Is new lockdown looming?

The dark red is the rate of increase - a worse portent than the actual numbers unfortunately.

Lifting social distancing is such a mistake

UK going in the direction we all thought too.

And did you see the coverage today elsewhere that France’s responsible minister thinks we really will have problems with variants this winter

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We may have more variants on the way, the Eta, Iota, Kappa and Lambda fall under Variants of Interest.

How bad?

I had the same problem, but local pharmacy gave me my QR code on presenting my certificates to them.

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Me thinks if you refuse to be vaccinated and don’t want/can’t afford tests before visiting most public places (except shops) then it’s almost like another lock down as you won’t be able to do much!

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That’s a personal decision; I think its proponents call it ‘freedom’, whereas I call it ‘stupid and solipsistic’.

Macron isn’t frightened of calling anti-vaxers ‘anti-social’, whereas Johnson is too enthralled to populism, so-called libertarianism andalso too reliant on the Tory right to clearly espouse that. The result is a classic English fudge, but maybe the UK would be better off if that description was limited to toffee.

On a more positive note, I’ve got my Fr and EU passes on my phone but have taken the precaution of printing both and putting a folded copy of the former in my wallet.

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A person said that same thing to me today my answer was if spending time with grandchildren is that important why move to a different country in the first place?

Do you only have one important thing in your life?

Personally I find that life is a series of balancing decisions between competing priorities. And you make the best choice you can at the time. Did you predict Covid when you moved to France?

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How did they receive your pearl of wisdom?

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Allot of people that are close to their family’s move after retirement closer to the grandkids not abroad i was close to my grandparents spent every weekend together but that’s not possible if they lived in France

Everyone needs to make sacrifices if ever are going to beat this

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People are not proposing going to nightclubs!

But travelling - fully vaccinated - from A to B in private cars and then not socialising with any other than direct family. I think after two years this is not exactly wayward behaviour, and might even keep ferry companies from bankruptcy.

This is not where the increase in cases is coming from! Target your disdain in the right place please.

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We have grandchildren in Munich, it was our daughter that moved.

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My English Gran refused to move around the UK just to be near us.
She had had her place built near our home when she retired… and just short years later Dad got promotion and off we set…

She stayed put but came to visit us regularly… wherever we happened to be living.
We went and spent holidays with her…

Wonderful memories.

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It wouldn’t have been possible to spend every weekend with our other daughter who moved to live in Bury St Edmunds, a four hour trip and have to pay to stay in a B & B because their house was too small.
Please understand other peoples’ lives, it doesn’t matter if they move away for work in UK, in some cases it would be closer if they lived in France rather Scotland or Northern Ireland.

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I quite agree Jane, it’s too easy to make a sweeping remark. My parents lived in one country, one set of grandparents in a second and the other set of grandparents in a third - people’s family arrangements can be complex for all sorts of reasons.

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When my parents married my mother left her native Somerset and parents to set up home in Yorkshire. My paternal grandmother lived within 15 minutes of our Yorkshire home but it is the visits/ holidays 200 miles away in Somerset that are my happiest childhood memories of grandparents.
We have 2 grandchildren arriving today that we haven’t seen for 2 years, they are now 6 and 4, and I know thier summer stay here will stay in thier memory so much more than if we lived near to them.

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Yorkshire does that to people - it is not just Somerset that is an upgrade but any county that doesn’t start with York!

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France reports highest number of new infections since April

COVID-19 infections are increasing in France, with 20,349 new infections reported on average each day. That’s 39% of the peak — the highest daily average reported on November 7.

Just seen those on the Reuters covid monitoring Web site :

Does make you wonder if Johnson will take France off the amber+ list next week.

Is it surprising when so many refuse to be vaccinated?
What’s the betting that the biggest complainers will be the unvaccinated?

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