Jacksgranda Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 6 hours ago, Boo Khaki said: Same thing happened in December 2019 - February 2020 when Chinese and Italian doctors were warning all and sundry about exactly what they were facing. UK government appeared to be confident that there was no way Covid would affect people in the UK the exact same way under the exact same circumstances, because reasons. It's good old xenophobia and dismissal of Johnny Foreigner, because let's face it, the rest of the world outside the UK is a tinpot know-nothing banana republic, and British people are inherently superior, right? That would be a withering put down if most of the other European governments hadn't f***** up, too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: That would be a withering put down if most of the other European governments hadn't f***** up, too You could put that down to xenophobic ignorance and an inherent but misguided belief in your own nation's superiority not being an exclusively British phenomenon. Plenty of places did take heed and acted appropriately, and as you rightly state plenty of others did not, but from where I was standing it sure as hell looked like Johnson and Co were happy to dismiss this as something that was happening to dirty, and typically hysterical foreigners, and nothing for us to be worried about. Can't say specifically what was going on in the other places that were tardy/irresponsible in their response because I wasn't there, but I have very vivid memories of watching Johnson swanning around, even in mid March 2020, acting like he'd never heard of Covid-19, and wondering to myself why the f**k he appeared to believe that the UK would be impervious to it in any case. Remember the 'one approach is to do nothing at all' comment he made on (I think) breakfast TV? This was weeks after we saw the absolute carnage in Italian hospitals, and months after the same in China, so how could he possibly conclude that by simply sitting back and doing sweet f**k all the exact same thing would not happen in the UK, unless of course he has some ridiculous notion that the UK is different, superior, and in some way immune to disasters that befall other non-British human beings, aka raging xenophobia. He is just a shit-gibbering moron of course, but I don't think it's a stretch to suggest his nonchalance was down to being an idiot, concern about his money-making chums, AND being the sort of xenophobe typical of the vast majority of his ilk. Edited December 22, 2021 by Boo Khaki 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) 106k in UK total (minus the fair number we've mislaid) Generally hospitalisations still not tracking those case loads, except in London where its starting to climb rapidly: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=nhsRegion&areaName=London 301 admitted today. Might mean touch and go for English restrictions based on the Politico story that reckoned 400 a day was the cut off. Edited December 22, 2021 by renton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 This makes it all worthwhile. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 4 minutes ago, Snafu said: How come the UKG only supports hospitality in England? Because they don’t give a f**k about any of the other nations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Clown Job said: Still time to cancel the new restrictions. Edited December 22, 2021 by Lyle Lanley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Vojáček Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, Clown Job said: If only the scientists and medics in South Africa had told us this... Does anyone know the current case to hospitalisation ratio in the UK/Scotland, and how this figure plays out on hospitalisations? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ro Sham Bo Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 1 minute ago, oaksoft said: That's just what is needed right now. Tony Blair lecturing us on morality and responsibility. There are many, many bad things that have come out of the last 22 months, but one of them is undoubtedly the platform that fool has been given to shoot his mouth off again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGi Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) Prefer this naming convention for any and all future gubbins variants. Edited December 22, 2021 by GiGi 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cairn Terrier Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 That's just what is needed right now. Tony Blair lecturing us on morality and responsibility. [emoji1787]Is his statement right or wrong? -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 I'm still fucking furious that there hasn't been a 'Hurricane Higgins' in the Atlantic recently, or at least a 'Storm Thurmond'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorongil Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Sturgeon is deranged at this point. Talks up all possible bad scenarios and will not entertain any positive indications from data at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 21 minutes ago, renton said: 106k in UK total (minus the fair number we've mislaid) Generally hospitalisations still not tracking those case loads, except in London where its starting to climb rapidly: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=nhsRegion&areaName=London 301 admitted today. Might mean touch and go for English restrictions based on the Politico story that reckoned 400 a day was the cut off. In case there was any doubt, the benefit of vaccination showing yet again. The least vaccinated place in the UK suffering the highest case rates and hospitalisations by far. That must be London at around 25-30% of all UK hospitalisations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Tony Blair is a pie. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 5 minutes ago, Thorongil said: Sturgeon is deranged at this point. Talks up all possible bad scenarios and will not entertain any positive indications from data at all. ‘Early data’ that’s been the same data coming out of SA for a month. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 5 minutes ago, Thorongil said: Sturgeon is deranged at this point. Talks up all possible bad scenarios and will not entertain any positive indications from data at all. I think entrenched is more accurate. She's played her hand and now must defend it to the hilt. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGi Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 2 hours ago, renton said: 78k boosters BTW. Impressive. 78k more people who can sit in the house like hermits. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 9 minutes ago, Cairn Terrier said: Is his statement right or wrong? I'd say he's right but he's still a c**t. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Have some faith in Magic Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 11 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said: I'm still fucking furious that there hasn't been a 'Hurricane Higgins' in the Atlantic recently, or at least a 'Storm Thurmond'. Stormy Daniels 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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