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View DANGERCLOSE's Profile DANGERCLOSE Flag london 23 Mar 20 9.48am Send a Private Message to DANGERCLOSE Add DANGERCLOSE as a friend

 

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View Forest Hillbilly's Profile Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 23 Mar 20 9.55am Send a Private Message to Forest Hillbilly Add Forest Hillbilly as a friend

Originally posted by Mapletree

Taiwan’s response to the virus has been spectacularly good. The only new cases are imported. I would worry far more if flights come from New York.

But flights don't always have to be direct. For example, couldn't someone fly to Greenland, then onto the UK ?

 


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View Spiderman's Profile Spiderman Flag Horsham 23 Mar 20 10.01am Send a Private Message to Spiderman Add Spiderman as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

Presumably these are rescue flights and will soon stop

Up until yesterday the daily flight from Rio was full of Brazilian “tourists”. Luckily that has now stopped.

 

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Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

But flights don't always have to be direct. For example, couldn't someone fly to Greenland, then onto the UK ?

Correct. Many arriving passengers do not travel direct

 

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View Willo's Profile Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 23 Mar 20 10.18am Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

My local hair salon has closed and others in my 'Neck of the woods' have also taken the decision to shut their doors.I suspect this will occur nationwide.

With a re-opening NOT for quite a while, some kind souls will end up with tussock hair askew,crinkly hair in a mad frizz or indeed hair very long and straight akin to al dente spaghetti.

Will certainly keep some behind closed doors as they will not wish to be seen with hair resembling an abandoned chaffinch's nest.

 

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View SavoyTruffle's Profile SavoyTruffle Flag 23 Mar 20 10.28am Send a Private Message to SavoyTruffle Add SavoyTruffle as a friend

Construction site in Waterloo this morning, every single one of these people has the ability to spread the virus on to someone more vulnerable and chance to exacerbate and extend the crisis.

Why the government has not mandated closure of businesses at this point baffles me. All these men will be self employed and as such don’t have cover in the provisions announced on Friday so of course they would still go to work.

It’s going to be easy to try and blame the public for going out And spreading this but without proper support in place non essential workers will continue to go to work.

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View Spiderman's Profile Spiderman Flag Horsham 23 Mar 20 10.40am Send a Private Message to Spiderman Add Spiderman as a friend

Originally posted by Spiderman

Correct. Many arriving passengers do not travel direct

Today Gatwick will have flights from Dubai and Amsterdam both large transit hubs. A flight from Cape Town and wait for it...... one from Bologna! Still Border Force staff are at no more risk than anyone else ( according to some)

 

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View ex hibitionist's Profile ex hibitionist Flag Hastings 23 Mar 20 10.57am Send a Private Message to ex hibitionist Add ex hibitionist as a friend

Originally posted by Willo

My local hair salon has closed and others in my 'Neck of the woods' have also taken the decision to shut their doors.I suspect this will occur nationwide.

With a re-opening NOT for quite a while, some kind souls will end up with tussock hair askew,crinkly hair in a mad frizz or indeed hair very long and straight akin to al dente spaghetti.

Will certainly keep some behind closed doors as they will not wish to be seen with hair resembling an abandoned chaffinch's nest.

poor Mikel Arteta - a double whammy!

 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Online Flag 23 Mar 20 11.31am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

So much for 'herd immunity' then.

Not that it made much sense in the first place.

However, I also don't agree with turning the country into an economic disaster zone where crowds are banned. We lived with smallpox and other viruses through history...the Spanish flu (which killed the fit and healthy) and we didn't destroy the economy doing it.

I believe the focus should be on isolating the elderly and vulnerable and testing everyone coming off an incoming flight not on telling everyone else to stay home....that isn't going to work anyway.

That's where all the money should go.....not on stopping the economy and paying people.....how long do they expect that to continue?

Anyway, you can't 'ask' people to do A and B and then expect compliance, not in this society.....that's been the most awkward aspect of government advice.


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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 23 Mar 20 11.38am

Just had an email from TFL saying they are lifting congestion charge in order for key workers and suppliers to keep moving.

 


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View Eaglecoops's Profile Eaglecoops Flag CR3 23 Mar 20 11.38am Send a Private Message to Eaglecoops Add Eaglecoops as a friend

Originally posted by Willo

My local hair salon has closed and others in my 'Neck of the woods' have also taken the decision to shut their doors.I suspect this will occur nationwide.

With a re-opening NOT for quite a while, some kind souls will end up with tussock hair askew,crinkly hair in a mad frizz or indeed hair very long and straight akin to al dente spaghetti.

Will certainly keep some behind closed doors as they will not wish to be seen with hair resembling an abandoned chaffinch's nest.

Haha, I don't think there are many on these pages with full heads of hair any more, unless of course they were lucky enough to be born without the follically challenged gene.

 

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View Eaglecoops's Profile Eaglecoops Flag CR3 23 Mar 20 11.41am Send a Private Message to Eaglecoops Add Eaglecoops as a friend

Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle

Just had an email from TFL saying they are lifting congestion charge in order for key workers and suppliers to keep moving.

Great idea.

Just been speaking to a mate who has lost all of his work, but he does have three large transit vans. The government should consider offering temporary delivery jobs to people in this position. It could solve logistics problems.

 

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