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Saw another bunch of potential super spreaders today....groups of parents stood at the school gates! Were they socially distancing? Were they heck as like, you could hardly fit a cigarette paper between some of them.
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That thought did cross my mind too, however on the local news it showed a different view of the queue and there seemed to be good gaps between those waiting. Perhaps it was the way the queue was shown on the main news that made them appear closer than they actually were. Could it be interpreted as,"fake news" I wonder?
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Did anyone watch Channel 4 news last night? Truly heartbreaking story of a Welsh family who lost three family members in five days to Covid. Mum and two sons. 😢
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Had an email from my cousin. Her son who lives in the North West had to go down south to do a job and was working with someone down there for a few days.
Got home and 3 days later had a phone call from workmate who had been diagnosed with Covid. Cousins son isolated for 10 days but no symptoms. Workmate was asked to make a note of all people he had come into contact with by TT&I and they would ring back. They never have! He rang everyone after waiting for rest of day to inform them all to get checked.
Dido must be so proud.
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I'm now wondering why I couldn't get a postal test earlier on, at the time they couldn't verify me. It now appears a credit check company is involved. As I don't have anything on credit I'm non existent. Reading up the details in the news today it's a very poor scenario all round.
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We might have the same problem Brue. Although about 5 years ago we did have finance for all of 3 months to buy a car as it allowed the dealer to give us a large discount over paying for it in cash. Weird but true. So I'm unsure if that would count as credit worthy as we paid it off within 3 months.
What a strange world we live in.
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Sadly credit score is not a new issue.
More than 30 years ago when my in laws purchased their retirement bungalow by the sea, my OH suggested they apply for an Access card - remember them? To gain a few weeks extra spreading the cost of doing it up. Turned down as they had no credit score. Just bought bungalow no mortgage, owned another property, and paid for whatever they bought as they went. They did get one but had a very low limit, which increased rapidly as it was cleared every month.
We encouraged our offspring to apply for a credit card AND pay it off immediately it was due once they were employed.
Funny old world ain't it???
Sorry for taking this off topic but I to think its bizarre that a credit score comes into play for a Covid test, that's really bizarre!
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When i was first with my present OH i had never had any credit cards ,and found life was getting harder to obtain anything unless it was a cash sale,so i took out a JL store card ,which then started opening up other means of getting credit/finance
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I can't remember a time that I've not had a credit card ..... admittedly when younger it wasn't always paid off in full each month, but they are now. And just about every thing this year has been paid with by a card of some sort. I can never understand the reluctance of some to have a credit card, you/one could just use it for fuel .... I mean, who carries £70/100 in their wallet to fill their car up 🤔
Cue EasyT ..... 🙄
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I'd forgotten about credit cards. I do have one and like a couple of others have it paid off each month.
I mistakenly thought we were talking about finance for things like cars, houses, etc. So I suppose I must have some sort of credit rating.
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I don't have a credit card, I've had one in the past and we very occasionally use one belonging to my OH. I don't know whether infrequent use of a credit card would stand up to scrutiny either. To base an address verification on credit worthiness just seems plain daft. I've read the reasons put forward but they don't stand up and are a barrier to testing.
One of the reasons put forward was that multiple requests might be put in from one household, well multiple testing might have reduced the spread in some households! Totally illogical.
Harumphing over.
Next one please!
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A cafe in the outskirts of Plymouth has opened 3 days running and served food to customers sat at tables. The owner was fined on all 3 days. I'm not sure what the penalty was on Thursday but the fine was £1400 on Friday and a further £2000 today.
Will the fines ever be paid, I wonder? If not, this makes the legislation pretty worthless. It'll be interesting to see what happens next.
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The same happened when we bought the Volvo. We were going to pay cash but the salesman persuaded us to buy it on interest free credit and with that came a large discount! Didn't make sense to me but I wasn't going to argue!!😁
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Indeed..... in the last 12 months I have lost almost 6 stone in weight (planned). My endocrine consultant said my blood sugar levels was showing signs that I was pre-diabetic so 'it wouldn't do any harm to lose some weight'. 12 months later and blood sugar level is now comfortably normal 👍👍 .....and it's now useful now that Covid is knocking around - less of a risk factor...
David
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It’s my understanding that the term paraplegia is used as a description of the resulting paralysis which can be caused by any number of conditions whereas Down's Syndrome is a particular condition.
Therefore, to say someone is paraplegic is correct in the same way as saying a person is ill. The same cannot apply to a specific named condition whether it be Down's Syndrome or influenza.
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Agree - there was a report on our (West Country) ITV local news just this week about a mother with a child who has Downs Syndrome who has spent lockdown inventing a card system advising on appropriate language to use in these circumstances. I will try to find a link - personally, I abhor the expression "is Downs Syndrome".
Edit - since posting this I see the original post with which I was agreeing has been removed. Hopefully this reply will be left as the link above may prove to be enlightening.
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The alternative for me is a debit card or in the case of fuel just a plug for the EV.
However if you want a postal Covid test you'll probably do better getting one if you have a well used credit card! I was never able to get a test when ill and I wonder how many others didn't.
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