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starving to death this winter due to the orchestrated major food shortages
I was impressed by how well supply chains kept going through the whole thing. I wonder if there are food shortages elsewhere in the world, will food still be shipped out of starving regions into English ports. The country has form in that regard. Money talks.
One thing the country isn’t short of is rabbits. Our freezer is filling up with them and I’ll tell the mister to hold back some ammo to deal with the starving masses. Good job we got the silage in yesterday, might try chewing on that if we really get desperate
Bit early in the year for rabbiting isn’t it?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysYeah I feel pretty bad for the kits if any nursing dams get shot but the place is hooching with them and those straight- down leg breaker holes appearing near some of the field edges where the neighbouring dairy farmer runs his heifers. I counted 19 by the sides of our little road leaving for work one morning last week and scores more in the fields. I’ve never seen so many here even pre mxy. H has gone out lamping again tonight.
“Hmm. If you ever need brain surgery, the surgeon who opens your lid and tinkers about underneath will be wearing a mask. For hours. As will the anaesthetist keeping you alive.
They really don’t restrict breathing. If surgeons can operate in warm theatres wearing masks, builders and arable farmhands can wear N95s working in dusty environments and soldiers can fight in full NBC gear, then I’m sure the rest of us can pull a scarf up over our noses whilst picking up the bread and milk in Tesco.I wear a surgical mask all day at work now (2m distancing often not possible) except when eating lunch. Granted I’ve ditched the visor- it’s a pain- but the mask is easy. The visor was for my benefit, the mask for clients and colleagues.”
If masks don’t restrict breathing in anyway then feel free to contact the government and tell them to remove asthma sufferers and people with breathing difficulties from their exemption list.
If masks are in anyway effective then please explain why after a man ate a bat in China and caught a brand new virus in a country where the vast majority of the population has been wearing face masks in public since the sars outbreak of 2002 did the virus spread like wildfire?
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So, knowing what we know now about this Covid cold has anyone who was against Cheltenham taking place changed their mind?
My thoughts over the last few months…..
February
Let’s just get the meeting on, this could be touch and go.March
I hope we’re doing the right thing here, this might be riskyEarly April
How did we manage to get away with having Cheltenham, this is getting serious.Late April
Hmmmmmm……something not right here. I’m not buying this. Why are those nurses doing Tik Tok videos? No I won’t clap like a demented f’cking seal.May
Phew, thank god they’ve got those arrows in the supermarket, might just save my life that. This is nuts.June – This might just be the greatest lie ever told.
We’ve flattened the curve, that was the whole point of lockdown, job done then, yeah? So we can crack on, and get back to normal then. What do you mean no? Why the f’ck not. You do realise that a “Covid Case” doesn’t mean that someone has Covid.
July – There can’t seriously be anybody still buying this? Seriously? You’re all brainwashed to within an inch of your lives.
Are the Belarus and Sweden scores in yet?
August – Why are hundreds of people allowed into a racecourse for a Car Boot sale, yet racegoers can’t get in…..this doesn’t make any sense, they’re clearly now just getting a rise out of us. It would be funny if it wasn’t so scary.
September – Of course Cheltenham should have been on.
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Well said VTC
Leaving aside any discussion about Covid, when are we going to get crowds back on the racecourse?
I realise there are some trial meetings coming up but how much longer can we go on without crowds? Racecourses are going to go bust soon unless this changes. Deauville has had crowds, why is it so different here?
It was sad to see Enable bow out in front of almost no one. Would it really have been a serious threat to public health if a few thousand spectators had been there? I suppose someone will quip that Kempton never gets those crowds outside of Boxing Day but you know what I mean! And Enable’s last appearance would have drawn a crowd.
On a lower level, Wexford would normally only get about 2,000 at the most to a small meeting. Would it really have endangered public health in Ireland if a crowd had been permitted? Yet the presenters of the Irish racing on RTV are all masked up as if there is a lethal pestilence stalking the land.
I honestly think that if the Cheltenham images hadn’t been on the front pages & all over social media for the past 5 months, crowds would have been back at racecourses weeks, if not months ago. Hancock’s links with racing & Dido Harding didn’t help either. It turned out to be a PR disaster for racing and the fear of a repeat has led to extreme risk adverse behaviour (like interviewees wearing masks, despite the fact that it’s perfectly easy to use extended microphones so that isn’t necessary and happens daily on the News). For this reason alone, I wish it hadn’t gone ahead with capacity crowds
Why are hundreds of people allowed into a racecourse for a Car Boot sale, yet racegoers can’t get in…..this doesn’t make any sense
The car boot sale held on non-racing saturdays adjacent to York racecourse resumed recently and yesterday was packed with sellers and buyers
Compare and contrast with the races themselves today, which were of course deserted. It really doesn’t make any sense at all: either ban all outdoor public attractions or don’t ban any
Exactly Drone, it doesn’t make any sense at all.
I’ve yet to hear any sensible reason for it either.
Tonge has it. It’s a PR exercise now but shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted because Corona will be All Cheltenham’s Fault (and the poshos that go racing) in many people’s minds no matter what they do now.
Crufts was a bigger risk being indoors with many more international visitors, but was never going to be cast as the bogeyman cos everyone has a pet dog and likes Crufts (with its fkd up dogs that are bred to be disabled) more than Cruel Racing, and also it was easier to get a dramatic photo of all the people. Neither event over the whole 4 days would have spread as much virus as the Tube or Heathrow- with their non masked, non distanced occupants at that time- could in half an hour of normal use, but that wasn’t really news.
The damage of that photo of the stands will never be undone because the papers are hardly going to show pictures of John Gosden in a mask talking into a microphone on the end of a barge pole in an empty parade ring- it’s not news. So they might as well allow people back in now with the same rules as everything else that’s open.
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It’s all rather tiresome.
It’s almost as if they are just showing how serious it is by constantly putting off crowds at sporting events. There seems to be no exit strategy and in any undertaking that only leads to catastrophic results. Having said that I was in the USA when Cheltenham was on and there was staff in shops wearing gloves, a few folk with masks and broadway shut before Cheltenham finished which all made the hugging and kissing of winners seem slightly misplaced. Definitely a pr disaster I’m afraid. We are still paying for Cheltenham in so many ways.
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