Reply With QuoteWouldn't have taken long to check that your self, would it?Originally Posted by village
About the time it took to attempt to rubbish the figure..
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Wouldn't have taken long to check that your self, would it?
About the time it took to attempt to rubbish the figure..
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
So let’s see....you posted a figure and i asked,quite reasonably,if it was your estimate or based on official figures. The next poster replied helpfully.
You either need to chill out or get laid.
Is there a reason why a thread on eating out using the government backed discount scheme as moved into yet another thread on death rates from COVID and the like? Don't we already have several threads on that?!
Back OT, Galvin La Chapelle was as good as usual, obviously some tables kept free to appropriately distance and masks all around but no change in the food and £32.50 for a 5 course meal of that standard is good value in my book. Shame that my £10 discount was rather lost in the wine bill but naturally that was self inflicted. They also still have the same rubbish dessert wine on the pairing that they had a couple of years ago when I went there for a summer menu. The other paired wines were very nice mind!
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So, Covid - 9 out of 10 dying have an existing illness.
Well, how many of the population have an existing illness?
Indeed, and then there is the obesity issue, the pictures not especially healthy, there's 13 million adult fatties, it's more or less doubled , you might even say bloated in just the last 20 years.
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Good point!
I took some time of work last week and ate out with the family a few time for both lunch and dinner. Unfortunately I wasn't able to take advantage of the scheme but we did have some lovely meals in some lovely settings.
No, you asked if it was my 'guesstimate', the inference was clear, but as you now know it's as official as they get (I don't suppose anyone really knows what's going on).
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Been for an afternoon tea using the discount and there were a fair few there in fact they turned away people who had not booked. Also went to Aqua Kyoto the other Friday and tbh you'd never have thought there was a pandemic on there. Girls dolled up to the nines for the cocktail bar. Lifts usage was controlled and the tables well separated. So felt pretty sorted tbh. Just booked Galvin La Chapelle for a final hurrah :-)
I pay enough tax so I am making the most of good lunches in the city as we return to the office, I'd usually be a tight arse and lunch in Sainsburys....but not this month!
Leon, Shack Shack, Thai etc everyday.
Its a bit of a waste of tax payer cash but if you can't beat em'............
BBC News - Eat Out to Help Out dishes out 35m meals in two weeks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53817886
Seems to be working.
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Yesterday we popped into a Costa coffee shop, our first food or drink inside any business premises since lockdown began, that felt well weird.
Two medium caramel lattes, a chicken fajita wrap for me and a cheese toasty of some sort for Mrs.Rugger. Just over £6 total, that felt nicely weird.
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Used it today my boy wanted to go McD had to use the self service screen which was fine as I put down on it 4 of us was eating so go our breakfast for 2 quid
Yes, last night in London town, city side. First visit in months, it was so quiet, too quiet.
You clearly misunderstand what the initiative is about?.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
Used it this morning for the first time.
Half hour walk in the countryside from the house for breakfast.
Ordered at an outside hatch. Stood and waited for about 10 minutes to collect the food.
Five bacon/sausage and egg baps and five coffees. £19.
Eaten at a table in a field about 20m from the nearest table.
I thought eating at the establishment was a condition of the deal?
You're going to need more than a 30 minute walk to knock that off.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Ah yes.🤣👍
I should perhaps have indicated that I only consumed one of the bacon & egg baps and one cup of coffee. As did each of the other four in the group.😀
Presumably the table in the field is part of the establishment, not a random farmer’s table.
Correct.
Numerous tables well spaced on the farm shop land = within the rules.
Tables outside a cafe on the pavement = not within the rules (unless the cafe happened to own the pavement).
Had lunch or dinner(sometimes both on the same day) out at restaurants we know, either only half the tables in use or half the tables out on the floor, staff suitable attired, been fine, all pre booked so contact details taken at time of booking, I want these places to survive so willing to help, and a lot of missed eating out to make up for.
My bad. I read it as eating at a table 20 minutes from there. Why I did that I don’t know.
The results are in. My wife and I had a grand total of 35 EOTHO meals between us. (We paid for others too, but this is the total for what we scoffed ourselves.)
Can anyone beat this display of generosity and selflessness?
What were the 35+ meals? All McDonalds or similar? ..In which case that was cheap. Otherwise a Harry Enfield character springs to mind.The results are in. My wife and I had a grand total of 35 EOTHO meals between us. (We paid for others too, but this is the total for what we scoffed ourselves.)
Can anyone beat this display of generosity and selflessness?
A variety, but mainly independent restaurants and certainly no McDonald's.What were the 35+ meals? All McDonalds or similar? ..In which case that was cheap. Otherwise a Harry Enfield character springs to mind.
At one end of the spectrum was Morrison's caf, at the other end Kerridge's.
Think me and the family used it 9 times at restaurants. Enjoyed every meal and was pleased to see plenty of social distancing measures in place. Had a great August as managed to get time off work and I love eating out😁
Love eating out but hated how busy everywhere was, so went Thursdays & Saturdays every week instead.
Was hoping it was going to extend to September as we have a week off work coming up & it would have been nice for lunches.
Just said on the news basically what I said above, trying to get the wheels of the economy going by letting people enjoy meals, pubs, and days out has resulted in this second spike..
Life must go on but allowing piss up's in the pubs while there is a killer virus spreading is just ridiculous, but hey as long as the pounds keep rolling in..
It’s not a killer virus. This second spike isn’t a second spike. People need to get out and get back to work and go to school.
Yes there are more people testing positive, many of which will be false but there isn’t the numbers ending up in hospital or dying.
There are far more people dying because of our economic state than from CV.
You're totally right about people getting back to work and school, but my point about socialising is that it is not as important as school and work, yes some pubs, restaurants will close and those jobs will be lost but had people not gone out drinking/eating then we wouldn't be in this mess now.
Second point about more positive cases, the reason why the hospital rates are currently low is because its mainly the younger generation testing positive, France is slightly in front of us and its now starting to make its way into the older generation with some hospitals under huge pressure, effectively we're just heading back to where we were.
I’m not sure the socialising will cause any more infections (not cases) than schools, work or indeed Universities (be interested to see what happens at Christmas when all the students come home) and I do think the more people (younger) get it the better. Let’s face it many people have had it and didn’t even realise. Lockdown was possibly the worst thing we could have done as the peak was past before we locked down. We unfortunately missed the opportunity over summer to spread the virus and develop some sort of “herd” immunity. Sweden had the right idea but I guess it’s too late for that.
As an aside it was interesting how different restaurants acted. Went to Nando’s last week and the staff looked petrified and wouldn’t get within arms length of the table. Other places you wouldn’t have noticed anything different other than the table spacing some waiters using masks some not.
Was in Greece last week and all waiters wore masks and sanitised hands between serving each table, and each table had sanitiser on it. Seemed much more relaxed
I have to strongly disagree here. My friend is in charge of the Covid ward in Bolton hospital. This week they have had a grand total of THREE hospitalised Covid-19 patients, all admitted because they need breathing assistance while they fight the worst of the symptoms, and 20 positive tests on-site on existing patients (who have now been sent home, symptoms too mild to require treatment). To read the news and look at the high street you'd think Bolton is ground zero for the end of days, yet the death rate is floating right around....ooooh, nothing. I think we've had two in the past fortnight.
Frankly, I don't remotely care about the infection rate, it has as much significance as how many people have a cold. Right at the start we were told that this would most probably go through the entire population given time, and it was widely thought that the point of the 3 month lockdown was to give the hospitals breathing room ready for the second wave.
What I DO care about is the death rate, which is currently around 0.5% nationwide if the stats are to be believed. Not a million miles off the mortality rate for Flu - and again, the elderly and ones already in ill health are the ones at risk.
Surely at this point we should just let this run its course, let the vulnerable "shield" if they wish, barricade themselves in and stay indoors 24/7 if it makes them feel better, but locking down the country when the positive Covid tests are predominantly in the younger generations who have a 99.99% survival rate just feels a bit mental.
Like I say, I'm in Bolton which has been cast as the worst area in the country for positive cases, but when you calm down and look underneath the media blanket, this really isn't the issue it was in Spring when the daily death tally was in 3 and 4 figures.
This is still a very serious issue, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't exist, but without any shadow of a doubt the UK is over the worst and nobody can convince me that Covid-19 is still the threat we were told it was going to be.
Any updates?
How's life for your friend on the Covid ward?
This takes the overall number of patients who have died from coronavirus at the hospital to 509 since the start of the pandemic.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.t.../19022925.amp/
Some of the comments here haven’t aged well have they. Terrifying numbers of dead announced daily.
Very diplomatically put.
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