Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Florentine_Pogen]

9 minutes ago, Have some faith in Magic said:

Herald reporting him saying Cummings should consider his position

Dom will be fucking bricking it now...........

Edited May 26, 2020 by Florentine_Pogen

[Big Rider]

2 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

Dom will be fucking bricking it now...........

He'll be thinking "another no-mark Jock Tory, who cares?"

[dirty dingus]

Just now, Big Rider said:

He'll be thinking "another no-mark Jock Tory, who cares?"

Hello, youv'e reach Downing Street please state your name and order of business

Carlaw - It's me gaffer, Jackson. It's about this Cummings business

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[Blootoon87]

Carlaw is the most spineless bootlicker I've ever seen, apart from maybe Mundell. If even he's saying Cummings should go, the Tories must be absolutely livid.

[dirty dingus]

Brown nose Bowie Backs Boris

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18475594.scottish-tory-mp-enrages-constituents-pathetic-cummings-statement/

[Todd_is_God]

[trainspotter]

34 minutes ago, ford prefect said:

The next time you've had a few cans. Just take a wee drive down the motorway. If stopped just tell the police you were checking if you were ok to drive. I'm sure that'll work. Tell them Michael Gove says it's ok if they ask you why

All joking aside, the self-styled "party of law and order" seem to be making it increasingly difficult for the police to do their job effectively.

[bennett]

25 minutes ago, Wee Willie said:

Lethargy, cannae be arsed, lazy, dae it manaña - that's 4.

Earlier on I hoovered my wee bed/sitting room then mopped out the kitchen then mopped out the bathroom.

Now I'm back tae lethargy, cannae be arsed etc.

I've got into the habit of being messy for a week or so then have a cleaning frenzy.

 

Getting back to normal is going to be weird, also noticed that my hands are getting soft through lying about the place.

[EdinburghPar1975]

24 minutes ago, Have some faith in Magic said:

Herald reporting him saying Cummings should consider his position

He did consider it....then thought about it while he took a spin...and decided to stick two fingers up to all of us!

[Florentine_Pogen]

2 minutes ago, bennett said:

Getting back to normal is going to be weird, also noticed that my hands are getting soft through lying about the place.

Has your heid gone soft as well ?

[bennett]

1 minute ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

Has your heid gone soft as well ?

Years ago.

[Dons_1988]

18 minutes ago, Blootoon87 said:

Carlaw is the most spineless bootlicker I've ever seen, apart from maybe Mundell. If even he's saying Cummings should go, the Tories must be absolutely livid.

Or he's just an absolute run of the mill, nobody politician who only takes a position when he can see which way the wind is blowing (like the vast majority of them) to benefit/save what's left of their career.

[Florentine_Pogen]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/26/dominic-cummings-lockdown-rules-coronavirus

During his rose garden press conference, Dominic Cummings was asked if his trip to Durham had undermined government public health messaging. I hope not, he replied. Later, Boris Johnson was asked the same question. His response was more definitive: no one in No 10 has undermined the messaging. I hope they are right. For this matters. If people stop listening to what the government asks them to do and if they stop adhering to coronavirus measures then the number of infections will rise and more people will die.

But I cannot be as certain or as optimistic as the prime minister and his adviser. All that we know about adherence (knowledge that behavioural scientists have repeatedly stressed to the government during the pandemic) suggests that damage has been done.

First, for all the complexities of Cummings’ story, the bottom line is very simple. While millions of people up and down the land faced agonising personal circumstances and decided to stick with lockdown, Cummings did not. He went to Durham at the very time his government was insisting “stay at home, don’t travel”. He went to a beauty spot at the very time his government was insisting we avoid them. And nothing has happened to him. Instead, his actions have been endorsed. At the very least, that gives the appearance of “one rule for them, another for us” (possibly the best way of corroding trust in authority and adherence to the rules). And Cummings more than anyone else understands the importance of appearance in politics.

Second, the one thing that has carried us through the pandemic so far has been an emergent sense of community. This “we” feeling has been critical in getting people to adhere to the restrictions, even when they personally were not at risk. It has been critical to all the volunteering and neighbourhood support that has helped us through hardship. It is the most valuable asset we have in a crisis. But the most notable thing about Cummings’ rose garden performance was that “we” was nowhere to be found. It was all about “I”.

His explanation was entirely about his judgments as an individual, his decisions, his personal concerns. At no point was there any thought to the impact of his actions on others. Still worse, in his defence of Cummings on Sunday, the prime minister seemed to endorse the idea that, when the going gets tough, it is fine to rely on your own judgments – and fine to follow your individual “instincts”.

In effect, Johnson’s defence of Cummings turned an issue of communal responsibility into an issue of individual preference. Had everyone done that – had we all put so much energy into thinking about loopholes that served our personal circumstances rather than thinking about the impact of our actions on others – then lockdown would not have worked, the infection would still be raging and the NHS would have been overwhelmed.

As we come out of lockdown these issues become, if anything, even more important. It isn’t that the infection has gone away. Rather we are now in a position, due to past sacrifices by the many, to use more targeted strategies against coronavirus. But these are dependent on us all maintaining physical distancing, increasing hygiene standards, revealing our contacts if infected and observing quarantine if contacted. All of these measures are personally inconvenient. Often it will be easier to ignore them. They will only work if we continue to act together and for each other.

I hope this will happen. I hope people will continue to demonstrate the remarkable solidarity they have shown so far. I hope the collective spirit won’t be damaged. But this sorry affair doesn’t help, and the more they defend themselves, the more our top politician and his top adviser demonstrate that they don’t even appreciate what the problems are.

• Stephen Reicher is a member of the Sage subcommittee advising on behavioural science, an adviser to the UK and Scottish governments on coronavirus and professor of social psychology at the University of St Andrews

[Sergeant Wilson]

56 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Replacement?

They've all stopped. My mate is walking round in circles his hip is that bad.

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

Thought i maybe had a 50/50 chance of getting my holiday in September into October, but looking at the way the English have been flocking to beaches etc fear a second wave is inevitable.
Shower of selfish desperate c***s making this worse for everyone just because they trust a man who writes lies on a bus. Think independence is the only way forward for us.

[peasy23]

So Boris said he agreed with Cummings and that he has had to start wearing glasses since he had Covid, except he was saying this 5 years ago.

[Florentine_Pogen]

Mr. Gove has eloquently allayed any fears I had that an unelected govt. advisor might have taken reckless decisions, ignored strict govt. instructions and put others at risk.

Edited May 26, 2020 by Florentine_Pogen

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

same, glad I just went for a refund and not moving the booking.

Unfortunately for me Virgin havent cancelled holidays in September meaning i have to pay the balance or lose my deposit. Ah well maybe ill be able to get an antibody test by then.

[peasy23]

Marina Hyde's view.

 

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/26/dominic-cummings-boris-johnson-terrified-sack-him?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true

 

 

[buddie06smfc]

Where's Carlaw said this? He was being a shitebag last I checked.

Still being the snide wee weasel that he is and not releasing anything through his official channels like he did in his aggressive pursuit of the CMO up here. Instead sending his message out through hearsay where he can no doubt appear to have had a say on it to the public & then deny it if questioned by Westminster.