very vulnerable (and is continuing to build); hospital admissions are at the lowest since the end of September. Just what danger are these gatherings presenting and when will such events no longer be deemed a danger?
yes Jno is correct in the observation
a million went darn to Durdle Dor (*) July last year
and no spike of covid was reported
in the same month there was a night rave in Daisy Nook and no spike
BUT
Cheltenham races - it ws said not v loudly that the spanish variant came in froo immigrants to see the racing
and this leads us to conlcude

open air and dry, there is very little contagion - whether or not the computers show there should be

and boys and gurls
the govt know this and are planning to open the pubs when it gets warmer for - - - open air drinking

and to be honest I cant wait

(*) yeah someone really did say Jul 20 "Durdle dor where dat den?" in true AB style. Ans: Darzet aaargh - it is where Sgt troy swims out to his doom in the beginning of Far From the Madding Crowd 1967 ( Terence Stamp)
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/////Sqad, I thought the same last summer after everyone packed onto beaches in the sun. Strangely, though, there were no cases at all/////

Really jno and where was that, certainly not in the UK where we were preparing to deal with a second "surge ".

NJ, well written, eloquent, a little verbose for me but zi have little to disagree with except to say that should the public act in the way that you have prophesied, then, to quote, there is not a cat in hell's chance that 2021 will not follow the same pattern as 2010.
To me,it is that simple.
Policing by consent
that is what it is all about

hey hey joke: you know that photie of the red head being sat upon by the police er protecting her on clapham common?
speech bubble coming out of her mouf: hey boys! I'm white! I CAN breeve!
good huh? - thought you would like it
jesus what happened in 2010?
so long ago I have forgotten

Apparently you can fool most of the people most of the time.
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PP.....you spotted my deliberate mistake lol
//...there is not a cat in hell's chance that 2021 will not follow the same pattern as 2010.
To me,it is that simple.//

So the vaccination programme will have been a waste then. By the early summer all of the most vulnerable will have had two shots and most of the other adults at least one. By the late summer all adults should have had two jabs. If the infections/deaths follow the same pattern in the next 12 months as they have in the previous year we will all have wasted our time rolling up our sleeves. And if that is the case the government will have to find a way of living with that situation other than by locking the country up.
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NJ...EXACTLY.
anywhere you like, it seems, Sqad

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/19/how-the-beach-super-spreader-myth-can-inform-uks-future-covid-response

“There were no outbreaks linked to public beaches. There’s never been a Covid-19 outbreak linked to a beach, ever, anywhere in the world, to the best of my knowledge.”

I was looking out for a summer spike myself, and surprised when it never came.
Agree with that judge. But that's July. Mass gatherings now breathing over police and mates wont help tho I accept outdoors is alot saferthan indoors. But it's the violence a dont like. Seen the pictures from Bristol? People jumping on top of and rocking police Van's and pushing police. There nor frustrated by not being able to have a afternoon tea there spoiling for a fight
I simply give up. ☹️☹️☹️
I've not been out of the house (except for shopping) since last January when first Covid cases were reported in th UK.
Am sure outdoor is pretty safe for small groups but 500+ shouting is more risky.
And its a bit annoying for those who are abiding by rules and not even having a picnic with friends
What are you giving up on Apc?
Police vans burnt and vandalised in Bristol
NewJudge most of us we follow the rules. Dosnt mean we want to be locked up forever far from it. But those who stick 2 fingers up are spoiling it for others. The more people do that the less likely we can open up safely
yes jno I thought it was you that raised this July last year
you suggested that they all went home and so any outbreak was smoothed
and I said no

the Nookey at Daisy Nook - dark and damp and still none
was an eye opener for me

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