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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Text taken from the BBC website. I could make a few comments about now it is time for these distribution networks to show their solidarity with their fellow UK citizens and subsidise them, since there are only 1.5 million out of the 66 Million they supply, or that since they already gouge...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Modest to a fault!.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And long may it continue!. But you bring your laundry down to the communal washing machines, you buy your fish at the fish counter. The big lad swinging past you at the entrance might have Covid D , and he is of course unmasked. They have a documented case from Australia that two adjacent...
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    Flecc, .. very unlike you. Deaths follow infections , but by about 3 to 6 weeks . Look at the 49, and go back to the daily infection rate .. at about 4 to 6000 in early June. . What is undeniable is that the vaccines have helped a lot ..thank God.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Flecc.. I think you are on a hiding to nothing here. Our Government, with more dependency on support from minority parties, They have continually modified the opening date for indoor dining delaying it week by week for a while now, and reducing the types of people allowed. Of course there is...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I don't think I am missing the point of public buy-in. .. and that is yet another valuable asset the Westminster Government squandered. The UK can and could enforce any level of restrictions they needed to. We in Ireland know what they can do. But they decided for mercantile reasons not to.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    "The government have done their bit on Covid as i've shown, much more than most comparable countries..". That unfortunately is blatant hyperbole. The only thing they did correctly was to accelerate the vaccine programme, and then blew it by giving the second doses to late.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I was aware of that..I even went to one in NYC in 2014 Of course I didn't know or care which was the parent, but certainly that they were linked., . But the stock we get here is primarily UK /EU brands. I suspect that the RoI stores are part of the British distribution chain. A lot of the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    One could, but I would prefer to leave that determination to the professional on the spot . Taking myself as an example Had I contracted CV19 prior to October 2020, I would most probably have died. ,From a non apparent heart condition. The cause of death would most certainly have been the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I fully understand that. It was one thing when the distributor from Manchester, who was dealing with Ireland, took the ferry Liverpool to Belfast, , scooted around a few of the larger supermarket chains dealing with the 1.5Million population and then headed South for a population 3 times...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And might I suggest , remove the nonsense of a death within 28 days of a positive CV19 test . We know that people linger on for weeks and weeks, often in high dependency or ICU , before finally losing their struggle.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I hadn't!. Maybe my mistake for doing a few queries about hydrogen a few weeks ago, but I am now getting lots and lots of information about pilot and early adopter schemes. The key point I had not picked up until now is that hybrid systems with a low power fuel cell trickle charging a smaller...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    On a more positive note, Dublin has taken delivery of 3 hydrogen fuel celled double decker buses , with a 400 km range. They will be used on major suburban / semi rural route The hydrogen will be electroylised ..water There are very few double decker buses using hydrogen yet
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Flecc. Actually we still do have a potential strategy for ridding the world of Covid. It is quarantine The hope that it would be a vaccine was ill-founded. A strategy which has worked for 3000 years and still works. That is the tragedy. Our failure to follow the Chinese /Far East example...
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    Flecc and OG ... Can I be referee?. Both statements are true, Health services have to ration resources, But the UK has been spectacularly poor at managing the resources in respect of Covid. .. Money is only one of those resources , Goodwill, Buyin, Credibility , Authenticity are equally...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Jesus Christ ..., Did you learn nothing in School.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Nev.. unfortunately this is a moving target, and when the Delta variant was neglible, those figures of 90% were applicable. But as each week progresses, and it becomes the dominant strain, then the ratio changes. So with increased numbers of infections and increased variants, at what stage...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes the units used should relate on human terms .. and the Km is just as much human as the mile. And the yard and metre are basically the same. The litre is just as human as the pint. But really it all depends on what you learned by age 12 . I still find myself using my weight in stones ,my...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    When one talks of air conditioning units efficiency and performance in terms of Tons of US barrels of oil equivalent , , you are what our farming community say "sucking diesel."
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. That's just the Civils ,.. they never die, just smell that way.