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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yesterday we went to a garden centre. They are supposed to be opening tomorrow. But they have actually been open since 1st May. Quite clearly, people like garden centre operators are being told (somehow) that they can open. But their customers weren't.
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I've repeatedly said that if he isn't up to it, he shouldn't be doing it. He and everyone else involved owe us, the population of the UK, the right to have a PM who is as capable as ever he or she can be. If Johnson is not up to it, good bye. Adieu. I'm glad to go I cannot tell a lie :D...
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Don't solicit for your sister. That's not nice. (Unless you get a good percentage of her price.)
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Wouldn't zero make more sense for No Transmission? Ask Dresden and the Bundesliga about sports events.
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Does that scam work on Apple and Google phones? :D
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    New ones might be made with bigger wheels, yes. Do suitable designs exist yet?
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Don't worry folks, the tracking and tracing app will allow us to open up... Contact tracing app may not work with Apple or Google phones The UK’s coronavirus contact tracing app, being developed as part of the government’s pandemic response, may not work with either Apple or Google phones. Dr...
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Haven't seen the figures from the poorest, worst affected parts of Africa, yet. Perhaps it is in anticipation of some countries doing even worse?
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Am waiting for the old joke to go round, yet again: Be alert the world needs more lerts.
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Now that is one thing he can do in total isolation. :D
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Welsh government had the sense to use figures as illustration of the impact of relaxing policies. (Are we more numerate in Wales?) Schools will not be opened at the start of June, Drakeford confirmed. He also revealed the R number in Wales is estimated to be 0.8 and if it stays at that level...
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Totally amazing! But health leaders said they expected "fluctuations" in the figures, and that testing was still much higher than it was at the start of the outbreak. Speaking at the Downing Street coronavirus briefing, deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said he expected...
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Can fast track e scooters do more than 15.5 mph? You'd hope so... :)
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Cummings would be totally failing to understand herd immunity if he said that. .... So quite possibly... :)
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ok folks, we know it is really bad. But we can't see any argument for trying to stop it getting worse (or not getting better).
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Wow! UK to invest £250m in cycle lanes in bid to prevent coronavirus resurgence Campaigners call for a fundamental redesign of the transport system to help prevent a bounce-back in air pollution levels AND Coronavirus cycling boom makes a good bike hard to find Would-be cyclists keen to...
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Patience, sir. The very anti-thesis, the opposite in every detail of a heavy dragoon. If you want a receipt for that popular mystery, Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon, Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! COLONEL. Take all the remarkable people in history, Rattle them off to a popular...
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    On top of the "personal valet" (apparently technically military personnel) of DT. I have long said that president and vice president should maintain total physical separation. In the same way they have Air Force One and Air Force Two to ensure that they cannot both be taken out by one event...
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Or park on the yellow lines along the road just outside. Opening their doors over the shared-use path preventing any possibility of cycling, using a wheelchair/chariot and impairing even ordinary walking. The path not being two metres wide, even opening their windows would be unacceptable.
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Telegraph also has this: Coronavirus quarantine: All UK arrivals 'will have to self-isolate for 14 days' Travellers will be required to fill in a digital form and declare the address where they will be staying with hefty fines for breaches All visitors to Britain will be ordered to isolate...