Only ever bought one album of theirs Rattle and Hum, which I got second hand somewhere. I enjoyed it but in general I was never really a U2 fan.
Only ever bought one album of theirs Rattle and Hum, which I got second hand somewhere. I enjoyed it but in general I was never really a U2 fan.
I'm going to be a bit controversial here because I have concerns over the way the Government seems to be dishing out the aid package to business - and I say seem as it's not been clarified yet.
Yesterday the Supermarket shares rallied and are up again today on the announcement by the Chancellor. These companies are currently experiencing an Xmas style boom and there's no indication that they will be closed down and unable to sell their goods.
But the support seems to be aimed at them in a way that favours them. I heard of one company saving 100s of millions.
At the moment, the corner shops are actually holding the fort as those supermarkets can't cope.
Closer to home, my little business I run from home is competing with long established and much bigger players who are in line for grant support, business rate holidays.... that I am not.
Competition rules perhaps do go out the window in such times, but they must be careful that the support being given doesn't distort the market and allow some companies to game the system and come out of it with a competitive advantage gained from that.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Donald Trump has passed a law to provide financial support for ALL Americans.
Like I said earlier, we are just sheep. Not a leader in sight.
Speak for yourself, I am busy social isolating myself therefore not following anybody and certainly not following any sheeplike behaviour and flocking with othersOriginally Posted by Stagger
Last edited by JohnK; 18-03-2020 at 10:18 PM.
Your choice, if you feel the need.Speak for yourself, I am busy social isolating myself therefore not following anybody and certainly not following any sheeplike behaviour and flocking with others
Have you stocked up with bog rolls, pasta and hand gel?
our Biggest problem is garbage in, garbage out oncomputer models that seem to have taken over from common sense.
I had a discussion with a civil servant at the focus of CV response , and it is clear that even he was unaware of the variety of presentation. It was a surprise when I pointed out to him that current health service advice is if you have a fever or cough, not as he assumed fever then cough. Other advice saying unless it goes into your lungs it will pass quickly, uneventfully.
Worse still he was citing number of cases when we have no idea whatsoever how many there are because nobody anywhere is collecting that information. Because if I have all the symptoms and self isolate I am told not to call surgeries 111 or A and E unless it becomes serious. Nor is there anywhere I could record the presentation.
So NOBODY is collecting actual numbers: propagation estimates are bogus figures on which health service models are based.
Speaking to some who have had CV, it is not for many the life threatening or even debilitating illness.
I think we may yet discover the economy has been shut down on the basis of another expert project fear.
Well you are obviously not vulnerable or 70 Oracle, so how old are you?
Article in the Telegraph "What lessons can Britain learn from Germany's successes with coronavirus?"
It's quite an arrogant (and perhaps premature) piece but remarkable in my mind.
"Still, there is one figure that has caught attention: the death rate in Germany. Compared to the number of people infected with coronavirus, the number of deaths in Germany has been maintained, at least for now, at a lower level to most other developed countries. As of Wednesday afternoon, there were more than 10,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Germany and 27 people had died. The UK during the same period had more than 2,600 confirmed cases and over 100 people had died. In Italy, more than 31,000 people were infected, with more than 2,500 fatalities."
and
"It is natural to compare between countries, but it is a difficult exercise. The numbers for testing, for example, vary massively from one place to the other. While in Britain there are tests for coronavirus post-mortem, this is not the case in Germany."
If they aren't testing post-mortem, their figures will look a darn site lower!
I wonder what planet the writer lives on when reading such a piece.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Which comparisons are utter bllx , nobody is recording how many cases there are, so death rate stats are utterly meaningless, and the difference is how serious it is before anyone notices.
Never quite old enough to get preferential. Treatment. I can only point out that the fatality rate for sufferers is a small proportion and unfortunate. The death rate from starvation if we close the economy down is 100 percent.
However many fivers Boris offers , you cannot eat them or wipe your bum without blocking sewers
I think I have had Cv but I’m certainly not on official statistics!
