Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Well, however we put it, I suspect we agree as to the murderous impact of this government - in the pandemic, austerity and elsewhere.
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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ska invita
back on the other side
This was widely reported
Dominic Cummings: Protect the economy and if some pensioners die, 'too bad'
PRIOR to the UK Government changing tactic to combat the coronavirus, Dominic Cummings allegedly told a private event that pensioners dying as a…
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Fuck, even prepared for it, that had me in tears within a few sentences. One of the most harrowing things I've ever read.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
I did mention there was a moment when the Cummings sociopaths were in charge and that was it. Slightly different to the half a million deaths point I was originally referring to (though I might have my timescales wrong on what was said and when). Anyway, 'the many ways that neo-liberals kill us' is probably for another thread.This was widely reported
Dominic Cummings: Protect the economy and if some pensioners die, 'too bad'
PRIOR to the UK Government changing tactic to combat the coronavirus, Dominic Cummings allegedly told a private event that pensioners dying as a…www.thenational.scot
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I think it's more that they don't care what they don't do.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
I know it's not the right thread, but after all the above I had to post this good news story about vaccinations in Newcastle:
Why is Newcastle so good at Covid-19 vaccinations? | Vaccines and immunisation | The Guardian
Why is Newcastle so good at Covid-19 vaccinations? | Vaccines and immunisation | The Guardian
Cid
Proper break this time
This was widely reported
Dominic Cummings: Protect the economy and if some pensioners die, 'too bad'
PRIOR to the UK Government changing tactic to combat the coronavirus, Dominic Cummings allegedly told a private event that pensioners dying as a…
Sure, but this is really characteristic of the problems the tories have had throughout. At that early stage there was still the idea that the vulnerable could be isolated, while the rest of the population developed herd immunity... So the problem here was a total failure to appreciate the consequences that that (in)action would have.
There is one thing they have tried to stick to; free market ideology, with a substantial twist of corruption.
I just don't really like this idea of a coldly calculating party with a coherent plan... I don't think there's any evidence for that; last minute decisions, panicked U-turns etc. Certainly not meeting their objectives of protecting the economy. They are adhering to a specific economic philosophy (and not even doing that well), and having to backpedal as soon as the consequences of that meet reality.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Captain Sir Tom Moore has been taken into hospital with covid. 
www.itv.com
Supporters send Captain Tom best wishes as 100-year-old in hospital with Covid | ITV News
Captain Sir Tom Moore is in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus, his daughter has said. | ITV National News
Hollis
bloody furious
Pretty damning article in the Telegraph today about how lockdown could last for yonks.. based on modelling from University of Warwick..
Exclusive: Social distancing may have to remain in place all year
Exclusive: Social distancing may have to remain in place all year
Captain Sir Tom Moore has been taken into hospital with covid.
Supporters send Captain Tom best wishes as 100-year-old in hospital with Covid | ITV News
Captain Sir Tom Moore is in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus, his daughter has said. | ITV National News
Well. He has been havin a good time of it in the Carribean for the last few months with his family. No social distancing to be seen. Not sure why we should disparage the dickheads in Dubai while celebrating this guy.
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Months? He flew out mid December for a family holiday, which was perfectly within the Covid rules, you callous twat.
Rich fuckers skiing in Switzerland and holidaying in Dubai at the same time are being savaged in the media. They were also perfectly in the Covid rules.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Why do you want to show yourself up as an arsehole?
For pointing out something which wasn't actually reported in the link you posted? That he was Xmas-ing in Barbados? With huge groups of people? And then flew back into the UK?
If he was a Love Island star would you be as sympathetic?
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I've just seen you post on the lockdown 3 thread that you spunked out £30 to have a mobile barber come into your home, who had clearly been floating in & out of dozens of other houses, I'll certainly not be sympathetic if you end-up getting covid, because you deserve it, you twat,
2hats
Dust.
Vaccine induced reduction in transmission is never going to better vaccine induced reduction in disease, so given the latter apparently varies ~50% to 95% (at the very best) for the current portfolio of vaccines, and in the real world is often found to be less than controlled trials indicate...
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Most likely to be the first one I think. Because we're getting some any people half vaccinated.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
No - stae of public transport in England. Gonna be a lot worse in rural parts of Scotland, Wales and potentially NI.
strung out
💩 🤣 🍆 💦 🧐 👻 🐝 🐈⬛
I agree. Petcha is a knob, but seriously, what the fuck were people thinking jetting off round the world for a holiday in the middle of December? Utterly moronic behaviour, and I can't be the only one raising an eyebrow at him getting ill weeks after his jaunt.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Shit that's grim reading. Those models have been the one the government been going by mostly as well, so likely to play a part in their decisions.
E2A: never looked at comments in The Telegraph before, fucking hell, proper bonkers!
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
was it Knowing Me, Knowing You? If so that song could be read one way as being about impending death.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Yeah, it was a bit daft, but legal at the time, so I can't blame him & his family for taking up the offer of free flights from BA to Barbados. The fact that he became ill weeks after returning, would indicate he didn't pick it up on that holiday, but in his care home after returning.
The whole accidental hero thing is very weird, especially getting knighted for it, because he didn't raise £33m for the NHS, people on the internet did following the media coverage, but at the end of the day, rightly or wrongly, he became a beacon of positive news, and came across as a man firmly still attached to reality, unlike celebs fucking off on expensive holidays since the new lockdown came in.
So, I have respect for him.
Unlike Petcha who's so vain his doesn't think lockdown applies to him.
* Yeah, let's bring a potential super-spreading mobile barber into my home, because my hair is looking a bit wild in zoom meetings. Seriously, WTF?
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