Along_the_Wire they’re a correction but the trend has become a fair bit more ugly than was the case … 3k per day on average more than published? Whatever it is the idea that cases were flattening doesn’t look to be right
Anyway, socialising prob over for me for a while, crap as that may be. Daughters school year just been forced to study from home too due to a case.
Hows your dad Grant?
Jules72 Hows your dad Grant?
He’s doing okay - he’s over a week in and symptoms are still mild. Feeling a lot more chipper about it - thanks for asking mate
alistair The Guardian has got much worse over the last year or so - large chunks of it are unreadable.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with their subscription or payment model either - news isn’t free. What would you suggest they did?
The Guardian’s reporting is generally good in my opinion. Its opinion pieces are absolute drivel sometimes. Peak Guardian for me was an article by Steven Thrasher that was something like “Why, as a gay black man, I have a moral dilemma about using nail salons”. I still like Marina Hyde, probably the funniest sketchwriter in the business.
I read the Guardian, read the Telegraph when they sometimes drop the paywall or when they give it out free with a bottle of water at railway stations, but I mostly read The Economist. Well worth its subscription price mostly because it doesn’t treat its readers as total imbeciles.
Along_the_Wire good to hear 
Along_the_Wire I don’t have a problem with subscribing for content that I really want (FT and The Athletic for football). The Guardian will never meet that bar.
Along_the_Wire Owen Jones 
bosstrabs But there are more and more of the moral dilemma about using nail salon bollocks. There was something in there last week about creating a new pantone for the colour of periods.
Along_the_Wire Surely Pantone 200 has that boxed off?
The Guardian seems to be suffering from a permanent identity crisis. The left (by which I mean Corbynites/Momentum wonks) viscerally hate the paper because derp neoliberals…. They all read Novara media anyway now.
Then you have the likes of Owen Jones putting the traditional readership of geography teachers off their bovril.
Seems like they aspire to be some kind of Washington Post investigative paper with the Panama stuff. Fuck all money in that though and no one seems to give a toss.
Smallman being a total wand.
Nothing out of the ordinary here, lads, move along now…
Sorry for being a total cunt by downloading the track and trace app lads, what am I like?!
Smallman put the crayons down and come sit by me.
The fundamental thing is to try and stay put. Not bound off to other countries, 4 times during a pandemic lockdown.
That’s the one thing every Country in the world’s government has asked people NOT to do.
Were you not aware of this?
My wife works for NHS contact tracing and says its going nuts at the moment. She used to speak to about 1 person an hour a few weeks back, now its more like 4 or 5 an hour. She reckons the UK are trying some sort of “stealth” herd immunity. Sending Uni students back, opening pubs and restaurants up was a dumb move……all the cases she’s getting fall into either Students living on top of each other/being in a pub/restaurant or working in a care home.
Anyone else had unintended benefits of Covid-19, for example not having annoying family visit due to the social distancing rules?
Definitely seems to be the case for me anyway, ’We’d really love to visit you, but unfortunately due to the Rule of 6 we can’t’ 
My loss of taste has really helped with the wife’s cooking.
