Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[Sunray]

All I want to hear from Bereavement Boris is

'I Resign'

Anything else is >shrug<

 

[sleaterkinney]

I bet Boris says Christmas is back on.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

...
As usual though, innocent Londoners get the blame.

No such person exist

 

[Badgers]

I bet Boris says Christmas is back on.

What time will they sober up?

 

[Pickman's model]

What time will they sober up?

when they see serried ranks of penguins approaching them

 

[Pickman's model]

All I want to hear from Bereavement Boris is

'I Resign'

Anything else is >shrug<

all i want to hear from boris johnson is a hopeless wail of despair as the penguins close in

 

[elbows]

Moderate confidence has apparently changed to high confidence.

The government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) has upgraded its confidence that the new variant spreads more easily, the group's chair has said.

Prof Peter Horby told a Science Media Centre briefing: "We now have high confidence that this variant does have a transmission advantage over other virus variants that are currently in the UK."

Minutes from a meeting on Friday said the group, which advises the UK government, had "moderate confidence" in this.

Another Nervtag member, Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told the briefing there was strong evidence the new variant is 50% more transmissible than the previous virus.

He also said there was a "hint" the new variant infects children more.

"There are other epidemiologically interesting trends with the virus, there is a hint that it has a higher propensity to infect children... but we haven't established any sort of causality on that, but we can see that in the data," he said.

From BBC updates page at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-55392619

 

[Sue]

all i want to hear from boris johnson is a hopeless wail of despair as the penguins close in

All...? You lack imagination, Senor.

 

[zora]

This higher propensity to infect children...how easily can they infer that when children are the only people allowed to have contact anyway..? Genuine question.

 

[Cloo]

Ah, getting the cancellation emails for the outdoor events I booked over the hols. At least it's quite a lot of money back.

 

[Pickman's model]

All...? You lack imagination, Senor.

i daresay there'll be some blather about how this can't happen to him, that he's not without resources and he'll pay anything to put off the dreadful fate that approaches, that he's the father of a dozen children, give or take, and it would be inhuman deprive his offspring of their pa, that he's really very sorry and so on. but all i want to hear is that final shriek of despair as he recognises the futility of any further attempt to escape his inexorable fate

 

[Sue]

i daresay there'll be some blather about how this can't happen to him, that he's not without resources and he'll pay anything to put off the dreadful fate that approaches, that he's the father of a dozen children, give or take, and it would be inhuman deprive his offspring of their pa, that he's really very sorry and so on. but all i want to hear is that final shriek of despair as he recognises the futility of any further attempt to escape his inexorable fate

I was thinking along classic self-criticism lines...

 

[kenny g]

Time for a stiff glass of soemthing special. This is going to be one hell of a rough ride over the next few days. I imagine BoJo is going to be an absolute disaster in about 1 minute.

 

[Badgers]

Time for a stiff glass of soemthing special. This is going to be one hell of a rough ride over the next few days. I imagine BoJo is going to be an absolute disaster in about 1 minute.

Imagine?

 

[LDC]

This higher propensity to infect children...how easily can they infer that when children are the only people allowed to have contact anyway..? Genuine question.

They're not though, loads of adults are mixing in all sorts of ways as shown in the age demographics of infections. Anyway, the data would be worked out with the variables like that in mind. It's one of the things they're not so sure about afaik, should know more in days ahead.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

So, what do we reckon? Tier 4 for everyone incoming?

 

[Badgers]

So, what do we reckon? Tier 4 for everyone incoming?

Tier1 for everyone leaving Westminster

 

[kenny g]

So, what do we reckon? Tier 4 for everyone incoming?

Tier 5 for the dark purple areas?

 

[zora]

So, what do we reckon? Tier 4 for everyone incoming?

Would definitely be the right move, but I imagine it might go down like a cup of cold sick in the north-of-London regions that are, finally, in lower tiers. I imagine it might just be him warbling on about there being enough turkeys and sprouts in the warehouses.

 

[killer b]

So, what do we reckon? Tier 4 for everyone incoming?

I don't think so, but I nipped out and did some final bits of christmas shopping this afternoon just in case.

It's going to be something about the borders being closed, which really is something that needs a press conference.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I've read on here Johnson is late to everything on purpose like Trump. What's the reasoning behind it?

 

[LDC]

So, what do we reckon? Tier 4 for everyone incoming?

If not now, I think very soon, yes. This is very big news though, a overnight (pretty much) realization that the R has jumped up to 0.9, with rates in infection out of control in a number of areas in the country. Also no clarity on the severity and fatality of this new strain yet, but still the infection rate jump is enough to potentially cause more deaths on its own.

 

[two sheds]

Is he late again?

 

[redsquirrel]

Is Johnson trying to do some sort of tribute to Trump with his hair? Weird attempted comb over.

 

[Badgers]

Is he late again?

I look forward to him being 'The Late' Prime Minister

 

[Lord Camomile]

"The government has been preparing for this sort of event for a long time" = "we knew a self-inflicted catastrophe was coming, please give us a gold star"

 

[frogwoman]

European experts urge caution over new Covid mutation found in UK

Scientists say more data is needed before conclusions can be drawn and that strain has also been detected in EU

www.theguardian.com

Apparently the new virus doesn't appear to have been behaving in exactly the same way everywhere in Europe, although Italian experts are worried

 

[killer b]

fuck me he's so useless.

 

[brogdale]

Shall we refrain from saying when he lies and see if we can, instead, spot any truthful snippet?

 

[Sunray]

Time for a stiff glass of soemthing special. This is going to be one hell of a rough ride over the next few days. I imagine BoJo is going to be an absolute disaster in about 1 minute.

???

That'll end well.