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Title: England back on lock down
Post by: LurkerNoMore on October 31, 2020, 02:32:32 PM
Under the new restrictions, bars and restaurants can only offer take-out, non-essential shops must close and people will only be able to leave home for a short list of reasons including exercise. Activities ranging from haircuts to foreign holidays must once again be put on hold.

A lot of daft kunts going to be stuck at home crying to their mum for another 30 days.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: BB on October 31, 2020, 02:44:50 PM
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Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: LurkerNoMore on October 31, 2020, 03:07:57 PM
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Agree!
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: IroNat on October 31, 2020, 03:53:48 PM
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Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: TheGrinch on October 31, 2020, 07:00:23 PM
Just wait till the US goes on lockdown right before the holidays so you can only order online from the big box retailers and small biz goes bankrupt like they want
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: POB on November 01, 2020, 01:45:29 AM
Just wait till the US goes on lockdown right before the holidays so you can only order online from the big box retailers and small biz goes bankrupt like they want

This no cash either
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: LurkerNoMore on November 01, 2020, 07:37:25 AM
Just wait till the US goes on lockdown right before the holidays so you can only order online from the big box retailers and small biz goes bankrupt like they want

Quite possibly this has already happened.  Many small businesses (mostly restaurants and bars/taverns) are only open right now because the landlord are withholding rent at the moment.  Once things are back to "normal" or as close as we can get and rent is required again (even without the additional back rent that was furloughed) a lot of businesses will not recover and instead simply just walk away.

Unless the gov't agrees to either roll out a forgivable loan for small businesses (and not another PPP, but one that actually can go for back rent/utilities/lost revenue) so that small businesses will remain open, or unless the gov't can issue one that is for landlords to recover their back rent and forgive their tenants....  well there isn't much of a future for the small guys.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: LurkerNoMore on November 01, 2020, 07:39:26 AM
Also, I read that many big retailers are not going to do their usual Black Friday routine... instead they are mostly doing it online.  I know that Best Buy and Walmart have already kicked off their Black Friday starting today with online specials broken up over the month of November.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Thin Lizzy on November 01, 2020, 08:07:43 AM
Just wait till the US goes on lockdown right before the holidays so you can only order online from the big box retailers and small biz goes bankrupt like they want

It’ll probably happen but it’s really about keeping money from getting into the economy too quickly with all of the currency devaluation taking place.

The plan from what I’ve seen is to restrict non essential spending.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: joswift on November 01, 2020, 10:42:19 AM
It’ll probably happen but it’s really about keeping money from getting into the economy too quickly with all of the currency devaluation taking place.

The plan from what I’ve seen is to restrict non essential spending.

In Wales they class baby clothes as non-essential...but alcohol is on sale
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: TheGrinch on November 01, 2020, 10:56:24 AM
In Wales they class baby clothes as non-essential...but alcohol is on sale

Can't go to the dentist but can buy lottery tickets :-)
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Thin Lizzy on November 01, 2020, 11:40:42 AM
In Wales they class baby clothes as non-essential...but alcohol is on sale

 Same in New York City, liquor stores remain open. Probably because the state gets a lot of tax revenue from Alcohol sales.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Humble Narcissist on November 01, 2020, 12:09:13 PM
In Wales they class baby clothes as non-essential...but alcohol is on sale
Maybe alcohol in Wales is, like Ireland, an essential.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Straw Man on November 01, 2020, 12:19:38 PM
Just wait till the US goes on lockdown right before the holidays so you can only order online from the big box retailers and small biz goes bankrupt like they want

who wants this?
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: joswift on November 01, 2020, 12:36:11 PM
who wants this?

Big business of course, Amazon has pretty much killed retail, large supermarkets are delivering food

Who needs small business when you can do everything from home

the general population will end up as tax slaves for the next 50 years
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: GigantorX on November 01, 2020, 12:39:46 PM
Lockdowns do nothing but destroy.

This is people in power pulling levers because they need to pull levers. The collateral damage is apocalyptic.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Hypertrophy on November 01, 2020, 01:23:44 PM
Lockdowns do nothing but destroy.

This is people in power pulling levers because they need to pull levers. The collateral damage is apocalyptic.

Yep. It seems to be a trial run for these wannabe dictators.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Straw Man on November 01, 2020, 04:50:15 PM
Big business of course, Amazon has pretty much killed retail, large supermarkets are delivering food

Who needs small business when you can do everything from home

the general population will end up as tax slaves for the next 50 years

I'm sure "big business" would but they have no power to order a shutdown.

State and local governments do that and why would the want to crush small business...who provide local employment and pay state and local taxes in many different ways (employee, property, income, etc..)?
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Capt. SaveAHO on November 01, 2020, 06:31:10 PM
I'm sure "big business" would but they have no power to order a shutdown.

State and local governments do that and why would the want to crush small business...who provide local employment and pay state and local taxes in many different ways (employee, property, income, etc..)?

UBI for everyone.  Its called socialism. 
Big business is a financial sector of government.
Amazon is the delivery service where you can spend your allotted sum of money.
Isn't this what you want?
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: _bruce_ on November 02, 2020, 03:29:55 AM
Just wait till the US goes on lockdown right before the holidays so you can only order online from the big box retailers and small biz goes bankrupt like they want

Seems logical - big business is pulverizing the commoners.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Griffith on November 02, 2020, 04:15:59 AM
Looks like Italy will also have another lockdown, for a month at least.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: LurkerNoMore on November 02, 2020, 05:50:51 AM
Can't go to the dentist but can buy lottery tickets :-)

Umm... dude, they don't exactly do that in the first place....
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Sissysquats on November 02, 2020, 06:09:13 AM
I’d like to see the racial breakdown of covid cases . Not for any nefarious reasons but more to illustrate that cultural lifestyles play a part in the spread. But they don’t publish those figures. I guess it wouldn’t be fair
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Thin Lizzy on November 02, 2020, 06:21:13 AM
I’d like to see the racial breakdown of covid cases . Not for any nefarious reasons but more to illustrate that cultural lifestyles play a part in the spread. But they don’t publish those figures. I guess it wouldn’t be fair

I posted stats for New York City months ago. Predominantly black and Hispanic.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: sync pulse on November 02, 2020, 10:50:01 AM
Can't go to the dentist but can buy lottery tickets :-)

In Houston I had to have a crown done at the beginning of summer...had no trouble
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: dexitrim on November 02, 2020, 04:58:33 PM
I’d like to see the racial breakdown of covid cases . Not for any nefarious reasons but more to illustrate that cultural lifestyles play a part in the spread. But they don’t publish those figures. I guess it wouldn’t be fair

My sister has been taking contract jobs working as a Covid ICU nurse for the last several months.  Two months in Long Island, 10 weeks in Miami, and now heading to Arizona mid November for a 13 week contract there.  I just spent some time in Florida with her, and this is what she and her nurse friend told me.  If you have brown skin (black, latino, asian), and you go to the ICU due to Covid, you are going to die there.  Every single brown skinned patient she just took care of in Miami died, and most on Long Island.  She says there seems to be a racial component to the virus.  If you're white, and have comorbidities, there is good chance that you will be going home after your ICU admission.  I'm going to guess that she'll be taking care of a lot of latino and native american patients in Arizona, so I'll find out if her previous experience holds up there.
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Straw Man on November 02, 2020, 06:15:40 PM
UBI for everyone.  Its called socialism. 
Big business is a financial sector of government.
Amazon is the delivery service where you can spend your allotted sum of money.
Isn't this what you want?

I buy stuff on Amazon and I buy stuff locally...just like pretty much everyone else

The right wing socialism bogeyman is just horseshit that the right uses to try scare the crap out of themselves (meanwhile the red states are more dependent on goverment support than the blue states and everyone loves their social security and medicare)

 
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Gregzs on November 05, 2020, 10:14:10 PM
Title: Re: England back on lock down
Post by: Flexacon on November 05, 2020, 11:30:00 PM
Case numbers were already dropping before the lockdown. There really wasn't any need for it.

Not gonna complain though. I'll be getting paid to put my feet up.