elbows
Well-Known Member
And 'a front door is better than any mask'.
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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And 'a front door is better than any mask'.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I want to tattoo this on the eyeballs of every fucking person in the country.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I reckon it would have had more impact if he'd dressed up as an easter bunny and burst out of a giant chocolate egg.
And then sang 'picture a front door, smashing into a human face, forever'.
These thoughts are sponsored by the way he spoke unconvincingly of a thing called 'normal life' and they way he said 'stay well'.
And then sang 'picture a front door, smashing into a human face, forever'.
These thoughts are sponsored by the way he spoke unconvincingly of a thing called 'normal life' and they way he said 'stay well'.
prunus
Tick tock.
Fucking unwieldy to get down the aisle at Sainsbury’s though.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
That would be a serious breach of the distancing guidance.
I'm concurring with Lynn's pessimistic outlook broadly, but "all year"?
There's surely still a danger of over-accentuating the negatives, timescale wise ..... ??
I'll quote my own post so as to most easily respond to everyone who's responded to it.
First, to clarify, I do not think that everything's going to be hunky-dory by June or even August/September, or anything. One or two responses to me were hinting at that being my position -- not true.
What I do think is at least possible, is that there'll be SOME degree of relaxation of the lock-down by summer. Late summer maybe. And OK, gradual, and not too soon.
I can't possibly say exactly when with any confidence, and neither can any of you, but I still don't really think that a full-on lock-down right up to and including Xmas is all that likely.
I also think theres a general danger from knowing now that we're approaching the worst levels of hospitalisations and deaths
. in coming weeks/months .That danger might be that we end up over-assuming things from that.
Over-assuming that things will never get better until Xmas or even right into next year, for instance.
So anyone assuming from my earlier post (above) that I'm "going round" thinking that it'll all be over by June, please understand that my actual position is a fair bit more nuanced than that.
There's a danger of being over-pessimistic as well as one of being over-optimistic.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Thanks for the virtual hugs and words of understanding it does help 
2hats
Dust.
Gigs/festivals will end up being the lowest priority agreed. And I wouldn't complain at that either -- 100% understandable.
I still think that timescalewise, you're overdoing the pessimism though.
Nick Cave's people have just mailed people to rearrange his tour (originally April/May this year) to April 2021.
Are they being over-optimistic? I actually doubt that, and quite strongly.
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Red Cat said:
ETA after seeing quote, because RC as well as kb misunderstand my position :
Red Cat said:
killer b : You've left out that I've accepted for ages that I could very well be wrong.
My positition remains only that it's possible for mid to late September -- no more than that, and I now think no earlier.
For almost certain
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They're just you're 365 days a year scum. Would be doing other antisocial shit any other time.
The spitting especially makes me go all a bit shoot on sight.
There's very few on here (maybe no-one?) who shares that misapprehension! Certainly not me ....
</looks very sternly at certain other Urbans
>
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
The counselling service I help run is looking quite hard at this - there has been a huge drop in the number of people attending, many of whom are uneasy about video/phone counselling, and we strongly suspect that they will return, along with a lot of people who have developed difficulties during lockdown, in a tsunami of demand, once this is over. On top of health professionals who will be burned out and experiencing PTSI/"moral injury", and people who have been bereaved, or developed anticipatory grief around severely ill friends or relatives.
Added to which, the local mental health support services have simply shut down, which means that there are quite a lot of moderate-to-severe cases out there who are currently unsupported, and who will remain that way until they become acute.
I am quite nervous about just how bad this could be. I mean, we'll handle it, but I very strongly suspect that we will be overwhelmed. And I am not optimistic about the possibility of the Trust providing commensurate funding
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
TBF this bit is true - absolutely loads of bank robbers have been caught wearing masks but none wearing front doors.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
The spitting especially makes me go all a bit shoot on sight.
So, you're joining beesonthewhatnow on the corona-happy boat.
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Well Hancock just sprung into life on the question relating to the economy there - waafles through a few points then gets to the gist - that's something he worries about. Cunts.
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Somebody bumped a thread the other day which had that twat "Boat happy" chymaera posting quite near the top.
And I briefly wondered what he'd be like on here with all this going on...you can just imagine it, can't you?
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
France has had several days in the thousands. The reported figures there have been very much up one day and down the next however, so that could be an artefact of how they report or collate the data. 980 tops the worst single day in either Italy or Spain.
We have now gone past the point where we might still hope that our death toll might be only as bad as Spain's IMO.
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2hats
Dust.
France peak daily figure 1417. Italy 919. Spain peak 961. Obviously all numbers are subject to refinement (once the data eventually trickles through) plus error.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Not sure if it was on here but read about a courier being busy dropping off suitcases to holiday homes that people had sent so they didn't get grief if pulled on the way!!
Also english dickhead in his jag and union jack t shirt moving road closed signs and cones so he can get down a blocked off road to go kayaking, tries to say it's totally different in rural places!
Also english dickhead in his jag and union jack t shirt moving road closed signs and cones so he can get down a blocked off road to go kayaking, tries to say it's totally different in rural places!
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Just realised that Ramadan is early this year, starts in a fortnight. That could well play havok with lockdown, round here at least.
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mauvais
on reddit or something
Some of the unexpectedly high French numbers were the belated introduction en masse of non-hospital deaths that had occurred up until that point. On some such days (April 2, 3) it was explicitly explained. On subsequent days, not, so I'm not sure whether it was more of the same.
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elbows
Well-Known Member
He claimed he practiced social distancing at work and went on about how many fewer chairs they had round his table.
2hats
Dust.
The briefings, news conferences are all (eventually) available from BBC Parliament channel via iPlayer:
BBC Parliament - Briefings, Downing Street Coronavirus News Conference, 09/04/2020
Coverage of the latest government news conference on the coronavirus epidemic.
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