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I'm working. Clearing bramble in a peaceful valley nowhere near anybody. On my own in the sunshine all day in a beautiful place. I intend to make the most of it while I can.

 

All the more so since it's a mile up the road and I wrote my car off in an off-road accident last week. Not worth claiming and no money to replace it so a financial nuclear winter is on the way.  

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3 minutes ago, Stere said:

I thought that having thay one boffin on R4 might of being  tory plant. Im not sure his one thorectical study its the general boffin consesus.

It's possible I suppose, I really have no idea.

 

Societal stability is certainly something they have to consider though when deciding on the degree of the shutdown. We simply have to hope that they are getting good advice and are striking the right balance.

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6 minutes ago, the village idiot said:

It's possible I suppose, I really have no idea.

 

Societal stability is certainly something they have to consider though when deciding on the degree of the shutdown. We simply have to hope that they are getting good advice and are striking the right balance.

I would agree- I think some kind of balance/compromise has to be met. Personally I think key workers and those that can undertake work whilst abiding strictly with the current health guidelines would probably be it. I just can’t see the logic in a full scale lock down- just delaying the problem and potentially making it worse in other arenas. As the great (!) mr trump said today,  no point the cure becoming worse than the disease. To me it just comes down to pure common sense rather than a one size fits all policy?

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26 minutes ago, the village idiot said:

Boffin is one of my favourite words. That and Ouagadougou (Capital of Burkina Faso).

Burkina Faso has a capital ??? I just thought it was just  an enormous sheet of sandpaper   ? k

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2 minutes ago, Matthew Storrs said:

 

I would agree- I think some kind of balance/compromise has to be met. Personally I think key workers and those that can undertake work whilst abiding strictly with the current health guidelines would probably be it. I just can’t see the logic in a full scale lock down- just delaying the problem and potentially making it worse in other arenas. As the great (!) mr trump said today,  no point the cure becoming worse than the disease. To me it just comes down to pure common sense rather than a one size fits all policy?

I agree, the problem we seem to have is common sense. We had the chance to try to use some and fecked it right up, I'm not one for controlling people, but if you give some people an inch they'll take a yard.

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27 minutes ago, Stere said:

I thought that having thay one boffin on R4 might of being  tory plant. Im not sure his one thorectical study its the general boffin consesus.

 

As for PHE rules with regards to working saw loads of breaking the 2m rules today when I went for my goverment sanctioned exercise allowance.

 

5 road workers crowded round a hole  with one lad down the hole. Builders 3 across in front seat of vans, and working indoors in loads of domestic properties. All the holiday lets with multiply audi and Range rovers parked out front. (must be several families together)

 

 

 

 

I like you more now also - as you remind me of my younger socialist self before I discovered Stilton and champagne  ( still won't go ski- ing  now as its fr middle class braying cunts  ) k

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This may have been already posted but it gives some of us the go ahead to work.

 

Following representations by Confor to the UK Government, a Defra spokesperson has confirmed:

“Those involved in the supply chain of wood for key goods (including, but not limited to pallets, heating, packaging, tissue paper, timber harvesting, sawmills) should be considered key workers. Only necessary workers, producing key goods, should continue to attend workplaces. Working from home should be encouraged for administrative staff.”

Confor chief executive Stuart Goodall said: “I welcome this vital clarification of the key role of the forestry and wood processing supply chain in providing wood products to support an important range of essential products.

 
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