The right to protest is really, really important - almost everything should be restricted before this.
So why canât people go to football stadiums then as long as theyâre sat a metre apart and wear masks?
No idea, ask the government. I donât see why they shouldnât, personally. Not that Iâm a football fan. Presumably they will all have drinks and hot dogs, go to the loo etc at half time as they do at rugby matches, maybe that is the problem.
I donât really see any logic at work - why should you have only 6 adults in your home if its ok to have 35 adults and near adults with you in a smallish room, who then go and mix and create a new group in another room and so on all day, swishing lots of virus about.
Recording engineer.
I bet that was fun. Back in the early seventies one of my friends was copyright manager at Polydor. We happened to call in one day when âYesâ were in the office and Jon Anderson had his sister with him. I ended up with a couple of dates. It didnât last longâŠI think the attraction was more the fact that it was Jonâs sister than the young lady herself. So fickle.
In Denmark street perhaps or in that studio hidden in an alley off Queensway,
Interesting and indulgent times âŠSurvival of the prettiest.
Announcement on WednesdayâŠ
(Note to self: book a haircut tomorrow!)
Highly likely that a second full lockdown is on the way.
New cases are holding steady around the 20K mark and, even worse, the daily death rate is holding steady at around 400. The R number remains just above 1 as well.
Just watched a France 24 report on evidence from surveys, social media, etc, - and individuals, businesses, etc already breaking the existing rules - that French people wonât accept another lockdownâŠ
Yesterday evening I watched the news on TF1 there was an interview with a restaurant owner saying he was re opening on Monday come what may as he, even with Gouv financial help he is losing 3k⏠per month and struggling.
Interesting times ahead I think.
I think the problem is that people arenât taking this seriously enough already. Itâs just not in the French psyche to keep distant.
This morning we had fibre installed (yippee!) and the young Orange technician kept walking towards me as Iâm backing away trying to keep more space between us.
Most of the time his mask was round his chin.
OH is having a nurse come in a dress a badly bashed thumb. She kept touching him, while she chatted to him. Yes I know she has to touch him while she removes the dressing and was wearing gloves, but we get to the end, she puts the disposable gloves in the bin and as she is saying goodbye touches him with her bare hand. She is a lovely, friendly touchy-feely French lady and Iâm thinking - NO!!!
I learnt this afternoon that a local McDonaldâs has been letting some customers âeat-inâ which is totally against the restrictions and Iâve visited various businesses recently where the staff werenât wearing masks unless they were dealing with the public, just donât understand.
VĂ©ran said in the press conference this afternoon that the curfew is working but not sufficiently to combat the rise in new cases, partly due to the new variants and this is increasing the pressure on hospitals. I reckon new measures will be announced very soon.
No new lockdown for the moment but closure of large shopping centres.
Watching castexâs speech i donât buy it, theyâre playing for time, all a bit odd and the various news channels canât work it out either. If the figures donât drop or go up i think weâll be confined by next week-end.
Ties in with the start of the school holidays.
I agree, my gut feeling is that decisions will be taken this weekend and I hope they will be decisive and have a tight lockdown for at least the first few weeks of the holidays (perhaps compressing them). The worst case scenario would be to let things ride until after the school holidays, and not learn lessons from previous spikes.
These school holidays are staggered, they may decree that all zones start and finish simultaneously and lock us down hard to stop the new variant getting a rapid hold. No real information though, all just speculation. The EN minister is the love-child of Gollum and Uncle Fester and not to be relied on.
And borders to non-EU countries.
But I thought EU borders were already closed to non-EU countries�