Within the UK should any COVID-19 restrictions be applied (poll)?

[OUFC OX3]

Considering the recent developments, what should anything be imposed regarding COVID-19 restrictions?
48 hour poll. No names & only votes displayed.

 

[Manorlounger]

Tight on Boarders - What the heck is that? Surf, ski, skate?

 

[Yellow Hoods]

Please amend the choices from 'boarders' to 'borders'. Pedantic perhaps, but it's doing my head in ....

 

[SteMerritt]

Please amend the choices from 'boarders' to 'borders'. Pedantic perhaps, but it's doing my head in ....

I've used my 'God mode' and updated for you, don't need any undue stress in this heat do we

 

[MalaysiaYellow]

I've used my 'God mode' and updated for you, don't need any undue stress in this heat do we

British...moan when its cold, moan when its wet, moan when its hot....... )))))))))))))))))))

Just move here to Malaysia 26-32c every day, shorts and t shirt, job done (including working from home)

 

[SteMerritt]

British...moan when its cold, moan when its wet, moan when its hot....... )))))))))))))))))))

Just move here to Malaysia 26-32c every day, shorts and t shirt, job done (including working from home)

I'd rather move to Iceland TBF, not a warm weather person

 

[Malc]

I would go to Malaysia again, liked it there and Malasian Borneo.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

I'd rather move to Iceland TBF, not a warm weather person

Iceland is cracking. Fancy a little holiday once this is all over with? I can spend the whole flight over there giving you a comprehensive run down of the history of nu metal.

 

[SteMerritt]

Iceland is cracking. Fancy a little holiday once this is all over with? I can spend the whole flight over there giving you a comprehensive run down of the history of nu metal.

Sounds awesome. I can feign interest for that amount of time, it's not exactly trans-Atlantic.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Sounds awesome. I can feign interest for that amount of time, it's not exactly trans-Atlantic.

Awesome. We’re changing in Istanbul on the way out.

 

[Berliner]

Iceland is cracking. Fancy a little holiday once this is all over with? I can spend the whole flight over there giving you a comprehensive run down of the history of nu metal.

On our IcelandAir flight out there a couple of years back the entertainment centre had a wide range of Icelandic music. Can confirm it is EXACTLY what you imagine it to be like.

Cracking, cracking country. Once you get over only being able to buy booze at the government off-licences and paying 30 quid for a sandwich and coffee for breakfast that is.

 

[SteMerritt]

On our IcelandAir flight out there a couple of years back the entertainment centre had a wide range of Icelandic music. Can confirm it is EXACTLY what you imagine it to be like.

Cracking, cracking country. Once you get over only being able to buy booze at the government off-licences and paying 30 quid for a sandwich and coffee for breakfast that is.

I'm not adverse to a bit of Bjork, although I'll pack my own sandwiches so thanks for the heads up on that

 

[RyanioBirdio]

On our IcelandAir flight out there a couple of years back the entertainment centre had a wide range of Icelandic music. Can confirm it is EXACTLY what you imagine it to be like.

Cracking, cracking country. Once you get over only being able to buy booze at the government off-licences and paying 30 quid for a sandwich and coffee for breakfast that is.

You're not wrong - it's the same as bloody Norway in that regard. Everything costs a fortune. The first time I ever went to Norway was to a place called Bergen, and I can still remember the horror of being told that a pint and a club sandwich was roughly £26. After I calmed down I went and bought a T-shirt from the local market that had a massive moose on the front, alongside the words 'Nordic Wildlife'. It was class.

Nor sure if he still is, but for a while Bruce Dickinson was a pilot for IcelandAir whenever Iron Maiden weren't touring. What a weird and wonderful place.

Also, what's the best classic car you've ever seen in Iceland?

 

[greatunclekip]

You're not wrong - it's the same as bloody Norway in that regard. Everything costs a fortune. The first time I ever went to Norway was to a place called Bergen, and I can still remember the horror of being told that a pint and a club sandwich was roughly £26. After I calmed down I went and bought a T-shirt from the local market that had a massive moose on the front, alongside the words 'Nordic Wildlife'. It was class.

Nor sure if he still is, but for a while Bruce Dickinson was a pilot for IcelandAir whenever Iron Maiden weren't touring. What a weird and wonderful place.

Also, what's the best classic car you've ever seen in Iceland?

Haha- i had uncannily the same experience in Bergen. Cheap easyjet flight over for a long weekend. 300 quid in pocket thinking that will see me and the other half through. Gone after the chinese meal, a couple of pints and a sausage roll.

The bar had a naked painting of the landlady literally above the bar. The most bizarre place.

 

[OUFC OX3]

I would go to Malaysia again, liked it there and Malasian Borneo.

Did you go to Sarawak/Sabah? I've never been to Sabah. Yet, taken the family to the cat city Kuching 3 times to enjoy it's unique etymology, tropical rainforests & fishing. Where a coffee & sandwich could set you back around a whopping quid. Last time there was March 2019, where they started jacking up the prices.

 

[chuckbert]

Did you go to Sarawak/Sabah? I've never been to Sabah. Yet, taken the family to the cat city Kuching 3 times to enjoy it's unique etymology, tropical rainforests & fishing. Where a coffee & sandwich could set you back around a whopping quid. Last time there was March 2019, where they started jacking up the prices.

We went to kota kinabalu a few years ago, which was pretty nice (up near Brunei). It was a bit "resorty", but there was an orang sanctuary and some cool fireflies on the river.

 

[Malc]

Did you go to Sarawak/Sabah? I've never been to Sabah. Yet, taken the family to the cat city Kuching 3 times to enjoy it's unique etymology, tropical rainforests & fishing. Where a coffee & sandwich could set you back around a whopping quid. Last time there was March 2019, where they started jacking up the prices.

Yes, both, and also a 3 day trip deep into the jungle south of Sandakan. Fantastic! Wild elephants, wild orang utangs, and many other birds, monkeys, and insects, snakes. etc. Also included 2 bloodsuckers, 1 on my leg and 1 on my back. Also slept in a longhouse from the head-hunters and drunk their self-distilled whisky. Boy was I drunk!

One of the best holidays I've ever had.

 

[SteMerritt]

I must say thanks to @OUFC OX3 for starting this interesting holiday thread, great idea.

Sorry what's that? , it's gone off track from COVID? Bloody forum users...

 

[AbbeyOx]

i can beat any of that.
i’m off to weston-super-mare pontins for the weekend. breakfast and dinner included

 

[bazzer9461]

Off to Malta on Monday with Mrs Bazzer both double jabbed and apparently you don’t have to wear masks outdoors which will be great because of the heat but indoors you do and we will, I have an exemption badge but as a courtesy I shall wear a mask.
We both will take extra care whist we are out there for our own safety.
we are only going as it is now safer there than it is here.

 

[dannyc]

i can beat any of that.
i’m off to weston-super-mare pontins for the weekend. breakfast and dinner included

Why visit that dump lol I live near there these days

 

[MalaysiaYellow]

Yes, both, and also a 3 day trip deep into the jungle south of Sandakan. Fantastic! Wild elephants, wild orang utangs, and many other birds, monkeys, and insects, snakes. etc. Also included 2 bloodsuckers, 1 on my leg and 1 on my back. Also slept in a longhouse from the head-hunters and drunk their self-distilled whisky. Boy was I drunk!

One of the best holidays I've ever had.

To keep everything in 1 Post.

1) The whole world is watching the UK and what happens next with Covid, ie impact on hospitals.
2) Football related, the MPL and MSL restart this weekend, no supporters but is online if you want to watch some decent football (unlike the rubbish in Singapore, James)
3) Sabah is awesome, full of wild creatures! Just like this forum.
4) Holiday? Whats that? :-((((((((((

 

[greatunclekip]

Off to Malta on Monday with Mrs Bazzer both double jabbed and apparently you don’t have to wear masks outdoors which will be great because of the heat but indoors you do and we will, I have an exemption badge but as a courtesy I shall wear a mask.
We both will take extra care whist we are out there for our own safety.
we are only going as it is now safer there than it is here.

Thanks to Boris, it is safer in Mogadishu than here.

 

[OUFC OX3]

To keep everything in 1 Post.

1) The whole world is watching the UK and what happens next with Covid, ie impact on hospitals.
2) Football related, the MPL and MSL restart this weekend, no supporters but is online if you want to watch some decent football (unlike the rubbish in Singapore, James)
3) Sabah is awesome, full of wild creatures! Just like this forum.
4) Holiday? Whats that? :-((((((((((

Haha ha.
Apart from JDT, we'd turn over any of your fraud football teams. Including your national team and their foreign players
For those who don't know, Malaysia is going through a tough lockdown.
Did you read that we got put onto Phrase 2, due to a spread from KTVs.

 

[EastStandKieran]

Covid could be spread through FARTING, ministers claim

CORONAVIRUS could be spread through FARTING, government ministers have claimed. Some officials have privately pointed to evidence that the virus can be spread through omitting bodily gasses in conf…

www.thesun.co.uk

If anybody farts next to me on the 14th against charlton they will be in for it

 

[radicalox]

Interesting no natural immunity proof on that poll list - which really shows the government messaging.
I find it very perplexing the Government is pushing for the vaccine passports, which have a fairly minimal effect on refusing transmission, yet refuse to acknowledge natural immunity, which provides far superior, likely close to 100% protection from infection or transmission.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Is there any reliable test for 'natural immunity'?

 

[radicalox]

Is there any reliable test for 'natural immunity'?

Yep. Natural immunity is immunity resulting from infection with covid19 - so proof of infection or presence of immunity markers to indicate previous infection.
So a high quality pcr, or (less reliably) lateral flow to confirm infection.
Or
Presence of antibodies against a range of sars-cov2 proteins.(very easy to do)
Or
T-cell immunity (Hardest to test of the 3).

The challenge in a mass sense are individuals who didn't get a pcr test when tested, have no antibodies, but do have t-cell immunity (this is usually the young, healthy, mild disease/asymptomatic groups). There isn't really a way to screen quickly and efficiently for t cell immunity yet.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Interesting. And how 'immune' are those who have had it, either to reinfection by the same variant or a different one? Is it impossible to catch the disease twice?

Can such people still carry and spread the virus?

 

[Steve Gilbert]

Interesting no natural immunity proof on that poll list - which really shows the government messaging.
I find it very perplexing the Government is pushing for the vaccine passports, which have a fairly minimal effect on refusing transmission, yet refuse to acknowledge natural immunity, which provides far superior, likely close to 100% protection from infection or transmission.

It is of course sensible to think that once you have got Covid you have got a higher rate of immunity from it as your body has built up antibodies to fight against it. However, while you can still catch it after the vaccine, it makes the reaction from it less extreme. So surely having the vaccine and then catching Covid the best solution to build up the best resistance from it?
Covid is here to stay and will become another type of flu so eventually everyone has to catch it to build up an immune system against it.