Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Florentine_Pogen]

4 minutes ago, buddie06smfc said:

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.

 

Libby Brooks

The Scottish conservative leader, Jackson Carlaw, has finally called for Dominic Cummings to resign, after coming under intense pressure while a number of his own MSPs expressed their strong support for their colleague Douglas Ross, who resigned as a UK government minister earlier today in protest at the Cummings row.

After an earlier equivocal statement, in which he said that “this is a difficult situation for many, and people will arrive at different judgments,” Carlaw told STV this afternoon:

"It is absolutely a matter for the prime minister himself who serves him and for how long they serve but given the furore, given the distraction we are now in, given the distraction to the prime minister onto this issue if I were Mr Cummings I would be considering my position."

Carlaw being 100% unequivocal there........

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Florentine_Pogen

[Detournement]

44 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

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.

How dare people deny you a holiday by going to the beach!

Shocking.

[superbigal]

Brilliant tweet by Donald Tusk. Cummings and his brexit friends that they leave when they should stay.

Decent patter for a Johnny.

 

 

[Wee Willie]

1 hour ago, Jacksgranda said:

My wife's outside tidying up the front garden. I was instructed asked telt to hoover up, which I have done. Now sitting down fair puggled having also hung out a wash load and made my lunch.

I commandeer the upstairs laundry room on a Sunday morning to dae my washing.

Biding on my own I've no much of it.

1 hour ago, bennett said:

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.

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

I'm the opposite in cleaning certainly no a frenzy. Mair like a reluctance.

And I stopped using fairy liquid years ago.

 

49 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

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.

Independence IS the only way forward

Edited May 26, 2020 by Wee Willie

[Jacksgranda]

1 minute ago, Snafu said:

This what I was thinking, nobody knows because there hasn't been enough testing done and now we will never know how many have unknowingly had the virus or had very mild symptoms therefore haven't needed medical attention, so don't get tested or added to the numbers. Plus as you say we might never find out how many have died from it or from exacerbated health issues from catching the virus.

The more we gain knowledge about such viruses the better we can deal with it the next time it happens, this is a knowledge gap.

 

Of our own government's making.

[Detournement]

2 minutes ago, MixuFixit said:

I dunno what there is to be arch about - the Cummings thing will make people ignore lockdown, which will increase cases, which will cause a reimposition of lockdown that'll interrupt peoples plans and yes that includes holidays. You act like going on holiday is some rare thing only a privileged few can do when really most people can manage it. It's certainly not a class issue in this day and age.

Maybe the people are on their annual leave?

Folk in England are quite right to get out and about. I'm looking forward to the rules being eased here.

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

I dunno what there is to be arch about - the Cummings thing will make people ignore lockdown, which will increase cases, which will cause a reimposition of lockdown that'll interrupt peoples plans and yes that includes holidays. You act like going on holiday is some rare thing only a privileged few can do when really most people can manage it. It's certainly not a class issue in this day and age.

Tbh i’ll get my money back, im just making the point that everyone rushing out down there and being a selfish p***k by not obeying the rules, even the lax ones they still have will cause a further spike that will undo all the good that comes from lockdown. That will undoubtedly cause issues long into the rest of the year and most likely a collapse of many airlines, lump pressure on the NHS and cause more economic damage, just simply because a number of fannies down south cannae resist the urge to be c***s. But detournment knew exactly what point I was making, he was just being his usual self.

[Florentine_Pogen]

1 minute ago, Detournement said:

Maybe the people are on their annual leave?

Folk in England are quite right to get out and about. I'm looking forward to the rules being eased here.

What does annual leave have to do with it ? We're in the middle of a pandemic. Pretty sure everyone is looking forward to lockdown being relaxed but not at the risk of ruining all the sacrifices that folk have already made.

[HTG]

Haven't seen this posted here but conspiracy theories are now in full flow. Cummings' sister, Alice, is a non exec director of IDOX. IDOX have the contract for managing the track and trace app for the NHS. 

GlaxoSmithKline research is based in Barnard Castle. On 14th April, GSK signed a deal with Sanofi in France to work together on a Coronavirus vaccine. Two days earlier, Cummings had been to Barnard Castle to test his eyes out and sit on a river bank. 

It may be pure coincidence that all roads led to Barnard Castle in mid April. But given the shit that's flying on this, it's actually hard to believe that Cummings and that vaccine deal are not related. Developing a vaccine for this may cost multiple millions in research. You'd want to have some assurance you were not throwing money down the drain and had govt support. Why would you not make such an arrangement public? I've no idea but it was worth trying to protect via some cock and bull pish about eye tests. Maybe it's to do with tendering processes - ministers diaries will be a matter of public record so send the SPAD instead? 

Lots of speculation but Covid contracts must be worth closer examination. 

[Florentine_Pogen]

13 minutes ago, HTG said:

Haven't seen this posted here but conspiracy theories are now in full flow. Cummings' sister, Alice, is a non exec director of IDOX. IDOX have the contract for managing the track and trace app for the NHS. 

GlaxoSmithKline research is based in Barnard Castle. On 14th April, GSK signed a deal with Sanofi in France to work together on a Coronavirus vaccine. Two days earlier, Cummings had been to Barnard Castle to test his eyes out and sit on a river bank. 

It may be pure coincidence that all roads led to Barnard Castle in mid April. But given the shit that's flying on this, it's actually hard to believe that Cummings and that vaccine deal are not related. Developing a vaccine for this may cost multiple millions in research. You'd want to have some assurance you were not throwing money down the drain and had govt support. Why would you not make such an arrangement public? I've no idea but it was worth trying to protect via some cock and bull pish about eye tests. Maybe it's to do with tendering processes - ministers diaries will be a matter of public record so send the SPAD instead? 

Lots of speculation but Covid contracts must be worth closer examination. 

Surely the journos will be digging away at this just now.  Sounds a bit whiffy but presumably with the UK now being outwith OJEU tendering standards, the whole process becomes more opaque.

Edited May 26, 2020 by Florentine_Pogen

[Bairnardo]

What's happening in Germany etc the now?

Our media was desperate to see them in a second spike but all I read about is further looseinings and talk of borders re opening etc.

[HTG]

1 minute ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

Surely the journos will be digging away at this just now.  Sounds a bit whiffy but presumably with the UK now being outwith OJEU tendering standards, the whole process becomes more opaque.

It's a popular enough Google search and I managed to confirm that his sister in Durham is a non exec director of a data company being used by the NHS, that GSK are based in Barnard Castle, that they did sign a partnership agreement with a French company on 14 April and that in the middle of all of that, yer man was firing round the country whilst maybes aye, maybes naw having Covid and whilst his wife was in the same boat. It all stinks a bit too much for my liking. 

[Todd_is_God]

5 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

What's happening in Germany etc the now?

Our media was desperate to see them in a second spike but all I read about is further looseinings and talk of borders re opening etc.
 

Nothing really.

I believe the plan is to remove border restrictions on the 15th of June.

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Todd_is_God

[swiftyswifty swifty]

Hancock about to do the daily briefing. 
 

I’m sure he will clear everything up. 

[Florentine_Pogen]

1 minute ago, swiftyswifty swifty said:

Hancock about to do the daily briefing. 
I’m sure he will clear everything up. 

'Short Straw Handcock'...........Raab and Patel high-fiving in the Cabinet Office.

[dirty dingus]

I want to talk really slow, obfuscate and waffle about any old shite rather than take questions on Cummings.

[Have some faith in Magic]

We have been reading about this remedisivir stuff for months now. Seems desperate to come out with a headline about some new and magic cure. 

[Carl Cort's Hamstring]

3 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

'Short Straw Handcock'...........Raab and Patel high-fiving in the Cabinet Office.

Priti Patel was noticeably the only high profile cabinet minister not to tweet in support of Cummings...

[stumigoo]

Hancock announcing a new treatment, suggesting it is the biggest breakthrough since the start of the crisis. Interesting timing some would say...

[Jacksgranda]

11 minutes ago, HTG said:

It's a popular enough Google search and I managed to confirm that his sister in Durham is a non exec director of a data company being used by the NHS, that GSK are based in Barnard Castle, that they did sign a partnership agreement with a French company on 14 April and that in the middle of all of that, yer man was firing round the country whilst maybes aye, maybes naw having Covid and whilst his wife was in the same boat. It all stinks a bit too much for my liking. 

I didn't realise they had sailed to Durham.