Hospitality venues were relying on the easing of restrictions on ‘Freedom Day’ to make up for their lockdown losses, but they’ve found that one set of restrictions has simply been replaced by another. The Chief Executive of U.K. Hospitality reports that one in 10 pubs and restaurants have been forced to close over the past month because of staff shortages caused by the ‘pingdemic‘. One in five venues has also had to “significantly adjust their offer or services” to cope with the continued disruption to business. MailOnline has the story.
The ‘pingdemic’ has seen record numbers of people being alerted by the NHS Covid app to self-isolate in recent weeks, including 700,000 for the week to July 21st.
The Government rolled out exemptions for workers it deems to be employed in critical industries, such as those in the food sector, transport and waste collection.
Daily negative test results can enable such workers who have been alerted by the app or called by NHS Test and Trace as Covid contacts to continue working.
Kate Nicholls [of U.K. Hospitality] told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “In the last month one in 10 of our businesses have had to close their sites and more importantly one in five have had to significantly adjust their offer or services in order to cope with the pandemic.”
She added: “The ‘pingdemic’ has hit at the same time as the reopening, they haven’t had time to rebuild cash reserves and so they are in quite a fragile state and the hit to revenues as a result of the pingdemic is running at about 15 to 20% of revenues for those businesses that are affected.
“So it is a significant suppression just at the point in time when these businesses needed to start recovering from about 16 months worth of closure and restrictions.” …
It comes as desperate councils are offering lorry drivers bonuses of £3,000 in a bid to clear the backlog of bin collections caused by the ‘pingdemic’.
Rubbish has piled up in many areas in recent weeks – with up to 40% of some local authority workforces having to isolate.
Some residents have been told to cut down on the amount of food that they throw out as piles of uncollected waste grow.
Others have been asked not to put their bins out unless they are full, with collection services in dozens of areas running significantly behind schedule.
Separately, a new report has warned more than 1.1 million jobs remain unfilled as the pingdemic crisis worsens the shortage of workers.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Health Secretary has finally agreed to make the NHS Covid-tracking app less sensitive. Until now, it pinged people who’d been in contact with an infected person at any point during a five-day period before they tested positive; henceforth, that will be reduced to two days. MailOnline has the story.
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George Galloway calls this out..
https://www.youtube.com/live/USRvury9NJo?si=u8x5WZnPSM7Ib_A-
Which uniform do I wear if I identify as a cat?
A tom or a queen?
The furry one!!
To be fair I don’t know why school uniforms don’t just get scrapped altogether. No uniforms over here in the NL and I think the UK is in the minority regarding this. It’s an unnecessary extra cost to parents and I just think it quite antiquated really.
Uniforms are a Godsend when corruption of a child’s mind is the prize.
I’ve never been keen on it – too often it is the worst of both worlds – a pain for kids and parents but not properly enforced so they all look a mess – the girls with very short skirts and the boys look like thugs or tramps. Properly enforced you could argue they get the child’s mind set correctly for learning, but the usual outcome just seems like a waste of energy and source of friction. I think disruptive behaviour is much more important to clamp down on. That said, I think it slightly helps in London where they all kick off at bus stops and in town centres after school, one school vs another, as they can be more easily identified.
Always go after the children. This is evil, plain and simple. Those in positions to stop this need to take a long, hard look at themselves and start defaulting to decency and common sense.
Unfortunately, as a cohort, teachers are the single most stupid people on the planet so common sense is a bit like a virus to them.
(I know we have some teachers on here but I am sure they understand my point of view.)
In theory, this doesn’t really matter much. In a properly functioning state, individual schools wouldn’t be free to adopt political agendas of the US democrats and try to enact them via child indoctrination without primary legislation authorizing them do to that. Unfortunately, they key word is properly here. This would require undoing the New Labour (most likely suspect) arrangement to outsource as much policymaking to semi-private entities as possible to ensure that the people supposed to make political decisions on behalf of the population of the UK won’t be able to control it. After all, one day, these might have become people from the wrong party because of these ghastly elections where white van men and even their spouses are allowed to influence the government of the country! Can’t have that in a well-oiled democracy.
That’s technocracy for you!!
It’s privatized government. Or actually, not really privatized: It’s politicians using so-called private entities controlled by them as cover for putting their schemes into practice while bypassing the democratic mechanisms supposed to limit what they can and cannot do.
I was talking to my hairdresser a while back and he said they get loads of teachers in for haircuts. All of them hate the DIE ideology and the transgender movement, but are being held hostage by the people running the system and the managements of their schools. Many of them want to quit, because it’s become scary to be a teacher in a school. If you aren’t heard to be aggressively backing DIE, you’re assumed to be against it and face not just losing your job, but being blacklisted from your career. And if you’re blacklisted, it could hurt finding another career.
In my profession, I have to watch my mouth. Fortunately, as a freelancer, I work from home now and don’t have to say too much. I’ve not had to brush up much against DIE crap, but I dread the day I might have to refuse to do a job for moral reasons, because I’ll risk blacklisting too. Thing is, I could look towards religious broadcasters, but I find them to be too far the other way. They tend to be the ‘happy clappy’ branch of Protestant fundamentalism and I’m an orthodox-leaning Catholic – so I’m not comfortable with trying to get into niche religious broadcast networks either. Can’t win!!
It’s satanic. No beating around the bush on that. It’s a mixture of cult behaviour and a group of people who have developed an idée fixe.
More than anything groups who provide forms of accreditation have been created that businesses are kowtowing to. Only the state should sanction official accreditations: safety standard accreditation for glass, for example or symbols to confirm a cooker meets hear safety standards or that furniture is fireproof. All other accreditations should be banned, which would instantly remove people like Stonewall.
I’m with you on that Dom.
Remember that lovely video of a trans march when they where chanting “we’re here, we’re queer, and we’re coming for your children”
Well, it looks like they ment it!
How does referring to them as As and Bs make boys and girls feel welcome? This forcible depersonalisation seems extremely hostile to me. Imagine going from being mommy’s girl or boy to You must now chose to be an A or a B and if you dare to call yourself or anyone else a boy or a girl, you’ll be disciplined for this.
One can almost imagine the child-haters who came up with this demanding the children must cover their filthy faces in public all the time and be swabbed until their noses bleed to ensure their equally filthy bodies are not infected with nasty germs which could perhaps cause an entity illegitimately occupying the position of a teacher to get the sniffles or something horribly dangerous like that.
Oh wait … didn’t they do this already and wasn’t the so-called government of the UK was barely capable of forcing them to stop it?
How wonderful. How many steps to droid?
It shocks me that Christian schools are going along with this. At my Catholic Primary school in the 1980s, uniforms were highly regulated. Even wrong socks could get you into trouble (at the time, there was the classic TV series where Adrian Mole went to school in red socks and got sent home!) Without discipline, we’re setting up a generation to fail. Just think: if all our power failed for a few weeks, they wouldn’t have the first idea how to feed themselves. They couldn’t go into the woods and hunt a deer or know what plants are and aren’t edible.
That should be church schools and not Christian schools. The CoE is about as Christian as the average Pride-marcher.
Yeah, as I said yesterday, Christianity is going back into its old pre-Church era. We’ll soon be back to wandering priests arriving in a town and holding a mass before moving on before the authorities can arrest him for holding that mass! The reason I said ‘Christian schools’ is that many religious schools of different denominations are now under the control of the same trusts.
Really, it was a mistake for the Catholic Church to give its schools to the state after the war. And in the free school era, churches ought to have reestablished religious schools outside of state control.
A major reason things are so out of control right now is that a few Islamic schools were claimed to be teaching ‘bad things’ to their pupils, so The Blob took the opportunity to crack down on all schools to teach the new state religion of DIE.
“Really, it was a mistake for the Catholic Church to give its schools to the state after the war.”
And this was a consistent erosion. My parents supported my senior school with cash while me and my brother attended and it was money they could ill afford with four children. Many parents did similar. The Catholic Church gave our school to the state but with who’s permission?
I am still very much a Catholic in outlook but I no longer respect my Church.
I think school uniforms are the least of parents’ concerns if their kids aren’t going to be actually attending school. Is this for real? 7,000 schools now??
”Up to 7,000 at-risk schools have yet to be checked for crumbling concrete according to reports this morning. The Mirror said an army of structural engineers are set to be dispatched on Monday to inspect hundreds of schools which may have used reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in their construction.
Fears have been raised that the problem could extend to buildings across the country including housing, prisons and hospitals. The Mirror said sources had confirmed experts are being sent out tomorrow to assess whether further action needs to be taken across the country.
It comes after 104 schools and colleges were told by the Department for Education (DfE) to partially or fully shut buildings just as pupils prepare to return after the summer holidays – with many more expected to follow. But the Department for Education had still last night failed to publish the list of schools that had closed, or give a figure for those at risk.”
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/at-risk-7000-schools-not-27642849
Oh no, we’re all going to die in the RAAC Scamdemic.
The reality of course is to create more panic and confusion amongst the masses. Selective school closures will be next further increasing misery for parents as time off work is required for child minding. Jobs will be lost for poor attendance and sickness and mental health issues will follow. Oh yes, it’s all coming along nicely.
They’ve supposedly known about this for a long time, yet they only send in the engineers on the first day of term after the long summer holidays?!
https://earthactiongloballeague.com/2023/08/21/al-gore-vs-oil-rich-dubai-host-of-cop28/
Oh look, it’s old Gorey talking BS at COP28.
Strangely enough, Co2 emissions have increased every year since the first COP. Not being particularly science minded would I be wrong in drawing an obvious conclusion from this fact or would that just be conspiracy theorising?
Why not just give all newborns a serial number and be done with it?
In order to protect trans youth one could also consider to assign preliminary genders randomly to babies after birth regardless of their sex. I bet someone could make up a nicely worded justification why that’s something which ought to be done.
Please don’t suggest this to anyone in a position to implement it. I can see some people rather linking this idea.
How long before it’s just Child X?
I just walked in on my wife watching a Netflix documentary ostensibly about female pleasure. Except that all of its experts were gender lunatics so it was unable to actually refer to women. At one point, a blue haired so-called doctor was describing the way that genitalia develop in embryos, she couldn’t bring herself to say ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ so she referred to them as “it’s a boy” in mocking air quotes and “it’s a girl” in mocking air quotes, mocking the old days when if a baby was born with a penis, we’d call it a boy.
I have to say I’m very glad I’ve left the west. I’m afraid it’s a sinking ship.
This makes no sense. Won’t it be obvious that Uniform A is for boys and B for girls? Surely if they want to remove differences then they should just have a unisex uniform? But then should they not be celebrating difference? Hard to keep track of it all. Then again if they remove the terms “boy” and “girl” from the uniform designations, are they saying that boys are not allowed to wear girls uniform? Isn’t that anti-trans or whatever these loonies call it?