greendot Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 All suitably medically qualified. I've seen their qualifications 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, Hillonearth said: We're Scottish. Middle-aged IS old for many of us. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 8 minutes ago, Marshmallo said: This is the new "poppy day". You'd think Ferry Captains and any other boat carrying passengers on The Thames would have learned that you don't fūck about with these things. What's next a pilot doing a loop the loop on the 16.00 London City to Glasgow flight? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, greendot said: All suitably medically qualified. I've seen their qualifications Some have more obvious qualifications than others... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Spinning a boat round in circles to show support to NHS workers is a very strange concept. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Fully expecting tommy robinson taking videos of "dem moslemie" types not clapping shortly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mon_The_Fife Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 All suitably medically qualified. I've seen their qualifications [emoji6]I’m a nurse, but my uniform isn’t as flattering as some of those.I’ve been off work since New Zealand went into lockdown as my current role was deemed as non essential (private endoscopy). It looks like we will be going into Level 3 lockdown from next week and my work has already started plans to get back up and running again, so we are making little steps of getting back to normality again.I had a chuckle watching the video from outside the Vic in Kirkcaldy with the social distancing from the people applauding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greendot Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Mon_The_Fife said: I’m a nurse You know the rules! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 59 minutes ago, Hillonearth said: Not to exculpate Western governments - especially ours and that of the US - but had China been that bit more transparent initially about their true casualty figures and the actual level of transmission of the virus a lot of lives might have been saved worldwide...it took it hitting an open transparent society like Italy before there was any sense of just how bad things could get. Even worse, what's emanated from China in the last month or so has been frankly unbelievable...it seems to be a characteristic that they're so used to being believed at home that they either are under the impression they'll get the same level of credence abroad or simply don't care if they do or not. So we've had claims of new infections/deaths down to zero countrywide, then the only new cases being pesky foreigners who probably started it anyway, and meanwhile in Wuhan they're ordering thousands upon thousands of funeral urns for absolutely no reason. No reason at all. Stop fucking eating bats. China definitely needs to be held to account for the lack of transparency and honesty early on, but a lot of what you're saying doesn't make sense. How could China give 'true casualty figures and the actual level of transmission' when we still don't know those things in our country, despite the fact we've had months to prepare testing materials? China's official CFR ('death rate') from Hubei province was over 4%. The reality is that this virus will probably only kill about 1% or less of those who get it, so China actually made it look like this was *more serious* than it really is. This is what's so bizarre about the Trump/Hillonearth narrative. You say recent news from China is unbelievable, but there are tens of thousands of foreigners (including journalists and diplomats) there right now - why wouldn't they be reporting overrun hospitals and the elderly dropping like flies if China hadn't managed to contain, or at least suppress things? There's every reason to be sceptical about stories put out by China, but it's not possible for them to be orders of magnitude away from reality in any of the major population centres. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mon_The_Fife Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 You know the rules! PM’d you... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 8 hours ago, tamthebam said: the godless and Protestants Same thing, is it not? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greendot Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Mon_The_Fife said: PM’d you... Also, you mean the video of the vic that had this reaction And the Vic hospital in Kirkcaldy was a disgrace loads of public gathering taking photos videos of the police with the lights on and not one policeman done a thing it was more like a gala parade a disgrace I saw that the original video got taken down shortly after it went up cos no one was social distancing. ^^ that was taken from the BBCs facebook feed on the video they put up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Does anyone else think the review date of the 7th May hasn't been chosen by coincidence ? The 8th of May is of course VE day and the Bank holiday was even moved to entertain it, as such I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is one huge PR publicity stunt in order to announce the easing of the lockdown, especially knowing how this Government operates where they channel the "bulldog british spirit" at every opportunity in order to appeal to the braindead masses. Also, don't be surprised if Vera Lynn is wheeled out to much media furore. I don't imagine the lockdown restrictions will be completely lifted but I do expect to see certain "non essential businesses" returning to work and maybe even the freedom of travel restrictions being eased but with the caveat that social distancing must be adhered to at all times. I could be completely wrong but let's just wait and see. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Have some faith in Magic Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, WATTOO said: Does anyone else think the review date of the 7th May hasn't been chosen by coincidence ? The 8th of May is of course VE day and the Bank holiday was even moved to entertain it, as such I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is one huge PR publicity stunt in order to announce the easing of the lockdown, especially knowing how this Government operates where they channel the "bulldog british spirit" at every opportunity in order to appeal to the braindead masses. Also, don't be surprised if Vera Lynn is wheeled out to much media furore. I don't imagine the lockdown restrictions will be completely lifted but I do expect to see certain "non essential businesses" returning to work and maybe even the freedom of travel restrictions being eased but with the caveat that social distancing must be adhered to at all times. I could be completely wrong but let's just wait and see. It struck me as fishy that it ran to the bank holiday. There will be a reason for it. The lockdown came in on the Monday, not quite sure they waited to yesterday to announce another three weeks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Does anyone else think the review date of the 7th May hasn't been chosen by coincidence ? The 8th of May is of course VE day and the Bank holiday was even moved to entertain it, as such I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is one huge PR publicity stunt in order to announce the easing of the lockdown, especially knowing how this Government operates where they channel the "bulldog british spirit" at every opportunity in order to appeal to the braindead masses. Also, don't be surprised if Vera Lynn is wheeled out to much media furoré. Vera Lynn and Capt. Tom will be reunited in front of Buck Palace for a good ‘ol Cockney knees up, followed by a Zimmer frame aided knee-trembler (snapper ?) for old times sake. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Vera Lynn and Capt. Tom will be reunited in front of Buck Palace for a good ‘ol Cockney knees up, followed by a Zimmer frame aided knee-trembler (snapper ?) for old times sake. I think we'll just stick to our Nurses !! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 You'd think Ferry Captains and any other boat carrying passengers on The Thames would have learned that you don't fūck about with these things. What's next a pilot doing a loop the loop on the 16.00 London City to Glasgow flight?I live nearby and saw it. Was pretty bizarre, it ferries vehicles across the Thames. It's been blowing its horn every week at 8pm but last night night started doing donuts. The name of the vessel? "Dame Vera Lynn" [emoji847] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) A thin line between satire and reality. Edited April 17, 2020 by dirty dingus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 1 hour ago, greendot said: Katie Price in getting p***k in the arse shocker. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s_dog Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, ayrmad said: I've been told that the QE in Glasgow is full of middle aged men struggling, not exactly the auld yins and folk at deaths door already. It's still in general the more elderly and those with existing health conditions that die, but it has been reported that it's middle aged men (between 50-70) that are most likely to be in intensive care (https://www.icnarc.org/About/Latest-News/2020/04/10/Report-On-3883-Patients-Critically-Ill-With-Covid-19 ). This may be down to the fact that more of the elderly are already in hospitals or care homes and don't even get moved to ICU, don't think anyone knows why its more men than women though. The figures given don't include Scotland, but it's likely to be the same here. Edit: was going to link to the BBC report on these figures but if you can be bothered to look through them, the actual figures themselves give you a clearer picture. It's funny the way the media chooses to portray things. Take the recent Office of National Statistics figures (for Eng & Wales). The same set of figures has been headlined quite differently. Same set of ONS figures, two different angles from the media. BBC: Nine in 10 dying have existing illness. "In 91% of cases the individuals had other health problems. The most common was heart disease, followed by dementia and respiratory illness." The Guardian: Headlines on more men than women dying & it also mentions this 91%, but different focus - "For the first time in England and Wales, the figures also show that most people who had coronavirus at the time of their death died because of the disease rather than with it being a contributory condition. Of the 3,912 registered deaths involving coronavirus in March, Covid-19 was found to be the underlying cause of death in 86%." 38 minutes ago, WATTOO said: Does anyone else think the review date of the 7th May hasn't been chosen by coincidence ? The 8th of May is of course VE day and the Bank holiday was even moved to entertain it, as such I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is one huge PR publicity stunt in order to announce the easing of the lockdown, especially knowing how this Government operates where they channel the "bulldog british spirit" at every opportunity in order to appeal to the braindead masses. Also, don't be surprised if Vera Lynn is wheeled out to much media furore. Nothing would surprise you with this Government (UK). No wait.... it would be more of a surprise if they didn't do something like this. Edited April 17, 2020 by s_dog 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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