Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Theroadlesstravelled]

7 minutes ago, Lurkst said:

No wonder the UK levels of testing are so bad, too much perving in the labs.

There's no way she is British. 

[Rugster]

18 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said:

People really need to be careful with language here. Is it really full of 20/30/40 yo or are there a couple.

And if it is, what’s to say it’s not people that age with underlying health problems. Too many of these people commenting publicly are forgetting it’s not only the elderly that are vulnerable. 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

1 minute ago, jagfox99 said:

 

The pro-Government bots are out in force to reply that there is plenty PPE and it's all just media hype.

[welshbairn]

5 minutes ago, MixuFixit said:

I guess by spotting all these things us lesser mortals miss explains why he gets the big bucks.

Not referring to this tweet in particular but It's funny that his twitter persona in general is like a petulant sulky teenager in contrast with the intimidating master of his brief he projects on television. 

Edited April 1, 2020 by welshbairn

[jagfox]

Schools making PPE for NHS staff. While welcome I'm sure the government could do a bit more...

[D.A.F.C]

There was a guy on five live yesterday talking about the meetings and conferences governments and departments have now and again about pandemic or emergency situations. He said that almost every government was told they were well short of equipment and resources spent.

He also said that the meetings were kept top secret and whoever made decisions were kept out of blames way. I don’t blame any government really but there should be a system in place that can ramp things up if required.

The UK is woefully underprepared with hardly any manufacturing capability for raw materials and the health service crushed over decades. Just locally banks get bailed out despite acting recklessly and a hospital loses a&e and intensive care.

We really need to reclaim back some manufacturing base and have stocks of emergency equipment, whatever the cost.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

Pictures of Boris using Zoom for a cabinet meeting despite concerns it can scrape data like IP addresses and browsing history from devices.

Does it even matter? He talks shite anyway.

[Alan Stubbs]

26 minutes ago, Detournement said:

They obviously don't want to test the front line NHS workers as them going off sick for two weeks en masse would be a bigger issue than them working with the virus. 

 

Not testing NHS workers means staff are self isolating for 14 days because of any Corona-like symptoms in their households; rather than the right people staying off for the right amount of time. Widespread NHS staff testing would obviously reduce overall absences, compared to having some people off unnecessarily and others coming in and unknowingly infecting colleagues left and right.

As with most things, the possibility that someone has made a bit of an arse of it is more plausible than some wacky theory that isn't even logical to begin with.

[Fife Saint]

Anybody work in the courts? I have this, what seems absolutely trivial, speeding ticket I need to pay.

I've put it off then forgotten about it and don't have a chequebook to send a cheque. Am I going to get my knuckles rapped further if I'm a few days late with paying the fine?

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

I can't believe these people would be wasting their time having an embarrassing and irrelevant discussion.

Its madness! Theres some people who just make their respective sides actually less appealing, fortunately it seems quite an even split.

[jagfox]

#FuckTheTories

[Guest bernardblack]

Can people stop reading the Daily Mail please?

[welshbairn]

3 minutes ago, Fife Saint said:

Anybody work in the courts? I have this, what seems absolutely trivial, speeding ticket I need to pay.

I've put it off then forgotten about it and don't have a chequebook to send a cheque. Am I going to get my knuckles rapped further if I'm a few days late with paying the fine?

Don't work in the courts but you've already accepted it and sent off the NIC or whatever it's called you should be OK. If you've got a Post Office nearby you could always get a postal order (had to google to check if they're still a thing!).

[ICTChris]

Swarm of Vermin are supporting Excess Death in their hotly anticipated comeback gig in the Cathouse on the first Saturday after the end of lockdown.

[sparky88]

Wonder how many journalist are planning to ask 'When do you think the peak will be' at the daily briefing today? I'm going for 3.

[Forest_Fifer]

Swarm of Vermin are supporting Excess Death in their hotly anticipated comeback gig in the Cathouse on the first Saturday after the end of lockdown.

I thought Social Isolation had got that gig

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

1 hour ago, pandarilla said:

1 hour ago, Steve_Wilkos said:

No, we definitely do not. 

I've dared my wife to try and get it going in our street. She seems up for it but I'm not sure.

 

[Savage Henry]

I thought Social Isolation had got that gig

Social Isolation have gone their separate ways.

[Mark Connolly]

9 minutes ago, bernardblack said:

Can people stop reading the Daily Mail please?

If only

[pandarilla]

If anyone thought for a millisecond that this event would lead to a reassessment of our priorities as a nation and a dramatic uplift in wages of those we now know to be truly essential...
 
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/mar/31/uk-minimum-wage-rise-of-6-to-go-ahead-despite-coronavirus-pay-freeze-call?CMP=share_btn_tw

Any long term shift in ideology certainly won't come from the government, or the establishment in general.

It'll have to be a change in the public mood regarding these things. The magic money tree, and greater state involvement might just shift leftwards (after the war sobering similar happened, and brought about a huge change in societies).