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Enjoy. This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra. Leading Britain's Conversation. You're listening

to our podcast of steve allen morning everybody

welcome along to your free podcast for today and here we are on monday the 20th of december five days

to go which means it's going to go crackers it's going to go crackers because that's all you're going

to be having to eat this year because nobody's going outside nobody's going to records you know in the shops nobody's going to buy anything the food's going to be sitting on eat this year because nobody's going outside, nobody's going to records, you know, in the shops, nobody's going to buy anything, the food's going to be sitting on the shelves. No, it's not. We're still going to be going out there. The trouble is, as I said, the other day and the other week and the other month, this particular strain of COVID is particularly virulent. This thing spreads like wildfire. And once it's in you, it multiplies very

quickly. It's learnt, very fast. You know, and you can listen to all the people coming up with,

oh, we don't need to get vaccinated. Oh, we don't need to do this. We don't need to do that.

Good. Just don't take up spaces in hospitals. Which MP was it the other day saying,

there are people dying of cancer and they tried to get them into hospitals, which MP was it the other day saying, there are people dying of cancer

and they're trying to get them into hospitals, but these stupid people who aren't being vaccinated,

you know, are the ones who are taking up hospital space. You know, as far as I'm concerned,

these people should be kicked out, kick them out onto the streets. You go and pay for it

privately because you're not taking up NHS beds, not when there's people, you know, with sort of cancers and things like that, far more important than you are. But of course, they all think they know best. And unfortunately, you're still seeing people on the buses, on the trains, still not wearing masks. They don't feel they have to wear the mask because don't worry, I'm going to be

okay. It's going to be, you know, it's going to be absolutely fine. It's going to be brilliant and

I'm going to come through at the other side. Well, I wouldn't guarantee it. And I wouldn't wish it on

anybody. I really wouldn't. So look for the symptoms, temperatures, high temperatures,

you know, the cough that seems to go on for ever and a day.

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