Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[brogdale]

Is this not the 20k on standby to help the NHS and stuff

Could be that.
Sure, some will just be lugging the body bags around...but the ones with the guns will be the ones that shoot the looters.

 

[SpookyFrank]

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What with all that camo I didn't see them there.

 

[ska invita]

Could be that.
Sure, some will just be lugging the body bags around...but the ones with the guns will be the ones that shoot the looters.

considering the lack of anything yet for renters/people not on a basic wage etc, thats not even a joke

 

[brogdale]

considering the lack of anything yet for renters/people not on a basic wage etc, thats not even a joke

it wasn't.

 

[little_legs]

Can we just all acknowledge brogdale who has been on fire, their posts in the Philip death threads and this one are providing much needed LOLs

 

[Badgers]

Surely there would be some photos though. Literally everybody walks around with a camera in their pocket.

Also if armed forces used, would it not prob make more sense to use then for distribution etc

I grew in Aldershot. They can deploy fairly quickly if needed.

 

[Pickman's model]

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[Proper Tidy]

I grew in Aldershot. They can deploy fairly quickly if needed.

Well yeah I'm sure but I find it difficult to believe reports of soldiers roaming london streets over last six hours when nobody managed to take a photo. I could be wrong, let's see what morning brings.

 

[Pickman's model]

It is pretty certain there will a lockdown.

The police don't have the numbers to do it fully.

So the army (social media nonsense aside) is the likely solution. They were called in to bail out the disgraced private security firms employed by our disgraced government at the Olympics. Given the huge importance of the current situation it is logic.

What will they do in all the other cities?

 

[spitfire]

I grew in Aldershot. They can deploy fairly quickly if needed.

Especially when you spill their pint.

I'm friends with some people who have an unhealthy interest in the military. (Not like me oh no, I'm normal). I've seen nothing on any socials. Usually they'd post up at the faintest rustle of multicam.

As Badgers said, it's likely enough though as there's fuck all coppers left. It will hopefully be more like the Olympics than Threads though.

 

[spitfire]

What will they do in all the other cities?

They'll just need Cub Scouts innit.

 

[two sheds]

Well yeah I'm sure but I find it difficult to believe reports of soldiers roaming london streets over last six hours when nobody managed to take a photo. I could be wrong, let's see what morning brings.

They'd be shot if they tried though wouldn't they

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

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

Yeah I'm hearing from various people Friday is the day in London. Nothing confirmed obviously.

 

[not-bono-ever]

troops already there- oxford circus tonight

 

[mx wcfc]

Well yeah I'm sure but I find it difficult to believe reports of soldiers roaming london streets over last six hours when nobody managed to take a photo. I could be wrong, let's see what morning brings.

Well exactly. Look at Italy/France etc - they haven't got the army on the streets. and we wont either. If we do get locked down, then my natural instinct would be to get out there and fuck em. But if the pubs aren't open, what's the bloody point?

 

[Proper Tidy]

Yeah I'm hearing from various people Friday is the day in London. Nothing confirmed obviously.

Was one of them the cabbie

 

[spitfire]

troops already there- oxford circus tonight
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Seems legit.

 

[oryx]

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

I read somewhere that in France or Spain (can't remember which) they have forms and you fill in a form to say you're food shopping and the 'authorities' (police army?) take your form.

 

[brogdale]

Yeah I'm hearing from various people Friday is the day in London. Nothing confirmed obviously.

Not even from that taxi driver?

 

[elbows]

Given the seriousness and unusualness of the situation, how quickly its moving, and the particular moment London is reaching, it would be more surprising if there were not these rumours about the army!

There are after all likely to be some more stringent lockdown measures coming Londons way rather soon. And there are inevitably a whole bunch of pandemic plans that do involve the military. So at the moment it is tempting for me to say that these two things have got conflated, or people have got a bit ahead of themselves.

And army stuff is quite a common theme for rumours really, and their involvement and presence (or lack of) is seen as some kind of measure of how serious stuff has become. In various ways they can also be a metaphor for freedom, or lack of freedom.

Plus there is always the idea that an invisible imagined army inside our minds can affect our behaviour as much as the real thing.

 

[not-bono-ever]

its an honor document in france iirc

 

[brogdale]

Who else can seal off the M25?

 

[spitfire]

Who else can seal off the M25?

Broken down HGV in lane 1? Seems to do the trick usually.

Or swans.

 

[klang]

leaves will sort out the rail network.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I read somewhere that in France or Spain (can't remember which) they have forms and you fill in a form to say you're food shopping and the 'authorities' (police army?) take your form.

It's France. Where these forms come from though remains unclear to me as yet. Maybe you can download them.

ETA yeah - you download them

 

[Badgers]

Especially when you spill their pint.

I'm friends with some people who have an unhealthy interest in the military. (Not like me oh no, I'm normal). I've seen nothing on any socials. Usually they'd post up at the faintest rustle of multicam.

As Badgers said, it's likely enough though as there's fuck all coppers left. It will hopefully be more like the Olympics than Threads though.

I don't expect for a second it will be sandbags round the streets and mirrors under cars #thegoodolddays

More of a presence.

 

[brogdale]

Broken down HGV in lane 1? Seems to do the trick usually.

Or swans.

The M20 bridge twatting lorry did a good job.

 

[Grace Johnson]

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

Probably because they are all rich and can afford private testing so know about it.

 

[two sheds]

Broken down HGV in lane 1? Seems to do the trick usually.

Or swans.

 

[klang]

i still have a handful of travel permits from my journeys through yemen. pm me if you get stuck somewhere.