Coronavirus

[pat]

That's post to Europe now halted immediately due to the new strain and parcelforce also have closed Turkey and Canada too.

How long before the food is not allowed into Britain due to the vehicles/drivers getting contaminated?

[Corky Smeek]

What is driving me nuts is the media doing vox pop interviews with people who moan about not being able to go to the pub or to a Christmas party or to visit family at the other end of the country. They just don't seem to get the potential consequences of allowing those activities.

[Fulmar]

I don't understand how people just don't get it. The only ones I feel for are those on their own like my widowed sister in law who has no family anywhere local to where she lives in Scotland. She is stoical though and like she says, once Christmas day is over, she can then meet a friend for walks as she has been doing but doesn't want to intrude on anyone on the actual day as the friend does have family. Also, I do feel for those who don't have long to live and think that if those who were planning to visit them have been isolating beforehand then that should be allowed.

[ecb]

Seen on the BBC web site. "Covid-19: Five ways to stay positive through the winter":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55264224

[Neil Howie]

How could we have ended up in another lockdown?

Oh yeah...

From "Metro"" in Dec 2020



Link

[ecb]

"Covid vaccines: Boris Johnson pledges surplus to poorer countries at G7"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56117120

Apparently some people are complaining that it is not enough. For example:

"The UK should donate vaccines to developing countries now rather than waiting until it has a surplus, the new head of the World Trade Organization has told the BBC. ... ":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56135778