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So SA are confident they are through their peak.
How far ahead of us were they?0 -
First.Aspect said:
So SA are confident they are through their peak.
How far ahead of us were they?
Looks like about a fortnight
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Quite ironic considering how much the industry has been pushing back against restrictions and not being forced to close. In some cases they may have been better off having to close and getting financial support.tailwindhome said:Awful lot of hospitality businesses closing temporarily due to covid related staffing shortages
We've a difficult January coming across all sectors.0 -
That's what I recalled. So, second half of Jan might feel more optimistic.briantrumpet said:First.Aspect said:So SA are confident they are through their peak.
How far ahead of us were they?
Looks like about a fortnight0 -
1 in 15 had Covid in London in the w/e 23rd Dec according to ONS.0
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You’d expect even lower hospitalisation rates in the UK given vaccination and booster statusFirst.Aspect said:
That's what I recalled. So, second half of Jan might feel more optimistic.briantrumpet said:First.Aspect said:So SA are confident they are through their peak.
How far ahead of us were they?
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Offset by the average age of the population.rick_chasey said:
You’d expect even lower hospitalisation rates in the UK given vaccination and booster statusFirst.Aspect said:
That's what I recalled. So, second half of Jan might feel more optimistic.briantrumpet said:First.Aspect said:So SA are confident they are through their peak.
How far ahead of us were they?
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Will the NHS and other services be able to cope?focuszing723 said:If people in essential services go off sick, would the Government have the required staff to cope though. Another consideration.
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First.Aspect said:
The "natives" would have used a different alphabet.womack said:First.Aspect said:
Yugoslavia.womack said:I suppose if we step back in time who would have foreseen separate countries such as Czech Republic / Slovakia and the Balkan countries.
Who would have thought that the countries taken over by the USSR would one day be independent nations.
I think a lot of people hang on to this UK thing as the majority of the UK were on the side of the oppressor rather than the oppressed.
We are only the UK because of past acts of aggression so not much different to the USSR or former Jugoslavia.
At least up here the sane and numerate among us hang on to the UK because it will be an economic catastrophe to try to create another country. It really is that simple.
Yugoslavia was the English spelling, the natives spelt it with a J.
Be it the Cyrillic or any other alphabet they spelt and pronounced it with a J.
But hey as someone who has been to the former Jugoslavia and subsequently it's former constituent countries over 40 times and who is married to a Serb who am I to argue with a know it all on Bike Radar.
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Would have ended ija when not transliterated to English though.0
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did you travel through Deutschland to get there? Ever visit Spain, or do you go to Espana on a cycling holiday?womack said:First.Aspect said:
The "natives" would have used a different alphabet.womack said:First.Aspect said:
Yugoslavia.womack said:I suppose if we step back in time who would have foreseen separate countries such as Czech Republic / Slovakia and the Balkan countries.
Who would have thought that the countries taken over by the USSR would one day be independent nations.
I think a lot of people hang on to this UK thing as the majority of the UK were on the side of the oppressor rather than the oppressed.
We are only the UK because of past acts of aggression so not much different to the USSR or former Jugoslavia.
At least up here the sane and numerate among us hang on to the UK because it will be an economic catastrophe to try to create another country. It really is that simple.
Yugoslavia was the English spelling, the natives spelt it with a J.
Be it the Cyrillic or any other alphabet they spelt and pronounced it with a J.
But hey as someone who has been to the former Jugoslavia and subsequently it's former constituent countries over 40 times and who is married to a Serb who am I to argue with a know it all on Bike Radar.
I think the arbitrary selection of English or local spellings of place names has come up here before. As has a belligerent attitude towards some arbitrary selection or other.
Honestly.
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It's a bit easier than that. Anywhere that had a different name ages ago, still does. Anywhere that has changed its name recently (especially post colonialism) has the new name.0
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Hang on, what is he saying?rick_chasey said:
In P1 he says 24,632 were off on 26/12.
In P2 he says 68,000 are off sick.
Which is it?
And the NHS has c.1,400,000 staff in total.0 -
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But he makes no sense.rick_chasey said:🤷🏻♂️I thought it was interesting, I only scanned it.
It comes across as typical twatter crap.
Who is he anyway?0 -
You can look it up yourself by clicking on his twitter handle - he’s the health correspondent for the FT0
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Anyway read it properly if you want to understand it.
COVID related and overall - that’ll account for your difference.0 -
He says 24k off with covid, and 68k off total.Dorset_Boy said:
Hang on, what is he saying?rick_chasey said:
In P1 he says 24,632 were off on 26/12.
In P2 he says 68,000 are off sick.
Which is it?
And the NHS has c.1,400,000 staff in total.0 -
He might mean that, but that's not what his twat actually says.kingstongraham said:
He says 24k off with covid, and 68k off total.Dorset_Boy said:
Hang on, what is he saying?rick_chasey said:
In P1 he says 24,632 were off on 26/12.
In P2 he says 68,000 are off sick.
Which is it?
And the NHS has c.1,400,000 staff in total.
And Rick, I have zero interest in jumping on tw@tter. It would be really good / helpful, for the non tw@tterati, if you said who some of these people are occassionally.0 -
Dorset_Boy said:
He might mean that, but that's not what his censored actually says.kingstongraham said:
He says 24k off with covid, and 68k off total.Dorset_Boy said:
Hang on, what is he saying?rick_chasey said:
In P1 he says 24,632 were off on 26/12.
In P2 he says 68,000 are off sick.
Which is it?
And the NHS has c.1,400,000 staff in total.
And Rick, I have zero interest in jumping on tw@tter. It would be really good / helpful, for the non tw@tterati, if you said who some of these people are occassionally.
How long would it have taken you to have a quick look!?
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It's exactly what he says. Maybe read it again.Dorset_Boy said:
He might mean that, but that's not what his censored actually says.kingstongraham said:
He says 24k off with covid, and 68k off total.Dorset_Boy said:
Hang on, what is he saying?rick_chasey said:
In P1 he says 24,632 were off on 26/12.
In P2 he says 68,000 are off sick.
Which is it?
And the NHS has c.1,400,000 staff in total.
And Rick, I have zero interest in jumping on tw@tter. It would be really good / helpful, for the non tw@tterati, if you said who some of these people are occassionally.0 -
The advantage of the better parts of Twitter on here is that it's not paywalled, and it's directly linked, so it's really not hard to have a quick shufti to make one's own assessment of its value.1
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Seems pretty clear to me and 68k is roughly 5% of your 1.4 million is it not?Dorset_Boy said:
He might mean that, but that's not what his censored actually says.kingstongraham said:
He says 24k off with covid, and 68k off total.Dorset_Boy said:
Hang on, what is he saying?rick_chasey said:
In P1 he says 24,632 were off on 26/12.
In P2 he says 68,000 are off sick.
Which is it?
And the NHS has c.1,400,000 staff in total.
And Rick, I have zero interest in jumping on tw@tter. It would be really good / helpful, for the non tw@tterati, if you said who some of these people are occassionally.
My personal scepticism is how many of those isolating or ill with Covid genuinely are and how many fancied Christmas off? I assume you have to have some form of proof to get paid but I'm a bit cynical by nature.1 -
Pross said:
Seems pretty clear to me and 68k is roughly 5% of your 1.4 million is it not?Dorset_Boy said:
He might mean that, but that's not what his censored actually says.kingstongraham said:
He says 24k off with covid, and 68k off total.Dorset_Boy said:
Hang on, what is he saying?rick_chasey said:
In P1 he says 24,632 were off on 26/12.
In P2 he says 68,000 are off sick.
Which is it?
And the NHS has c.1,400,000 staff in total.
And Rick, I have zero interest in jumping on tw@tter. It would be really good / helpful, for the non tw@tterati, if you said who some of these people are occassionally.
My personal scepticism is how many of those isolating or ill with Covid genuinely are and how many fancied Christmas off? I assume you have to have some form of proof to get paid but I'm a bit cynical by nature.
44K Being off work for non-Covid related reasons is roughly 3% of the total workforce. Seems quite a high rate of sickness, or at least it would be viewed as pretty high in all the companies I’ve worked for.0 -
Annual average between 2010 and 2018 was about 2%. I'd like to see a split of that between public and private sectors.kingstonian said:Pross said:
Seems pretty clear to me and 68k is roughly 5% of your 1.4 million is it not?Dorset_Boy said:
He might mean that, but that's not what his censored actually says.kingstongraham said:
He says 24k off with covid, and 68k off total.Dorset_Boy said:
Hang on, what is he saying?rick_chasey said:
In P1 he says 24,632 were off on 26/12.
In P2 he says 68,000 are off sick.
Which is it?
And the NHS has c.1,400,000 staff in total.
And Rick, I have zero interest in jumping on tw@tter. It would be really good / helpful, for the non tw@tterati, if you said who some of these people are occassionally.
My personal scepticism is how many of those isolating or ill with Covid genuinely are and how many fancied Christmas off? I assume you have to have some form of proof to get paid but I'm a bit cynical by nature.
44K Being off work for non-Covid related reasons is roughly 3% of the total workforce. Seems quite a high rate of sickness, or at least it would be viewed as pretty high in all the companies I’ve worked for.0 -
Coincidence that this is while you do not need a Doctors note until you've been off for 4 weeks?- Genesis Croix de Fer
- Dolan Tuono0 -
In contact with lots of sick people = higher rate of sickness?kingstonian said:Pross said:
Seems pretty clear to me and 68k is roughly 5% of your 1.4 million is it not?Dorset_Boy said:
He might mean that, but that's not what his censored actually says.kingstongraham said:
He says 24k off with covid, and 68k off total.Dorset_Boy said:
Hang on, what is he saying?rick_chasey said:
In P1 he says 24,632 were off on 26/12.
In P2 he says 68,000 are off sick.
Which is it?
And the NHS has c.1,400,000 staff in total.
And Rick, I have zero interest in jumping on tw@tter. It would be really good / helpful, for the non tw@tterati, if you said who some of these people are occassionally.
My personal scepticism is how many of those isolating or ill with Covid genuinely are and how many fancied Christmas off? I assume you have to have some form of proof to get paid but I'm a bit cynical by nature.
44K Being off work for non-Covid related reasons is roughly 3% of the total workforce. Seems quite a high rate of sickness, or at least it would be viewed as pretty high in all the companies I’ve worked for.1 -
