Coronavirus Thread

[StanSP]

 

 

 

[Izzy]

17 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Bloke combs his ****ing hair with a balloon, how can he possibly inspire any kind of authority.

Fvcking quality is that mate 

 

 

[Christoph]

6 minutes ago, JonnyBoy said:

 

you enjoyed being on furlough and not working and disappointed you won't be on furlough again? good grief 

Yes I did. What can I say? It was nice having a 2 months off and being paid for it. Was like being a kid in summer holiday all over again! 

 

The company I work for did it as a safety measure rather than an economical one. 

[Nalis]

Away from the shambolic politics...

 

As more people get vaccinated, at what point do we focus on hospitalisations rather than positive tests in daily figures? For (an extreme) example, I would think 200,000 daily positive tests where the 99% are under 60 would cause far less strain on the NHS than 10,000 daily positive tests whereby 5,000 of those are over 60?

[Nalis]

2 minutes ago, StanSP said:

 

 

 

It is a very strange conflict alright.

[CosbehFox]

As I’ve read elsewhere, critics of a lockdown would be largely appeased if they was a public plan regards vaccination and a closure of the borders. 
 

Instead we will all sit trying to debunk Johnson’s pseudo old English and then take to social media in attempt to translate what he’s said 

[Thefox81]

Hes going to be hounded out of Downing street if hes not careful. Complete buffoon

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Away from the shambolic politics...

 

As more people get vaccinated, at what point do we focus on hospitalisations rather than positive tests in daily figures? For (an extreme) example, I would think 200,000 daily positive tests where the 99% are under 60 would cause far less strain on the NHS than 10,000 daily positive tests whereby 5,000 of those are over 60?

Something I mentioned before Christmas. The testing capacity and number of tests completed has grew significantly. So the daily positive tests are a red herring. They are useful to alert NHS to possible hospitalisation rates but for the general public, they do nothing in identifying the real reason lockdowns are required 

[StanSP]

Wonder how many times he'll bang the table with his fists in an attempt to look and feel powerful and assertive

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Kids went back to school for one day then? Probably just enough to spread it a bit more after all the Christmas gatherings

 

May as well just full lockdown for 6-8 weeks, concentrate on getting the vaccine out as much as possible. The only problem is I've got zero faith in them managing that successfully, it'll come to the end of Feb and something else will crop up as to why we're still stuck where we are at the minute. We should be doing 24/7 round the clock vaccines, get as many people injected with it as fast as possible to try and ease the burden on the NHS and allow the kids to go back to school ASAP.

[Zear0]

Think this most recent car crash from Boris is the most unifying moment I've seen in this thread.

[AllGoneTitsSchlupp]

5 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Wonder how many times he'll bang the table with his fists in an attempt to look and feel powerful and assertive

 

straight out of the Dwight Schrute speech giving guide

 

 

Edited 4 January 2021 by AllGoneTitsSchlupp

[bovril]

Just now, Zear0 said:

Think this most recent car crash from Boris is the most unifying moment I've seen in this thread.

According to recent polls it doesn't seem to be unifying the nation. 

[Pliskin]

30 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

His cult will still trot out the "he's doing his best" line, no doubt.

 

Bloke combs his ****ing hair with a balloon, how can he possibly inspire any kind of authority.

Hands down the best comment ever made! 

[Guest Mickyblueeyes]

Normally quite a positive person. I was expecting this pending third lockdown at some stage. However, literally feel like shit and everything is pointless. Good thing about working from home, I’ve decided I’m done for the day!

[Izzy]

Come back Theresa May.

All is forgiven 

[Voll Blau]

11 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

As I’ve read elsewhere, critics of a lockdown would be largely appeased if they was a public plan regards vaccination and a closure of the borders. 
 

Instead we will all sit trying to debunk Johnson’s pseudo old English and then take to social media in attempt to translate what he’s said 

"Alas, I'm still a verbose cvnt like I was last time you saw me."

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

Come back Theresa May.

All is forgiven 

I'd rather watch her robot dance all around the House of Commons than watch Johnson fvck this country up on a mega scale.

[Thefox81]

37 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

His cult will still trot out the "he's doing his best" line, no doubt.

 

Bloke combs his ****ing hair with a balloon, how can he possibly inspire any kind of authority.

Brilliant. Spat my tea out in laughter

[Zear0]

Noticed they're dusting off the Nando's spice chart after 9 months.  Up to Level 5, Extra Hot.

[Footballwipe]

1 minute ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Normally quite a positive person. I was expecting this pending third lockdown at some stage. However, literally feel like shit and everything is pointless. Good thing about working from home, I’ve decided I’m done for the day!

I think this is a larger point about why people are more and more ignoring the rules and restrictions put in place. We're nearly 10 months into this, into some kind of difference, some kind of change to our normal or being told what we can and can't do from what we know.

 

Whether it's drained, tired, despondent, angry or whatever, people are getting sick of it. The goodwill there seemed to be died out after about four weeks, look where we are now after 10 months,

 

I'm not trying to condone people breaking rules, I'm trying to understand why people are. I wonder if one of the main issues is that what we're being asked to do is making no difference. Every time we're given something back the numbers rocket, or a new strain comes in. It's an endless, horrible cycle. No wonder people feel like shit and think everything is pointless.

[urban.spaceman]

26 minutes ago, bovril said:

I'd take Sturgeon ruling the UK over Johnson right now and I find the English Sturgeon fanatics on twitter incredibly cringey. 

For me she's a case of admiring a very good politician despite having (IMO) unlikable politics.

[bovril]

Just now, urban.spaceman said:

For me she's a case of admiring a very good politician despite having (IMO) unlikable politics.

She's probably the best mainstream politician in the UK.

 

SNP aren't really my cuppa either but unfortunately the current government are making an independence vote extremely likely.

 

I might even unilaterally declare independence for the People's Republic of East Anglia. 

[Nod.E]

What's Boris announcing tonight then?

 

Internet explorer?

The death of princess Di?

The invention of the wheel?

The resurrection?

 

Oh, a lockdown. That was advised ages ago.

[Leicester_Loyal]

There's just no clear plan in place, they should publically set out steps on how they plan to do this vaccination program, but they won't. If they said we'll lockdown for 8-10 weeks but after that we should have administered enough vaccines to slowly start opening things up again I think the public would be a lot more complient. We're in this situation because they've been useless and people have finally had enough, I imagine millions of people are thinking the same as me, what's the point in living like this? Promise after promise has been broken. They've had 3 (at worst) months to organise vaccination centres and sort out staff for it, we should be all ready to go, only waiting on deliver of the vaccines every week.

 

We should lock everyone up (within reason) and focus all our efforts on vaccinating as many people as quickly as possible.

 

This school situation sums them up, send the kids back to school for one day, allow millions of children to mix before deciding that actually it's best if we close them. You can only defend a Government so much before you have to just face the reality that they're useless and not fit to be Governing us.