Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[spitfire]

Getting messages about military vehicles moving on/in London. Anyone seen with own eyes?

I've seen 2 clearly fake photo's of military doing the rounds "today".

One is a bunch of army cadets walking through Clapham from god knows when.

The other looks like a land rover and some other green bits and bobs parked at the side of the road. In a country that drives on the other side of the road....

 

[magneze]

Getting messages about military vehicles moving on/in London. Anyone seen with own eyes?

There appear to be two photos doing the rounds.

1) Army vehicles - these are on the right hand side of the road, so not UK and might not even be recent
2) People in combats in Clapham High Street - apparently these are cadets

 

[magneze]

Snap! spitfire

 

[Badgers]

How would you like to see it enforced? do you just mean telling businesses to close?

I mean a lockdown rather than an 'urge to avoid gatherings'

Nobody wants police or army or any cunts on the streets. Also don't want to see events like Cheltenham hosting 75k people a day and pubs like Spoons cheering punters in.

 

[Pickman's model]

There appear to be two photos doing the rounds.

1) Army vehicles - these are on the right hand side of the road, so not UK and might not even be recent
2) People in combats in Clapham High Street - apparently these are cadets

1) might be UK near usaf base

 

[spitfire]

1) might be UK near usaf base

It's a 4 lane road and the central reservation barrier is all wrong. It's concrete. I thought it could be Germany possibly. I could post the picture if you want?

 

[Pickman's model]

It's a 4 lane road and the central reservation barrier is all wrong. It's concrete. I thought it could be Germany possibly. I could post the picture if you want?

Don't bother, I'm enjoying speculating about a picture I haven't seen

 

[spitfire]

Don't bother, I'm enjoying speculating about a picture I haven't seen

You love it.

 

[Sprocket.]

We will know when there is going to be a lockdown, when the Eton Rifles appear in the row down near Slough!

 

[magneze]

TBF, the Guardian has this:

• Johnson refused to rule out introducing tighter self-isolation rules for London. There have been reports claiming a virtual lock-down in the capital is planned for the weekend.Johnson did nothing to play down these suggestions, and instead he repeatedly stressed his willingness to go “further and faster”. In response to one question on this, he said:

We’ve always said that we are going to do the right measures at the right time.
Actually I think a lot of people are taking a real heroic effort to comply with the advice we’ve given but as I’ve said tonight, and in the past few days, we keep everything under continuous review and we will not hesitate in bringing forward further and faster measures where we think that is necessary.

All schools to close from Friday; GCSE and A-level exams cancelled – UK Covid-19, as it happened

Thirty-two more people die in England taking UK death toll to 104. This blog is now closed

www.theguardian.com

So, it's not an outlandish rumour by any means.

 

[belboid]

We will know when there is going to be a lockdown, when the Erin Rifles appear in the row down near Slough!

what a sweet auto-correct

 

[BigTom]

All schools closing Friday: UK coronavirus live: all schools to close from Friday; GCSE and A-level exams cancelled

All UK schools will close immediately to staff and most pupils from Friday afternoon until further notice. Wales was first to announce the measure, followed closely by Scotland and Northern Ireland, before the Prime Minister confirmed the move would be nationwide. Johnson said nurseries and private schools would also be asked to close, and exams would not take place in May and June.

 

[spitfire]

TBF, the Guardian has this:

All schools to close from Friday; GCSE and A-level exams cancelled – UK Covid-19, as it happened

Thirty-two more people die in England taking UK death toll to 104. This blog is now closed

www.theguardian.com

So, it's not an outlandish rumour by any means.

I agree.

Anyway I'm sure kebabking will give all his internet pals a heads up before he rolls into town on a Challenger.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I've seen 2 clearly fake photo's of military doing the rounds "today".

Send them to Piers Morgan

 

[spitfire]

Send them to Piers Morgan

I'll print them off and give them a good lick.

 

[editor]

It seems extremely likely that a lockdown is happening very soon. I imagine it equally likely that it will involve the military.

Anecdotally, a friend's husband (who is in the army) has been told it's happening in a couple of days but that should be taken with a pinch of salt, obvs.

 

[belboid]

Could actually be legit and part of this - 10,000 troops from 13 countries arrive in the UK for major exercise

 

[editor]

Song of the day

 

[ska invita]

Could actually be legit and part of this - 10,000 troops from 13 countries arrive in the UK for major exercise

That's from 2019

 

[editor]

Could actually be legit and part of this - 10,000 troops from 13 countries arrive in the UK for major exercise

Great time for thousands of people to be pouring into the UK

*Edit: HAD it been in 2020!

 

[cupid_stunt]

Could actually be legit and part of this - 10,000 troops from 13 countries arrive in the UK for major exercise

Except that was in 2019, and we are in 2020.

 

[Lazy Llama]

It seems extremely likely that a lockdown is happening very soon. I imagine it equally likely that it will involve the military.

Anecdotally, a friend's husband (who is in the army) has been told it's happening in a couple of days but that should be taken with a pinch of salt, obvs.

Heard the same this evening from a friend with army contacts. Next 24-48 hours for London.

 

[belboid]

That's from 2019

Oops. I’ll let the original poster know!

 

[komodo]

Yes - once Schools have mostly closed Friday I think the lock down will come.

 

[kebabking]

The pictures on twitter featuring an army ambulance are of a Spanish Army unit driving along a road in Spain...

the other one - no idea - not UK military, and not on a UK road.

 

[magneze]

Could actually be legit and part of this - 10,000 troops from 13 countries arrive in the UK for major exercise

Wrong year

 

[magneze]

Heard the same this evening from a friend with army contacts. Next 24-48 hours for London.

Channel 4 news mentioned it. If course their source might be same person.

 

[elbows]

A notable piece of 'build up the expert' here:

And a much more recent example of reassuring words about Whitty, albeit with some slight recognition of the difficult political moments of the last week.

Chris Whitty: The man with our lives in his hands

The UK government's chief medical adviser has become the public face of the coronavirus response.

www.bbc.co.uk

These sorts of pieces usually have a bit where they would normally attempt to humanise the official, go into some detail about their family or interests, but very little info on that is available in the case of Whitty so we get an awkward bit instead. At least this particular ones awkward bit didnt include language and security service attitudes that sound more like something from the 1950s.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Channel 4 news mentioned it. If course their source might be same person.

A few more people in the Canary Wharf facebook group have heard the same from family members/contacts in the Army. All saying starting Friday.

 

[Grace Johnson]

True. But as much of the accomodation is outsourced to private companies there is an element of "not our problem" in the thinking.

As many UG courses are now finishing up for the term there's a "get them done, get them off campus" rationale that would see much smaller numbers to manage on campus over the coming weeks.

We'll see of course. I'm astonished there hasn't been a more major outbreak at a University thus far.

Might well have been but students tend to be young and so only have mild symptoms. They are only testing people who are hospitalised.