The Corona Virus

[Supersub6]

I still struggle to come to terms with an apparently deadly virus, for which you have to take a test to know you've got it.

Come on sinkov, it's all part of the plan! You take a test and then you have to earn a degree so that you can join SAGE and pontificate about the virus. Bloody hell you need a degree before you can doanything these days ---is the Fire Service the same or do they still appreciate that people can do the job without having one?

[sinkov]

The Fire Service has gone the same way Sub, when I got in everyone had the same tests/exams to pass, even graduates, and everyone had the same training course and started at the bottom as a fireman, or firefighter, as they have to be called now. There are different entry levels now, also certain categories can jump the queue, so to speak, I'll leave it to your imagination to work out just which categories.

[Supersub6]

The Fire Service has gone the same way Sub, when I got in everyone had the same tests/exams to pass, even graduates, and everyone had the same training course and started at the bottom as a fireman, or firefighter, as they have to be called now. There are different entry levels now, also certain categories can jump the queue, so to speak, I'll leave it to your imagination to work out just which categories.

So sad how things are these days. Need a degree for this, that and the other. experience counts for absolutely nothing. My son has 30 years experience as a Paramedic, however, if he wants to progress further he was told many years ago that he would have to get a degree. His response was "What good would a degree have been at the Paddington rail disaster, the bombings in London, the Kings Cross underground fire etc., etc?"
He has not bothered to pay for study to obtain a degree in his own time, particularly as he commutes from Sheffield to London to do his job. strangley, he concentrates on the same thing he has done for the past 30 years ---trying to save lives!

[sinkov]

"The widow of a "kind and caring" Co-op worker says her husband took his own life because he couldn't cope with the social restrictions imposed during the pandemic. Simon Gibbs lived in Layham and worked at the East of England Co-op's Wherstead Park centre, until he was reported missing on Wednesday, September 2, 2020. Early the next morning, on Thursday, September 3, police were called by dog walkers to the Nacton shoreline under the Orwell Bridge where a body was found, later to be identified as the 49-year-old."

Who fecking cares, just stay at home and wear your muzzles.

B@stards

[The Bedlington Terrier]

"The widow of a "kind and caring" Co-op worker says her husband took his own life because he couldn't cope with the social restrictions imposed during the pandemic. Simon Gibbs lived in Layham and worked at the East of England Co-op's Wherstead Park centre, until he was reported missing on Wednesday, September 2, 2020. Early the next morning, on Thursday, September 3, police were called by dog walkers to the Nacton shoreline under the Orwell Bridge where a body was found, later to be identified as the 49-year-old."

Who fecking cares, just stay at home and wear your muzzles.

B@stards

A variant such as this will be the next excuse to lock us all up again.

https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/1400...Than-Dble-in-A

[sinkov]

A variant such as this will be the next excuse to lock us all up again.

https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/1400...Than-Dble-in-A

"TEHRAN (FNA)- Cases of the Indian variant of the coronavirus in England have risen by nearly 50 per cent in three days and more than doubled in a week, new figures showed. Numbers have increased by more than 1,000 since Monday, and by more than 2,000 in the past seven days, according to official figures, The Independent reported. A total of 3,424 cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus B1617.2 – thought to be more transmissible - have now been confirmed in the UK, Public Health England (PHE) said. Thursdays figure’s represent a rise of 2,111 on the previous week, when there were 1,313 cases, and a rise of 47 per cent since Monday’s 2,323 cases in the UK."

The Iranians quoting the Indy, that's a lethal cocktail, where they get their figures from I've no idea, maybe they just make them up. Here are the latest figures from the GOV.UK website,

Cases in England by Specimen date,

May 10th 2164
May 11th 1737
May 12th 1764
May 13th 1651
May 14th 1449
May 15th 1245
May 16th 1516
May 17th 2248
May 18th 2077
May 19th 2031

The 3 latest figures look like they are due to a massive increase in the number of tests carried out, and they're only back to the level seen on May 10th anyway. No sign of the 1,000 or 2,000 increases the Beano talks about.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I would roughly calculate 20% of my entire lifetime earnings have gone on funding my offspring's degree education.

I must say the expense has not really been worth it, but they all seemed to enjoy the university culture, which usually included getting pi$$ed.

[kritichris]

I would roughly calculate 20% of my entire lifetime earnings have gone on funding my offspring's degree education.

I must say the expense has not really been worth it, but they all seemed to enjoy the university culture, which usually included getting pi$$ed.

Universities are fountains of knowledge to which students go to drink..

[barrie_burn]

I would roughly calculate 20% of my entire lifetime earnings have gone on funding my offspring's degree education.

I must say the expense has not really been worth it, but they all seemed to enjoy the university culture, which usually included getting pi$$ed.

It's not our fault BT if you were a ***ual athlete.It's a very expensive sport.

[Supersub6]

Lovely to see that BT is in good company