Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[lefrene] 08/2/2021 10:03

Only 1.3 million illegals invited to register with a doctor for a jab, but what are the other 4 million supposed to do? I trust The Grauniad will pick up on this dreadful discrimination! :¬)

[utrickytrees] 08/2/2021 09:42

PO, left to their own devices indeed, it will be interesting to see how the dynamic within the EU changes with the UK's departure, Standards are bound to slip, indeed without the UK and in little more than 40 days they have already announced closer ties with the CCP which I doubt would have happened if Farage & Bozzington were in attendance. I can only see the EU going in one direction the writing is on the wall I'm afraid & ironically it will be the very vehicle that was conceived to unite a continent that will tear it apart. There is no silver lining on the horizons of europe, debt & unemployment are all she has to look forward to, it's only a matter of time that stray dog is back on the menu in places like Madrid & Naples.

[diku] 08/2/2021 09:39

Because over the last few years more and more are turning into junky day/medium traders...the days of so called long term investing is out of window...punters just don't trust the market...markets are in circus casino mode...

[cheshire pete] 08/2/2021 09:38

Yes Gecko, could really do with a test that distinguishes live virus from dead virus, if there isn't one yet. As I understand, if you have dead virus with current tests you are called out as +ve rather than having had the virus and protected with antibodies. Big difference.

[crazi] 08/2/2021 09:36

15 years ago Motely Fool was a good site. Had some integrity. I have noticed that over the past 5 years they have become a pure pump and dump site. Shame as they were good once with a un-biased approach...

[geckotheglorious] 08/2/2021 09:25

mikemichael2
Post 331470
"There must be millions that have had covid and got better, and possibly millions that were asymptomatic and got better, add them to the 11 million that have had the jab and it could be 20 million that are now protected. They don't tell us that one"

Absolutely correct.
Global total cases 106,166,898
Global Recovered 78,404,542 of 80,897,717 total closed cases
Global "Open Cases" 25,838,807

These are known cases.
Dr John Campbell in one of his videos mentioned a massive under counting, possibly one that means actual number of cases could be 10x current official number.

Still some way to go to secure "herd immunity" but a helluva alot closer if true.

[pierre oreilly] 08/2/2021 09:20

Yeah, great to leave the little europeaners to their own devices while we trade with the world.

[maxk] 08/2/2021 09:16

Live Coronavirus latest news: NHS services unlikely to resume this year due to 'exhausted' staff, confederation chief suggests



Normal NHS services are unlikely to resume this year, the health service confederation chief suggested as he said staff need a "period of recovery".

Danny Mortimer, chief executive of the NHS confederation, conceded that the health service would not go back to normal this year given the strain the pandemic has put on NHS staff.

He said: "There is going to have to be a very different way of managing the NHS and explaining to the public what we can do.

"Our staff are exhausted. This last 12 months has been astonishing in terms of the contribution they've made, but it's taken an enormous amount out of them and we need to see a period in the NHS of decompression and of recovery for our people before they can start to pick up the non-Covid responsibilities that they have.

"Albeit, this year - it's a long road I think this year in terms of our ability to resume those services."

[maxk] 08/2/2021 09:13

Well said tricky! #331544

[maxk] 08/2/2021 09:11

Live Politics latest news: Boris Johnson told not to lift lockdown until Test and Trace can spot new mutations

Catherine Neilan, politics live editor
8 FEBRUARY 2021 • 9:04AM


Boris Johnson must bolster the UK's Test and Trace system so it can spot mutations within two or three days before lockdown is lifted, the head of NHS Providers has said.

Chris Hopson has written to the Prime Minister asking him to commit to a series of tests ahead of easing restrictions including case numbers and infection spread, hospital admissions, vaccinations and new variants of the virus.

He told BBC Breakfast the UK should have a Canada-style "Test and Trace programme capable of finding those mutations... [having them] genomically sequenced in two or three days."

He added: "We've all worked incredibly hard over the last nine months as a nation - and over the last few months, last few weeks in terms of this immediate set of restrictions. What we mustn't do is rush to lift them, and then find the virus bounces straight back."

It comes amid growing concern that the Oxford University-AstraZeneca jab does not protect against mild and moderate infection of the South African variant.

[xxxxxy] 08/2/2021 08:40

Variants. This stuff is out there all over the place. On surfaces, on shoes, on clothes, on hair, on dander. It spreads. Like the truth or not. The surfaces would light up with bacteria, virus and other under appropriate lighting.Enough of the scaremongering. We have all been exposed and the death statistics confirms if anything nothing much unusual. Unsettled science and manipulated data has caused havoc. Time to at least vote out such people out of government. Time for human rights lawyers to start compensation procedures. The politicians themselves too should pay.

[ammu12] 08/2/2021 08:39

Buy metro bank!!

[gregpeck7] 08/2/2021 08:36

Short smashing going on at metro bank!

[mikemichael2] 08/2/2021 08:35

We might hit the dizzy heights of 40p this week at this rate!!!

[xxxxxy] 08/2/2021 08:31

If lockdowns work, you'd expect to see an inverse correlation between the severity of the NPIs a country puts in place and the number of COVID deaths per capita, but you don't. On the contrary, deaths per million were actually lower in those US states that didn't shut down than in those that did-at least in the first seven-and-a-half months of last year. Trying to explain away these inconvenient facts by factoring in any number of variables-average age, hours of sunlight, population density-doesn't seem to help. There's no signal in that noise.Incidentally, Snowdon's claim that the first British lockdown reduced COVID infections is easy to debunk. You just look at when deaths peaked in England and Wales-April 8th-go back three weeks, which is the estimated time from infection to death among the roughly one in 400 infected people who succumb to the disease, and you get to March 19th, indicating infections peaked five days before the lockdown was imposed. Even Chris Whitty, England's Chief Medical Officer, acknowledged that the reproduction rate was falling before the first hammer came down.... htTps://quillette.com/2021/02/05/the-case-against-lockdown-a-reply-to-christopher-snowdon/

[mikemichael2] 08/2/2021 08:18

Nano bot in their jabs?

[kkclimber56] 08/2/2021 08:04

I suppose its a way of identifying them

[asa8] 08/2/2021 06:59

Daily mail news 1.3 million illegal immigrants to be given amnesty to see a doctor for a jab you couldn’t make it up this country really is a shambles