One in 10 Pubs and Restaurants Forced to Close Last Month Due to ‘Pingdemic’
Hospitality venues were relying on the easing of restrictions on ‘Freedom Day’ to make up for their lockdown losses, but they’ve found that one set of restrictions has simply been replaced by another. The Chief Executive of U.K. Hospitality reports that one in 10 pubs and restaurants have been forced to close over the past month because of staff shortages caused by the ‘pingdemic‘. One in five venues has also had to “significantly adjust their offer or services” to cope with the continued disruption to business. MailOnline has the story.
The ‘pingdemic’ has seen record numbers of people being alerted by the NHS Covid app to self-isolate in recent weeks, including 700,000 for the week to July 21st.
The Government rolled out exemptions for workers it deems to be employed in critical industries, such as those in the food sector, transport and waste collection.
Daily negative test results can enable such workers who have been alerted by the app or called by NHS Test and Trace as Covid contacts to continue working.
Kate Nicholls [of U.K. Hospitality] told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “In the last month one in 10 of our businesses have had to close their sites and more importantly one in five have had to significantly adjust their offer or services in order to cope with the pandemic.”
She added: “The ‘pingdemic’ has hit at the same time as the reopening, they haven’t had time to rebuild cash reserves and so they are in quite a fragile state and the hit to revenues as a result of the pingdemic is running at about 15 to 20% of revenues for those businesses that are affected.
“So it is a significant suppression just at the point in time when these businesses needed to start recovering from about 16 months worth of closure and restrictions.” …
It comes as desperate councils are offering lorry drivers bonuses of £3,000 in a bid to clear the backlog of bin collections caused by the ‘pingdemic’.
Rubbish has piled up in many areas in recent weeks – with up to 40% of some local authority workforces having to isolate.
Some residents have been told to cut down on the amount of food that they throw out as piles of uncollected waste grow.
Others have been asked not to put their bins out unless they are full, with collection services in dozens of areas running significantly behind schedule.
Separately, a new report has warned more than 1.1 million jobs remain unfilled as the pingdemic crisis worsens the shortage of workers.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Health Secretary has finally agreed to make the NHS Covid-tracking app less sensitive. Until now, it pinged people who’d been in contact with an infected person at any point during a five-day period before they tested positive; henceforth, that will be reduced to two days. MailOnline has the story.
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Worth a read, in my opinion. Includes:
Possible escalations, in sequential order:
– unvaccinated people are barred from all public places.
– unvaccinated people are barred from work.
– unvaccinated people have their benefits withdrawn.
– unvaccinated people are forcibly vaccinated (likely under the mental health act).
– unvaccinated people are sent to quarantine camps.
– unvaccinated people are murdered.
https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/2021/07/collaboration-or-resistance-part-3-scapegoats/?doing_wp_cron=1627890873.6848340034484863281250
Yes a very good trio of articles.
The half-terms are getting closer in the US, its pretty good odds that the Dems will lose the House at the current rate. So a fight against time. If the current US ‘leadership’ loses ground, a lot of political impetus will fade from this , however the ‘backers’ such as BlackRock will remain. Given the $trillions backing a new disruptive capitalism supported by a biotech fascist totalitarianism, its going to hard work keeping them at bay. but without the constant psyops , if political will starts to waver, there is a chance.
Given the $trillions PRINTED BY CENTRAL BANKS backing a new disruptive “capitalism” IN NAME ONLY
Edward, you’re doing an excellent job in helping to drive people mad with fear and despair so that they surrender to the snake oil.
More mass demonstrations – more mass non compliance please
Mass protests sweep Europe | Rallies against COVID restrictions continue in France, Germany, Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hydVtluBXM
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Oh, your world of dark powers that be enslaving the whole humanity is so much more exciting than the boring actual world of some stinking virus sending a couple unvaxed people to choke to death in some hospital bed.
Good article in the newly named TCW https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/our-new-title-farewell-to-the-disgraced-c-word/
Excellent, and a good decision.
I agree. I very much enjoy and endorse their articles but it bugged me, a lot, that they had the c word in their name.
It looks like the Globalist Conservative Party may have their own ‘winter of discontent’ in the coming months. 1979 all over again, and who would have thought it… Where’s the Maggie type politician who will pull this country out of the pingdemic quicksand?
Lockdown does seem rather Heathite in it’s statist paternalist incompetence.
Or perhaps Baldwin and Macdonald.
Lockdown is communist.
Pubs are hotbeds of dangerous ideas circulating and free speech!
Yep, which is why they were the first places to be shut and the last to be allowed to re-open.
“The ‘pingdemic’ has seen record numbers of people being alerted “
Surely this must mean that record numbers of people have voluntarily installed this sinister snooping app on their so-called Smart Phones!
FFS What is wrong with these people?
An app that randomly pings, finds you guilty without test or trial, and then sentences you to imprisonment in the form of self-isolation?
Why not just use existing fully developed and already established technology?
GPS ankle-bracelet monitoring tech has been used for years now.
It is extremely widely used among the regular criminal fraternity and parole offenders.
Much cheaper to use trad-tech on the new breed of criminals (Super Spreaders).
This ‘trad-tech’ already utilizes the ‘Curfew’ tool and will make the imminent return of National Lockdowns much easier to police.
I am starting to suspect that the people being pinged want to be pinged. If you’ve not been working from home and you’re suddenly given the chance to get a free 10 days of paid leave, why wouldn’t you want to get pinged?
Different working area but demonstrates the effect on the NHS when staff are pinged.
A significant number of the staff enjoy somewhat generous sick pay schemes when unable to attend work. Not so good is the impact on an already failing service.
Newcastle Hospitals FT, covering 3 hospitals, suffered the highest number of bed closures ’for many years’ during the first week of July.
10 per cent of the acute trust’s beds were closed due to covid staffing pressures.
This was a result of soaring numbers of staff testing positive for covid or been required to self-isolate.
The number of covid positive staff had quadrupled in under three weeks to more than 100 in the first week of July.
The numbers of staff required to self-isolate had also “substantially grown”, which meant total staff absence rates peaked above 8 per cent, which is “nearly double the usual average”, the trust said.
As a result, a significant number of bed days were lost over the week, bed days that could have cut into the huge backlog of patients waiting for treatments…whilst staff were sat at home…
Just saying.
I fear you are correct. It’s also going to be tough on those who’ve enjoyed a fully paid holiday for a year and a half to reacclimatize themselves to a work environment and face going back to work. Assuming, of course, they still have a job when their employer who hasn’t had any cash flow for over a year realizes they’ve got to start paying wages again all by themselves.
The app pings are advisory with no legal back up*. Any employer with balls would say, “Got pinged? Come to work, WE will administer/supervise a LFT. Pass and it’s back to work; fail and it’s Statutory Sick Pay for 2 weeks”.
*A phone call from NHS Trackin Tracy is backed up by law; the app isn’t.
That this absurdity is supposed to be ‘freedom’ shows the gibbering of great fat communist fraud Kim Jong Johnson.
After eighteen months of u-turns, the bastard is digging his heels in on this, to cause the maximum possible damage.
More mass demonstrations – more mass non compliance please
Mass protests sweep Europe | Rallies against COVID restrictions continue in France, Germany, Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hydVtluBXM
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There is nothing mass about these demonstrations. All they do is provide new ammo for the government to paint their lunatic participants as a dangerous fringe which threatens rational society. This has been done with great success throughout the entire pandemic.
This is a very well planned campaign, no coincidence. And lockdown by another name. Simple.