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To cross the boarder or not?

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Yammy Wed 29-Dec-21 18:16:18

What will happen to the number of Covid cases in the Northern counties of England, if Scots do not respond to a request from M/S Sturgeon not to cross to England to celebrate Hogmanay?

Calistemon Wed 29-Dec-21 21:51:20

lemongrove

Hope there will be no invaders ( white walkers)getting past the wall....where are the Watch when you need them?

All patrolling Offa's Dyke stopping the Welsh visiting English country village pubs.

lemongrove Wed 29-Dec-21 21:56:41

.....
Winter is coming!?

Alegrias1 Wed 29-Dec-21 21:58:30

The night is dark and full of Scotsmen. ?

Calistemon Wed 29-Dec-21 22:01:28

Ooh, where?

mokryna Wed 29-Dec-21 22:03:18

And NHS staff in ICU are falling sick. So where will the party goers be in a week’s time?

Casdon Wed 29-Dec-21 22:04:29

You take the high road and I’ll take the low road Calistemon!

Calistemon Wed 29-Dec-21 22:07:09

I know a few good pubs just across the boarder, Casdon
One might hold a lock-in on Friday!

lemsip Wed 29-Dec-21 22:09:42

border even.

Yammy Wed 29-Dec-21 22:12:43

mokryna

And NHS staff in ICU are falling sick. So where will the party goers be in a week’s time?

Exactly that is why M/S Sturgeon asked them not to go into Northumberland and Cumbria it's a big risk for others just for a skin full.

Calistemon Wed 29-Dec-21 22:13:02

Oh yes, it's infectious

MayBeMaw Wed 29-Dec-21 22:16:07

If nothing else, I think we have now established the difference between a boarder and a border.smile

Casdon Wed 29-Dec-21 22:17:02

Our hymns and arias might make the Scottish boarders even more cross Calistemon - it’s okay though as if they reject us we will always have Ross on Wye (or Monmouth) to retreat to, they will keep a welcome in the hillsides…..

Calistemon Wed 29-Dec-21 22:24:22

I know quite a few Scotsmen around here, both sides of the border but all will be staying in celebrating quietly with their OHs.

Josieann Wed 29-Dec-21 22:26:28

MayBeMaw

If nothing else, I think we have now established the difference between a boarder and a border.smile

Just call it a frontier MayBeMaw organise a few games and have a knockout.

MayBeMaw Wed 29-Dec-21 22:32:12

I don’t know, I might get too bored/board !

Kalu Thu 30-Dec-21 00:10:21

I think you may find OP, this would not be the first instance guidelines have been broken within the UK and NI as other nations paid no heed when deciding to visit nations regardless of the tighter guidelines elsewhere during this pandemic.

It is a sad reality of selfish individuals who put their wants before the safety of others, throughout the UK and NI, not just one country.

A selective memory indeed OP.

Chestnut Thu 30-Dec-21 02:00:02

People will do what they will, and I don't really care where they go if they want to get a skinful. It's up to others to keep away from them if they feel they might have been infected through too much socialising.

Lincslass Thu 30-Dec-21 07:36:51

According to theZOE map, apart from Dumfries and Galloway, either side of the border seems as infectious as the other. Those that will will, sure it won’t be many. Not the only country going from one to the other, as all closed in Netherlands, they went over to Germany, doesn’t matter where you are in the world, the I’ll do what I like attitude persists.

Mollygo Thu 30-Dec-21 10:06:26

I listened to a discussion on this on the way to work. A man who has a pub/restaurant near the border was far more annoyed that English pub owners would be making money out of Scots border crossers than he was worried about the transmission of the virus. He thought Scotland shouldn’t be closed, because law abiding people like him would lose out to off-licences and supermarkets and even the occasional less law abiding pubs.

Alegrias1 Thu 30-Dec-21 10:08:56

Pubs aren't closed in Scotland.

MayBeMaw Thu 30-Dec-21 10:19:26

According to todays paper
DUTCH day-trippers are fleeing the coronavirus lockdown in the Netherlands in their droves to cross the border to Belgium, where shops and restaurants remain open
Crowds at Antwerp Central station yesterday, many visiting from the Netherlands
Hugo de Jonge, the Dutch health minister, yesterday pleaded with people not to go to Belgium after cities near the border, such as Antwerp, witnessed jammed parking lots, traffic jams and overcrowded trains.
The Netherlands announced a strict Christmas lockdown to try and halt the fast-spreading omicron variant

Could this be Edinburgh Waverley or indeed Riccarton junction?

MayBeMaw Thu 30-Dec-21 10:20:07

This

MayBeMaw Thu 30-Dec-21 10:21:53

Third attempt at posting a photo ???

maddyone Thu 30-Dec-21 10:35:58

Whether people cross the border or not, there will massive mixing on NYE in England and the virus will be spread.

paddyann54 Thu 30-Dec-21 10:36:54

Its only NIGHTCLUBS that are closed here ,pubs are open and are table service .My sons friends are going out at Hogmanay ,all are triple jagged and are going to venues where there is outside space marquees with a missing wall etc.
The numbers here are rising but are still just over 600 per 100,000 England ,according to the newsis more than double that and the English NHS is reopening its Nightingale wards.
Still think Nicola Sturgeon was being over cautious by trying to control numbers at events?