Welsh lockdown

[99pperlitre]

Sad to see they can't sell Halloween costumes for kids in Tesco. Or books. No fun or reading for people down here! That's nothing to do with the virus, or fairness to other retailers. It looks like punishment for people in Wales but probably just a complete cock up. A truely odious and shameful government.

[milkround]

Probably shouldn’t post this... but a bottle of wine in I will. My partner works in a hospital in Wales. She is not a midwife but works on the baby making unit (maternity for normal folks).

Today they had to rush through a discharge of a mother for a mother and child of a baby born 2 weeks before it should normally. Because the mum would have no clothes for the baby that fit and after 6pm she couldn’t go and get some. So a mother is out of hospital earlier than she should be because mark drakeford wants to show everyone how powerful he is. The lady was on massively unusual medication for a new mum - so the hospital did what they could and will hope for the best rather than observing.

Contrastingly today I drove in and out of wales carrying lorry loads of beer. Moving and buying beer is okay. But buying clothes for a child is not. It’s a sick and mad world. I don’t get it and I don’t like it. I’d rather risk COVID than deal with this Mickey Mouse rubbish. I can go anywhere carrying anything.... but a new scared mum can’t buy baby clothes. Makes me think really.

[warch]

I feel very sorry for my neighbours just across the border, victims of politicking for politics sake. I for one will have no complaints if I spot any Welsh people nipping across into England to buy stuff.

[eskidavies]

Oh well I went to my local for a few ,left at 6.30 said I’ll catch you all in a fortnight hopefully,in all fairness the landlord asked if I wanted 1 more ,I would’ve but for wife waiting outside,,never mind back to work Monday,all round south and west ,Christ today I was in western ,could be anywhere in the south west of England also ,was asked if I wanted to work weekend in Plymouth earlier,didn’t fancy it. Too long a day traveling from Tonypandy,RCT ,and didn’t fancy overnight

[scottyp123]

This sums up drakeford's views on the English.

https://youtu.be/ZiJa9diJOMk?t=156

[phil_cardiff]

scrubchub said:

Dick Dastardly said:

Just went to do my food shop and 3 supermarkets around Cardiff had 50+ person queues outside them. One I reckon was closer to a hundred. It’s like the end of March all over again.

Thank you Mark Drayford. I’m sure you know exactly what you are doing and all of this is exactly what we need to be doing to beat coronavirus.

Well, according to Phil_Cardiff then he has done this all because he knows much better than all of us plebs. I can't see any fault in that logic.

I said he'd have access to more information and expertise than us.

Tell me why I'm wrong.

I also said he's faced with Morton's Fork situation.

Has PH always been an echo chamber?

[Wills2]

phil_cardiff said:

I said he'd have access to more information and expertise than us.

Tell me why I'm wrong.

I also said he's faced with Morton's Fork situation.

Has PH always been an echo chamber?

Shutting down for 17 days to reopen again after the virus has gone...genius, who knew! The bit about not being allowed to buy a jumper from Tesco was the icing on the cake of his expertise.

Feel free to leave the UK at anytime, good luck! (In fact is it time for us to have a vote on whether we want you to stay?)

[Escy]

If it works and the virus is supressed in Wales and goes out of control in England the majority of you are going to look stupid.

[fastraxx]

Escy said:

If it works and the virus is supressed in Wales and goes out of control in England the majority of you are going to look stupid.

They’re welsh
Nothing new there

[ABZ RS6]

phil_cardiff said:

I said he'd have access to more information and expertise than us.

Tell me why I'm wrong.

I also said he's faced with Morton's Fork situation.

Has PH always been an echo chamber?

No, he’s a fkin sock puppet. How is it fine for Mrs Jones to totter round Tesco (other supermarkets are available) buying “essential items” while the next isle along holds “non essential items”. Your all in the same enclosed space you fukin prick.

Have you published a formal list of essential and non-essential goods? Under what actual Law are you applying this bks?

[fastraxx]

ABZ RS6 said:

No, he’s a fkin sock puppet. How is it fine for Mrs Jones to totter round Tesco (other supermarkets are available) buying “essential items” while the next isle along holds “non essential items”. Your all in the same enclosed space you fukin prick.

Have you published a formal list of essential and non-essential goods? Under what actual Law are you applying this bks?

Too many drinks?

[ABZ RS6]

fastraxx said:

Too many drinks?

Your round?

[Escy]

While it seems silly on the face of it the idea with non essential items is so while the little independent book shop around the corner has to close, Tesco can't make a killing hoovering up their business taking their sales. The reality is everyone just uses Amazon instead but in principle I'm alright with it.

[Brave Fart]

To those of us sat here in England, it just seems daft that you can shop in a supermarket for booze, but not a pair of socks, or clothes for your new born.
How the hell is that going to "defeat the virus"?
Or you could close Mrs Miggins's hardware store, but buy your rawl plugs from Amazon. Seriously?

Isn't this more about political posturing to show how "independent" Wales can be, rather than any sort of logic at all?
It's certainly very little to do with virus control, to any rational person.

[vulture1]

I'd love it if the supermarkets all got together in Wales and said. "I tell you what if it is not safe to sell non food is not safe to be open so we will close all our shops. Watch the carnage and riots start then. The Welsh government will soon get sorted out.

[Badgerboy]

vulture1 said:

I'd love it if the supermarkets all got together in Wales and said. "I tell you what if it is not safe to sell non food is not safe to be open so we will close all our shops. Watch the carnage and riots start then. The Welsh government will soon get sorted out.

If you mean 'sorted out' meaning them all floating face down in Cardiff Bay, I am very much in support of your proposal.

[Escy]

Brave Fart said:

To those of us sat here in England, it just seems daft that you can shop in a supermarket for booze, but not a pair of socks, or clothes for your new born.
How the hell is that going to "defeat the virus"?
Or you could close Mrs Miggins's hardware store, but buy your rawl plugs from Amazon. Seriously?

Isn't this more about political posturing to show how "independent" Wales can be, rather than any sort of logic at all?
It's certainly very little to do with virus control, to any rational person.

It's following the advice from Sage.

[Catz]

Escy said:

Brave Fart said:

To those of us sat here in England, it just seems daft that you can shop in a supermarket for booze, but not a pair of socks, or clothes for your new born.
How the hell is that going to "defeat the virus"?
Or you could close Mrs Miggins's hardware store, but buy your rawl plugs from Amazon. Seriously?

Isn't this more about political posturing to show how "independent" Wales can be, rather than any sort of logic at all?
It's certainly very little to do with virus control, to any rational person.

It's following the advice from Sage.

And?

[anonymoususer]

Escy said:

It's following the advice from Sage.

No
It's interpreting the advice from Sage
And making a mess of it

[TheDrBrian]

Escy said:

If it works and the virus is supressed in Wales and goes out of control in England the majority of you are going to look stupid.

We need a remind me bot like reddit