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Nearly Sane

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4125 on: March 23, 2021, 11:36:14 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2021, 06:21:50 PM
Incredibly good news though I am about the last of my cohort that I know with no date as yet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56477291


Which I now have - 30th March
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4126 on: March 23, 2021, 11:40:39 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 23, 2021, 11:36:14 AM
Which I now have - 30th March

Hurrah!
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4127 on: March 23, 2021, 11:46:33 AM »
'As UK marks one year since going into lockdown, govt says planning the commemoration was pretty straightforward as most countries had stuff left over from their anniversaries two weeks ago.'
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4128 on: March 24, 2021, 08:24:00 AM »
\Phone call from NHS yesterday afternoon re my 9th April appointment for Covid 19 second vaccination. Could they bring it forward to the 1st April at 2:46 p.m.? Yes, please!
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4129 on: March 24, 2021, 01:18:09 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4130 on: March 24, 2021, 01:39:56 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 24, 2021, 01:18:09 PM
Privileging religious beliefs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56511585

   


First;
When we open on Sunday, we will adhere strictly to government guidelines.

The ruling, though, was predictable, as bits of the law hark back to measures enacted by 'the Tables' in 1638, after Charles I stuck his nose into the Scottish Kirk.
I'm not saying I agree with the ruling - it is what it is and the law needs to be changed.
We get fed up with glimflam and flummery left over from the pre-union English Parliament of 1707, so we may as well get fed up with the Scots parliament of 1638.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4131 on: March 24, 2021, 01:40:38 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 24, 2021, 01:18:09 PM
Privileging religious beliefs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56511585

Considering that Christians have a "personal relationship with God", it's surprising how essential it is for them all to gather in special buildings.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4132 on: March 24, 2021, 01:43:44 PM »
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Considering that Christians have a "personal relationship with God", it's surprising how essential it is for them all to gather in special buildings.
   


It's a command.
The buildings don't have to be special - thet don't even have to be there at all.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4133 on: March 24, 2021, 03:14:26 PM »
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It's a command.
The buildings don't have to be special - thet don't even have to be there at all.

A command from whom?
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4134 on: March 24, 2021, 03:58:34 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on March 24, 2021, 03:14:26 PM
A command from whom?
   



From the vows of membership of the Church of Scotland....


"....I promise, depending on God's grace bring weith me, to attend worship with my fellow Christians on the Lord's day...."
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4135 on: March 24, 2021, 04:02:41 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4136 on: March 24, 2021, 04:04:53 PM »
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From the vows of membership of the Church of Scotland....


"....I promise, depending on God's grace bring weith me, to attend worship with my fellow Christians on the Lord's day...."

Hmmmmmmmmm! ::)
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4137 on: March 24, 2021, 04:06:37 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4138 on: March 24, 2021, 05:59:31 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4139 on: March 24, 2021, 06:17:04 PM »
Merkel must be emulating Boris! ::)
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4140 on: March 24, 2021, 10:44:31 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on March 24, 2021, 04:06:37 PM
Concerning but not surprising. :o
Mutants aren't necessarily bad news - it might mutate into a much less severe form, which is never fatal (except perhaps in people already at death's door), and just makes you feel under the weather for a few days. That would actually be in the virus's interest; it wants to reproduce itself as widely as possible, and it can't do that very effectively if it kills off its hosts in short order.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4141 on: March 25, 2021, 08:59:50 AM »
Quote from: will.i.eckaslike on March 24, 2021, 10:44:31 PM
Mutants aren't necessarily bad news - it might mutate into a much less severe form, which is never fatal (except perhaps in people already at death's door), and just makes you feel under the weather for a few days. That would actually be in the virus's interest; it wants to reproduce itself as widely as possible, and it can't do that very effectively if it kills off its hosts in short order.
The virus isn't close to being deadly enough to kill off its hosts. However the mutation that drives infection is transmissibility - a more transmissible virus will rapid dominate, as we've seen. The fatality is secondary as far as virus survival is concerned.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4142 on: March 25, 2021, 10:04:15 AM »
Quote from: Littleroses on March 24, 2021, 04:04:53 PM
Hmmmmmmmmm! ::)
 



I take my promises seriously.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4143 on: March 25, 2021, 11:33:16 AM »
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I take my promises seriously.

I never said you didn't, even if you don't have evidence to support your religious beliefs.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4144 on: March 25, 2021, 05:20:49 PM »
MPs have voted to extend emergency coronavirus laws for another six months.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4145 on: March 26, 2021, 09:55:53 AM »
Charles Walker MP goes full Partridge


https://youtu.be/9eBMR9um3rc
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4146 on: March 26, 2021, 10:25:01 AM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4147 on: March 26, 2021, 10:41:47 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 26, 2021, 09:55:53 AM
Charles Walker MP goes full Partridge


https://youtu.be/9eBMR9um3rc
Sounds reasonable to me. He looks disconcertingly like Richard Dawkins.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4148 on: March 26, 2021, 12:19:51 PM »
'People may quit if forced to work from home, Rishi Sunak warns'

Though some people may well quit if they are forced to return to the office. As most of what I did when I was in an office was be on Zoom calls it's not something I particularly want


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56535575
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #4149 on: March 26, 2021, 01:38:05 PM »
I know a number of people who people who prefer to work from home, like my son-in-law. It doesn't impinge on his ability to do his job well even though he is in a senior position in his company.
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