Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[Teaboy]

TBF, the likes of B&Q, take-a-ways, and construction sites never had to close anyway, just operate with consideration to the social distancing rules.

Of course, they wouldn't be allowed to open otherwise. The thing is they did close though which they chose themselves (well, most of them closed). They're all now running out of patience which will just give this sense that the country is coming out of lockdown and this is just amplified by the likes of Wetherspoon twat talking about June.

It's going to be hard for the government to keep a lid on it. In that sense Johnson is right that he needs to give a longer date. The current 'not sure, can't say' approach is causing problems.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Wetherspoons will certainly not be opening in June.

 

[elbows]

I also don't agree they're bleeding money right now. I would have though online papers' traffic has gone through the roof. Therefore advertising revenue will follow.

Lots of advertisers have no reason to advertise right now (cruise ships etc) and lots of advertisers didnt want their adverts appearing next to pandemic stories. I have not analysed the state of the industry or the extent of these problems, but it has been suggested that the state of newspaper finances is very perilous right now, there are predictions of some going to the wall.

 

[Orang Utan]

Can you report cops for failing to socially distance? Almost lost my rag with a bunch of PCSOs and had to go for a walk to calm down

 

[maomao]

Wetherspoons will certainly not be opening in June.

June 2021 more likely than June 2020.

 

[elbows]

So the Mail is reporting we're going into June with the lockdown... fucking hell

On the 19th March Johnson said 'we can turn the tide within 12 weeks'. And this was after they had switched away from the original doomed plan & timing. June is therefore not surprising.

 

[maomao]

Can you report cops for failing to socially distance? Almost lost my rag with a bunch of PCSOs and had to go for a walk to calm down

I wondered this last week after a pair of twats (proper filth, not specials) wandered through socially spaced queue just to have a quick look in the door of a supermarket. They certainly don't think it applies to them.

 

[Petcha]

I wondered this last week after a pair of twats (proper filth, not specials) wandered through socially spaced queue just to have a quick look in the door of a supermarket. They certainly don't think it applies to them.

I saw four of them jammed into a tiny little car yesterday. Wondered if they get exemption.

 

[little_legs]

Sorry to bother you but we are just gonna let helpless people to die

 

[NoXion]

So the Mail is reporting we're going into June with the lockdown... fucking hell

Boris Johnson set to dash hopes of an early end to coronavirus curbs

Having chaired Cabinet this morning, Boris Johnson said on Twitter that he 'understands the impatience' of people to end the draconian restrictions crippling the economy.

www.dailymail.co.uk

That sounds way too fucking early to me.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Can you report cops for failing to socially distance? Almost lost my rag with a bunch of PCSOs and had to go for a walk to calm down

Report them to who, is the age-old question.

 

[Orang Utan]

I wondered this last week after a pair of twats (proper filth, not specials) wandered through socially spaced queue just to have a quick look in the door of a supermarket. They certainly don't think it applies to them.

I have to work in the same place as them and share a canteen. They don’t even clear up after themselves.
The canteen is tiny and claustrophobic and I only ever went in there on my own even before CV19 - it’s about 2 metres wide and and 3 metres long. And they sit in the breakout area in front of the canteen, all bunched up together round small tables as if everything is normal, but also blocking safe passage to the canteen ffs.
So I can’t have my dinner safely and I’ll have to bring in sandwiches instead of proper food if they don’t start behaving

 

[Petcha]

I have to work in the same place as them and share a canteen. They don’t even clear up after themselves.
The canteen is tiny and claustrophobic and I only ever went in there on my own even before CV19 - it’s about 2 metres wide and and 3 metres long. And they sit in the breakout area in front of the canteen, all bunched up together round small tables as if everything is normal, but also blocking safe passage to the canteen ffs.
So I can’t have my dinner safely and I’ll have to bring in sandwiches instead of proper food if they don’t start behaving

Can't you have a word?

 

[Doodler]

TBF, the likes of B&Q, take-a-ways, and construction sites never had to close anyway, just operate with consideration to the social distancing rules.

Two things about why B&Q may have been one of the first big shed stores to close. They have quite a lot of older workers, and make a big deal now and then about being a wrinkle-friendly employer. Covid-19 disproportionately affects older people, as everyone knows. Their parent company Kingfisher have large cash assets (c. £400 million) so were well placed to weather a short period of closure.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Can't you have a word?

I recommend sticking to monosyllables if you do.

 

[frogwoman]

I despise corbyn and don't think he'd have done any better with c19, starmer possibly, but that said, in a few months you can't put right the shit show that's been left by years and years of tory government and Blairite austerity lite a few years before that.

 

[Petcha]

I'd take a pic and sell it to the Mail

 

[editor]

Here's one art career that I suspect wont be going much further

She added: ‘I need my PPE kit to protect myself and for my art exhibition, and won’t donate it to the NHS. I am putting together an exhibition based on the coronavirus and the items the NHS use every day is my canvas. I make absolutely no apology because, as an artist, I have to stand by my work and my right to buy what I want.’

Artist who stashed £2,500 of PPE won't give any to NHS as she needs it for art

Becca Brown, 35, said they should have been more prepared, and she's now started selling the kit on - in some cases making a 500% profit.

metro.co.uk

 

[editor]

The pub that won't close

Police close Sheffield pub disobeying lockdown laws - with customers hiding in cupboards

A Sheffield pub has been forced to close after police officers were tipped-off that it was still serving during lockdown and found customers hiding in cupboards.

www.thestar.co.uk

 

[little_legs]

I despise corbyn and don't think he'd have done any better with c19, starmer possibly, but that said, in a few months you can't put right the shit show that's been left by years and years of tory government and Blairite austerity lite a few years before that.

Anyone with a bit of common sense would have done better. And Corbyn would not get even a fraction of the favourable press coverage the suicidal clown is getting

 

[Big Bertha]

Anyone with a bit of common sense would have done better. And Corbyn would not get even a fraction of the favourable press coverage the suicidal clown is getting

 

[Orang Utan]

Report them to who, is the age-old question.

Exactly - maybe I should just throw cans of soup at them until they fuck off out of my way. They’re not real cops and they mostly look well soft

 

[Orang Utan]

Can't you have a word?

I did!

 

[treelover]

People are really struggling now, Newsnight has been bravely and documenting what it is like for those in flats, etc, children from poorer backgrounds no access to tech, those lost their jobs, etc, MH practioners are reporting clients are now starting to break, keeping L/D also has consequences,

 

[Orang Utan]

Exactly - maybe I should just throw cans of soup at them until they fuck off out of my way. They’re not real cops and they mostly look well soft

Though maybe it would be wiser if I threaten to take pics and post them to our local FB group for shaming

 

[treelover]

I wondered this last week after a pair of twats (proper filth, not specials) wandered through socially spaced queue just to have a quick look in the door of a supermarket. They certainly don't think it applies to them.

That has been the case globally, look at film of the italian or spanish cops, overall they are being pretty brave.

 

[maomao]

That has been the case globally, look at film of the italian or spanish cops, overall they are being pretty brave.

Brave/stupid. Eye of the beholder. The two I'm on about were definitely just being arseholes. They walked in one door and walked out the one next to it fifteen seconds later. They can't have had any business in there.

 

[Orang Utan]

When I complained with this lot, they muttered and grumbled about having to work closely today so it was impossible to be socially distant, which may well be true, but that’s not the point is it?

 

[weltweit]

When I complained with this lot, they muttered and grumbled about having to work closely today so it was impossible to be socially distant, which may well be true, but that’s not the point is it?

I have always found it useless to reason with plod, as far as I can see they always think they are in the right.

 

[treelover]

Sorry to bother you but we are just gonna let helpless people to die

whatever i think of interpal, this is the bank that was implicated in money laundering for drug cartels, etc, though as usual I don't think anyone was prosecuted.