Monday morning 10.30 got the call to say the night trunk I have been doing for the past month has been stopped due to the down turn. And I was just getting into the swing of night work after 30 years away from the trucks.
I will miss the £700 top-line a week.
Was it supposed to start this morning or next Thursday? Cause…today was madness - granted I drive in the deadest dead of the night 99% of the time but I haven’t seen so much morning traffic since…before March? Also last night all laybys full - nowhere to take a ■■■■, I had to stop in a full one on the curb behind the last guy for a 45… Within 10 mins another truck tried to park in the layby (nearly ramming me), ended up parking parallel to the others; a bit later another one came in and parked behind so there were 7 of us in a layby with 4 parking spaces. Services full, morning queues at the pumps worse than ever owing to the reduced staff at checkout - only 1 person tending the whole station, I guess they’re imposing social distancing for staff again.
Judging by the traffic volumes this morning you wouldn’t think that there was a lockdown
This lady doesn’t seem to share the view of a few members on here. Take a quick look.
I have noticed a shortage of decent cotton buds and non stick foil.
the maoster:
This lady doesn’t seem to share the view of a few members on here. Take a quick look.
Karen?
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And her ■■■■ ain’t so big anyways…
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And she is like loads on TNUK, moaning cause she ain’t getting the overtime in!
TheYoungTrucker:
Yep. Wonder how much the lying BBC paid those doctors and nurses to say they were frazzled? I wonder how much the BBC bribed the Times, Mirror, Sun, Mail, Guardian, Express to carry stories of exhausted NHS staff and crowded wards in March?
They really are awful aren’t they.
You might have a brain the same size as that of a very small goldfish, most here have functioning memories.
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Ok well it just so happens my partner is a nurse, during lockdown 1 in the spring the wards were half empty?? Yet were all out clapping and being led to believe some sort of apocloypse is taken place, nurses were so exhausted in March they were fit to come out and clap for the bbc for us all to see?? Don’t make much sense does it?? Wards being full at this time of year is normal the same as they were full this time last year. Everything you read in a newspaper must be true, we all know they never lie!!
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The very fact that the BBC and system serving rags such as DM,Guardian etc are still being consumed is the real worry,they’re all owned by the same sources when all’s said and done best to ditch em,there’s far superior journalism online at-Unz Review,Lewrockwell.com, Breitbart to name but 3.Henry Makows twitter-feed is excellent.He’s just posted a very interesting clip of the 2012 London Olympics you might find pertinent to what’s playing out re the plandemic 
peirre:
Judging by the traffic volumes this morning you wouldn’t think that there was a lockdown
Yep, bad round the M62 and M60 this morning. Yet another smash at Rochdale J20 causing gridlock. Seems to happen nearly every day there now. No idea how the ■■■■ they manage it 
. Then static trying to get past Simister as well. Lockdown? Where?
Did go quiet from tea time though. Had the 56/M66 to myself coming back from Clitheroe 
. Hopefully it’ll be like that tomorrow morning but I doubt it. 
> the maoster:
> This lady doesn’t seem to share the view of a few members on here. Take a quick look.
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> dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti … 7916614435
She’s been outed down here in Cornwall that she doesn’t work at Treliske and isn’t a nurse.
It is true though that Covid cases are relatively few down here & generally people are being considerate to each other, about 30% or more now wearing masks in the street.
WE would have preferred no lockdown but with a ban on tourists, 2nd home owners etc. as they have done in Wales.
I noticed a difference traffic wise, left Stoke for Coventry at around 0530, traffic levels pretty normal, went from Cov to Bedford, traffic still normal or slightly lighter, from Bedford to Grantham it seemed that at 9am someone turned the traffic tap off, A1 was empty apart from lorries, vans and single occupancy cars. Then ran down to Swindon and sailed straight through the usual traffic hot spots with no delays whatsoever.
whisperingsmith:
> the maoster:
> This lady doesn’t seem to share the view of a few members on here. Take a quick look.
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> dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti … 7916614435She’s been outed down here in Cornwall that she doesn’t work at Treliske and isn’t a nurse.
Wow! Just goes to show that the internet should be viewed with suspicion. That cuts both ways for both opposing arguments naturally.
the maoster:
whisperingsmith:
> the maoster:
> This lady doesn’t seem to share the view of a few members on here. Take a quick look.
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> dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti … 7916614435She’s been outed down here in Cornwall that she doesn’t work at Treliske and isn’t a nurse.
Wow! Just goes to show that the internet should be viewed with suspicion. That cuts both ways for both opposing arguments naturally.
The internet (including Google and favebook) is merely the medium, we can agree. Like paper it can be used to write truth or lies.
What is damaging quite often is half truths.
Saying hospital wards are empty for instance, and showing pictures of them? Could be true.
An empty bed in a ward for psychiatric patients,isn’t transferable to respiratory diseases. If all the IC beds are full with COVID patients you can’t do any elective surgery, nor any cancer surgery. You run higher risk doing chemo and radiotherapy
stuff because those patients are at lowered resistance if they get COVID. Those patients are normally living at home and coming for treatment then returning.
Saying “isolate just the vulnerable” is fine, except it’s impossible. The more infected, but otherwise healthy, people there are wandering around the more likely infection of the vulnerable is.
Many of these who receive such treatment have decades of active life ahead of them. They are not coughing wheezing wrecks hanging on by a thread, but those showing what roughy, toughy, heroes they are by refusing to wear masks etc are putting them at risk.
The half truths that twist figures and facts are the hardest to put down: that picture of an empty ward may be true, that is the headline image, not enough will read a story of more than a couple of paragraphs explaining why that isn’t relevant.
And like truth and lies that applies to www, printed paper, or anything else.
whisperingsmith:
She’s been outed down here in Cornwall that she doesn’t work at Treliske and isn’t a nurse.
She’s never claimed to be a nurse. She’s a Health Care Assistant and describes herself as such. Some media outlets have described her as a nurse, but this is simply bad journalism.
whisperingsmith:
WE would have preferred no lockdown but with a ban on tourists, 2nd home owners etc. as they have done in Wales.
And where would Cornwall’s income come from then?
as our stores sell Housewares,they have all had to close,apart from click & collect,despite doing ALL the measures the government insisted on 
and even paying back the furlough money.because of that,they can’t claim furlough money again,so i’ve been told,so the poor store staff will have to use 2 of the 4 weeks as holiday us drivers still working to stock up the shops…once that is done…who knows
if it goes on after Dec 2 we’re ■■■■■■
Me personally if I was in my 80s not knowing how much time I’ve left, in a maybe 10 years maybe tomorrow type of scenario,.I’d be prioritising quality of life over time left,.and I know others are of the same mindset.
Would I rather spend my last couple of years cooped up in the house, no social life, no holidays, existing rather than living, or would I prefer to be careful but try and live as normally as possible, and getting enjoyment in my last few years, months or days.
Answer.?
2nd choice…EVERY time.
Everybody of every age group should be able to make their own choices, not be dictated to.
I’ve spoken to at least 5 elderly people who agree with me.
Do your best not to get it, but if you do and you’re rubber ducked with it…so be it, those who are happy with a lockdown scenario, fill yer boots.
Individual choice. 
Just heard a D.Day veteran on the radio, complaining about his local Remembrance Service being postponed or cancelled, they’ve been told to hold their own vigil at home instead.
These guys faced machine gun fire off a landing craft with no cover ffs,.so why are they going to be scared of catching a bad case of flu.
robroy:
Just heard a D.Day veteran on the radio, complaining about his local Remembrance Service being postponed or cancelled, they’ve been told to hold their own vigil at home instead.
These guys faced machine gun fire off a landing craft with no cover ffs,.so why are they going to be scared of catching a bad case of flu.
Because they were 18 and followed order and command, not 90 with possible respiratory complaints and heart failure!
Wheel Nut:
robroy:
Just heard a D.Day veteran on the radio, complaining about his local Remembrance Service being postponed or cancelled, they’ve been told to hold their own vigil at home instead.
These guys faced machine gun fire off a landing craft with no cover ffs,.so why are they going to be scared of catching a bad case of flu.Because they were 18 and followed order and command, not 90 with possible respiratory complaints and heart failure!
Agreed.
Risking life to save a nation is different to risking life a lay a wreath.
It is important to remember the sacrifice made by those before us, but not at the risk of more unnecessary deaths.
Franglais:
Wheel Nut:
robroy:
Just heard a D.Day veteran on the radio, complaining about his local Remembrance Service being postponed or cancelled, they’ve been told to hold their own vigil at home instead.
These guys faced machine gun fire off a landing craft with no cover ffs,.so why are they going to be scared of catching a bad case of flu.Because they were 18 and followed order and command, not 90 with possible respiratory complaints and heart failure!
Agreed.
Risking life to save a nation is different to risking life a lay a wreath.
It is important to remember the sacrifice made by those before us, but not at the risk of more unnecessary deaths.
Keep believing the hype Franglais.
Ok, but what if they WANT to do it for all the right reasons?
This guy was up for it despite his age, he’d visited Sword Beach and the Bayeux war cemetery where many of his mates lay for the last 70 odd ■■■■ year.!..
As I keep telling you, it should be individual choice,.but at the same time taking care.
Not everybody is up for just following bloody stupid Government rules blindly Franglais.you know mate 
(…believe it or not), the type that they genuinely think they are too over the top, and are restricting the way they want to live a normal life.
(Please don’t come back at me with the predictable ‘‘Where would we be if everybody…(fill in the blank)’’ type answer ffs, keep it in context, we ain’t talking about crime here, these are/were brave guys ,.( and it does not matter a ■■■■ how old they are now ) who want to live what time they have left in THEIR OWN ways.