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It doesn't really make much difference where it came from now but if it came from a 'wet' market like the first SARS in 2002 then we are doomed to another outbreak https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/14/asia/china-wet-market-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html The salient points are that 94% of the wet markets on China's mainland were open by 22nd March and that even if a ban is put on illegal trade in wildlife it will move underground.

The fact that we have the Dulwich Estate and the Foundation schools here means that we all enjoy the environs as opposed to living in a total concrete hell hole. (especially during the lockdown when the playing field was open- I notice that Southwark didn't open up its playing fields on the South Circular) Anyway, I'm sure we are all well aware of the extra volume of traffic at 'school run' time and try to avoid it....and hardly any of it will be due to private schools as only 7% of British children are privately educated and 1% of those are boarding - so only 6% of British schoolchildren travel on a daily basis to and from school and quite a few use public transport as I have seen in Dulwich alone.

One of the policies of the Trotskyite Workers' Revolutionary Party was to replace the police with a 'Workers' Militia'

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have every sympathy with postal workers during > the Covid epidemic. But as most people in ED will > tell you (and read the threads here) the service > was dreadful long before the lockdown. > Of course we will make allowances now, but what > went wrong before? And did the postman who left my > bank statement out on the porch, and give me mail > for the wrong address and give next door my post > do this because of Covid? I suspect not. That happens- they lean over the fence and drop the post on the doorstep. You should complain or they will carry on. They know who the postie is for your address. Putting your security at risk is unacceptable.

It's very sad that the Victorian houses have been so vandalised by ugly extensions , paving over gardens and awful window replacements. Many of the houses were artisans' cottages. I very much doubt if the people who have so destroyed the heritage of the architecture have big families and so do not need the loft conversions etc...but in about 20 years when their 2 children have left home they will apply for HMOs or conversions to 2 or more flats and live off the proceeds.

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pie Nails it again.... > > Excellent- and he did it in 5 minutes and 13 seconds. Perhaps he'll write a book Celsius 1200!

The bin men are in Crystal Palace Road now. I just saw a binman empty a food waste bin into the same bin that he put the garden waste. What is going on?

A flip flop...

A 185 went past me- 4 people on it including the driver...NONE were wearing a mask...including the driver! Does that mean the virus has gone?

Hedges encroaching too far on to the pavement could be considered as obstructions on the pavement https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/traffic-orders-licensing-strategies-and-regulation/obstructions-on-roads-and-pavements what amazes me is some of these houses have the plantation shutters, the Annie Sloan painted front door and the brushed aluminium door furniture etc etc....and the lazy beasts can't be bothered to trim the hedge or get a gardener in!

The under 18s bus pass has drawbacks. I have seen them jumping on buses to go 1 or 2 stops. There is NO encouragement to go to school locally Travelling a long way to go to school is miserable

You could employ the builders that have extended the house next door to me. I had just cleared up some foxes' scat from outside my back door. I had just gone inside when a large black tile fell into my sideway at exactly the place where I had been cleaning just before! It was not from my roof- they had balanced the tile on the ridge between the two houses and it fell off. Or failing that, drop a house brick and half a housebrick from the window but make sure it is from your actual window surround into their garden...

Yes- the WHO cannot be trusted https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8454473/David-Cameron-says-failed-coronavirus-slow-worried-upsetting-China.html

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Recommendations please. > > Some plonker practising a clarinet in the garden > from 8.10 am this morning is making me desperate. I've had continuous loud building noise from the attached house next door being completely refurbished since last September- every weekday from 8am and they tried it on on a couple of weekends too. They did not contain dust until I got the council involved. The owners who are not living there accused me of lying when I texted them about the weekend work. And skip lorries and building supplies delivery lorries turned up even earlier until we complained to them. 8.10 am is NOT early

adamtallis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You were all teenagers once too... we were all babies once too- but we learned to use the toilet! (well most of us did)

I was in Brenchley Gardens today and there was a lot of noise that sounded like a party going on in one of the gardens that backs on to it- if that goes on into the night good luck neighbours

Can't help wondering whether wearing masks is going to increase this type of mugging - so much fro any CCTV

I got a home delivery and they sent me a text to say that 12 items were not available- essentials too- so I went there anyway!

Pathetic that people haven't yet learned to make coffee for themselves given they were locked in for weeks....mind you Sainsburys' staff are rubbish at social distancing in the main. Saying sorry while they reach across you does not do it!

There is only one conspiracy theory worth considering imo and that is what the hell was going on in China, specifically Wuhan, last December? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51409801

Well, whatever they decide to do it better not have to be paid for out of the NHS budget like the Pebble at UCLH https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/oct/27/art.health

Royal Mail have retail agents and they are not allowed to sell above the price.

2011- same year as the Contagion film which Scott Z Burns was inspires by the 2002 outbreak...the final scene kind of sums things up a bit at 3:26

BornAgainSELondoner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Absolutely agree. We could all do with paying > closer attention to the ethics of the companies we > choose to patronise - be that clothes, food, > electrical goods, banks or whatever. > > Question everything. The information about the exploitation of poor people for profit has been readily available for decades. Shops will still open tomorrow and people will go there in droves. The hair market alone is a prime example https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/oct/28/hair-extension-global-trade-secrets

Care services are either run by the Local Council or are privately owned so the cost of say, Lew Evans would be an add- on to council tax as it is a council care home https://fullfact.org/health/council-tax-and-social-care-explaining-your-bill/ From remarks that Matt Hancock made at the beginning of the pandemic some councils were slow in passing on the extra government money that they were allocated to help with the crisis.