Marshmallo Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Paco has said what I have been trying to say all morning in a far more eloquent way than I could ever manage. -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 1 minute ago, Marshmallo said: Paco has said what I have been trying to say all morning in a far more eloquent way than I could ever manage. I agree with this post. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Just now, Granny Danger said: I agree with this post. It's quite weird how much you and me are getting on these days eh. -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 1. It’s “cuntface Johnson” not “BoJo”. 2. If you have a garden you can goi in to it. 3. Do you have a bigger part?Point 1. I will unreservedly apologise. Point 2. I know but I dont want to be fucking Baltic in doing so. Point 3. Ask yer maw 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 41 minutes ago, sparky88 said: Agreed. The early part of March (when cases were low) could quite easily have been used to prepare folk for lockdown, before enforcing a week or two before they eventually did. We are starting to see the effects of the lockdown now as numbers of new cases are falling every day. Pity this couldn't have been done earlier. How the f**k are numbers falling everyday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Pretty sure they thought a light touch would do, keeping the economy functioning more or less normally, until the Imperial College do nothing figures came out, then they panicked having done nothing about securing tests, ventilators and PPE supplies. Well indeed. They’ve definitely upped the seriousness rating of the situation, and they were quite clearly underprepared. My guess is they won’t be for the next one, which will require long term increased investment in the NHS. If there’s any good to come from this at all, it’ll be the fact that the NHS will be put to the top of all the public spending priorities, and that any attempts to privatise parts of it are now non starters.I don’t think the timing of any of the measures, such as closing schools, was simply down to unwillingness to act. There was some kind of medical reasoning behind it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 46 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: You do realise that if the government had said “you can exercise for a maximum of two miles” loads of folk would have claimed that was too prescriptive? You would probably have been one of them. Just fyi, it's one kilometer from home, here in sunny France. They have now said we don't need our bit of paper if the form is downloaded to a phone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Dunno. More generally I've never understood the anti-French sentiment because every French person I've ever met either here or in France has been unfailingly charming and welcoming. It's a dull received wisdom that we should dislike the French, based on nothing more than an irrelevant atavism.The whole “speak French or suffer” thing is a myth too. Some of the waiters can be absolute weirdos in that regard, but in my experience the French folk I met were only too keen to speak in English - to the point that I was asking them to speak French.French = good guys, IMO (in moi opinion). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 47 minutes ago, trainspotter said: Does Buckfast not come in screwtops anyway. Quote Buckfast halts production over coronavirus fears He may have a stash, of course. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 1 hour ago, sparky88 said: A stricter lockdown wouldnt have been obeyed earlier on, unless the Govt had warned the public from early March. A stricter lockdown has about teh same chance as the current one of being enforced properly - not a cat's chance in hell. Also worth pointing out, the models the Govt are working from assume a certain amount of non compliance. Correct 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 13 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: Point 1. I will unreservedly apologise. Point 2. I know but I dont want to be fucking Baltic in doing so. Point 3. Ask yer maw Point 3. My maw’s been dead for 16 years but I can still remember her laugh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 FRANKIE BOYLE: Did you ever wonder what you'd be doing during an apocalypse? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) Coronavirus: Queen hopes crisis will prove 'this generation is as strong as any' Super-patriotism beats Covid-19. Who knew? Edited April 5, 2020 by jagfox99 -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Mahelp Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Just now, jagfox99 said: Coronavirus: Queen hopes crisis will prove 'this generation is as strong as any' It's given the right-wing newspapers the chance to mention the 2nd world war again and again, so every cloud and all that... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Granny Danger said: 1. I have lots of bottles. 2. I would still drink it if it was corked. 3,4,5... see 2 ^^^ Panic buyer found 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Just now, Jacksgranda said: ^^^ Panic buyer found In that case I’ve been a panic buyer for decades. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 43 minutes ago, Savage Henry said: Are they? What numbers suggest Italy and Spain have handled this any better than the UK? Whatever the Tories are doing, the SNP is doing too. They’re both acting in response to medical advice. There is certainly not a laissez faire approach, which would imply that the government is content to allow the public to police themselves. We’ve seen government influence our daily lives in a way unseen since the Second World War. https://www.ft.com/content/c764b98d-ae03-41ac-a2ca-8309f32d5e1c Italy and Spain have plateaud according to this article and they believe a full on lockdown assisted this. Also both were also better prepped. they were well above the uk on critical bed numbers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark Connolly Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Spectacular effort from security at Sainsbury's in Crow Road there. Rightly enforcing the "single shopper - no groups" policy at the door, arguing with what I assume was pozbaird and his mrs that it couldn't be changed to suit anyone. Unfortunately, inside there was a bloke standing in the middle of the aisle blocking it, shouting items on the list to his bird (both of them were student age) as she walked up and down the aisle, picking up items and bringing them back for his approval. This was completely ignored by a second security guard who actually looked down said aisle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 There's a report out from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (who are also advising the government) that suggests a series of rolling lockdowns over the next year, with ICU trigger points determining when. https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1245396449518669824 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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