Paid Members Nick James 707 Posted April 4 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 4 It was rather satisfying I must admit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paid Members Monkee 1,095 Posted April 4 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 4 I had the AZ jab yesterday afternoon and felt absolutely fine. Slept badly last night (had nightmares that my sister in law had been kidnapped) and was very restless. Got up at 11am and felt fine but tired. Then it hit me. I was really cold, heating on full blast, blanket over me, fell asleep at 1pm and felt jet lagged. I couldn’t wake up. Finally forced myself to get something to eat at 8pm, watched a film and now I’m in bed again as I can barely keep my eyes open. Apart from feeling exhausted I don’t feel any other side effects, thankfully. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paid Members jazzygeofferz 2,619 Posted April 4 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 4 I've been a bit chilly and tired today, but we got a curry in tonight so hopefully I'll be alright. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DavidB6937 2,523 Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56632084 Rapid testing to be offered twice weekly to everyone in England from a week on Friday. Seems like another positive step forward if not a potentially expensive one. Will probably encourage companies to get people back to work anyway. I'm still uncomfortable with it until I've been vaccinated so glad my company doesn't seem to be in a rush. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paid Members Nexus 399 Posted April 5 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 5 Given that we ran out of tests in school last week and so couldn't send the kids home with all of the ones they needed over Easter, I'm not particularly confident in the government's ability to provide everyone two tests a week! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paid Members jazzygeofferz 2,619 Posted April 5 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 5 47 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56632084 Rapid testing to be offered twice weekly to everyone in England from a week on Friday. Seems like another positive step forward if not a potentially expensive one. Will probably encourage companies to get people back to work anyway. I'm still uncomfortable with it until I've been vaccinated so glad my company doesn't seem to be in a rush. I don't get why they're so keen to get people back into the office. Well, aside from their friends that run transport companies losing money. Business are saving money in not having to worry as much about the cost of offices etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paid Members johnnyboy 4,033 Posted April 5 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, Nexus said: Given that we ran out of tests in school last week and so couldn't send the kids home with all of the ones they needed over Easter, I'm not particularly confident in the government's ability to provide everyone two tests a week! Looks like they're planning to use these as part of the "covid passport" scheme. Inaccurate tests with self-reported results. What could possibly go wrong... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paid Members Nexus 399 Posted April 5 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 5 Just now, johnnyboy said: Looks like they're planning to use these as part of the "covid passport" scheme. Inaccurate tests with self-reported results. What could possibly go wrong... Lockdown 4 just in time for the summer weather? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paid Members johnnyboy 4,033 Posted April 5 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 5 3 minutes ago, Nexus said: Lockdown 4 just in time for the summer weather? The Cornetto variant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paid Members scratchdj 2,644 Posted April 5 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 5 21 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said: I don't get why they're so keen to get people back into the office. Well, aside from their friends that run transport companies losing money. Business are saving money in not having to worry as much about the cost of offices etc. The country, its economy, decades of different governments have all been based around millions of people working in offices up-and-down the country and that’s what the government needs the country to return to. It doesn’t have a plan for anything other than that. If the new “normal” is the majority of people working from home, the economy isn’t geared up to handle that in terms of coffee shops, eateries, pubs, gyms, taxi companies, couriers, child minders etc being needed in smaller quantities, if at all. Even living in a less physically social way will almost certainly have a knock on effect for business that rely on people being in physical contact with each other. Pubs and bars will make a decent business out of people from the office stopping in on their way home, but will likely struggle to attract lots of people out of their homes on mass once the clock hits 5pm to replicate the same experience once they’ve become used to the comforts and convenience of home. Projects like HS2 will rely on offices returning to normal to justify their existence (not that HS2 was doing a very good job of that anyway), and the government desire to “build build build” will struggle to justify they’re anything other than Keynesian attempts to create demand when new roads, rail lines, office and shared leisure space aren’t needed. Conservatism isn’t built around demand-side economics, so such policies will struggle to fit with the government’s own ideologies as much as they will the real world situation. I look at friends who have kids that have grown up in the social media age and most are already primed for life at home, unable or unwilling to meet up outside with their friends. Most interaction seems to be online, and with a culture that would extend that beyond school, college and then university, I think it’s quite a worrying direction of travel. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DavidB6937 2,523 Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 London especially is built for the commuters and all the people around there. What is London without the business people? Tourists are never going to keep those businesses afloat by themselves. As said above - so many food places, coffee shops, pubs etc all rely on the daily footfall. On the flipside I see a lot more local businesses near me popping up and doing far better out of all of this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuperBacon 8,416 Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 6 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said: What is London without the business people? Lovely. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paid Members LaGoosh 2,655 Posted April 5 Paid Members Report Share Posted April 5 I understand the points about how people not returning to offices will destroy large sections of the service sector. But that line of thinking unsettles me. Isn't the point of capitalist economies that they bend and change by the will and needs of the people rather than the other way round? The idea that people should spend large chunks of their salary on commuting and make themselves miserable to keep cafes and bars in Canary Wharf or wherever open is fucking depressing. Business needs to adapt to the new way of life rather than just go back to the old way (which has now been proven to be incredibly fragile). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CavemanLynn 1,127 Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 The bars, cafes and restaurants sprung up because that's where the business was, not the other way around. We've already had hundreds of independent businesses like that adapt via home deliveries and revised opening hours. Those that don't adapt will and should fail; that's capitalism at its core. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
deathrey 478 Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 Also the Tory's landlord mates will be crying in to their coffees if no one returns to the office and there are a bunch of massive office buildings sat empty. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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