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ScotRail, whose trains are running at 20 per cent capacity, has yet to announce when it will cut distancing to 1m.
Labour said there had already been a “drastic” drop in walking and cycling since May while a motoring group said they comprise only a tiny proportion of journeys.
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While the Government’s COVID policies are damaging our economy and the livelihoods of many people, the pandemic has pulled forward the adoption curve for e-bikes. It’s satisfying to see the venerable bicycle and those involved in our industry help so many people to get through this crisis and on a path to living healthier and more sustainable lifestyles.
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E-bikes will become the dominant form of healthy and sustainable personal urban transport. It’s essential that we reach members of the population who wouldn’t have previously considered cycling if we are to truly grasp this once in a generation opportunity to make the UK’s urban areas healthier and more sustainable places. This isn’t about sport or fitness; it’s about living more active and sustainable lifestyles.
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https://www.micromobilitybiz.com/e-bikes-the-only-credible-long-term-alternative/amp/
Eldest daughter’s friend was round visiting (allowed ) and I locked my wood pile away and hid my wine (following the last visit).
Anyway here is her Covid related story (humorous)
The young woman who is friends with my eldest, Siri (not real name) had decided to split up with her boyfriend who lives in Berlin. Was amicable but she did not want to be overheard by her parents, so she walked up the plantations (old name for route of path networks in the fields south of Balerno).
Someone in one of the houses on the way in to the path network spotted her and thought she looked very young and very suicidal. So this concerned Balerno-ite phoned the polis.
Siri is sitting on tree stump phoning the man in Berlin and she spots a somewhat obese police constable. Coming through the fields towards her, dusk falling, torch etc. The officer then trips and falls over. Sadly covering herself in mud. She is apparently Quite big and covered in mud. Opening gambit from WPC McCoy (not real name) Aw hen, you look awfy sad. Siri- yes I am just breaking up with my boyfriend in Berlin. PC McCoy - aw hen you look really. Young. Siri - I’m 21. PC McCoy [realising things are OK) Aw, ok hen, just come back down the road with us now. So Siri accompanies PC McCoy back to the squad car. As they approach Siri spots the driver who is a small male polis. He is covered in mud. He is called PC Kirk. He rolls down the window and shouts PC McCoy, Ah’ve fallen over. THe woman officer replies PC Kirk So have I.
Siri is now convinced comedy pratfalls are in the manual now for polis officers dealing with suicidal youth.
It's almost like they should change their business model?
Last week’s story -
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Halfords predicts bicycle boom to continue for 2020
Chain struggles to keep up with demand for pedal-powered and electric bikes but lockdown dents motoring profits
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/07/halfords-predicts-bicycle-boom-to-continue-for-2020
“It's almost like they should change their business model?“
Well yes, they’ve changed many times (and had various owners).
Used to have shops (inc Lothian Road and Hanover Street), then mostly went to sheds.
They’ve had various attempts at ‘boutique’/specialist bike shops, but that’s going away again.
I’m sure current circumstances make everything worse in terms of predicting the future/(re)developing a strategy.
Over many years they’ve been (and tried) many things - uncomfortably or without conviction.
Used to be the go to place for people who didn’t (think they’d) feel comfortable in a ‘proper’ bike shop.
Then the Boardman range arrived moving Halfords a bit more upmarket AND introducing a lot of people to ‘decent quality/value’ bikes.
This hasn’t been quite enough though -
https://road.cc/content/news/chris-boardman-has-sold-his-car-275119
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Exclusive: hospital mortality rate varies from 12.5% to 80% in different trusts around country
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Presume Scotland has data too(?)
A few more local Covid restaurant casualties (or at least Covid being given as the exigent reason)
Henderson’s has been left behind by the newer specialist veggie/vegan places that have sprung up and also by most places offering veggie/vegan options as standard. Last time I was in the Salad Table it was pretty tired and the menu was a bit uninspiring.
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A 30-year-old patient died after attending a “Covid party”, believing the virus to be a hoax, a Texas medical official has said.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/13/30-year-old-dies-covid-party-texas
Vegan boom there to be milked (almond milk) been going to Henderson’s since 1987, menu rarely changed. Which I liked.
Less bother3d about the apartment though did l8ke sister place the outsider til got fed up with their smugness. No outside space despite name. Was baumeisters book shop also in 1987
Did not know they owned Outsider. Great place for a late business lunch. I rarely do that more than once a year, but I will miss their moules et frites.
I liked the original Henderson's - as much for the people watching, live music and general warm embrace as the food. However, I had the most joyless "cake" a couple of years ago at the newer Holyrood Road branch. It looked like a chocolate brownie, but appeared to be made from some experimental bran-based concrete. Untroubled by sugar or any other redeeming cakey features, I reckon a ravenous 17th Century sailor would have turned their nose up at it.
@Morningsider, sounds vegan that cake
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The environment secretary, George Eustice, also defended the government’s U-turn on making face coverings compulsory, saying its approach had been “evolving” and noting that it advised the public to wear them in crowded places in May to limit the spread of coronavirus.
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Questions abound, but 57/61 infected suggests there is not a level of natural immunity...
This is a good article on comparisons between excess deaths in Scotland and England/Wales.
https://centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/covid-19-excess-deaths-comparison
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Ocado has 1 million customers waiting to join its online grocery service after struggling to cope with a surge in demand during the coronavirus pandemic.
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@stickman, Scotland’s apparently better result illusory (linked to our Usual death rate being higher than England and Wales apparently)
@chdot - Ocado delivering in Scotland yet?
Feel like it's not a simple who had more deaths question,
I've seen occasional comments suggesting Scotland's recent lower transmission rates should be attributed to lower population density, but given the way that case numbers initially shot up similarly in both counties, I fail to see how that could have a strong effect. (and when you've got deserted places like Sutherland bolted on to your country, I don't see how that reduces transmission), need to consider density where people actually live.
It's fairly obvious Scotland did nothing hugely special at the start of the outbreak, given similar epidemic curves (plus just the four nations policy, with no early lockdown, nor -I think- wildly divergent testing rates up here). But now that there's much lower transmission and death rates recently, obviously something has been done better north of the border since that point.
If you're looking for political points, total deaths and GDP hits probably the important metric, if you're looking for policies to eliminate a virus, then need to look at other aspects.
Did not know they owned Outsider. Great place for a late business lunch. I rarely do that more than once a year, but I will miss their moules et frites.
I think they were originally related but haven't been for many many years. The Outsider, Ting Thai Caravan and Saboteur are all part of the same company.
I had to make a work trip up north yesterday. Visited around the highlands (kept well clear and no hand shakes) and was pleased to see most people wearing masks. The few that were not in shops/petrol stations looked quite sheepish, apart from one strutting cockerel with an Audi Garage polo on in an inverness M+S food shop who was pacing about clearly daring someone to say something. Everyone ignored him.
A few shops in a couple small villiages displaying clear notices "NO MASK NO ENTRY"
How to maintain the bike boom?
Henderson's gone for good :-(
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-53405142
yes @stiltskin see up thread for discussion of a terrible cake @morningsider had from Henderson’s. They did a potato croquette in the deii I liked and indeed a bean burger that was very filling.
Mrs Garto worked there as a student and also in Whigham’s which they also used to part own.
Unrelated, my brother in law through in the west is saying that some businesses are taking a government bail out but then going into liquidation soon after. Then starting up afresh under a different name. Not sure how he knows this and clearly does not apply here.
Outsider also confirmed as not reopening
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Learning to cope with post viral fatigue
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Starmer said: “I have to ask, in light of the last few questions: has the prime minister actually read this report, that sets out the reasonable worst-case scenario and tells the government what it needs to do about it in the next six weeks? Has he read it?”
Johnson replied: “I am, of course, aware of the report, and we are, of course, taking every reasonable step to prepare this country for a second spike,” bringing jeers from some opposition MPs.
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Dearie me
“ The training session has now been identified as the source of the unusually high number of staff who later fell ill or had to stay off work because they were in close contact with those infected.
Hospital sources say that not everyone who attended wore a mask or stayed two metres apart, and that social distancing broke down to a significant extent during the lunch break.
Staff at the hospital are baffled as to why the training session was allowed to go ahead, given that most medical training in the NHS is now done online to avoid people gathering.
One consultant said that holding the training session as a physical event had been “disastrous”. Ambulances were still being diverted from Hillingdon to other nearby hospitals more than a week after the policy was introduced on 7 July.”
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