Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Todd_is_God]

6 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

I’m not sure how you’ve got to that conclusion from that tweet?

Maybe because I'm capable of reading up on something from more than one tweet?

The hospital itself has a bad rep.

It's a non-story

[Todd_is_God]

8 minutes ago, Snafu said:

That part of England is still pretty bad

''Sources at Weston General have told Bristol Live most of its Covid-19 patients contracted the virus after entering the hospital.

We approached the trust yesterday for comment on those reports. The trust is yet to respond.''

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/weston-general-hospital-bosses-wont-4166441

Which media are desperate for a spike?

You're quote supports my point, thank you.

UK mainstream media (an umbrella which the Bristol Post clearly doesn't fall under) are choking for a spike as maintaining the fear level sells papers and generates clicks.

It's the reason that the same (false) headlines about Germany were reported repeatedly over a number of days on twitter whilst the positive news is a footnote at best.

Edited May 26, 2020 by Todd_is_God

[Jacksgranda]

1 hour ago, Ludo*1 said:

The latest defense for Dominic Cummings is that Ian Blackford went home to Skye on the 26th March after Parliament shut down. That's how far they're stretching.

And they all stayed in the Palace of Westminster, presumably.

[Carl Cort's Hamstring]

Dom must stay!

 

[zidane's child]

1 hour ago, oaksoft said:

The people who have no shame are those who are using bereaved families and their dreadful experiences to score political points against Cummings.

Any right to the moral high ground was lost at that point.

This is finished. He's staying in his job.

No doubt something else will happen soon for the faux outrage brigade to attach to.

Hypocrisy does love a cause.

What a fuss over nothing.

I suspect if it was a Labour or SNP chief advisor, then your position on this would change drastically.

His version of events is absolutely farcical and shows they think that they can get out of this situation with a pack of lies.

Also, this is far from finished. 

[Todd_is_God]

2 minutes ago, MixuFixit said:

Hasn't virtually every newspaper suffered devastating drops in income from physical sales dropping off a cliff & wouldn't it therefore be in their interests to advocate for faster lifting of lockdown?

You might be right tbh. Digital revenue must be up though?

I don't really understand their negative focus - but it's consistent across the board

[Jeff Venom]

I knew I heard the moral high ground klaxon.

In any case, for someone who isn't a Tory, Cummings has a heck of a knack of working for/with them. Probably more a reflection of who he views as degenerate and able enough to further his own creepy ambitions.

[Florentine_Pogen]

16 minutes ago, Carl Cort's Hamstring said:

Dom must stay!

 

[Florentine_Pogen]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/26/inconsistencies-between-cummings-lockdown-story-and-his-wifes

Inconsistencies between Cummings’ lockdown story and his wife’s

On Monday, Dominic Cummings finally gave an account of his trip to Durham during lockdown – more than a month after his wife, Mary Wakefield, wrote about their experiences of lockdown for the Spectator magazine.

The two versions are not entirely consistent. An analysis of their stories, together with eyewitness accounts, throws up questions and peculiarities that are yet to be resolved.

Friday 27 March

By Cummings’ account, his wife fell ill during the day, prompting him to rush home from No 10 to take care of her. He then returned to the office, despite having spent time with someone he strongly suspected to have coronavirus. They drove to Durham that evening, and he developed symptoms himself overnight.

But in Wakefield’s article, she wrote: “That evening as I lay on the sofa, a happy thought occurred to me: if this was the virus, then my husband, who works 16-hour days as a rule, would have to come home.”

By her husband’s recollection, he had already been home. And why did Cummings return to the office after spending time with his symptomatic wife?

2/3 April

Wakefield wrote that “day six is a turning point”, when her husband was having such difficulty breathing that she feared he should be in hospital. Day six of her account would appear to be Thursday 2 April.

Yet according to Cummings, the following day he was well enough to drive to hospital to pick up their son, who had been taken ill the night before.

Sunday 12 April

In Wakefield’s account of the family’s time in quarantine, she described a range of unusual and varying symptoms that people with coronavirus may experience. She referred to her own headaches, others’ “numbness in their fingertips”, and Cummings’ “spasms”. No mention, though, of problems with her husband’s eyesight.

Yet this was the reason Cummings gave for taking a “test drive” to Barnard Castle, a town almost 30 miles away, before returning to London. He said he had taken his wife and son “for a short drive” on Easter Sunday – Wakefield’s birthday – “to see if I could drive safely”.

Why did the couple conclude that the best way to test his eyesight was to take a trip that would have involved using a busy A-road?

Cummings also said the family went to the “outskirts” of Barnard Castle. But the location where they were seen, next to the River Tees between Ullathorne Rise and Gill Lane, is on the far side of the town from the Cummings family property, and is close to a considerable number of homes.

Why did they end up here on a drive designed simply to test whether it was safe for him to take the wheel?

[Fratelli]

17 minutes ago, Jeff Venom said:

I knew I heard the moral high ground klaxon.

In any case, for someone who isn't a Tory, Cummings has a heck of a knack of working for/with them. Probably more a reflection of who he views as degenerate and able enough to further his own creepy ambitions.

He's also been very open about working with them in the past: 

 

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Fratelli

[Chicken Wing]

Folk scraping on English beach yesterday.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/26/huge-fight-breaks-crowded-beach-involving-least-15-men-12759240/

Nice little video of it all kicking off

Chelsea fans IMO

[MuckleMoo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52800743
All we need to do now is roll it out further into all common public spaces and get the current, hopelessly impractical social distancing nonsense in the bin.

'Expected' is a load of shite! Should be compulsory and enforced with a truncheon to the face. Seriously, this is a no brainer

[Theroadlesstravelled]

Cummings looks like a perennial YL yet managed to bag a wife.

This must be a great hope for the many YLs on here.

[Todd_is_God]

1 minute ago, MixuFixit said:

Maybe it's... in the public interest?

To ignore every positive story?

Given many people are scared about easing lockdown measures, I'd say it's just as much in the public interest to report (accurately) on what's happening in the countries who have already eased.

[Sergeant Wilson]

4 minutes ago, Disabled Colin said:

What's a 'YL'?  

A typo.

[Todd_is_God]

1 minute ago, MixuFixit said:

The coverage of the Scottish government road to lifting lockdown has been pretty widely covered positively in my opinion.

I agree with that.

I meant coverage of the smaller European nations who have similar cases as us per day now. We shouldn't be scared about slowly easing based on what we see there.

[Fratelli]

The Prof. Karol Sikora chat that there are dozens of positive stories not being reported is only a few steps away from 5G patter imo. 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Fratelli

[Crùbag]

"The idea of Boris as prime minister is ridiculous"

"That could have happened"

But, Gove?! Cokehead maniac.

 

[Todd_is_God]

1 minute ago, Fratelli said:

The Prof. Karol Sikora chat that there are dozens of positive stories not being reported is only a few steps away from 5G patter imo. 

It's conspiracy theory patter to point out that our main media outlets are not reporting on the fact cases are continuing to fall across Europe despite restrictions being eased?

[beefybake]

1 minute ago, Todd_is_God said:

It's conspiracy theory patter to point out that our main media outlets are not reporting on the fact cases are continuing to fall across Europe despite restrictions being eased?

You must have your head in the sand.