Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[yoda]

Tbf, it was only several months ago in this very thread when a number of posters were Helen Lovejoying over the furlough spending, the deficit and Weimar Germany hyperinflation.

[101]

4 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

It's not credible to think this kind of coverage after 2008 is accidental.

Nope it's very deliberate but you won't see the same arguments made when Trident needs renewing or MPs need a pay rise or more Lords are picked. There is always a blank cheque for these things no one cares how much it costs because it's only then that they reveal that there is money for anything you could ever want. 

[parsforlife]

51 minutes ago, 101 said:

https://www.ippr.org/blog/economists-urge-bbc-rethink-inappropriate-reporting-uk-economy

Interesting debunking of the BBCs coverage of surprisingly playing into the Tories hands and saying there is nothing left in the piggy bank. 

Kuenssberg being a Tory mouthpiece isn’t a shock in the slightest.   She’ll be protected tho,  with the worst case scenario for her being a payoff, a few months out of work and a senior government advisor role to walk into. Her replacement will be of the same mould.

[diegomarahenry]

I found this earlier on, not sure if it has been shared here before but it seems to be a pretty good tool

https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/

 

[Fullerene]

2 hours ago, 101 said:

Nope it's very deliberate but you won't see the same arguments made when Trident needs renewing or MPs need a pay rise or more Lords are picked. There is always a blank cheque for these things no one cares how much it costs because it's only then that they reveal that there is money for anything you could ever want. 

.. nor is there ever a suggestion that those that can should put more money into the household kitty.   The household analogy only seems to go one way.

[mizfit]

Got told by someone last night that surgeons die on average younger than everyone else because of all the mask wearing they have due to there job, and we’re all going to be the same.


The person was a window cleaner.

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

1 hour ago, mizfit said:

Got told by someone last night that surgeons die on average younger than everyone else because of all the mask wearing they have due to there job, and we’re all going to be the same.


The person was a window cleaner.

Probably more to do with the fact most of them are massive alcoholics. 

[Gordon EF]

2 hours ago, mizfit said:

Got told by someone last night that surgeons die on average younger than everyone else because of all the mask wearing they have due to there job, and we’re all going to be the same.


The person was a window cleaner.

Give Surgeons footballers wages.

[madwullie]

Must stop listening to call kaye in the car. c***s utterly incandescent that nhs staff are getting a 500 note gratitude payment. Hard to tell if its genuine anger or just unionists who would punch walls no matter what the snp did. Suspect its the former, in which case I fucking hate this country sometimes. 

[Stellaboz]

Same c***s probably stood clapping at their doors every week for our brave nurses and doctors. 

[Sherrif John Bunnell]

I've already seen posts online from polis and water board workers moaning about how they were the real key workers during all of this.

[TheScarf]

£500 a year is fuck all.  It should be the NHS workers that are fucked off, not Tories, everyone of whom hate the NHS.

[Benjamin_Nevis]

Some absolutely fantastic seethe in reaction to the £500 payment. My favourite so far being a fucking binman complaining that he was just as important during COVID as any nurse. I'm sure it's merely coincidence that he's also a raging yoon and a massive, bigoted sevco fan. 

I'm genuinely delighted that these melts are furious. 

[craigkillie]

7 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

I've already seen posts online from polis and water board workers moaning about how they were the real key workers during all of this.

Those protests didn't violently quell themselves.

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 hour ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

Probably more to do with the fact most of them are massive alcoholics. 

I thought that was dentists, they all kill themselves. Probably why Leitch chucked it.

[Marshmallo]

10 minutes ago, Day of the Lords said:

Some absolutely fantastic seethe in reaction to the £500 payment. My favourite so far being a fucking binman complaining that he was just as important during COVID as any nurse. I'm sure it's merely coincidence that he's also a raging yoon and a massive, bigoted sevco fan. 

I'm genuinely delighted that these melts are furious. 

Some tone 

[HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows]

6 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I thought that was dentists, they all kill themselves. Probably why Leitch chucked it.

Vets too. Access to good drugs and firearms usually.

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 minutes ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said:

Vets too. Access to good drugs and firearms usually.

 Dentists have guns?

[Szamo's_Ammo]

7 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I thought that was dentists, they all kill themselves. Probably why Leitch chucked it.

Shockingly discoloured teeth for a dentist I've noticed. Maybe it was never the right job for him.

I'd move practice.

[Sergeant Wilson]

Just now, Szamo's_Ammo said:

Shockingly discoloured teeth for a dentist I've noticed. Maybe it was never the right job for him.

I'd move practice.

He's from Glenmavis near Airdrie I think, the heart of the Buckfast triangle, not sure how much he'd have drank though. I've only spoken to one person that knows him and he says he's alright. I reserve judgement, although I did notice a framed Red Sox shirt on his wall on one of his home broadcasts so I doubt we have much in common.