Andy Onchan

Since when have I been responsible to you and why are you being so aggressive?

So you haven't really got a plan at all.... just copy Jersey. Well done.

But for that to work the testing would have to be free otherwise some folk will just ignore it, unless you're going to have an army of tracers who do physical visits.

I started where I left off yesterday....

So what's your plan?

When folk are in care homes then they are totally reliant on the home to keep them safe. And as we have seen some care homes have been ravaged. Which brings me to another aspect of this open the borders business - carers of all kinds, medical, social etc are the people who will be impacted by the potential fallout of a big rise in COVID. If we get to the level where cases are rising like the UK are the carers expected to isolate with their patients/charges in the event of a lockdown with the most vulnerable? If they have the same rights of access to/from UK (or anywhere else for that matter) then they will be expected to self-isolate on return with minimum of 14 days? That being the case the cost of care will rise as there won't be enough carers around to cover for those who isolate.

And the clapping you can also hear in background are the DOI estates planning people at the prospect of cooking up another grandiose 4 million quid scheme that won't run to budget or on time. What's not to like?

The anti-body tests would suggest that the virus has been and may still be in the community. It's just that some don't present symptoms.

Can't be any stranger than what's currently going on in the UK.

No. As someone else has said the WHO website comes in handy when developing a strategy. Strategy... fuck did I just write that? Ignore that it can't be true because IOMG has no strategy for anything that affects the general public.

Accuracy?

I avoid quid pro quo relationships, irrespective of the other party's social, political or any other standing in the community.

She has a Manx NI number but is uk resident. Perhaps that's the difference? The rate things are going the baby will be a year old before her Manx great grandmother gets see her.

Our Manx-born daughter (living in UK for last 8 years), husband and 6 month old grandchild (who we saw very briefly in February) have been told it's unlikely they will get permission to visit until the next review. So how are people circumnavigating the system?

Officially we're on level 4? In reality we're at level 3 already. Are they looking to move to level 2?

You must have known Roger would come along and dispel your assertion that there are several thousand on MERA, shirley? Even if you add the jobless numbers to the MERA numbers you still wouldn't get to several thousand.

Indeed. Very apt.

Several thousand?

Most lefties that I know are of the champagne variety.

So has She arrived?

Or is it just that the brigade who are in a position to make the necessary changes (not the politicians, remember it's the CS that run the Island) like to hang on to the "it's the differences that make us different" (wasn't that a strap line or something similar that was used in a marketing campaign a few years ago?). Being a step behind our close neighbours marks Mann out as being unique. But there's going to come a point when IOMG will have to act in order to conform with everyone else's expectations. In pretty much the same way as the Birch. Ditto for the TT itself.

Giz a job.... I can do that!

Yes, I was wondering why my 0.5kg parcel from Amazon hasn't been delivered yet!

Thank god the The Archers are resuming recording proper: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53932655

I thought if airlines advertise a schedule and didn't at least operate a certain number flights of that schedule then the slots are thrown open to others?