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Can anyone think of a source of plastic sheets (somewhere around A4 size would be ideal), like file dividers?

Needs to be slightly thicker than the thinnest ones you can buy.

Need a) to be open as a real shop; b) to have a branch in my area!

I'm wondering if I am missing somewhere (e.g. Screwfix) but my brain has given up.

This is to make some facemask "hold it on" devices for local hospital, etc.
I can't think of any source in retail stores, but think that material could be in short supply anyway, since McLaren, Rolls Royce and others have suddenly switched to mass producing these masks for the NHS.
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Do people now have a different Brexit outlook with their Coronavirus goggles on?
No chance, I doubt they'll even make a connection. They'll join with Boris in deluding themselves that our gross mishandling of the crisis was a huge British triumph, just like that other British victory at Dunkirk.

Both down to being sovereign and showing Johnny Foreigner how it's done.
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Is Brexit now dead?

It’s very likely that the two nurses that cared for Boris Johnson and who he has heaped so much praise onto, would not be allowed into the country under the Brexit immigration rules.

Can we possibly stick to the Brexit timetable with the whole of Europe stricken with Coronavirus?

Do people now have a different Brexit outlook with their Coronavirus goggles on?
Ward Sister Ms McGee is from Invercargill, on New Zealand's South Island.

Snr Staff Nurse Luis Pitarma is from Aveiro in Portugal and moved to London six years ago. He studied nursing in Lisbon

On 13 Mar 2017:
Boris Johnson voted against guaranteeing EU derived rights, and the potential to acquire residency rights, for EU and EEA citizens legally resident in the UK.

Around one in eight NHS workers - 13.1% of the workforce, or 153,000 staff - are not British, according to a parliamentary report published in July last year.

After British, the most common nationalities of NHS staff are Indian with around 21,000 workers, followed by Filipino, Irish, Polish and then Portuguese staff.


More than 10,000 EU nationals have already left the NHS since the Brexit referendum, including almost 5,000 nurses, compounding what was already a crisis in staffing hospitals and care homes, while those who want to remain after Brexit are required to register under the EU settlement scheme to secure their status after the end of the Brexit transition period.

 
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Can anyone think of a source of plastic sheets (somewhere around A4 size would be ideal), like file dividers?

Needs to be slightly thicker than the thinnest ones you can buy.

Need a) to be open as a real shop; b) to have a branch in my area!

I'm wondering if I am missing somewhere (e.g. Screwfix) but my brain has given up.

This is to make some facemask "hold it on" devices for local hospital, etc.
 
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I can't think of any source in retail stores, but think that material could be in short supply anyway, since McLaren, Rolls Royce and others have suddenly switched to mass producing these masks for the NHS.
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Thank you!

We need it to be local because the device being used can be fussy about the material it cuts. So really need to buy one (small) pack or whatever, bring it home, test, then decide to get more or use something else.

Clarity or opacity is not an issue. Just that it works and can be sterilised.

(There is loads of apparently excellent stuff in our loft. But it is just too tough and resilient for the cutter. That is high density polypropylene.)
 
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Can anyone think of a source of plastic sheets (somewhere around A4 size would be ideal), like file dividers?

Needs to be slightly thicker than the thinnest ones you can buy.

Need a) to be open as a real shop; b) to have a branch in my area!

I'm wondering if I am missing somewhere (e.g. Screwfix) but my brain has given up.

This is to make some facemask "hold it on" devices for local hospital, etc.
Yes. The stationary shops selling to schools. The old OHP acetates were the business. HP would have had a line of these for use with Inkjet printers and then mylar based ones for Laser Printers... Using an Acetate in a Laser printer was a quick way to destroy the drum.
 
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Yes. The stationary shops selling to schools. The old OHP acetates were the business. HP would have had a line of these for use with Inkjet printers and then mylar based ones for Laser Printers... Using an Acetate in a Laser printer was a quick way to destroy the drum.
Got some document wallet/file things. And, better still, some sheets intended for cat/dog eating places. They look promising!

Spookily quiet. Poundland had, I think, two other customers and it is a reasonable size branch.

Wilko a bit busier (needed cat food) - a bit busier.

Lidl - to top up food - quiet - only one till and that didn't have a queue at all.
 

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It's not the visor we are making it is a little thing which makes ordinary disposable facemasks easier and more pleasant to use. :)
And I thought that was a ten pound note slipped to the user.
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From the Department of Do-As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do, isn't Chequers a second home?
No, it's the Official Home of an incumbent Prime Minister.

Number 10 Downing Street is the home of the First Lord of the Treasury, a post held by incumbent Prime Ministers. The plate on the door says so.

And of course a PM may have an original home from before his appointment as PM, so none of them are second homes.
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From the Department of Do-As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do, isn't Chequers a second home?

Coronavirus UK live: Boris Johnson 'not doing government work in Chequers'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2020/apr/13/coronavirus-uk-live-news-praise-nhs-nurses-prime-minister-boris-johnson-latest-updates

(Actually, he has his own house as well. And has Carrie moved to Chequers? Another visiting second/third/whatever home?)
Probably a benefit to us all if he doesn't based on results so far.
 
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Proof that idiocy is far more dangerous than the virus
In the FT
Boris Johnson’s illness has made him more powerful
The UK prime minister’s brush with death has his deepened his ties with voters

What a country, the idiot takes a risk to show off, infects himself , allegedly nearly dies, and because he acted like an utter pillock becomes more popular?

Boris wanted a legacy for the History books

I nominate

"Prime Minister that proved to be the Most tragic error ever made by the British electorate"
 
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No, it's the Official Home of an incumbent Prime Minister.

Number 10 Downing Street is the home of the First Lord of the Treasury, a post held by incumbent Prime Ministers. The plate on the door says so.

And of course a PM may have an original home from before his appointment as PM, so none of them are second homes.
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Chequers, or Chequers Court, is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It is about 40 miles out of London.

Certainly not his primary residence.
 
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This morning the BBC reports
In excess of 10,000 deaths
This afternoon on Google docs : source Dept of Health and Social Care
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18YDwo8yR8oC_WwtYyFncGVSNAnxEddLZoOXtr_kDpC0/edit#gid=0

11,329
If a person dies in hospital and the doctors know full well that it was due to Coronavirus, but if that person had not been tested prior to death, it’s not counted. Same for people dying at home or in care homes. The death rate is probably 15 / 20 K in reality.
 

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Chequers, or Chequers Court, is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It is about 40 miles out of London.

Certainly not his primary residence.
Nor is 10 Downing Street necessarily, it's an office. Tony Blair chose to live in number 11 Downing street as Prime Minister.
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Why is Johnson being painted as a hero for surviving Coronavirus?

It’s like the captain of a ship getting drunk and then running it aground as a result of recklessness and stupidity. When the captain applauds and thanks the tug boat captains that pulled the ship off the rocks, everyone treats him like a hero. It’s mental.

Johnson took up a valuable bed and medical team as a result of his own stupidity and foolish behaviour. Hes not a hero.
 

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