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Scottish Swimming sorry after 'Zoom-bomb' in public workout

Last updated on 14 April 202014 April 2020.From the section Swimming

Duncan Scott Duncan Scott took to Twitter to condemn the actions of the 'sick individual'

Scottish Swimming has apologised after a public workout event was "Zoom-bombed", subjecting around 300 participants to "disturbing content".

The workout was set up to give the public the chance to remotely exercise via the video app alongside athletes.

Commonwealth champion Duncan Scott was one of those who took part in the workout, and expressed his "disgust" on social media.

Scottish Swimming has reported the incident to police.

A statement added: "The video was immediately shut down and the incident referred to the police and their cyber-crime unit. We apologise to everyone involved and deeply regret the outcome of today’s event.

"At a time when the aquatics community was pulling together and supporting one another so positively, it is very upsetting to have a minority cause upset and distress during the lockdown."

The governing body shared information last week about the workout, encouraging people to get involved, and now say they are reviewing their security measures to prevent a similar incident happening again.

Scott also apologised to those on the call, saying on Twitter: "Our open invite WOD cancelled due to a sick individual. I am sorry for what everyone and more importantly what the kids that were a part of the WOD had to see!!"

 

Unforgivable really. I assume that the individual concerned misread the invitation to join a Speedos video event :ph34r:

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Boris Johnson ‘skipped five Cobra meetings’ in early stage of coronavirus crisis

Faye BrownSaturday 18 Apr 2020 10:23 pm
Boris Johnson skipped five emergency comitee meetings as the threat of coronavirus in the UK loomed

Boris Johnson skipped five emergency comitee meetings as the threat of coronavirus in the UK loomed

Boris Johnson has been accused of ‘sleepwalking’ into the coronavirus crisis as it is revealed he missed five emergency Cobra meetings in the run up to the UK’s outbreak.

The missed meetings happened in January and February, when parts of country also experienced the worst flooding on record.

The national crisis committee was first gathered to discuss coronavirus on January 24, by which time the disease had spread to six countries.

That day, the Lancet medical journal warned the novel disease could be more lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed over 50 million people.

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Not only did Boris Johnson skip that meeting, but did Matt Hancock inform reporters that the risk to the UK was ‘low’.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacts as he hosts a Chinese New Year reception at 10 Downing Street in central London on January 24, 2020. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP) (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Boris Johnson hosted a Chinese New Year reception at 10 Downing Street on January 24, the same day he skipped an emergency cobra meeting (Picture: AFP)

And, although the PM didn’t have time to discuss the crisis, he did have time to attend a Lunar new year celebration in the afternoon, The Sunday Times reports.

The other meetings were skipped so Mr Johnson could prioritise the EU withdrawal agreement and reshuffling his cabinet.

For all the latest news and updates on Coronavirus, click here.

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As the virus gradually crept towards Europe, he missed further cobra meetings to spend two weeks with his pregnant fiancée, Carrie Symonds, at a country retreat in Chevening. 

It was not until March 2nd – five weeks after the first Cobra committee was called – that the PM decided to attend. 

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Boris Johnson, has been struck down with coronavorus himself, did not attend the first five emergency committee meetings to address the crisis (Picture: Getty)

AYLESBURY, ENGLAND - APRIL 15: General view outside Chequers, the country residence of Britain's Prime Minister, on April 15, 2020 in Aylesbury, England. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was discharged from hospital on Sunday, a week after being admitted for treatment for COVID-19 which resulted in him spending three days in intensive care. (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)

The PM is recovering from the virus at country residence Chequers (Picture: Getty)

By then, coronavirus had infected all but one country in Western Europe. Health Secretary Matt Hancock had admitted a UK endemic was ‘inevitable’ and ministers were scrambling to put together emergency measures – the so-called battle plan- while instructing the public to stay safe by washing their hands. 

Boris Johnson has been recovering in country residence Chequers after his battle with coronavirus, which saw him briefly admitted to intensive care. 

But once source said he was an absent leader long before falling sick. 

The senior adviser told the Times: ‘There’s no way you’re at war if your PM isn’t there,

‘And what you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends.

‘It was like working for an old-fashioned chief executive in a local authority 20 years ago. There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared he would be.’ 

Boris gives video statement after leaving hospital

The government’s slow response to the outbreak has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks, as the UK’s death toll rockets past 15,000. 

By comparison, Germany, which has a similar number of recorded cases to the UK, has had fewer than 5,000 deaths. 

Chancellor Angela Merkel was quick to act as the coronavirus outbreak first spread across Europe, tightening Germany’s borders and starting to impose lockdown measures on March 15, over a week before Boris Johnson announced a nationwide lockdown in the UK.  

Her success has also been pinned on the country’s testing strategy. While the UK was only managing to test around 70,000 people a week for coronavirus at the beginning of April, Germany was averaging around 500,000 tests over the same time period. 

Another 888 people have died in the UK after contracting coronavirus
Over 15,000 people have died of coronavirus in the UK
UK is bottom of coronavirus testing league
The UK is testing fewer people for coronavirus than most countries (Picture: World in Data)
 

This is the best measure I’ve seen of quite how few #COVID19 tests the UK has done. It is an international league table of countries ranked by percentage of population tested, compiled by Julian Ozanne (who was on FT with me in another life). The UK comes 20th out of 20

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has blamed the UK’s slow testing strategy on the lack of a major diagnostics industry in the country. But critics have blamed this and a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on years of austerity. 

The last rehearsal for a pandemic was a 2016 exercise codenamed Cygnus, which predicted the health service would collapse if hit by a disease outbreak. It highlighted a long list of shortcomings, including a lack of PPE and intensive care ventilators.

One government source told The Times that preparations for a no-deal Brexit ‘sucked all the blood out of pandemic planning’ in the following years. They alleged ministers were slow to react even in February, when it was advised the government should warn businesses a lockdown might be on the horizon. 

Among the scientists who admit there was mounting unease about the virus long before the government took action, is infection disease expert Sir Jeremy Farrar. 

The UK's coronavirus response has been blighted by a lack of PPE and slow testing (Picture: PA/Getty)
The UK’s coronavirus response has been blighted by a lack of PPE and slow testing (Picture: PA/Getty)

In a recent BBC interview he said: ‘I think from the early days in February, if not in late January, it was obvious this infection was going to be very serious and it was going to affect more than just the region of Asia. 

‘I think it was very clear that this was going to be an unprecedented event.’ 

The government has now admitted there are shortages of PPE and testing equipment, but ministers have stopped short of apologising. Home Secretary Priti Patel provoked outrage last week when she said she was sorry ‘if people feel there has been failings’. 

Highlighting the severity of the government’s shortcomings, emergency PPE is expected to run out in the next three days. More than 50 health workers have already died after contracting the virus. 

But Downing Street has defended its response following the claims in the Sunday Times article. 

A spokesman said: ‘Our response has ensured that the NHS has been given all the support it needs to ensure everyone requiring treatment has received it, as well as providing protection to businesses and reassurance to workers. The prime minister has been at the helm of the response to this, providing leadership during this hugely challenging period for the whole nation.’

 

https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/18/boris-johnson-skipped-five-cobra-meetings-coronavirus-crisis-loomed-12576899/

 

Edit: I originally posted this here instead of the Coronavirus thread as I did not want to annoy the powers that be here regarding potentially political content.

 

However, @Magictv has posted a much more detailed chronology published in the Sunday Times:

 

https://archive.is/20200418182037/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-38-days-when-britain-sleepwalked-into-disaster-hq3b9tlgh#selection-769.0-769.14

 

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17 hours ago, spacemunky said:

At least 17 dead in the worst mass shooting in Canada. Happened in rural Nova Scotia carrying over through several towns. 

 

Gunman shot dead by police.

 

1 female RCMP officer was killed.

Saying 18 plus the willy puller, with the toll expected to rise. Horrible day for Canada and I'm absolutely shocked of all places out there. I expect something like that closer to where we live as we saw with that virgin tosser who mowed down women on sidewalks a few years back.

 

Thoughts are with all those impacted by this.

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16 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

2020 is just ****ing nuts. I love it. 
 

 

I actually think our title win in 2016 broke some kind of timeline rules because almost everything since has been frankly insane.

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7 hours ago, yorkie1999 said:

How the hell can you have a barrel of oil for -$37 dollers? Does that mean if i buy a 1000 barrels, i get $37,000.

 

Yes, yes this is precisely what it means. Get ready for that luxury mansion and/or jail time for environmental crimes :thumbup:

(You do know that 1000 barrels of crude is more than your bathtub holds...right?)

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11 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Yes, yes this is precisely what it means. Get ready for that luxury mansion and/or jail time for environmental crimes :thumbup:

(You do know that 1000 barrels of crude is more than your bathtub holds...right?)

If i pour it down the drain, no-one will ever know.

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8 hours ago, leicsmac said:

I actually think our title win in 2016 broke some kind of timeline rules because almost everything since has been frankly insane.

I'm gonna write a film about a Leicester City fan who makes a deal with the devil to make Leicester win the league before he dies. The devil says that it's too absurd to be true so has to make some other crazy shit happen to make it seem more believable.

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A sign of crazy times.....

 

I just watched BBC1 lunchtime news and there was no mention at all of the rumours that Kim Jong-Un is gravely ill after heart surgery (denied by other sources).

In the past, that might well have been the lead item on the news.

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15 hours ago, yorkie1999 said:

How the hell can you have a barrel of oil for -$37 dollers? Does that mean if i buy a 1000 barrels, i get $37,000.

 

I've just caught some bastard trying to siphon petrol into my car.

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11 hours ago, Dahnsouff said:

Yes, yes this is precisely what it means. Get ready for that luxury mansion and/or jail time for environmental crimes :thumbup:

(You do know that 1000 barrels of crude is more than your bathtub holds...right?)

Bought some heating oil end of January £289 500ltrs

today £154

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23 hours ago, Jattdogg said:

Saying 18 plus the willy puller, with the toll expected to rise. Horrible day for Canada and I'm absolutely shocked of all places out there. I expect something like that closer to where we live as we saw with that virgin tosser who mowed down women on sidewalks a few years back.

 

Thoughts are with all those impacted by this.

Up to 22 victims now.

 

Very sad reading about them and how their life was taken by this f*ch nut.

 

Thoughts with Nova Scotians.

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