manuel

I don't think many have local only functionality. Shelly stuff is but a lot of the big boys have kept it cloud only i think

call their bluff and say you don't want it....

Looks like the bulb pop is going to mean special administration - so tariffs stay the same for now.

Glad she's getting better. Interesting how long its taking to show a positive test. Hope you and the boyos stay clear! It is a bit mad that you can go about your business now in a household with positive tests!

Bulb gone pop…

It’s like waiting for another Binky video…

Riding the road bike was epic in lockdown1

As far as I can tell - the countries with highest vax rates have eased restrictions the most. Couple this with the temperature dropping its fairly expected ? I read an interesting article about the effects of reducing measures at the end of vax periods, leading to resistant strains etc. Best advice was to keep some restrictions for some time. Situation in Austria seems slightly different now? Vaccine is mandatory and the lockdown is everyone ? This I do not agree with, the worst of both worlds.

I run ultimates - seem pretty stiff, if they aren't available isn't kevin liu making something pretty similar with lykke trials?

It’s true there probably would be many other better ways and better groups to single out, but this would just be a really easy group to split out that would be (sort of) fair in that people could choose to, or not to. If it were BMI people couldn’t necessarily choose to get a better bmi very quickly! It would also be a group that would undoubtedly work from a statistical point of view. I’m not suggesting in any way that unvaxed people should be punished/shamed/locked up etc, I just don’t disagree with it as a solution to a problem. I wouldn’t want this, I would only be ok with this if it got to the point we needed another lockdown.

I disagree strongly with the opening statement. Peer reviewed science has shown these things. Vaccines reduce your chances of getting covid, reduce your chances of needing hospital treatment, and reduce the chance it is transmitted.

Just to change the subject Covid-19: Pfizer to allow developing nations to make its treatment pill https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59310582 taking pill yay or nay?

please explain, as the statistics are pretty clear.

line is drawn at an increased immune response to covid in your body. I get it, you could dig down waaay deeper into an individuals health I mean I’d happily make smokers have to have private health care, but this is an easy yes/no situation that would get results is doable and is fair. Because like it or not someone who is vaccinated has an increased immune responses to the virus. It’s not a cure no, it doesn’t fully protect you no, but it will reduce your risks of having to have medical treatment by a large amount and will also make it less likely you will pass it to someone else. I am being a little devils advocate here, and I know there are plenty of people who can’t have a vaccine and those people would be forced to lockdown, but at the point it’s required, those people will probably be shielding by medical advice anyway. I just think if it came to the point where we needed another lockdown, I’d be ok with it. Not that that’s going to happen now.

They can, but transmission rates are lower in vaccinated people AND they are at massively reduced risk of being hospitalised or dying. I would be on board with it as long as they included those with natural response (had it and recovered with proof), end of the day - it’s a choice. Everyone is locked down except those who can prove reduced risk…

Why? people were locked down in entirety to protect themselves and others from the risks of covid. The risks for the unvaccinated haven’t changed, and with rising cases it puts people at significant risk with health services under more pressure etc…

They locked down everyone earlier in the year and last year, would you say this is worse or better?

in other angry news - I’m being paid less than other people doing the exact same job again at work- RM is full of dickheads.

T20 World Cup is shit. Not because England lost but because Dubai is a shit place to play cricket - toss of the coin is 100% decisive in the night games so far. It’s just dull.

If it is pre 77 I would get Jane’s brother to have a look specifically as a job before you get too far through renovations. If it’s over 40 years old it probably needs at least a check periodically. electrics are pretty much the only thing I get someone in for and do things by the book mainly because we have sooo much stuff plugged in.

Is the earth wire green and yellow or solid green? Solid green is pre 1977! Green and yellow is ‘77-‘04 I think so could be ok!

if it’s got a fairly modern consumer unit/fusebox and modernish trips and the wiring that comes out to the sockets is brown/blue and not red/black then you’re probably ok!

Im quite a negative nancy at the moment.... Room looks great - work ethic is phenomenal! Not sure if this has been said in the thread yet and i can't remember how old the house is - but have you had the electrics checked out ? I just notice (possibly) that one of the sockets is a single and potentially quite old ? Be a shame to decorate in full and then have to run new cables etc ...

What about where the spokes cross in the wheel build - will they be ok with the friction/movement as a stranded thingy? other than that they look a mahooosive ball ache to actually do the wheel build with! I’m assuming you might have to make a custom spoke key and spoke holder to stop them just spinning round?

Bit sad, but I made a frame for an old db poster from the raleigh road team launch we went to. I’ve had it and kept it with the intention of putting it up for over a decade! It’s a huuge bit of toughened glass and weighs a ton so I hope it stays on the wall! Needs the corners filling and painting as my mitre is a bit out it seems, and also a bit of finishing off. next job is to hang my signed MA mbuk poster somewhere near the desk.