Lockdown exit strategy

You win.

 

No you win , you know I

 

Mr Dim ball bee - there was no answer to that - one of your best.

 

BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show on now discussing British Airways demise and 12,000 redundancies.

 

Its the elastic bits.

My out of date 3M face dust masks , cheap eBay about a year ago, have an annoying habit of snapping their elastic. ..resulting in a 5 minute hiatus while I bend the staples used to fix the elastic bands to the mask..


Its going to be the time when we start paying the rate of taxes which will support the needs of our community. But at the same time I feel that no public employee should be getting a higher salary than an MP for example...

 

I'm sure there's a Sid James cackle here!

 

I concur that some items will indeed have a shelf life - but some plainly don't!

Regarding your last point - it's a multi billion pound budgets (e.g. the Department for Education spends on average £55 Billion pounds annually), I'd want the best people I could find to run that, and you aren't going to get them for £89k a year.

Christ, most senior IT network engineer's can get that in private sector, leave alone what Architects earn - you simply won't get the talent.

 

I think there is something wrong with him myself ...i thought he was talking slower than ever ...i was trying to see if i could see any spirit bottles in the background Barn .

 

Well it must be my hearing has speeded up then and yes I think he might have

 

The Prime Minister has announced the government’s plan for deconfinement from May 11 to Parliament.

He spoke for an hour and outlined a number of key areas on transport, masks, tests, travel, and the possibility of a change of plan if the evolution of the Covid-19 virus does not follow its expected path.

This first de-confinement period will last from May 11 – June 2. "We have to learn to live with the virus", the Prime Minister said.

"Confinement is a useful tool but it cannot last too long. However the risk of a second wave of the virus that would tire hospital employees and impose re-confinement is a serious risk."

The strategy is to "protect, test, and isolate".

The main points of the Prime Minister's speech are:

- There will be local differences depending on the degree to which it is judged that the virus is active, the capacity of hospitals to receive patients and the readiness of the local system to administer tests for the virus. These will be studied on May 7.

- From May 11, confinement will no longer be necessary for travelling close to home but journeys of over 100 kilometres will only be authorised for "urgent family or for professional reasons".

- The wearing of masks will be compulsory on public transport, there will be enough masks available for the public from May 11.

- Schools will reopen gradually from May 11.

- On work the PM said that those who can do so should continue to work at home and for others it would be recommended that staggered hours be introduced.

- Shops will be able to open other than bars and restaurants - which may be able to open after June 2. A review to be taken end of May into cafes and restaurants.

- 700,000 tests will be made every week from May 11 and any person who is tested positive will have to go into isolation. People who have been in contact with the infected person will be tested and isolated if necessary.

- Individual sport will be allowed and people will be able to go further than the present one kilometre from their home. But no collective, indoor or contact sports will be allowed.

- Parks will only be opened in towns where there is a low circulation of the virus.

- Beaches will remain closed until at least June 1.

- Gatherings must be limited to 10 people. No religious ceremonies will be possible until June 2.

^This is what will happen in France.

 

Must pay attention to the small print , I got all excited and missed the bottom line ....