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The quote I was commenting to was "Once that bloody stadium is built, it'll employ 1000 tops."

How many does goodison employ now, because those jobs will just move over. Most of the extra jobs will mainly be once a fortnight jobs, unless you add in those famous cup runs they're so well known for. So part time work on low wages.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/indias-covid-19-death-toll-is-likely-in-the-millions-study-finds-11626792531 NEW DELHI—The true tally of Covid-19 deaths in India following a devastating spring surge is likely close to 10 times higher than the country’s official count, marking the pandemic as one of the worst tragedies to ever hit the South Asian nation, according to a new study. India has officially recorded more than 414,000 coronavirus deaths, but scientists and researchers have said that number undercounts the real toll. When India’s cases peaked in April and May, hospitals across the country were forced to turn away patients who later died at home, often untested. The study pegged excess deaths—or the number of people who died beyond what is normally expected—at between 3.4 million and 4.7 million from January 2020 to June 2021, according to the report released Tuesday from Arvind Subramanian, a former chief economic adviser for the Indian government, and researchers at the Center for Global Development and Harvard University. One estimate in the study pegged Covid-19 deaths at about four million, roughly 10 times the official count. “True deaths are likely to be in the several millions, not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India’s worst human tragedy since partition and independence,” the report said. The study was based on three data sources: deaths from several states logged into the country’s civil registration system, blood tests that show antibodies for the virus in India along with fatality rates in other countries, and a nationwide household survey that is conducted three times a year. Researchers said that estimating Covid-19 deaths with confidence may prove elusive. But all estimates, they noted, put the true toll of the pandemic at many times higher than the official death count. Researchers also said that as many as two million deaths occurred before the surge in April and May. The fatalities were spread over a longer stretch of time, which muted the apparent severity. Failing to understand the scale of death, the report said, may have “bred the collective complacency that led to the horrors of the second wave.”

Poor uncle Ussy and his £30m pre naming right rights.

Yeah the device for cutting looks the same, wasn't a little needle though was quite a decent looking blade. (in comparison to the usual needle type devices you get for blood sugar tests)

If it's like the one I helped my son with it's a fucking gash, not a finger prick.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to self-isolate today, minutes after appearing in the House of Commons to grill the quarantining Prime Minister. One of the Opposition leader's children tested positive at lunchtime, the party said, forcing him to self-isolate for the fourth time since the pandemic began. Sir Keir was on the still socially distanced benches of the House of Commons at noon for Prime Minister's Questions, where he was forced to face Mr Johnson via a videolink from Chequers.

Is that the evil witch that travelled when she knew she had covid and has refused to resign?

I never sent them out with long poles during thunderstorms and you can't prove anything,.

I've only ever known one person that got hit by lightning and lived, a dog handler on duty at Greenham Common. Six times, that's pretty remarkable.

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When some people with poor manners refuse to acknowledge when I have stood to the side, allowed them through etc. I just say rather loudly "You're welcome" They usually get flustered and remember their manners. Some don't and possibly then hear me call them wankers.

Does he mention how big Rafa'a house is?

The UK has recored 96 further coronavirus deaths, according to the latest update to the government’s coronavirus dashboard. That is the highest daily total on this measure for almost four months (since 24 March, when 98 deaths were recorded). And the total number of deaths over the past week is up 60.6% on the total for the previous week. There have also been 46,558 new cases. Week on week, new cases are up 40.7%.

I could just go one of these.

The echo will be pissed if they don't get to run a scare story for a week leading up to it.

I can't even go out, I'm stuck in. Shame as I quite enjoy hearing the pensioners (in jumpers and winter coats) complain about the heat.

They might think twice before throwing their kids on to the pitch.

Every time you open it then it has an expiry for one month, so it never runs out. If I open it tomorrow then it runs out a month from that moment. On both.

The NHS app has already updated. Under the Covid pass section it used to have Travel and Event Trials, the latter has changed to Domestic.

Hope you recover soon. Shit weather to be ill really, and stuck indoors.

Makes sense, they probably believe a combination of high transmission and a partially vaccinated population could provide the perfect breeding ground for vaccine-resistant variants.

Three unusable water cannon bought by Boris Johnson when he was mayor of London have been sold for scrap, at a net loss of more than £300,000. Johnson bought the crowd-control vehicles from the German police in 2014, in anticipation of social unrest, without checking whether they could be used on London’s streets. In one of his most humiliating episodes as mayor, the then home secretary, Theresa May, banned them from use anywhere in England and Wales. It left the capital’s taxpayers with three expensive white elephants. The current mayor, Sadiq Khan, pledged to claw back as much money as possible on the redundant vehicles by selling them. But after almost two years the mayor’s office admitted defeat in its attempt to find a reputable buyer. It announced on Monday that it had agreed to sell the vehicles for just £11,025 to Reclamations Ollerton, a scrap metal yard in Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Oooh I like them, all we had were converted shorlands.