Coronavirus outbreak

[FishFright]

The globe is red again

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The day after Freedom Day, here are all the countries that won’t let us in. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PlagueIsland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#PlagueIsland</a> <a href="https://t.co/2TMkUbUvbW">pic.twitter.com/2TMkUbUvbW</a></p>&mdash; Tony Roberts (@FosterChangeUK) <a href="
View: https://twitter.com/FosterChangeUK/status/1417372682962808863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
">July 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[FishFright]

I have no direct knowledge of Taiwan but I imagine a quiet disappearing act is likely.

I know nothing about it but boy do I have an opinion to share

 

[mjr]

Why would they?

It might be "naivety, ignorance, stupidity or a mix of all 3" or maybe they've had enough of being accused of bull shoot ping pong (or whatever it was) and suggestions that they have been cowering at home when they try to discuss keeping any regulations at all.

 

[lane]

Mrs Lane spent a day helping at the vaccination centre. The result of which she now has to self isolate for 10 days. I think she may reconsider her volunteering in future.

 

[lane]

There were three people based in the UK but from Hong Kong on TV, where from what I could gather mask wearing has been the norm pre pandemic. They were read a tweet about "mask wearing and cowering at home and not getting on with their life". They looked quite perplexed and said they do go about their normal lives but just also wear a mask. A distinction unfortunately lost on some in this country including many Tory MPs.

 

[Milzy]

World wide it has - and likely an undercount

Don’t believe anything you hear & only half that you see.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

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Don’t believe anything you hear & only half that you see.

How many has it killed? Do tell.

 

[mjr]

There were three people based in the UK but from Hong Kong on TV, where from what I could gather mask wearing has been the norm pre pandemic. They were read a tweet about "mask wearing and cowering at home and not getting on with their life". They looked quite perplexed and said they do go about their normal lives but just also wear a mask. A distinction unfortunately lost on some in this country including many Tory MPs.

But if Tory MPs and friends don't link mask wearing to cowering and not living, how can they ever argue against it in a way that doesn't make them look like complete daffodils?

 

[lane]

Don’t believe anything you hear & only half that you see.

Probably reasonable advice but some estimates I have seen today put the death toll potentially as high as 4 million in India alone.

 

[lane]

It must be a bit tough for Boris. He really wants to do whatever the Telegraph say he should - but every time he tries it turns into a bit of a fiasco.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

It must be a bit tough for Boris. He really wants to do whatever the Telegraph say he should - but every time he tries it turns into a bit of a fiasco.

Seems to be doing just fine to me, still in his dream job, able to get away with lying incontinently the whole time and other people on hand to pay his debts off.

I'd take it.

 

[Deleted User]

It might be "naivety, ignorance, stupidity or a mix of all 3" or maybe they've had enough of being accused of bull shoot ping pong (or whatever it was) and suggestions that they have been cowering at home when they try to discuss keeping any regulations at all.

I don't know anyone who has opinions that different to me on this subject so it never arises, that's how friendship is built, by being similar.

 

[kingrollo]

Take this as you want - maybe vested interests etc, etc, but from the hospital where I work we are shortly to be told the measures taken shortly will be like nothing we have experienced in COVID so far - the projected numbers are totally of the scale - and whilst there has been some redeployment of non clinical staff in previous waves - we are getting to a stage where whole swathes of non clinical staff are to deployed to the front line.

 

[mjr]

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/forest_fr1ends/status/1416462517803667460

 

[Rusty Nails]

I don't know anyone who has opinions that different to me on this subject so it never arises, that's how friendship is built, by being similar.

Or having a very blinkered view of things.

I have good friends who are very different to me and just about the only thing we agree on is sport and beer. Despite some of them having very different views about Brexit and Covid restrictions to mine that does not define them and they are good people. We even learn from each other's arguments now and again.