Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[weltweit]

elbows there was a bbc profile of Whitty earlier in the week, Profile - Professor Chris Whitty - BBC Sounds

 

[chilango]

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

There's a LOT of not so young, and young but with "underlying health problems' on campus. Any outbreak wouldn't necessarily have been restricted to healthy, young folk. As is beginning to be apparent.

But, yeah, given the lack of testing we may never know

 

[ska invita]

Well London lockdown is to be expected but fuck off with the army bullshit.
We're practically locked down already without needing to go all iron fist

 

[keybored]

I heard this lockdown thing from a friend who has a friend who knows someone with a relative in the army, too.

Funny how they train them up to give the bare minimum information out when they are being tortured, but they seem to be singing like canaries right now.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Excuse me for being dim here but by "lockdown" do we mean police/army on the streets making sure that nobody is going out unless going to work, buying food, going to pharmacy, drs appointments... ?

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Excuse me for being dim here but by "lockdown" do we mean police/army on the streets making sure that nobody is going out unless going to work, buying food, going to pharmacy, drs appointments... ?

Yes

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Yes

Thanks

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Fuck

 

[klang]

True or not, but if we say it often enough on here they won't have a choice.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Up here I think the army would be better placed surrounding the council until they stop chatting shite. “The cruise ships will still be coming.” Get a fucking grip
Shetland already has 11 cases. In fact they should surround the council and open fire.

 

[ska invita]

Excuse me for being dim here but by "lockdown" do we mean police/army on the streets making sure that nobody is going out unless going to work, buying food, going to pharmacy, drs appointments... ?

gives a picture

What coronavirus lockdowns have meant around the world

How countries from China to Italy have imposed measures to curb the spread of Covid-19

www.theguardian.com

was hoping for the San Fran version in there, think we're getting the more Franco-Mussolini-esque model

 

[Marty1]

Wildly speculative conspiracy theory: not enforcing shutdown not only protects the insurance industry but also means that the only ones who survive are those with the capital muscle to ride out the storm, then on the other side the consolidate their power by hoovering up all the assets and market space left by the smaller institutions, further strengthening their grip on industries and concentrating power with a select few.

Even if that's not actually their plan, can't help worrying it will be one of the outcomes.

So basically a re-run in a different format of 2008?

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

I heard some of them were making Winston Churchill style speeches at meetings. Like their moment had arrived. Would have been a sight indeed.

 

[ska invita]

Up here I think the army would be better placed surrounding the council until they stop chatting shite. “The cruise ships will still be coming.” Get a fucking grip
Shetland already has 11 cases. In fact they should surround the council and open fire.

most of Londons cases seem to be in Westminster. Surely best to send in the army in this hotspot and do aDaily Telegraph style cull

 

[Badgers]

Sounds like a good week ahead

 

[Mrs Miggins]

OK. I actually want to cry now.

 

[klang]

Daily Telegraph style cull

it might just bring down the pension age by a few years.

 

[elbows]

Excuse me for being dim here but by "lockdown" do we mean police/army on the streets making sure that nobody is going out unless going to work, buying food, going to pharmacy, drs appointments... ?

It wont necessarily all happen in one go. They can start by more forcefully ordering various shops, pubs, bars etc to close.

 

[keybored]

Anyone caught outside the gates of their sub-division sectors after curfew Will. Be. Shot.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

How the fuck do you prove you're only out to buy food though? Seriously.

 

[ska invita]

Sounds like a good week ahead

if it were only a week i wouldnt mind so much

 

[RubyBlue]

How the fuck do you prove you're only out to buy food though? Seriously.

wecwill have to show our ration book

 

[ska invita]

How the fuck do you prove you're only out to buy food though? Seriously.

carry a bag for life and point to your stomach a lot

 

[Treacle Toes]

How the fuck do you prove you're only out to buy food though? Seriously.

Present yourself with hungry eyes, an empty shopping bag and some cash or a card?

I know, right?

 

[klang]

they'll check your tesco club card to see when you last purchased what.

 

[kalidarkone]

How the fuck do you prove you're only out to buy food though? Seriously.

I'm a big woman with a weight to maintain. I'll have to be out every day!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Anyone caught outside the gates of their sub-division sectors after curfew Will. Be. Shot.

I for one will desist from interfering with urine sample collections

 

[ska invita]

Locking down only London is clearly Cummings playing up to Northern Voters. A dream come true

Spoiler

this was a joke btw

 

[Badgers]

It wont necessarily all happen in one go. They can start by more forcefully ordering various shops, pubs, bars etc to close.

It will almost certainly be a phased roll out from our feckless government.

The positive is that there will be time to (as best we can) organise.

The negative is that this is more dithering from the government which likely means a longer overall period of lockdown and almost certainly more deaths.

 

[killer b]

Sounds like it's pretty torrid down there rn. My brother has been working in London this afternoon and has left town with rumours of soldiers already taking positions in the centre.