Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Hedgecutter]

17 minutes ago, Slenderman said:

Essentially a bechamel without making a roux.

Thanks, Niles.

[Mark Connolly]

When made correctly, bread sauce has the look and consistency of vomit, which should be enough to infrom your decision on whether or not to have it.

[effeffsee_the2nd]

38 minutes ago, alta-pete said:

The bit I've highlighted is baws I'm afraid. It's everything to do with being 'new fashioned and having moved with the times'.

In the olden days business would hold cash and stock to see them through lean times. This c**t Green - and generally accepted current coroprate wisdom - is to rape as much money out of their business as they possibly can (see Mrs Green's £1Bn dividend not so long ago), run it 'hot' with no assets to fall back on, just in time supply chains and generally load it with debt that the business scrambles to manage forevermore. The Glazers and Man U are a similar example. For the Sevco-daft, that's what the boy Whyte tried to to with Rangers before it went so spectacularly wrong.

Old fashioned prudently run businesses that sit with cash and assets were widely thought to be inefficent but they'll be the ones managing to tide themselves over this year.

The £30M borrowings he's looking for is small change. Everyone should do a Branson on him and tell him to f**k off. Problem with that strategy though is the c**t will probbaly use that as an excuse to kill 90% of his leasehold shops, put 90% of the workforce out of their jobs and then buy back the brands from the Administrators for peanuts to then run as a principally online offering. 

Unprincipled c***s.

Heads gone. Sorry.

pretty much, when my partner and I attended a start up workshop the leymans term the used was and I quote " a car with a full tank a fuel won't go as fast " 

[Bairnardo]

Just reading the last couple of pages.... My thoughts are thus.

Bread sauce is so/so, Philip Green is a disgusting, reptilian wretch with the same clammy gene as Matt Hancock.

[Rugster]

Brussels sprouts are magic. 

[Detournement]

2 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

A 28% rise in Covid related absences in a "safe" environment is noteworthy, however much positive spin you try to put in it.

Or you could look at it and think pandemic absences are only 1/4 of normal absences despite the close contact 14 self isolating rule. 

I would guess that like many workplaces the kids most likely to be absent in normal times will make up the majority of Covid absences and the increase is due to longer periods of absence. 

[Todd_is_God]

9 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Or you could look at it and think pandemic absences are only 1/4 of normal absences despite the close contact 14 self isolating rule. 

I would guess that like many workplaces the kids most likely to be absent in normal times will make up the majority of Covid absences and the increase is due to longer periods of absence. 

The only people who would look at it like that are those who want to bury their head in the sand.

Absences are running at 128% of their normal level, with at least the entire increase being Covid related.

There is no positive way to spin that.

Edited November 27, 2020 by Todd_is_God

[Detournement]

And the vast majority of the increase won't be infected they will just be self isolating.

The effect of the 14 day self isolating period was guaranteed to increase absence. It's no reason to declare schools unsafe, you could say they are overly safe. 

[D.A.F.C]

Schools aren't a problem

Close the schools


FFS

[Todd_is_God]

11 minutes ago, Detournement said:

And the vast majority of the increase won't be infected they will just be self isolating.

The effect of the 14 day self isolating period was guaranteed to increase absence. It's no reason to declare schools unsafe, you could say they are overly safe. 

And? They are still absent, and missing out on the education that the large parts of the rest of the country is being put on the back burner for, as a result of Covid not magically stopping at the school gates.

There couldn't be a more compelling argument for blended learning.

As for them being overly safe? You're at it.

Edited November 27, 2020 by Todd_is_God

[Bert Raccoon]

5 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

 

5 hours ago, Billy Jean King said:

5 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

Where the fucks the roasties?

 

4 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

Sorry.

No Parsnips, No Party 

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 minute ago, Snafu said:

That's another, how could anyone forget the parsnips?

Honey roasted?

With some chilli flakes or pepper.

[alta-pete]

Swinney (I think it was) was on the radio as I was driving home talking about the possibly longer school Christmas holidays. 
His basic rationale being he didn’t want community infection from the kids’ familial socialising at Christmas transmitting the virus back INTO schools. 
I think he’s at the wrong end of his own  telescope. 
 

[Billy Jean King]

And the vast majority of the increase won't be infected they will just be self isolating.
The effect of the 14 day self isolating period was guaranteed to increase absence. It's no reason to declare schools unsafe, you could say they are overly safe. 

Some interesting stats here

Nationally on 3 November 23,034 pupils were not in school for coronavirus-related reasons. This included 19,960 not in school because they were self-isolating; 2,256 not in school because their parents chose to keep them away; 678 not in school due to Covid-19 related sickness; and 140 not in school because the school was closed.
As of 4 November, three schools in Scotland were listed as closed because of the coronavirus: Cunard School in West Dunbartonshire; Cardinal Winning Secondary in Glasgow, and Poolewe Primary in Highland.

So at the point this month this data was extracted only 678 pupils in the whole country were absent WITH C19. That is massive overshadowed by isolations and unbelievably more than 3x more kids being kept off by their parents than were actually infected. A proper robust testing regime would massively cut school absenteeism as the huge proportion of those absent are not infected.

[Billy Jean King]

Swinney (I think it was) was on the radio as I was driving home talking about the possibly longer school Christmas holidays. 
His basic rationale being he didn’t want community infection from the kids’ familial socialising at Christmas transmitting the virus back INTO schools. 
I think he’s at the wrong end of his own  telescope. 
 

STV reporting tonight the local authorities have unanimously rejected the idea and want schools to remain open as scheduled. Interesting stand off ahead.

[DeeTillEhDeh]

STV reporting tonight the local authorities have unanimously rejected the idea and want schools to remain open as scheduled. Interesting stand off ahead.

I know in Dundee that they did not want to make the decision locally - they wanted it to be a national decision.

[DeeTillEhDeh]

So he doesn't want the children who are infected to infect other children who are infected?
And if all the teachers are infected anyway due to their children or grandchildren being infected, if so who else goes to school???

[vikingTON]

24 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

And? They are still absent, and missing out on the education that the large parts of the rest of the country is being put on the back burner for, as a result of Covid not magically stopping at the school gates.

There couldn't be a more compelling argument for blended learning.

As for them being overly safe? You're at it.

The kicker of course is that if you're a key worker whose child is now self-isolating after their spell in the infection factory then you have to take time off work for childcare; whereas if schools had been punted into blended/remote learning in the first place then those children could be catered for in hubs with far fewer students, close contacts and therefore less chance of having to self isolate. 

The desperation of snippy parents with  bullshit jobs to just get their sprogs out the house is causing key workers to actually lose hours due to childcare related absence. Just let that sink in.

[vikingTON]

46 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

So at the point this month this data was extracted only 678 pupils in the whole country were absent WITH C19. That is massive overshadowed by isolations and unbelievably more than 3x more kids being kept off by their parents than were actually infected. A proper robust testing regime would massively cut school absenteeism as the huge proportion of those absent are not infected.

Aye hold on while we divert testing capacity from care homes to mass test thousands of grotty weans on a daily basis to try and distinguish between their latest cold of the winter and the 'rona.

Edited November 27, 2020 by vikingTON

[Granny Danger]

31 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said:

 

 

No Parsnips, No Party 

I really dislike parsnips.  Intensely.