My wife has a Blue Badge but I don’t think we have ever parked on a double yellow line and only once on a single line. Like Fairygirl, I get miffed by supermarkets giving preeminence to parent and child parking over disabled places.
In case you’re not aware, @fidgetbones, if you’re outside a supermarket - or anywhere else come to that - you cannot leave the disabled person in the car while you do the shopping. They have to get out of the car too though it would be a heartless official who enforced that rule.
More positively, for a small annual (?) charge you have exemption from London congestion zone charging and there might be an arrangement on the Dart charge as well. And, very oddly but I believe it is still true, a Blue Badge exempts you from hose pipe bans.
At a bit of a loss. The Covid numbers continue to increase in both cases and hospitalizations, but unless Omicron was vastly more widely spread than was known, the increase is then mainly in Delta. But that seemed to be the trend anyway - Delta appeared to be (to me) on a slow increase heading into winter.
So, even though there was quite a jump in cases yesterday, that - if Delta - can only be due to just increased pre-Christmas mixing and not to Omicron (yet). Is that about right? @punkdoc
I think [ and the evidence is pointing that way ] that Omicron was here much earlier than we thought and that therefore the case numbers are much, much higher than we thought.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I expect loads of people had it or were carrying it without symptoms before it was even identified so hardly surprising that's spread wider than thought and faster.
All the more reason to wear masks, keep distances and avoid socialising in crowded spaces.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
If Omicron doubles every three days, which is a conservative estimate, then in 30 days there will be 1000 times as many cases, so probably more than one million cases per day. And it doesn't have to stop there. It only needs a small fraction of those to be serious cases for the hospitals to be completely overloaded.
It only needs a small fraction of those to be serious cases for the hospitals to be completely overloaded.
It only needs a small fraction of anything to overload our hospitals. They have been overloaded every January for at least the last decade. There are fundamental inadequacies in our hospital system that were there long before Covid. My hope is that this will finally be the trigger to sort those inadequacies out - but its going to take a radical rethink 🙄
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In case you’re not aware, @fidgetbones, if you’re outside a supermarket - or anywhere else come to that - you cannot leave the disabled person in the car while you do the shopping. They have to get out of the car too though it would be a heartless official who enforced that rule.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
All the more reason to wear masks, keep distances and avoid socialising in crowded spaces.