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Happy New year to you bobbins ;-)

Hurtle, good post, but the mass population are sheep, so they will fall in line and obey the most outrageous dictates

notaflipper, agree, we have to wait for the others to 'catch up', then move onwards. I see Feb as a break point, until then it will be a slow simmer with travel stocks.

No, they just did

bobbins, I don't feel sorry for Scotland, although you did make me chuckle. I feel sorry for the whole of the UK, you just have four levels of stupidity that are separated by accents.

I guess sundoofer will only see filtered posts, nothing for him/her to read or laugh at.
Anybody taking a BB that seriously is way out of touch anyway.
I come here for laughs and a rant, if anybody wants to only be in an echo chamber there is always facebook or metabook or whatever they are calling it today.

Wobbles, don't be silly, even if the actual numbers come down they will not let on, no, this is gold to them.
Ever see the the movie with Billy Crystal, 'City Slickers', where the coffee grinder causes a stampede? Covid is the coffee grinder and the masses are the cattle, they stampede in whatever direction directed to do so.

Did the same as a punt for 5000 at 2.10, just sold. That was easy. Of Course the wife has already spent most of it on a day trip into the city!!!

Last year these same people wanted tp protect their jobs, this year they want more time for isolation, I guess by the end on January these same people will be working somewhere else. Airlines will not shut their business's off, otherwise there will be no business to isolate.

These people get paid when they call in 'sick', so for them it's easy money. I wonder if they change the policy to, 'you get paid only on the days you work'

"YES! Santa's alive, and I'm going to live forever!"
Are you sure you're not a 'reporter'? The clue is how you choose to frame it...

b_b, don't you see, you made my case for me that 'Santa' does not exist! The only 'Santa' there is, is in my drive way and made in S Korea.
Sorry b_b, not changing my mind on this one, or.... death. One exists, one does not, take your pick!

While people are focusing on the 35 day lag time of any effect of omicron, now that we are nearly there, if this was the same as delta than death would have ticked up, if it was worse than delta, deaths would have already ticked up, as neither of these scenarios have so far occurred I suggest that this is no more than a bad cold. How long should we put our lives on hold waiting for deaths to 'kick in', 1 month, 2 maybe six months? Just in case?
Life is short enough, why would anyone be ok with putting on hold life when time is not being put on hold? There is no pause button, people around the world have lost almost two years and massive financial loss (relative, no matter the amount).
Time to put an end to the fear that we may die, bad news, we all will!
I would rather live until I die, than not live until I die.
I personally do not have that much time left on this mud ball, and the fact that these d*ck* are screwing with peoples lives is BS. If you care for your old, tell them, as i have done, clear the air if you need to and live, because to cower away 'in case' something may happen is beyond stupid (although, there are a lot of stupid about) I am not uncaring, I just choose what to care about and the old dying of covid, is not one of those.

crawshaw, Apple and Lucid, Lucid is a slight loss atm, but I can bear that, but APPL is way up for my, I got in about 2 months ago with them and bought only 500, but as I am long on both I am okay with that exposure. Up about 18% to date, but I would be ok with 10% p/a.

Hexam, the virus cannot be stopped, only slowed down for it to surge again once those restrictions are lifted, saying that it can be stopped is utter BS.
There is no stopping it, it will go and kill those that are vulnerable, just like the flu would have pre-2020. Covid have not suddenly made more people vulnerable, it's just exposed them to the media.
People always died from the flu, they always will going forward.

Trojan, you are 100% correct, the UK market is just rubbish, proper old boys club. I invested in the US market last year, made a bundle, sold and came back to the UK market for 'long term' but this has proved to be a mistake, I the re-invested in the US market and up again, still invested in the UK, but will now only sell once I break even, then I'm out.

Ah yes, but their squirrels come armed with AR15's and are bat**** nuts

Italy is reducing it's isolation time
The US has seen an increase in case numbers but deaths significantly down: Bloomberg

Hold on to your pearls, the French has surpassed 208'000 cases today...
The UK is running out of rapid test kits, oh gosh what would I do now?

Can someone, who may be a serial tester please tell me why on earth do you feel compelled to get tested constantly, what is this phenomenon? Even if you don't feel 100% why would you do it?

Ok now bobbins. I hate to be the one that tells you this, but sit and take a deep breath.

Now, despite misgiving I have about the damage i could be inflicting on you, I feel duty bound to tell you ....
THERE IS NO SANTA!!

There, done it. Take slow deep breaths and think of all the fond memories you had of santa, and keep that close to you. No really, don't tell anyone!

I have been watching this since the beginning, as most you have too. And I have often thought it seemed like a bit of 'one one-upmanship' going on, but on nothing good.
Time to put the loonies back in the bin.