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Monday 19 October 2020

What's the difference between a firebreak and a circuit-breaker?

 


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Maybe the thing to do is to carry out some research on the epidemiological distinction but sadly there are better things to do such as finishing the mug of tea I recently brewed. Maybe I'll gaze out of the window for a while too. Epidemiology may have to wait.

6 comments:

Sobers said...

The question is, who is paying for the Welsh lockdown? I bet its not the Welsh taxpayer.................

Scrobs. said...

It's usually a 'lemon' if the BBC puts some sort of 'explanation' up.

(Well that's what we used to say when were kids)!

Sam Vega said...

Firebreak is a Welsh phenomenon. Torri Tân, as they term it beyond Ludlow. Circuit-breaker is an English thing. I'm waiting for the Scottish version. "Hadrian's Firewall", maybe?

Doonhamer said...

A Tay Bridge. A bit more than a wee break, for Scotland?
Well it is a bit of a disaster.

wiggiatlarge said...

About three days, as one of them managed to make a fortnight seventeen days.

What about a surge protector, there must be hundreds of synonyms for those two phrases, you may have started something here, the government is always on the look out for new catchy phrases.

A K Haart said...

Sobers - good point and maybe that's one of the drivers.

Scrobs - as time goes by I find I don't miss BBC 'explanations'. As you say, mostly lemons.

Sam - maybe they could just call a "Holiday".

Doonhamer - good idea - it certainly fits.

Wiggia - or taking another view of it, "house arrest" would be descriptive.