beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Because they’re still clinging to the idea that Xmas can be “saved” for some.
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The man always makes sense when interviewed on telly, so probs, yes..
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
In other words you teachers unless you're clinically vulnerable tough shit, get to work
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Very conscious this is armchair psychology, but I really think that the idea it can be saved for some is one of the most damaging things. If we all felt, ugh, "in it together", with everyone facing the same restrictions and missing out on Christmas, I honestly think we'd see fewer infractions. As it is, people see others having a more 'normal' Christmas and, quite naturally, whatever resolve they might have is weakened and they think "fuck it, I want Christmas too".
What the fuck do I know, though, I don't have a PPE degree from Oxbridge.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Oxford; it's HSPS for Cantab.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Complete failure in terms of the question as to why we aren't all going into tier 4 right now. Fucking bullshit lies, complete lack of logic. Just simply ignoring the issue that more restrictions = less interactions = less infections. Fucking murderous scum.
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
Pushing hard the message that it's down to people to do the right thing
magneze
🎧
Makes sense.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Ppe no assistance in ordering ppe as we have seen
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
Such a consistent inability to employ joined up thinking, planning etc. All reactive. Doing things months after they should have been done then showing off about it
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
So, only the Isles of Scilly are in tier 1.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
... whilst the Silly Isles are all in tier 2-4.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Today's figures -
New cases - 39,237, Deaths - 744, Patients admitted to hospital - 2,004
Total patients in hospital - 20, 917
* shudders*
New cases - 39,237, Deaths - 744, Patients admitted to hospital - 2,004
Total patients in hospital - 20, 917
* shudders*
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
The annoying thing is that they have many people, in many agencies and private businesses, available to help them, whose job is to plan and prepare for disaster scenarios of all kinds and who have (in most cases) kept their things going in an unprecedented crisis (because of all the preparations, the exercises, and the measures built in over years before to make sure they could keep going). That the country (and especially the NHS) is still going is to a large part because of those people, and all the work they've been doing long before this ever happened.
However its really difficult to watch these press conferences, and them speaking in the Commons, and see any evidence that the government has learned anything from those experts or even from their own experience. I'd honestly think we'd be much better run as a country by Tescos.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
World beating
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
We'd be much better run as a country by theresa may and that's really shit
It'll probably do that on Christmas Day. But they won't tell us, because you know, the plebs all lurve Christmas so much and can't handle the truth.
Data glitch or a lag for hollbobs or somesuch absolute arsewipery.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Yep to that. Must admit I've not read any journalism/insights into what the mindset of the key players is at the moment, 'dispatches from the bunker' type stuff. Neo liberalism and 'get brexit done' bullishness where were we came in on this and cost thousands of lives in the first wave. Some mix of the economy and keeping the backbenchers quiet was certainly in play in the last delayed lockdown. Now: 'we use tiers in a minimal and reactive way is the political strategy. We've got to go through the process of shifting areas round the tiers before having a 3rd lockdown. Getting ahead of the virus would be different, so we aren't doing it'. Inherent in that is getting trapped in their own dishonesty. I suspect they are still talking to each other about the 'strategy' and going through the gears of the tiers, but with the haunted look you have when pretending you are still in the right as the bodies pile up.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
We've got a shitty weatherman when we should have someone who inspires confidence
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