avalunche
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2 minutes ago, Longcol said:To stop the NHS being totally overwhelmed by people who need hospitalisation.
Which never happened and nightingale wards were never used. So what is the excuse this time around?
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23 minutes ago, Mister M said:That's an incredibly unfair post. Catmiss has disclosed that aged 66 she has lung condition, and your response implies that her life is less important because of the unemployment and disingenuously feigning concern for her 'comfie pension'. It wasn't Catmiss who locked down the economy, it's the Government's policy.
This nonsense about "I know there is a tendency in Sheffield to think benefits and public sector wages magically appear in bank accounts, but no, someone went without part of their earnings to pay them." Tell that to the Government who are paying up to £7,000 a day for consultants in the outsourcing sector who have delivered us a failing track and trace system.
I'm sure you're right that serious changes are coming, and no-one in their right minds are expecting things to continue as they always have done. I doubt very much it will be the most well off who'll pay in financial terms for the response to Coronavirus, it will be those with the least broadest shoulders.
It is neither fair nor unfair. But a statement of fact. 99.5% of people who get this disease survive. So what are the lockdowns for exactly? Who are they to protect? The 0.5% who are old and have serious illnesses. These are irrefutable facts.
Meanwhile those with quite treatable conditions, various cancers, heart attacks, are dying because the NHS is closed for business. Still paying for it of course.
So incredibly happy to read this morning that NHS workers will be first in line to get the barely tested vaccine.
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8 hours ago, catmiss said:I
I have a lung condition which renders me particularly susceptible to Covid but am 66, receive a pension and have the support to be able to self isolate. My concern is, that government local lockdown strategy fails and leads to a return to herd immunity theory ‘survival of the fittest’
Have you considered that if we continue locking down to protect people like you, it will result in massive unemployment, destroyed economy, no one paying tax to pay your comfie pension? Its probably already too late to change course.
I know there is a tendency in Sheffield to think benefits and public sector wages magically appear in bank accounts, but no, someone went without part of their earnings to pay them. The sums didn't add up pro-covid with the government having to borrow billions, and they sure dont now.
Serious and unexpected change is coming, do not rely on things to continue as they always have done.
I bet some will think that by increasing taxes on far fewer people working, we can somehow continue, no chance of that at all. Magic money tree? Well in that case, pensions will stay the same but a loaf of bread will end up a tenner.
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6 hours ago, melthebell said:'On Thursday, French police raided the homes of senior government and health officials as part of an investigation into their handling of the pandemic.
The government has faced criticism over shortages of equipment and slow response times.'
Interesting
Exciting. I would strongly support everyone responsible in our government facing a trial.
1 hour ago, Baron99 said:Well over one thousand positive cases of COVID-19 connected to both Sheffield Universities.
With the above & what's out in the city in general, don't think it will be long before we're heading up to the tier 3 category?
Students bring very few positives to Sheffield and an awful lot of negatives. Send them home.
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12 hours ago, onewheeldave said:Tell your doctor- there may well be a medical reason, in which case you could be exempt.
Dave there is no need to consult a doctor or get any approval to become exempt. Simply deciding you are exempt is sufficient.
Here is the link to the goverments website. There's even a nice card you can download and print off / show on your phone.
Exemption cards
Those who have an age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering should not be routinely asked to give any written evidence of this, this includes exemption cards. No person needs to seek advice or request a letter from a medical professional about their reason for not wearing a face covering.
Some people may feel more comfortable showing something that says they do not have to wear a face covering. This could be in the form of an exemption card, badge or even a home-made sign.
This is a personal choice and is not necessary in law.
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1 hour ago, Anna B said:If he had been resident in a care home he would probably never have been admitted to hospital in the first place, and if he had been sent to a care home to recuperate the chances are he would never have left it.
I just wanted to point out that the death toll in the old is not necessarily the inevitability that you seem to think and am concerned that the elderly are generally being written off without a thought.
Not all old people die from covid, but most of those that do die are old. But in your account, did he actually have Covid? Otherwise I'm not really sure of the point of your story.
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1 hour ago, tinfoilhat said:Haha, yeah cos not going on a freshers week is exactly the same as being shot at by the Luftwaffe!
That's not what i meant at all. What i meant, is young people who studied years for exams and than at the end weren't allowed to take them. I mean people who built up a business, that was forced to close. I mean people who had planned a year abroad teaching that was cancelled. I mean those that were in line for routine, but essential health procedures that were cancelled. I mean those that needed a simple filling but ended up losing a tooth or having a root canal due to inability to get help. I mean those who lost love ones who were denied the chance to say goodbye. I mean those denied contact with grandchildren and family. The list goes on and on.
Are you really so blind to what is going on that the only thing you think people have sacrificed is a week of drinking? Seriously? Hopefully you were joking..... Many of those above are real examples from my friends and family.
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17 minutes ago, Common Tater said:I am now thinking that Sheffield along with Nottingham and maybe other cities has had extra measures imposed because of high numbers of student cases. We now cannot meet with our own families in our own homes. This was allowed to happen by the Government and the Universities and was I believe predictable. I am not sure how much the students themselves are responsible but their interests seem to have been put ahead of those of the rest of us.
Correct. Also what was quite predictable, was that the students would end up paying eye watering fees and accommodation costs just to end up doing online learning!
Though I do not agree that young people should sacrifice their life and future to keep those who have already lived their lives alive for a few months longer. I find it quite obscene frankly. I read this quote elsewhere
"Never have so many sacrificed so much for so few"
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1 hour ago, nightrider said:User error. Its not that masks don't work.
Its a major failure that there was no education campaign explaining how to safely use them. Also perhaps a major failure of our education system that so many did not think to find out how to use them safely (very easy with google) before using them.
No one wants to pay to use masks correctly, IE use for 15 minutes then throw them away, for a disease with a 99.5% survival rate. Same as no one wants Boris to spend 100 billion of public funds on constantly testing us for that same disease. Perhaps if it was serious and millions were dying, then yes. But not for something that overwhelmingly kills those who are well past average life span and with comorbidities..
Its a criminal overreaction, that has led to numerous avoidable deaths due to denying tax payers access to the NHS that they are heavily taxed for - and still does this to this day. Better make sure you don't get ill in the foreseeable future as you will be on your own!
What has surprised me, is how pathetic, and weak minded our people are. How easily they accepted illogical tyranny with barely a complaint. A tribute to our dumbed-down education system I guess.
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13 hours ago, Jim117 said:How hard can this be? Is wearing a mask so difficult? Wearing a mask is an irritable inconvenience but I can easily cope with it and I’m a quite heavy smoker. I don’t believe for one minute that there is any medical reason to not wear one other than mental issues like maybe autism. Round our way the most common group of people I see flouting the rules in shops are middle aged men (my age group) who presumably think they are too “hard” to be challenged on their behaviour or indeed to actually catch Covid. Regarding all the bull being spoken about sheep, hoaxes, government control, etc, I have in the past participated in civil disobedience when I have thought it necessary but at the moment I will quite happily wear a mask if I think it will even slightly help me, my family or my fellow citizens. Just to finish, my nephew and his family have got Covid, my elderly parents neighbours have got Covid and my sister in law’s neighbours have got Covid. In the last example the wife has been told to say her goodbyes to her husband although she can’t go to hospital to do it in person because she has Covid.
Or perhaps they simply feel that wearing them is pointless and uncomfortable for a disease that 99.5% of people survive, and that the government stupid edicts should be resisted not complied with? The same government who told is in March that masks don't work, months later to mandate them for shoppers but not shop staff, to then later say shop staff must also wear them. The same government that paid people to go out and have a meal on them to "help out", and then told people off for going out and spreading the disease.
If you were to ask any medical professionals who routinely use face masks, they would tell you they are used and then instantly dis-guarded. The way we use them, repeatedly, touching them all the time, adjusting, makes them utterly worthless. Its pure theatre that we are wearing them. Others who know more about diseases and our immune system tell us that what we are doing is actually weakening our immune system!
When I think of this government I think bring them to justice for what they have done and the lives ruined and lost.
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if you were to read the government's website on who is exempt from wearing a mask. You would see that simply deciding that you feel unable to wear one as it would cause you severe distress is enough. No evidence needed, just your opinion.
This is a direct quote. Notice the last sentence which I have highlighted.
QuoteExemption cards
Those who have an age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering should not be routinely asked to give any written evidence of this, this includes exemption cards. No person needs to seek advice or request a letter from a medical professional about their reason for not wearing a face covering.
So its very easy to 100% follow the rules, while not wearing the masks! Just wake up and decide that being a sheep is not for you.
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20 minutes ago, Ghozer said:So, the two busiest ones in the city (and the two easiest to access) are closing....
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!Maybe the ones with the highest gouging from the council on rates too? Perhaps the profit is in takeaway and not sit down restaurant? I used to enjoy an occasional buffet lunch, but that's totally dead for the foreseeable future.
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2 hours ago, Annie Bynnol said:Between M1 junctions 33 and 34 is going to trial a 60mph in an attempt to reduce pollution,
Work from home, and we can drop the tax take and pollution down to nothing! I'm not green, but I want to see them bankrupt as punishment for their stupid ideas.
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Sheffield High Street and Penistone road both earmarked to close!
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On 02/03/2020 at 12:08, the_bloke said:I didn't say anything about them being free.
I'm not sure how people can moan about the city centre shops because there are too many cheap shops/not enough high end shops then show their true colours by complaining about having to pay to park. If you can afford to shop in high end shops then you can afford a few quid to park surely?
Well you replied to my post about no free parking, by listing parking that was not free. Perhaps pay more attention in future?
On 02/03/2020 at 19:51, ECCOnoob said:The more I read your last few posts, the more I'm convinced you have not stepped foot on the Moor in recent times. You clearly haven't got a clue what is going on around there if you have been down you're blind to it.
Pray tell what actual location you think it would survive in since you are so full of it.
No where in the centre. Have you not heard the High street is dying? That's actually what this topic is about. I think I've said enough on the topic and will link back to it when it shuts down.
Might even be this year with this virus. Who wants to sit in a room with lots of people breathing in their germs for 2 hours?
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40 minutes ago, the_bloke said:There are two car parks within a minutes walk of the cinema on the Moor. Normally virtually empty in an evening too, so you can drive in and park and get to the cinema in the time you've even found a space at Centertainment.
P. S. The Light is a better cinema too.
Where are these free (zero cost) car parks you speak of? Do you think perhaps they are virtually empty in the evening as no one wants to go there?
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20 hours ago, ECCOnoob said:Firstly you ask where all the parking is for the cinema when there are three bloody car parks connected to The Moor itself and at least half a dozen others within a 5-10 minute walk.
Those car parks are free?
This is what I said "Hows it contrast to free parking at the brilliant Meadowhall and Centretainments cinemas?
Your reading comprehension skills aside. Its also laughable that you think people would park (and pay) in wet windy sheffield to walk 10 minutes to the cinema, when they could just pop to dry and warm Meadowhall with free parking.
Or they might instead make an evening of it and go to one of the many nice restaurants at Centretainments and then a film. Where would they eat to do the same in Sheffield? Krispy Kreme?
Its in the wrong location, and will not stay in business long. Mark my words.
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10 hours ago, ECCOnoob said:H&M, Next, New Look, JD Sports, Gap, River Island all moved down there.
Add on all the new arrivals such as Monki, Weekend, Sketchers, Krispy Kreme, Brew & Bean, Lane7...
Have you actually walked on The Moor with your eyes open?
I dont know why you are so confident about the failure of the cinema considering the huge number of new accommodation and residences being built around the Moor. Add on several brand new office complexes which will increase footfall by another couple of thousand.
Are you sure its not you in the "wrong place".
That area has a long and illustrious history of shops not making money and closing down. Remember Habitat? Red Gates? Woolworths? BHS? Didn't JD sports actually close down there not so long ago?
Today its T J Hughes. Tomorrow it will be Debenhams and probably Boots.
Where's the parking for the cinema? Hows it contrast to free parking at the brilliant Meadowhall and Centretainments cinemas?
The moor is not an area for prestigious brands. Its for cheap tat.
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1 hour ago, the_bloke said:You might have noticed that nearly all shops of note have moved from the 'old heart' of the city centre, because it's a dump.
Its Sheffield, its been a dump forever, and the bottom of the Moor certainly isn't a nice part.
What are the shops of note you speak of? All I can think of is the jumble sale shop aka Primark. Debenhams will most likely be gone this year, and I already predicted that new cinema will not last. Its in the wrong place.
Where did Hotel Chocolat decide to open their store, arguably one of our few premium brands? Not down the Moor, but in the actual heart, or centre, the High Street.
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15 hours ago, Brooker11 said:Loads of people with stories like this one are emerging, its no surprise that the government has decided to keep their investigation into this problem under wraps, the scale is huge.
Its not governments job to hide the truth from its citizens.
2 hours ago, scrapper said:a trial has just finished in Huddersfield one girl started getting raped at 12 and by the time shes was 15 shede been raped by 300 Pakistani men,her family reported the abuse but as perusual were fobbed of,so why is the majority of these men Pakistanis abusing young white kids ,,,anyone have the answer yet,,,
Heart breaking.
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I used to buy a lot from them when they were in the old House of Frazer building. Casual clothes, kitchenware, bedding. But then they decided to move into the new "heart" of the city which is far too far from the actual centre.
So not surprised its gone, stupid decisions yet again.
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5 minutes ago, Jason302 said:What's the latest on roads from city centre to get to shirecliffe please?
If you ask Google for a route map it actually takes into account current traffic conditions.
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22 minutes ago, Stranza said:Meadowhall must have known by lunchtime there would be serious issues.
Plain greed.
BBC reporting a womans body found in the Derwent.
How would they know? All the flood warning say be prepared, not that flooding was a 100% yes it will happen warning. I live next to the river and the police officer who was patrolling it said it would breach the banks last night It didn't. Its an opinion.
As to their being greedy. Like most shops Christmas is the time they make their money that keeps them in business the rest of the year. So what you might call being greedy, they might see as surviving. Its individuals who must make the best decisions for themselves, they know where they have to travel to and from, and if it could be an issue.
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Just now, geared said:Police are blocking exits apparently.
hahaha can you imagine plod doing that?
But meanwhile back on the SY Police twitter it says "TRAVEL: There is still congestion around Meadowhall. We have traffic officers working hard to ease the traffic. Please keep following us for updates."
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