The meanings of what is due to be announced at 5 will doubtless be subject to some interpretation- but from Peston it sounds like exercise outside is to be encouraged. Which is hopeful for climbing.
Shark has at least 10 years experience as a semi professional redpointer!
Quote from: tomtom on October 31, 2020, 04:25:01 pmThe meanings of what is due to be announced at 5 will doubtless be subject to some interpretation- but from Peston it sounds like exercise outside is to be encouraged. Which is hopeful for climbing. Not if you are booked to go to Kalymnos “Outbound international travel will be banned, except for work”
I can’t imagine how pissed off Muscle Coach is right now 😂Assume we will get some more guidance on what constitutes reasonable travel for exercise. At least we can have an out of household spotter!
I can’t imagine how pissed off Muscle Coach is right now 😂
Yes indeed Moose. The only difference this will make to our family life over what we’ve been doing so far is (a) my wife is annoyed she won’t be getting her haircut and (b) our nipper won’t be able to meet a pal or two on the park. Neither are a great hardship to miss..
And if not - what are the criteria for it ending. The answer was that R has to be pretty convincingly below 1. Enough to ‘halve cases per week’ which I believe is an R of 0.5. Is this really achievable with schools and many work places still open? Basically we’re just closing pubs, restaurants, Gyms and ‘non essential’ shops etc... and according to the earlier Sage forecasts of R impact - these didnt make that much difference (they could be wrong of course).
On the national lockdown, glad my prediction was wrong and they are doing something, albeit very late. I suppose the reason I thought they wouldn't do it was that bj said a week ago a national lockdown would be "an absurdity"
I imagine regional centres serve a large spread out population per available bed?Sorry to hear you are so isolated Moose.
What happened is that there was a rush by government to secure companies with strong contacts in China that could make sure that Chinese-made PPE would come to Britain in an environment described by one company director involved as "like the Wild West". All of this is well documented.It may well be right to say that we were pushed for time and in a PPE crisis so that leveraging mates with the ability to open doors in China was justified, but lets at least recognise that was what happened to anywhere between £1bn and £5.5bn of taxpayer's money, rather than upping orders with existing NHS suppliers in the UK. Legal action is ongoing so the answers will come out in the fullness of time. I would still like to think that having a proper stockpile and using trusted domestic producers would have been preferable!