...well, we should be seeing the effect of the schools re-opening by now. From what the gov websites show, the reduction in the infection rate seems to have slowed, but is that to be expected anyway and is nothing (or little) to do with the schools? Do you always end up with 'background' noise with an infection like this? IE a steady drop in rate initially, that then levels off?
Any bets on the date of the next lockdown, assuming we get out of this one.
A month ago I said give it 5 or 6 months, Ā now itās 4, Ā I donāt think there will be another lockdown, Boris has already said youāll have to learn to live with it. they canāt keep locking down every time people behave stupidly.Ā One vaccine is not going to help the thousands who are planning god knows what for the summer.Ā
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā
The local primary schools have catchment areas with a diameter less than you could chuck an overweight schoolchild but most of them get delivered by car. How is that?
Effin' Brexit Ā I want to buy something from Denmark via Etsy and it was priced at just over Ā£135 + postage which puts it in the realm of needing me to pay VAT and import duty + courier's ransom fee once it gets into this country. So I messaged the seller who was very good and dropped the price to below the Ā£135 threshold for me. Great. But then I went to buy it and Etsy add VAT to the price which bumps it up to more than the buyer was originally asking. This is fine as I would have to pay that anyway but now neither of us can work out if it's import duty exempt because the item value is less than Ā£135 pre-VAT or whether I get stung for that now. Duty could be anywhere from 6-12% depending on what the item is classed as but it's payable on the entire value including VAT and postage if it's applicable, and the couriers seem to be charging Ā£10-15 "handling fee" on top. At least the NHS is getting that Ā£350million a week though...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
they canāt keep locking down every time people behave stupidly.Ā
One vaccine is not going to help the thousands who are planning god knows what for the summer.Ā
āMore people have died from covidĀ in care homesĀ in Devon and Cornwall in the first ten weeks of 2021 thanĀ the whole of 2020.
Up to 12 March, 332 residentsĀ died with the diseaseĀ ,Ā compared to 315 in Ā 2020.
Cornwall, the South Hams, and Teignbridge have seen more deaths in total from covidĀ in 2021 than 2020.ā